Science Is Constantly Evolving
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NCSE is delighted to congratulate Randy W. Schekman for receiving the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Along with James E. Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof, Schekman was honored for his work on "the mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system." According to a press release…
Last week on Fossil Friday, I showed you a skull that our house anthropologist, Eric Meikle, called "one of the four most historically significant discoveries in the human fossil record" (in his humble opinion). There were a few false starts from readers: Neandertal, Australopithecus…
You may have run across the trailer for the Genesis 3D movie, a forthcoming cinematic piece produced by, among others, young earth creationist Eric Hovind, son of Kent “Dr. Dino” Hovind (currently serving prison time on tax charges). The movie will be “a depiction of the Bible’s…
Since the start of the government shutdown, my Facebook feed has been filled with nothing but politics. Everyone has an opinion about what is going on and who is responsible. This response was of course expected, but what surprised me was that almost immediately, intertwined with the political…
Today on Fossil Friday, we are starting our month long lead up to the Day of the Dead. This whole month it'll be skulls, skulls and more skulls! Eric Meikle, one of our in-house anthropologists, tells me that this skull will be easy for anyone with a background in human evolution or…
NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch contributed "Bad Science: Genetics, as Misread by Creationism" to GeneWatch (pp. 29-30), the magazine of the Council for Responsible Genetics. "[R]elying on a general trust in genetics and a general ignorance of, skepticism about, or hostility toward evolution,…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of the second edition of Carl Zimmer's The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution (Roberts and Company, 2013). The preview consists of the first few pages of chapter 14, "A New Kind of Ape," in which Zimmer presents "the latest consensus about…
Those with an interest in the history of anti-evolutionism should check out this recent article by Adam Shapiro in Nebraska History. It discusses a 1924 slander trial in Nebraska where a teacher sued, successfully, after being denied a college English position. The teacher was accused of…
With the world all abuzz about the recent release of the fifth edition of the IPCC report, many teachers are no doubt wondering how to take advantage of this teachable moment. Should they address the report in social studies? In an environmental sciences course? How can…