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NCSE: Science Party!
This past Saturday the Iowa City Science Booster Club held its first public event. Everyone had a great time, and it’s clear from the turnout that people want more opportunities to engage in science in their communities. More than two hundred and seventy people came by during our two-hour event.…
Answer Monday
Last Friday we took a look at a couple of patterned fossils. I was hoping to trick you into thinking they were plant specimens, maybe some kind of tree bark, but the location tipped you off. These specimens are, of course, aquatic, like most of those collected in the quarries in eastern Iowa.…
Fossil Friday
This week on Fossil Friday we have a pair of interestingly textured specimens.   What could they be? Animal, vegetable, or mineral? Okay, most certainly mineral at this point. But what were they originally? They date from the Devonian and were collected in a quarry in North Liberty, Iowa…
Tetrapodophis amplectus: Is it “The Archaeopteryx of the Squamate World”?
This week, I’m attending the seventh annual Think Evolution Institute at UC Berkeley. It’s a week that mixes three of my favorite things: educators, evolution, and the crew behind Understanding Evolution and Understanding Science. Knowing I’d be otherwise engaged all week, I wrote my posts on the…
Listening to the Grand Canyon's Story
Astronaut Roger Chaffee and geologist Elbert King explore the Grand Canyon, March 5-6 1967. I believe the person standing directly beside and behind Chaffee is astronaut Michael Collins (based on the account and photographs in King’s memoir), with an unidentified person crouching behind. Collins…
There and Back Again, Grand Canyon Edition
Josh Rosenau and I have just returned from NCSE’s annual rafting trip down the Colorado River and through the spectacular geology and biology of Grand Canyon. Our two motorized boats were packed with an eclectic mix of scientists, teachers, NCSE members, and people who wanted the ultimate…
Fact, Theory, and Path Again, Part 1
In “Whence Fact, Theory, and Path?” I was talking about what I described as “a familiar threefold distinction between evolution as fact, evolution as theory, and evolution as path.” It’s a current distinction, with its modern locus classicus T. Ryan Gregory’s “Evolution as Fact, Theory…
Polling evolution in western Canada
"[T]he entire west coast" of Canada is "moving away from creationism," reports the Vancouver Observer (July 23, 2015). The article noted that James Lunney, a Member of Parliament representing a federal electoral district in British Columbia, quit the Conservative Party earlier in 2015…
Facebook: n > 110,000
A milestone: there are now over 110,000 fans of NCSE's Facebook page. Why not join them, by visiting the page and becoming a fan by clicking on the "Like" box by NCSE's name? You'll receive the latest NCSE news delivered straight to your Facebook Home page, as well as updates on evolution-related…

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