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Answer Monday
Last Friday we examined a very geometric view of an unusual fossil. Here it is in full, complete with scale.     I think it still looks pretty intimidating, but as you can probably tell it is a plant. Specifically, a fossil of Cycadeoidea. There’s a significant amount of…
Fossil Friday
This week on Fossil Friday we have a specimen that I think looks super-metal. Check it out. Extremely spiky and dangerous.     Also, no scale bars in the picture, but I will tell you that this fossil is not small. Frankly, it is big enough that lifting it was a bad idea on my part.…
A new poll on climate change
A new poll on public attitudes toward Pope Francis's encyclical on climate change included questions on the occurrence of climate change itself. Asked "Do you think that global warming is happening, or do you think global warming is not happening?" 69% of respondents said yes, 16% said no, 15%…
In an Octopus’s Garden … in Space?
As you no doubt know by now, I don’t shy away from offering up personal information for the sake of science, or at least blogging about science. I’m the kind of person who thinks that you delight in knowing that I fear dead invertebrates, adore axolotls, and scream, “He’s an ape, not a…
The Real McCann
A few months ago, I received a call from someone who wanted to know about Alfred Watterson McCann’s God—or Gorilla, a creationist book from 1922 with, as it happens, my favorite creationist subtitle ever: How the Monkey Theory of Evolution Exposes Its Own Methods, Refutes Its Own…
Polling Latinos on climate change
A new poll of Latinos in the United States finds that a large majority — more than four fifths — accept that climate change is real, and that a majority — almost two thirds — accept that climate change is mostly due to human activity. Asked "Do you think global warming and climate change are…
Extending summer vacation for the sake of creationism?
Will Kentucky extend the duration of summer vacation in order to enable students to attend a creationist attraction? Two state senators plan to file a bill that would "prevent schools from starting earlier than the first Monday closest to Aug. 26," according to the Grant County News (…
White, Black, and Red All Over: What Blood Segregation Says About Science and Race
Poster distributed by Youthbuilders, the student group from New York City's PS 43, to protest segregated blood banks. Produced in 1945, reproduced here from the YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. The poster was distributed along with copies of YWCA’s play “Blood…
Answer Monday
Today we return to last Friday’s particularly colorful specimen.     This is silica field wood from Arizona dating from the Triassic; about 180 million years old. The species it came from is widely known as Araucarioxylon arizonica, although there is some debate whether…

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