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SICB lifts boycott of New Orleans
The executive committee of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology is again willing to consider New Orleans to host the society's annual meetings. Back in 2009, the society decided not to hold any future meetings in New Orleans owing to "the official position of the state in weakening…
Trademark suit against creationists settled
The suit against the operators of a right-wing radio show that features a creationist segment was settled in a federal court on December 28, 2012. As NCSE previously reported, in mid-November 2012, ScienceFriday Inc., which produces the NPR show Science Friday, filed suit against Bob Enyart — who…
NGSS, take two
The second public draft of the Next Generation Science Standards is available on-line — and your feedback is invited. The Next Generation Science Standards are intended to be "rich in content and practice, arranged in a coherent manner across disciplines and grades to provide all students an…
A preview of How to Build a Habitable Planet
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Charles H. Langmuir and Wally Broecker's How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind (Princeton University Press, 2012). The preview consists of chapter 20, "Mankind at the Helm: Human Civilization in a…
Eugenie C. Scott: "This I believe"
Eugenie C. ScottNCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott contributed a "This I believe" op-ed to Frontiers in Evolutionary and Population Genetics. "I believe that there are three genetics-related concepts that, if taught properly, would greatly improve the biological literacy…
Carl R. Woese dies
Carl R. WoeseThe distinguished microbiologist Carl R. Woese died on December 30, 2012, at the age of 84, according to the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois. Born on July 15, 1928, he earned his B.A. in mathematics and physics at Amherst College in 1950…
What's new on NCSE's YouTube channel
NCSE is pleased to announce the addition of Glenn Branch's talk "Doubt and Denial as Challenges in, and to, Teaching Climate Change," delivered to the National Capital Area Skeptics on July 7, 2016, to NCSE's YouTube channel. It's just one of the latest of hundreds of videos freely…
A preview of Cold Cash, Cool Climate
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Jonathan Koomey's Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs (Analytics Press, 2012). The preview consists of chapter 5, "The Scope of the Problem," in which Koomey writes, "Climate change is probably the biggest…
Two new polls on climate change
A pair of new polls offers insights on public opinion about climate change. First, a poll from the Public Religion Research Institute and Religion News Service asked (PDF), "From what you've read and heard, do you believe there is solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been…

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