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NGSS on Holliday
Kentucky’s Education Commissioner Terry Holliday was in the news recently, discussing the treatment of evolution and climate change in the Next Generation Science Standards, which Kentucky’s public schools are scheduled to begin to use in the 2014–2015 school year. When the NGSS were released in…
The Nature of the Problem
In my introductory post, I presented one of many common mistakes made when speaking about evolution. I argued that writing and talking about evolution demands vigilance to avoid finicky issues. In that case, it was inferring a selection pressure for a given trait: Why might longer fingers be…
AHA award for NCSE's Scott
Eugenie C. Scott Eugenie C. Scott, the former executive director of NCSE and the current chair of its Advisory Council, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Humanist Association at its annual conference in Philadelphia on June 7, 2014. "When…
NCSE's latest in Evolution: Education and Outreach
NCSE's Glenn Branch's "Going Ape: Interview with Brandon Haught" (PDF) was just published in Evolution: Education and Outreach. Of Haught's book Going Ape, Branch writes, "It is the only study of controversies over the teaching of evolution that concentrates on a single state…
Answer Monday
Image from Freizeitpark Germendorf Last week on Fossil Friday, as per a reader's request, I presented a fossil from the Mesozoic. I chose a lower jaw from the Jurassic, but mentioning that this fossil was in the movie Jurassic Park made it completely obvious what the fossil was. It…
Cosmos and Our Solar Future
Neil deGrasse Tyson stares at the Sun. Don't try this at home, unless you, too, are a professional astronomer. In this week’s episode of Cosmos, Neil deGrasse Tyson dug deep into the science of climate change, and offered his vision of how we can solve it. Dismissing a…
Fossil Friday!
This whole month, Fossil Friday is “fossil by request.” Want to see a pile o’ marsupial teeth? Want me to dig into the La Brea tar pits? Are you an ammonite addict? Your wish is my command! The first requested fossil is coming from GrizzlyD, who asked for “some Mesozoic beasties.” Well.…
“Intelligent Design in Public Schools,” Part 2
When part 1 of “Intelligent Design in Public Schools” ended, I was in the middle of summarizing my essay of the same title that was published in Whitney A. Bauman and Lucas F. Johnston’s collection Science and Religion: One Planet, Many Possibilities (Routledge 2014). Where was I?…
A glimpse of The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Grady Klein and Yoram Bauman's The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change (Island Press, 2014). The preview consists of chapter 2, "A Brief History of Planet Earth," which begins with the formation of the earth about 4.6 billion years ago…

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