Science Is Constantly Evolving

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Farewell to Fossil Friday.... For Now.
Well folks, this will be the last Fossil Friday for a while. Next week we will be debuting a new feature in its place. This isn’t because we don’t love fossils—we do!—nor is it because we have grown tired of Dan Coleman and Dan Phelps’ Fossil Friday dominance. Rather, it is because we felt a…
Rediscovering the Milky Way
Only 1 in 5 people in North America live in a place where they can see the Milky Way. That’s the staggering finding of a new paper in Science Advances, in which the authors painstakingly matched satellite images with ground measurements of light pollution around the world. Generally,…
Climate change education bills in Congress
Senate Bill 3074, introduced in the U. S. Senate on June 16, 2016, would, if enacted, authorize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish a climate change education program. Observing that "the evidence for human-induced climate change is overwhelming and undeniable," the…
Failing to Make Hay of Mass Extinctions
When I was discussing the origin of the claim that “we may well suppose” occurs eight hundred times in Darwin’s two principal works a while back, I obtained a copy of Frank Allen’s Evolution in the Balances (1926), because David N. Livingstone, in his Darwin’s Forgotten Defenders…
Science Education, Millennial Workers, and the Mad Skillz Gap
According to a recent survey by PayScale, there is a giant gap between how millennials view themselves in the workplace and how they are viewed by their managers. Media fretting about how this alleged “slacker generation” is faring in adulthood often manifests in articles decrying the number of…
Wilted Wonderland
2016 is on target to be the hottest year ever (beating out last year for the record, and the year before that…). Plenty of us in the US are definitely feeling it right now. The heat in Arizona is already killing people, significant parts of California are on fire, and I have serious garden…
Rhodes’s Creed
In God or the Guessers (1926), a copy of which (it will be recalled: part 1; part 2) I recently delightedly obtained, Leander Lycurgus Pickett quotes a whole, if brief, paragraph from Alexander Patterson’s The Other Side of Evolution (1903). Occurring in chapter 6 (“Evolution…
Answer Monday!
Kudos to all of you who recognized this week’s fabulous fossil as a lovely stromatolite—especially Dan Coleman who was the first to get it. I can tell you almost nothing about this particular specimen (Minda Berbeco snapped the photo at a conference), but I can tell you a great deal about…
What We're Reading
Hey, Dads! I got you a present for Fathers Day! A whole bunch of great articles about evolution, climate change, and…fatherhood. You’re welcome! We Finally Know Why Birds Are So Freakishly Smart, Gizmodo, June 13 2016 — Turns out bird brains have more neurons per square inch than mammalian…

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