Science Is Constantly Evolving
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This week on Fossil Friday, I’m sharing one of my favorite specimens from the University of Iowa fossil repository. I found this fossil particularly cool because I love organic patterns. You see so many repeating motifs across time, space, and species. What do you think this pattern came from? I’…
At the end of my last Misconception Monday post, I said that I was taking the summer off from that blog category. The reason is pretty simple: I’m running out of misconceptions! As it is, I’ve been playing it pretty loose with what counts as a misconception—there are researchers out there that…
Two of the three amendments concerning climate change education under consideration are out of commission as the United States Senate continues to discuss a bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. A proposed amendment (SA 2176) to establish the Climate Change…
The history of the creationism/evolution conflict is stalking me again, and in the unlikeliest contexts. I was recently reading Jason Fagone’s Horsemen of the Esophagus (2006), a book about competitive eating that I acquired on a whim from a used book store in Clovis, California. In a…
The paleontologist David M. Raup died on July 9, 2015, at the age of 82, according to a press release from the University of Chicago (July 14, 2015). The press release explains, "Raup was widely known for the new approaches he brought repeatedly to paleontology, such as extensive computation,…
Nikita Daryanani is a summer intern at NCSE. She recently graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning, and is interested in global climate change and environmental justice. Last week, Minda went to the National Education Association meeting in…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump's Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change (second edition, DK Publishing, 2015). The preview includes chapters on "Taking action in the face of uncertainty," "Greenhouse gases on the rise," "How does…
I admit, I thought more of you would get the locality! To me “famous locality” plus light sandy color could only be the Solnhofen limestone. These extremely fine-grained limestone deposits from Germany were formed in warm, calm, shallow, and quite likely anoxic (oxygen-free) lagoons in the…
We covered the Burgess Shale in my last Fossil Friday, and this week keeps up the theme of famous localities. Anyone recognize the distinctive color of this rock? Where is it from? And what is the UFO-looking thing preserved in it? No hints this week—it’s too easy. After all, you can see…