Science Is Constantly Evolving
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This week on Fossil Friday, another lovely specimen from Dan Phelps, who has again thoughtfully provided us with a sense of scale. Rather an interesting sight, right? Somewhat reminiscent of vertebrae. A couple of clues: it’s from the Late Devonian and was found in Kentucky. The first…
Last week, on National Fossil Day, our Stephanie Keep organized a twitter conversation where folks could ask paleontologists their pressing questions. It rocked, and you can find the whole thing on the #askapaleo Storify. Stephanie’s icebreaker question about the disappointingly featherless…
Do you know those questionnaires where you are presented with a statement and asked whether you (1) strongly agree, (2) agree, (3) neither agree nor disagree, (4) disagree, or (5) strongly disagree? The responses themselves are supposed to be symmetrical and balanced around the neutral position…
Do you live near the ocean? Maybe you will. New research on different factors relating to sea level rise, from increasing understanding the behavior of Antarctic ice sheets to revised global temperature predictions, are coming together to create an increasingly dystopian (and damp) picture…
This past week my e-mail in-box has been filling up with messages about Utah. “Have you seen what’s going on there?” people are asking me. “They are trying to write climate denial into the standards!” If you believe the media (Newsweek, The Salt Lake Tribune, and even my most beloved…
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” —Sherlock Holmes
Recently, a magnificent new hominin fossil was announced: Homo naledi, known from a single chamber in an almost-…
More than three quarters of the American public accepts the reality of global climate change, according to a new poll. In the latest University of Texas at Austin Energy poll (PDF), 76% of respondents agreed that global climate change is occurring, while 14% disagreed and 10% were not sure. The…
NCSE is pleased to congratulate James Hopson and Donald Prothero on their recent awards from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. At the SVP's recent meeting in Dallas, Texas, Hopson was presented with the A. S. Romer — G. G. Simpson medal, the society's highest award, granted in…
If you follow NCSE, you know that we are big supporters of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Unlike many state science standards that are simply a list of scientific topics, the NGSS challenges students to seek out and evaluate evidence, build scientific arguments, and engineer…