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Trust Your Gut
Quick! What do you say when someone tells you that your entire body is covered in bacteria? A) Yuck! B) Yay! If your answer was A, you’re not alone, but your gut would certainly disagree. That’s because, as Martin J. Blaser, MD, describes in his new book Missing Microbes, the…
Polling confidence in science
A new poll from the Associated Press and GfK asked (PDF) respondents not whether they agree or disagree, but how confident they are, about various claims about science. The Associated Press (April 21, 2014) summarized, "Americans have more skepticism than confidence in global warming, the age of…
Climate change education around the world
"From Mauritius to Manitoba, climate change is slowly moving from the headlines to the classroom," reported The New York Times (April 20, 2014). "Schools around the world are beginning to tackle the difficult issue of global warming, teaching students how the planet is changing and…
Answer Monday!
Last week on Fossil Friday, I gave you an entire body (minus the head!) and a simple request: identify this fossil, where it was found, and what the heck a "synapsid" is. There were many valiant attempts, but the best came from Clayton Pilbro: "Sphenacodon possibly ferox,…
Your Reptilian Innards
Episode #2 of PBS’s Your Inner Fish—entitled “Your Inner Reptile”—comes complete with silly shots of people with scaly skin and snaky tongues. The slow-mo shots of leaping bikini-clad women tipped me off that the producers were mostly men. Fortunately for all of us, such…
Fossil Friday!
This week on Fossil Friday, I give you an incredibly easily identified fossil. I mean, come on, it's the whole body!  Plus, I'm going to tell you it's a synapsid from the Permian. What could be easier? But I do have some additional demands. You must tell me not only what species this…
What If? World War I and the Creationism-Evolution Controversy, Part 4
How would the creationism-evolution controversy have been different if World War I had never happened? Today the question is answered by Abraham “Ab” C. Flipse, a historian of science at and the university historian of VU University Amsterdam, whose recent research focuses on the creationism-…
Living Dangerously
A year and a half ago when I heard about a new Showtime series about human contributions to changing climate—Years of Living Dangerously—which aired its first episode this past week, my first thought was the classic 1982 Peter Weir film The Year of Living Dangerously. A young…
What If? World War I and the Creationism-Evolution Controversy, Part 3
How would the creationism-evolution controversy have been different if World War I had never happened? Today the question is answered by Adam Shapiro, Lecturer in Intellectual and Cultural History at Birkbeck, University of London, and author of Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial,…

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