Science Is Constantly Evolving
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“You can’t do outreach on evolution and climate change here. Those topics are too hot to handle.” That’s what I heard over and over again when I started organizing a Science Booster Club in Iowa City last year. My goal—to provide a way for communities to promote science education and support their…
The NCSE blog launched just over three years ago, on August 19, 2013. Since then, there have been 1,210 posts, or just about exactly one per day. The posts have ranged in subject matter from ruminations on current events to explorations of the history of evolution and its detractors, and from…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Shawn Otto's The War on Science (Milkweed Editions, 2016). The preview consists of the first twenty pages of chapter 12, "Battle Plans," discussing ways of defending science; it includes a description of NCSE as "on the front lines of the…
A new lawsuit challenges a chain of public charter schools in Arizona for their religious advocacy — which reportedly includes creationism. In a September 7, 2016, press release, Americans United for Separation of Church and State explained, "Heritage Academy, which has campuses in Mesa,…
In part 1, I relayed a story of the common carp. Long ago, the carp was domesticated by monks to have fewer, patchy scales, making the fish easier to prepare and eat. Some of these monk-bred “mirror carp” were released in Madagascar in 1912 to provide a ready source of fishy deliciousness. Just…
I have to admit that I haven’t read anything, ever, by Tom Wolfe, whose new book The Kingdom of Speech (2016) apparently tries, in the words of the headline to Jerry Coyne’s review for the Washington Post, “to take down Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky.” And, after reading a few…
NCSE bids farewell to Minda Berbeco, who joined NCSE as a Programs and Policy Director in 2012 to work on its climate change education initiative. In addition to helping NCSE continue to develop its expertise on climate education and threats to it, Berbeco also spearheaded NCSEteach, NCSE's new…
The conservative political activist Phyllis Schlafly died on September 5, 2016, at the age of 92, according to The New York Times (September 5, 2016). Her "grass-roots campaigns against Communism, abortion[,] and the Equal Rights Amendment galvanized conservatives for almost two…
I thought that I was doing my best to stay on top of evolution-related news, but now I fear that I’ve grown lazy, and for that I blame Ed Yong. Yong is a tremendously talented writer who, I can only assume based on his output, has somehow genetically engineered himself to require no sleep. We…