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A few times while reading about the history of the creationism/evolution controversy, I’ve noticed references to a policy adopted by the Columbus, Ohio, board of education in 1971 that provided for the teaching of creationism along with evolution. But there are rarely any details. In The…
Photo from PKub via Flickr Dealing with challenges to teaching climate change can be difficult under the best of circumstances. But what do you do if you're accused of not teaching the science at all but rather, indoctrinating students with a liberal agenda? I recently sat down with one teacher…
NCSE is pleased to announce that Emily Schoerning has joined the NCSE staff as Director of Community Organizing and Research. Schoerning earned her Ph.D. in microbiology at Arizona State University and then, as a post-doctoral research scholar at the University of Iowa, turned her attention to…
“But it’s just a theory!” “So, why are there still monkeys!” “Evolution is not real!” As a science teacher and evolutionary biologist in the Southeastern United States, these are things I hear on a regular basis, but it’s never any less surprising to me when I hear it. Hi, my name is Dr.…
Were you lying all the time? Was it just a game to you? But I’m in so deep. You know I’m such a fool for you. You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha. Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to, Do you have to let it linger? —The Cranberries, “Linger” from the album…
I promise, I had no prior knowledge of this before I wrote the Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus posts. Check out what Canada Post just did! Set against Judy Arndt’s photograph of Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park, this collectible showcases one of Canada’s fossil hotbeds and the prehistoric…
In part 1, after explaining how I convinced Stephen Jay Gould to help me play a prank on my brother, I discussed Gould’s reaction, in his essay “Bully for Brontosaurus,” to a rather pointless squabble over a stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 1989. The stamp showed a sauropod identified as…
Every year, in the last two weeks of January and the first two weeks of February, I have a busy time of it, reminding people about Darwin Day. As I wrote in 2012 (and repeated here in 2014), “Across the country and around the world, at colleges and universities, schools and libraries, museums…
For Christmas in 1996, my brother gave me a copy of Stephen Jay Gould’s Bully for Brontosaurus. On the title page, he wrote, “Steph, Should you continue in Biology/Zoölogy —no matter where you are—you’ll run into Mr. Gould and his slightly pedantic but fantastic writing. This is, then, an…