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In August, Nature published a brief review (subscription required) by me of P. Z. Myers’s collection of essays The Happy Atheist (2013). Describing the review, I think fairly, as “decidedly mixed,” Jerry Coyne recently took exception to the following sentence from it: “For…
Today (10 September) is Stephen Jay Gould's birthday. He would have been 72. SJG was an inspiration to many, and especially to me; my fascination with geology was spurred, in no small part, by his writings. With his untimely passing, we lost a great scientist and a great science…
Last week on Fossil Friday, I posted a picture of a tibia from the Cretaceous. My question was: who does this tibia belong to? There were a lot of good guesses. (A titanosaur was definitely my favorite.) But the correct answer came from hubcap747 (good…
When I started work at the National Center for Science Education six years ago, I was known as "the new Nick." Nick Matzke was heading off to grad school in evolutionary biology after a productive tenure at NCSE. I had big shoes to fill. In his time at NCSE, Nick’s work refuting creationists had…
Growing up in Colorado, whose tagline adorns the signs at the state line—Welcome to Colorful Colorado!—we were proud that the words of the song America the Beautiful were written by Katharine Lee Bates, who spent the summer of 1893 teaching at Colorado College and was poetically inspired…
Last week’s Fossil Friday was way too easy, so this week I’ve made things a little trickier. This is a tibia from the Cretaceous, but... What animal did it belong to? First one to guess it wins bragging rights for the week. Answer on Monday, of course…
I’m always on the lookout—or should I say on the listen?—for material to add to Voices for Evolution, NCSE’s compilation of statements supporting the teaching of evolution and opposing attempts to undermine it. In the most recent edition, published in 2008, there were no fewer than 176…
Paul Sinclair of the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media produced this great video to respond to claims that climate change somehow stopped in the last decade and a half. As the video observes, oceans absorb most of the added heat trapped by the human-produced…
“Gnats flitted on the warm, dry, summer breeze, some settling on the surface of Pinecrest Lake. It was strangely overcast, as if storm clouds were gathering over the western foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada. However, before long the unmistakable odor of distant wildfire smoke filled the air…