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From the Devonian limestone of Belgium they came! What tiny fossils are collected here? A hint to reward you for reading my non-Fossil Friday posts: the person who originally described the species was once called “Roredick” by a Scopes-era creationist. If you think you know the…
State Senator Dan Claitor (R–District 16) is leading an effort in Louisiana to repeal various outdated laws on its books. In a recent report on these efforts, there’s an interesting comment from radical cleric Gene Mills. In both the online and print editions of the Baton Rouge Advocate,…
Say what you will about the 2016 elections (and as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, we at NCSE can’t say much), in the end, one of the participants in the unceasing debates will presumably be our next president. And regardless of who you’d like to see win, I think we can all agree that the next president will…
In search of inspiration for a blog post, I turned to the TalkOrigins Archive Quote Mine Project. From about 2003 to 2006, a band of volunteers took on the chore of investigating the source material from which creationists quarried misleading quotations from scientists. There I found a promising…
NCSE is delighted to congratulate Jay Labov on receiving the Distinguished Service to Science Education Award from the National Science Teachers Association. The award is presented to "NSTA members who, through active leadership and scholarly endeavor over a significant period of time,…
My ecology unit started in an unusually urgent manner—with a call to the doctor. "911, this is an emergency! Let's get some vitals on the patient, stat!" Now we weren't in an emergency room, nor had any student collapsed. Instead, we were in my classroom, my students were the doctors, and the…
It’s Angelina! Not to be confused with Angelina! I’m surprised that this fossil was such a stumper—nobody came close to identifying even the genus! Dan Phelps, who kindly provided the photograph, thinks that the species is probably A. sedgwickii, named…
When I was doing research on the influenza virus that killed some 40 million people in 1918 and 1919, I felt a huge weight of responsibility. What if I made a mistake? What if a pandemic started to spread because I missed a vital clue…
In which we look forward to the next century (yikes!) and back to the last. Also, turtles and dinosaurs. The Struggle of Clear Climate Communication, The Atlantic, March 23, 2016 — Robinson Meyer takes the publication of James Hansen’s disturbing and controversial paper in…