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A Fond Farewell to Judy Scotchmoor
Wednesday night was retirement celebration night for NCSE friend Judy Scotchmoor at the University of California Museum of Paleontology. The education director (or to give her full title, Assistant Director for Outreach and Education) at UCMP for decades, Judy has made UCMP a model for academic…
Polling climate in the UK
A new poll commissioned by Carbon Brief investigates public opinion about climate change in the United Kingdom. Given the choice of three claims about the occurrence of climate change, 56% of respondents preferred "Climate change is happening and is mostly caused by humans," 37% preferred "…
Doing the Math
UPDATE: Exxon Mobil is one of the signatories of a document from the business community supporting the Next Generation Science Standards, which include climate change and human impacts on the environment as integral components. -MM As glaciers around the world, including the…
Triple Play: Larkin to Housman to Romanes
Don’t ask why, but I was reading Philip Larkin’s Required Writing over the weekend. As the title jokingly suggests, it’s a collection of pieces “produced on request,” as Larkin explains in his preface. Larkin, of course, is the English poet and novelist famous for his glum lyricism;…
Against Denial: Just Say Know
Denial—or writing about it—seems to be all the rage these days, with a New York Times op-ed by Adam Frank entitled "Welcome to the Age of Denial" coming along shortly after Time published a piece by Mary Pipher—“We Are All Climate Change Deniers”—as well as a look at the…
Opposition to Evolution: Grand Island, Nebraska
Recently the online edition of the Grand Island Independent, a newspaper in Grand Island, Nebraska, carried a story with the prosaic headline "Northwest school board begins budget work." This came to my attention through the magic of the search engine because, amid many paragraphs about…
Fossil Friday, Monday Answer!
Last week I launched "Fossil Friday"—a weekly quiz testing your dino-fossil knowledge. Last week's puzzler was a photo of a pre-historic animal from an undisclosed southern California location. The answer: It's an American Lion from the La Brea Tar Pits! Kudos to Dan Coleman for figuring it out…
Fossil Friday Starts Now!
Earlier this week, I told you about my summer vacation adventures to North Carolina where the houses are built high above the seashore for some mysterious reason (that has nothing to do with sea levels or storm surge). But lest you think I spent the entire time at the beach, wallowing away…
Jimmy's Good Idea
On a vacation trip, I had a morning to kill in Atlanta before catching my plane, and a friend suggested we visit the Jimmy Carter Presidential Museum. Sounded good. I always admired Carter, and even many of his detractors admit he is one of the most admirable past-presidents, spending his time on…

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