Science Is Constantly Evolving
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The Apollo 10 crew, credited as the fastest people in history. How a scientist would talk about being the "fastest" became a sticking point in writing The Martian, as discussed in one of the pieces we read this week. NCSE moved offices this week, which left less time than usual for…
After fifteen years in the same office, NCSE is relocating. Effective February 1, 2016, NCSE will be at 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 600, Oakland CA 94612-2922. Please update your address book. (Local telephone numbers are unchanged, although individual telephone extensions may be changing.…
This week’s fossil will be familiar, I’m sure, to all of you once it’s revealed. As presented here, however, it is perhaps not obvious to most of you. I’m being cryptic, I know… so here’s a hint: I’m feeling thematic, so this week’s fossil is in some way connected to last week’s… Have you figured…
NCSE’s Science Booster Clubs are off to a great start in 2016. We now have clubs operating at four locations: our original club in Iowa City, as well as three new clubs in West Branch, Cedar Rapids, and Clear Creek Amana. Membership is growing, and so is community enthusiasm. We have fun science…
There is nothing particularly odd, I suppose, about the fact that opposition to evolution sometimes runs in families. Henry M. Morris, the father of modern creation science, was also the father of John D. Morris and Henry M. Morris III, president emeritus and chief executive officer,…
President Obama, wearing a kipper (why not), walks past props from the Moon landing that was totally a hoax to perpetuate the myth of a round Earth. Note the Men in Black protecting the conspiracy. From a NASA image, with advice from @darth. For reasons passing understanding, rapper B.o.B.…
How would you like to be confronted with a pop quiz on day one of a class? If the thought doesn’t make you giddy with competitive vim and vigor, be glad that you aren’t taking introductory biology at Brandeis University with professor James Morris. Morris, coauthor of the textbook Biology: How…
A recent article in The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Siege of Miami,” details disturbing consequences of sea level rise in Florida. The future will bring higher seas, but we normally think of climate change consequences happening nearer to the year 2100, an…
When writing up the Fossil Friday post last week, I was tempted to give a clue, but then thought better of it. You guys don’t need clues, right? Plus the clue I wanted to drop would have narrowed the field too much. What I would have said was, “This creature’s backbone is a thing of beauty.” And…