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"Teaching the truth about climate change"
Observing that "[m]isinformation about climate change is distressingly common in the United States," The New York Times called for teaching students about climate change in its October 10, 2015, editorial.  "Children today stand to inherit a climate severely changed by the…
What We’re Reading
Here are some of the stories that caught NCSE’s eye this week. Feel free to share articles that crossed your screen in the comment section, or e-mail us directly during the week with things that caught your eye. We’ll add the best to our weekly posts.   ​ NASA Confirms Evidence…
Fossil Friday
This week on Fossil Friday, another exciting specimen from one of our top fossil commenters, Dan Phelps! Check it out: Two clues again: this fossil is from the late Cretaceous, and its kind of smashed appearance is worth noting. Be the first to identify it in the comments, and win bragging…
Eugenie C. Scott in the NAS Great Hall
NCSE's founding executive director Eugenie C. Scott is featured in a multimedia exhibit about the Great Hall dome of the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington DC. Videos from the exhibit are available on YouTube and in a special iPad application. In the exhibit's video clips…
The Nobel Prizes for Serendipity
On Monday, Tu Youyou, Satoshi Omura, and William Campbell were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, for their discoveries of the antimalarial artemisinin, and avermectin, a key part of treatment for the parasitic diseases river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. On Tuesday, Takaaki…
Charles Coulston Gillispie dies
Charles Coulston Gillispie The eminent historian of science Charles Coulston Gillispie died on October 6, 2015, at the age of 97, according to a tweet from Princeton University. His books included Genesis and Geology (1951), The Edge of Objectivity (1960…
The Elephant in the Room
I was reading through Paul Johnson’s Darwin: Portrait of a Genius (2012) recently—not, I admit, with particularly high expectations. It's not just because there are plenty of excellent biographies of Darwin already, including Adrian Desmond and James Moore’s Darwin: The Life of a…
Eugenie C. Scott elected to AU board
Eugenie C. Scott NCSE is pleased to congratulate Eugenie C. Scott on her election to the board of trustees of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "Genie Scott is a longtime ally in the fight for church-state separation," said the Reverend Barry W. Lynn, executive…
Water on Mars
Above: Pluto's mountains, photographed by the New Horizons spacecraft as the sun sets, 7/14/2015. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Below: "Recurring slope linae," identified as evidence of flowing liquid water on the surface of Mars.…

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