Science Is Constantly Evolving
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This week on Fossil Friday, I share another mystery fossil about which I’ll tell you very little. Hailing from the Miocene, this specimen was found in Nevada. It looks like a blob of some sort. Was it a single living blob or many smaller blobs, blobbed together? A piece of dino-poo? A very warty…
In my last post, I told you that NCSE is collecting stories from scientists, elected officials, journalists, and anyone else whose interest in science, and commitment to great science education, was sparked by a terrific teacher. I began with the story of Stefano Bertuzzi, executive director of…
I suppose, with my taste for gobbets of recherché historical trivia, that “Seven Myths about Ussher” is as close as I can come to composing a headline with a lot of clickbait appeal. But at least because today is October 23, 2014—marking the beginning of the 6018th year since the creation of the…
I’m in the middle, just about the exact middle in fact, of summarizing a Hungarian play, Ferenc Herczeg’s Majomszínház (1925), a comedy in three acts. Why? Because, as I noted in part 1, The New York Times for January 2, 1927, claimed that Herczeg “is probably the first…
Last week on Fossil Friday, I told you nothing! Was it an animal, vegetable, or mineral? I asked. Was this even a fossil from a living creature or a drip of sloth snot? You had to tell me what genus it came from and whether we could find something similar today. And it was….a needle…
Proposed social studies textbooks get climate change wrong, distort facts, deny science CONTACTS: Robert Luhn, NCSE, 510/601-7203 Dan Quinn, TFN, 512/322-0545 Lisa Hoyos, Climate Parents, 510/282-0440 The results are in! Over 24,000 Texans, together with parents and education supporters…
Within the climate communication community, blaming the messenger—climate scientists—for the lack of progress on climate action has been almost as popular as blaming deniers for interfering with the message. “If only climate scientists were better communicators,” the lament goes, “then we’d see…
Over 24,000 Texans have signed petitions calling on the Texas board of education to require the correction of errors in the coverage of climate change in social studies textbooks presently under consideration. As NCSE previously reported, among the problematic claims are a statement…
A few weeks ago in Misconception Monday, I discussed the all-too-common misunderstanding that individuals evolve. As part of that piece, I attempted to explain why “descent with modification” is a better definition for evolution than the old standard “change over time.” The key point was that…