Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
Watching the news from Paris (and the bombing in Beirut, and other tragedies unfolding), my mind kept returning to the image of our little blue marble floating in space, and how close together all of us are on it. Not a new thought, as shown by this song, written by Malvina Reynolds and sung by…
If you feel like settling down to read the news, feel free to wear your powdered wig, but we suggest that you skip the pipe. NCSE found a lot of interesting articles this week. Here are some of them. Feel free to share articles that crossed your screen in the comment section, or e-mail us directly…
Readers, it’s NABT week! The National Association of Biology Teachers is descending on Providence, Rhode Island, and a bunch of NCSE’s finest and I are busy knocking people out of their socks with our awesomeness (promoting NCSEteach and the Science Booster Clubs, while we’re at it). So I’m going…
In part 1 of this post, I told you about the game-changing experience I had when I really started listening to how many of my students felt about my beloved language of science—i.e., that they hated it. I promised to tell you how people’s reaction to a hands-on climate change activity triggered…
Do you ever think about where science denial comes from? I know I had various ideas about the sources of science denial when I started working for NCSE. Science denial, I thought, was in part a product of certain corporate and religious interests. And perhaps I also thought of science denial as…
Still on the agenda is Henshaw Ward’s Evolution for John Doe (1925), a popular exposition of evolution from the Scopes era, by a teacher of English turned science popularizer, who claimed that for twenty years he sought a popular treatment of evolution to recommend to the curious, but…
Hats off to Anahad O’Connor of The New York Times, whose article “So Will Processed Meat Give You Cancer?” does a nice job putting into perspective the IARC announcement that processed meats probably cause cancer. In a nutshell, his conclusion is that processed meats probably do cause…
Marshall Berman The physicist and science education activist Marshall Berman died on October 25, 2015, at the age of 76, according to a November 8, 2015, obituary from the Coalition for Excellence in Science and Math Education (CESE) in New Mexico. Passionate about the quality of science…
Returning to our specimen from last week, this time with appropriate scale: Doesn’t it look familiar? If any of you like flyfishing I’m sure it looks familiar. As you might have cleverly deduced from the picture, this specimen is an Ephemeropsis trisetalis;…