Science Is Constantly Evolving

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Scientist in the Classroom: A Teacher’s Perspective
On the first day of every school year, I ask my students to draw a scientist. After questioning looks and a round of giggles, the majority of them draw the well-known ‘Einstein’ figure, an older white male with crazy hair and eyeglasses.This figure will inevitably be drawn next to a table of…
A preview of Evolution vs. Creationism
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of the classic Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction, second edition (Greenwood Press/University of California Press, 2009), by NCSE's founding executive director Eugenie C. Scott. The preview consists of chapter 3, "Beliefs: Religion,…
Find the Answer. Save the World.
In November, I attended WGBH’s forum on digital media in STEM learning. The topic: climate education. NCSE’s friends from the Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) were there in force, as were representatives from NOAA Education, NASA, PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs, and Young Voices for the…
Berbeco and McCaffrey on fostering educator resilience
What are the challenges to creating a resilient and confident educational community capable of addressing natural hazards and climate change in a scientifically accurate and pedagogically appropriate manner? That was the question that NCSE’s Minda Berbeco and Mark McCaffrey addressed in their "…
Answer Monday
Last week’s Fossil Friday specimen was, as I’m sure all of you could see, little more than a humble jaw. The question, of course, is whose jaw was it? Let’s take a look at the full picture: This week, as I start to make some early preparations for Darwin’s birthday, I’ll reveal that we are…
What We’re Reading
Tanks to our loyal readers! (The illustration shows a temporary library facility established in an abandoned water supply reservoir in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.) And best wishes for the new year from all of us at NCSE. A Yankee at Oxford: John William Draper at the British…
Fossil Friday
This week in Fossil Friday, I have a specimen from a species that is part of an interesting story, although sadly my photo quality is rather poor. The fragments from which this specimen was reconstructed were found in Italy, and I think that, with all the hard work I did obscuring the…
The Rabbinical Assembly adds its voice for evolution
The chorus of support for the teaching of evolution continues, with a statement from the Rabbinical Assembly, adopted in 2006. Describing "intelligent design" as not having "the characteristics of a legitimate scientific theory" and warning that the teaching of "intelligent design" in the…
The Rocky Road to Acceptance, Part 4
Steven Dutch concludes his review of James L. Powell’s Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences (2015), which began with part 1 and continued in part 2 and part 3. Conclusions I only found one significant technical error in the book. Powell erroneously states…

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