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 34, number 6 — contains Sehoya Cotner, D. Christopher Brooks, and Randy Moore's "Science and Society: Evolution and Student Voting Patterns"; John P. Abraham, John Fasullo, and Greg Laden's "Continued Global Warming in the Midst of Natural Climate Fluctuations"; and John Cook and Peter Jacobs's "Scientists are from Mars, Laypeople are from Venus: An Evidence-Based Rationale for Communicating the Consensus on Climate." And for his regular People and Places column, Randy Moore discusses the geologist William Smith.
Plus a host of reviews of books on various topics: Douglas Allchin reviews Martin A. Nowak and Sarah Coakley's collection Evolution, Games, and God, David M. Dobson reviews Donald R. Prothero's Reality Check, David Morrison reviews David C. Catling's Astrobiology, David A. Rintoul reviews Gregg D. Caruso's Science and Religion: 5 Questions, Kenneth Saladin reviews Randy Moore and Sehoya Cotner's Understanding Galápagos, and Brian Switek reviews Richard Milner's Charles M. Knight: The Artist Who Saw Through Time.
All of these articles, features, and reviews are freely available in PDF form from http://reports.ncse.com. Members of NCSE will shortly be receiving in the mail the print supplement to Reports 34:6, which, in addition to summaries of the on-line material, contains news from the membership, a regular column in which NCSE staffers offer personal reports on what they've been doing to defend the teaching of evolution, a regular column interviewing NCSE's favorite people, and more besides. (Not a member? Join today! And as the holiday season approaches, why not consider giving a membership to, or a donation in honor of, that special someone?)