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NCSE staffers in Nature Climate Change
"Science literacy still matters" — a letter by NCSE's Mark McCaffrey and Joshua Rosenau — was published in the journal Nature Climate Change (2012; 2[9]:636; subscription required). Responding to mischaracterizations in the media of a recent study finding that science literacy is negatively…
NCSE and the Grand Canyon 2013
Explore the Grand Canyon with NCSE! Reservations are now available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon — as featured in the documentary No Dinosaurs in Heaven. From July 15 to 23, 2013, NCSE will again explore the wonders of creation and evolution on a Grand Canyon river run conducted by…
Bill Nye video on creationism
Bill NyeA two-and-a-half-minute video with Bill Nye discussing the creationism/evolution controversy went viral, garnering over 2.5 million views in its first week on-line. Posted on August 23, 2012, on the YouTube channel of Big Think, under the title "Creationism is not…
RNCSE 32:4 now on-line
NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on-line. The issue — volume 32, number 4 — features Valerie First's "My Niche in Human Evolution," reporting the author's experiences in discussing evolution as a docent at…
Discussing climate change in informal education
"With many zoos and aquariums now working with conservation organizations and financed by individuals who feel strongly about threatened habitats and species, managers have been wrestling with how aggressive to be in educating visitors on the perils of climate change," reports The New York Times…
NCSE's McCaffrey and Rosenau at Daily Kos
When the popular Daily Kos blog decided to devote a week-long blogathon, running August 17 through August 24, 2012, to climate change, two NCSE staffers were invited to contribute. In "Why climate literacy matters," posted on August 20, 2012, Mark McCaffrey observed, "Ideology, cultural norms,…
NCSE'S Grand Canyon Trip 2012
July 16 — July 24, 2012 The 2012 Rafters Back row (left to right): Bob Stover, Roberta Waddle, Jan Stover, Floyd Waddle, Steven Newton, Bob Barczak, Paula Lawson, Bruce Quayle, Michelle Barczak, Kelley Talbot, Clair Talbot, Martin Schmidt, Graham Huckin…
Two interviews with Eugenie C. Scott
Eugenie C. ScottNCSE's executive director was recently interviewed twice about science denial in on-line venues. Speaking to Liza Gross for KQED's Quest series (August 21, 2012), Scott discussed the similarities between those who reject vaccines and those who reject evolution…
A glimpse of Global Weirdness
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Climate Central's Global Weirdness (Pantheon, 2012). The preview consists of the introduction to the book, which explains that it is intended "to lay out the current state of knowledge about climate change, with explanations of the underlying…

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