Science Is Constantly Evolving
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Andrew Sherwood Senate Resolution 1001, introduced in the Arizona Senate on February 2, 2016, would, if enacted, express the Senate's recognition of February 12, 2016, as International Darwin Day. The resolution acknowledges the 207th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth,…
Last week, I told you that you’d all recognize this specimen once I told you what it was, and I stand by that. Meet Deinonychus. You don’t recognize the name? Or the skull? Well, do you recognize this foot? Or this movie star? But wait! That’s Velociraptor, you say? In the…
Sean B. Carroll NCSE is pleased to congratulate Sean B. Carroll, a member of NCSE's Advisory Council and a recipient of NCSE's Friend of Darwin award, on winning the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science. Carroll's books include Endless Forms Most Beautiful…
The Apollo 10 crew, credited as the fastest people in history. How a scientist would talk about being the "fastest" became a sticking point in writing The Martian, as discussed in one of the pieces we read this week. NCSE moved offices this week, which left less time than usual for…
After fifteen years in the same office, NCSE is relocating. Effective February 1, 2016, NCSE will be at 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 600, Oakland CA 94612-2922. Please update your address book. (Local telephone numbers are unchanged, although individual telephone extensions may be changing.…
This week’s fossil will be familiar, I’m sure, to all of you once it’s revealed. As presented here, however, it is perhaps not obvious to most of you. I’m being cryptic, I know… so here’s a hint: I’m feeling thematic, so this week’s fossil is in some way connected to last week’s… Have you figured…
NCSE’s Science Booster Clubs are off to a great start in 2016. We now have clubs operating at four locations: our original club in Iowa City, as well as three new clubs in West Branch, Cedar Rapids, and Clear Creek Amana. Membership is growing, and so is community enthusiasm. We have fun science…
There is nothing particularly odd, I suppose, about the fact that opposition to evolution sometimes runs in families. Henry M. Morris, the father of modern creation science, was also the father of John D. Morris and Henry M. Morris III, president emeritus and chief executive officer,…
President Obama, wearing a kipper (why not), walks past props from the Moon landing that was totally a hoax to perpetuate the myth of a round Earth. Note the Men in Black protecting the conspiracy. From a NASA image, with advice from @darth. For reasons passing understanding, rapper B.o.B.…