Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
Everyone is abuzz about Cop21 this week in Paris. Will the gathering countries make serious commitments to address climate change? What would a world committed to change look like? Where can you get the finest croissant while dodging the many protestors? There is no question, this is big news.…
Yes, it’s Opabinia! Stephan Jay Gould was so taken with it that he was considering calling Wonderful Life (1990), his book about the Cambrian fauna of the Burgess shale, Homage to Opabinia. Not so long ago in a comment here, John Harshman,…
Last week I said that “What We’re Reading” was going to take a break for Black Friday. But have you seen how crowded the stores are? (You could shop on-line, of course, and—ahem—take a moment to benefit NCSE by shopping at AmazonSmile. Unlike these fellows, who are reading on a different…
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In chapter 19 of Being as Communion (2014), the “intelligent design” promoter William A. Dembski returns to METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL, a string of letters that owes its fame to The Blind Watchmaker (1986), by Richard Dawkins with additional dialogue by William Shakespeare.…
The supposedly historical marker on Trump's golf course. None of what it says is true. At a golf course he owns in Virginia, Donald Trump erected a historical marker claiming that the site was important in the Civil War, and that: “Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died…
Last week, I wrote about Congressman Lamar Smith’s (R-Tex and chairman of the House Science Committee) Congressional subpoena for all correspondence related to a paper from this June that yet again debunked the persistent false claim that global warming has been on “pause” since 1998.…
Yum. (Image by WikiCommons user Mtshad, made available under a CC-BY-SA license). There are few holidays I love as much as Thanksgiving. If I go to someone else’s house and thus don’t have turkey and stuffing and pie leftovers, I’ll make my own the next day and keep the holiday going.…