Science Is Constantly Evolving
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The eminent pharmacologist and biochemist Alfred G. Gilman — a member of NCSE's Advisory Council — died on December 23, 2015, at the age of 74, according to The New York Times (December 24, 2015). Gilman and Martin Rodbell were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1994…
Here’s just a few items to keep you busy over the weekend. Best wishes for the holiday season from all of us at NCSE. The North Carolina Town That’s Scared of Solar Panels, Revisited, Vox, December 18, 2015 — Dave Roberts re-examines the town which blocked a solar farm—one worry was reportedly…
Whose snout is this, from Permian days, On your computer is showing? Submit your guess (ten words or less) If you believe you are knowing…
The chorus of support for the teaching of evolution continues, with a statement from the Royal Astronomical Society, adopted in 2011. In its statement, the society expresses (PDF) its support for "the teaching of evolution, geophysics, astronomy and other scientific theories in school…
Stunning! Interactive! Engaging! Creationist! That’s how the Institute for Creation Research might describe a new facility it proposes to build near its headquarters in Dallas. The prospective Dallas Museum of Science and Earth History” would be the “culmination of decades of study and research”…
Every December I cross the San Francisco Bay to head into the “big city” to go to the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting. If you haven’t been to the meeting before, it is one of the largest scientific conferences in the country. Several tens of thousands of people come from around the…
Wedding bells are ringing in Seattle, Washington, and Richardson, Texas: the Discovery Institute and the Foundation for Thought and Ethics are getting hitched! They’ve had a long and surprisingly secretive courtship, but we at NCSE are glad to see these crazy kids doing the honest thing. The…
In part 1 of this post, I recounted how in the middle of a moment of domestic bliss (doing dishes) I was brought up short by an exchange on Science Friday. Columbia University neuroscientist Stuart Firestein was chatting with host Ira Flatow about his new book, Failure: Why Science is…
I have just weighed my copy of William A. Williams’s The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved (1925) on the postal scale in the NCSE office, and it weighs 6.7 ounces. For such a slight volume, it is awfully ambitious. According to the title page, it is designed “(1) As an up-to-…