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Extending summer vacation for the sake of creationism?
Will Kentucky extend the duration of summer vacation in order to enable students to attend a creationist attraction? Two state senators plan to file a bill that would "prevent schools from starting earlier than the first Monday closest to Aug. 26," according to the Grant County News (…
White, Black, and Red All Over: What Blood Segregation Says About Science and Race
Poster distributed by Youthbuilders, the student group from New York City's PS 43, to protest segregated blood banks. Produced in 1945, reproduced here from the YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. The poster was distributed along with copies of YWCA’s play “Blood…
Answer Monday
Today we return to last Friday’s particularly colorful specimen.     This is silica field wood from Arizona dating from the Triassic; about 180 million years old. The species it came from is widely known as Araucarioxylon arizonica, although there is some debate whether…
Fossil Friday
This week on Fossil Friday we have an unusually colorful specimen. Take a look!   I was really impressed by its vibrancy when the curator brought it out. Its preservation is slightly unusual for fossils in general, but typical for the location where this specimen was found. In terms of…
Sharing the Passion for Evolution Education
I love biology in general, and evolutionary science in particular. As a biology major in college, I came to understand how evolution truly ties together all branches of the biological sciences. I find great comfort and peace in the concept that we are connected to all of nature, and by extension,…
Darwin in The Dante Club
The evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, it’s simply not the case that I select my leisure reading with a keen eye to the possibility of developing a theme for a blog post from it. And yet here I am again, with a copy of Matthew Pearl’s historical novel The Dante Club (2003) at…
Polar Bears: Climate Change Cliché or Disaster?
When you think of climate change and animals, what do you think of? Birds? Butterflies? Maybe if you’re a biologist. But most people think of… yes, you guessed it, polar bears. These bears have become the unwitting symbol of climate change, as the first mammals to ever become endangered because of…
John Holland dies
John Holland The computer scientist John Holland died on August 9, 2015, at the age of 86, according to a memorial notice from the Santa Fe Institute (August 10, 2015). Holland, in the words of the memorial notice, was "a pioneer in the study of complex adaptive systems and the…
The Mistake People Make When They Write About Vaccine Safety
Do me a favor. Go to your favorite search engine and enter “vaccines.” Then click on “images.” Go ahead. I’ll wait. OMG HAVE YOU EVER SEEN SO MANY NEEDLES IN YOUR WHOLE LIFE!!!??!?!?!? Want to slap your forehead? Now search for images of “childhood vaccination.” I’ll wait again. You guessed it…

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