Science Is Constantly Evolving
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When you were a kid, what did you want to grow up to be? I tell you what I didn’t want to be. A “lady” scientist. Yesterday, I saw another example of a long line of things that tick me off: EDF Energy’s #PrettyCurious campaign. This is a program designed to promote science to teenage girls. You…
When I was writing “Dixon, Not Darwin,” about a viciously racist passage sometimes misattributed to Darwin but actually taken from Thomas F. Dixon Jr.’s novel The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905), I was going to invoke a further consideration to demonstrate…
In part 1 of this Q&A, I asked John Mead, a Dallas teacher who befriended Lee Berger, the discoverer of Homo naledi, about how he came to know about the new hominid species in advance, and he answered in detail. Now I’ve got a simple request for him… Stephanie Keep: Sum up…
It should be pretty obvious by now that I’m pretty excited about the discovery of Homo naledi announced on September 10. Sure, there are some known unknowns, but it’s just such a cool story! From the cavers (not, I learned, spelunkers [but I maintain that “spelunkers” is way more…
Every year, as August slouches toward September, public schools around the country resume classes—and bemoan the difficulty of finding enough teachers: The New York Times proclaimed “Teacher Shortages Spur a Nationwide Hiring Scramble,” reporting that one North Carolina district was…
You might think that an official science teacher meeting would be the last place you’d run into climate change deniers. Sadly, that’s exactly what I found three years ago when I attended my first California Science Teachers Association (CSTA) meeting in San Jose. What happened that day was…
Last week, I shared a zoomed-in photo of an unnamed organism’s little “boxing glove” and told you nothing else except that I’m terrified of it. What is “it”? It’s a eurypterid, specifically Eurypterus lacustris from the Williamsville Waterlime formation in upstate New York. Eurypterids…
"Using responses from nearly 700 biophysical scientists," a new survey "finds that approximately 92 percent of them believe that human-caused climate change is really happening," according to the Washington Post (September 25, 2015), reporting on J. S. Carlton, Rebecca Perry-Hill,…
I both love and loathe this week’s fossil. I love it because every time I look at it, I think of what Jessica (the MCZ’s invertebrate collections guru) said: It looks like it’s wearing adorable little boxing gloves. But I loathe it because… well. These things are terrifying. Who wants to get…