Science Is Constantly Evolving
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For this week’s Fossil Friday, I’ll tell you nothing. Not where this fossil came from, what time period, or even the phylum. Is it a worm? A trace fossil? Or did something just sneeze on a rock a million years ago? You tell me! What genus did this come from? Was it an animal, vegetable, or…
The National Center for Science Education is pleased to accept applications for its inaugural class of Grand Canyon Teacher Scholars. Lucky teachers will be given an all-expenses-paid seat on NCSE's annual Grand Canyon expedition, an eight-day voyage through some of the world's greatest…
It’s October, so it’s Nobel prize season. Last week the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to John O’Keefe, and Edvard and May-Britt Moser for their work on how the brain figures out where you are. Journalists have been calling it your “inner GPS system.” The Physics prize was…
Yes, it’s true: I really ordered a used copy of a Hungarian play, Ferenc Herczeg’s Majomszínház (1925, although what I ordered was volume 11 of his selected works, also containing Árva László Király, published in 1934) from a used bookstore in Szeged, Hungary. (Köszönöm a…
A few weeks back, blog-reader Anson Kennedy sent me an idea for a Well Said/Say What? The article in question, “Evolution’s Random Paths Lead To One Place,” describes the work of Dr. Michael Desai at Harvard University to perform large-scale evolution experiments on baker’s yeast. I re-read it…
If you were asked to provide a single adjective to describe the Scopes trial of 1925, you could do worse than to select dramatic. It was dramatic in that it was in part staged, with George Rappleyea, who convinced Dayton’s leaders to sponsor the test case of the Butler Act in their town…
Last week, we started talking about a common misconception: Misconception: Evolution is random. For which I earlier offered a correction: Correction: Evolution is neither entirely random nor entirely non-random. Mutations, I explained, are random in the sense…
Eugenie C. Scott NCSE is pleased to announce the addition of a further batch of videos to NCSE's YouTube channel. Featured are a promotional video for Climate Smart & Energy Wise, a new book from Mark McCaffrey; Glenn Branch speaking on "After Kitzmiller —…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of George Marshall's Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2014). The preview consists of chapter 42, "In a Nutshell: Some Personal and Highly Biased Ideas for Digging Our Way Out of This…