Science Is Constantly Evolving
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How would the creationism-evolution controversy have been different if World War I had never happened? Today the question is answered by Ronald L. Numbers, the Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Numbers is the author of…
Because 2014 is the centennial of the outbreak of World War I, there’s been a lot of discussion of the causes, conduct, and consequences of the war lately. Particularly interesting for anyone with a speculative bent is a series on NPR: “What if World War I had never happened?” Various…
Last week on Fossil Friday, my expectations were high. I gave you a single tooth and expected you to determine the entire animal once attached to it! And you were all champs. Every commenter (except for Mr. Sloth man), got it right, correctly identifying the tooth as…
Noah's Ark/20,000 Leagues Under the Sea mashup, created by Ryan Long for a shirt sold by Woot.com. Used with permission. Let me tell you a story. The first story my father told me, and the first story I told each of you. Russell Crowe’s Noah, in Darren Aronofsky’s Noah Noah…
The Milky Way in many wavelengths. Image via NASA, showing how the Milky Way appears in different parts of the spectrum, a theme explored in the "Hidden in the Light" episode of Cosmos. The Idols of the Cave are the idols of the individual man. For everyone (besides the errors…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Michael L. Bender's Paleoclimate (Princeton University Press, 2013). The preview consists of chapter 12, "Anthropogenic Global Warming in the Context of Paleoscience," in which Bender writes, "The problem of anthropogenic global change,…
Ah, California living. Land of fruits and nuts. And fungi. Impressed one day by the unusually high number of kinds of mushrooms at my local produce store (I stopped counting at 25), I posted a picture of the array on my Facebook page. Whereupon Jim Strickland waggishly warned me about using the…
Tauriel: Wood elves love best the light of the stars. Fili: I always thought it is a cold light, remote and far away. Tauriel: It is memory, precious and pure. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug The most distant galaxies ever…
This week on Fossil Friday, I bring you a fossil that you can really sink your teeth into! Or maybe this animal would have sunk its teeth into you! This air-breathing marine reptile dates back to the Jurassic and was found in what is now the Sahara Desert. Although they are considered…