Science Is Constantly Evolving
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It’s almost Thanksgiving! Here are a few articles NCSE staff came across this week, for you to read while your turkey roasts. No “What We’re Reading” next week—you’re on your own. You should probably take a walk after that big dinner anyway... Health Experts Are Explaining Drug-Resistant…
This week on Fossil Friday, we have another specimen from the wonderful collection of Dan Phelps. I’ve cropped the photo to make guessing a little more interesting, but I promise I haven’t done too much to throw you off. A couple of hints? This specimen was found in Alaska, and dates from the…
We will soon live in a world with an atmosphere permanently above 400 parts per million (ppm) CO2. As I discussed in part 1, sometime in the next year the last sub-400 measurement will occur. In fact, measurements made last week may be the very last below 400 ppm. But even if a brief…
I’m still discussing Henshaw Ward’s Evolution for John Doe (1925), a copy of which I bought over the Labor Day weekend, finding a few of its pages still unopened. In the first chapter, Ward, a teacher of English turned science popularizer, not only lists what he takes to be eight…
A profoundly misleading headline appeared in the November 17, 2015, Washington Post: “NOAA Climate Feud: Pursuit of Scientific Truth vs. Public Accountability.” In fact, the article printed below this dry headline involves not a feud between the pursuit of scientific truth and public…
There are lots of good reasons to teach about climate change, amply covered elsewhere on our blog and website. But in a new report from (of all places) the BlackRock Investment Institute—“The Price of Climate Change: Global Warming’s Impact on Portfolios”—we find perhaps the simplest reason, and…
It looks like the party is over for climate change deniers.They had a good run through the 1990s and early 2000s, gaining a lot of traction as they attempted to undermine the science on climate change, but the public is getting too savvy and the reality too severe. Climate change can no…
Explore the Grand Canyon with NCSE! Reservations are still available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon — as featured in the documentary No Dinosaurs in Heaven. From June 30 to July 8, 2016, NCSE will again explore the wonders of creation and evolution on a Grand Canyon river run…
Do you all think these vertebrae are as gorgeous as I do? Just look—beauuutiful. I’m not sure if I’ve told you this before, but I did my undergraduate research on the evolution of vertebral column anatomy among whales. So every time I visit the MCZ, I climb up to the top of the gallery to get a…