Science Is Constantly Evolving
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I’ve been pretty busy out here in Iowa City, what with tracking down sweet, mysterious fossils and all. This is the place where we’re piloting one of our new initiatives, the Science Booster Club Project. I’ve been working to organize science-loving people in this community so that they can…
Here’s another look at our specimen from last Friday, to help you get a sense of scale: See? Quite a sizable fossil, and yet the pattern really reminds me of the many patterns I’ve seen at the cellular level. It looks like scaled skin, but this fossil is not from an animal at all. This is an…
When the United States Senate passed the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 on July 16, 2015, a proposed resolution acknowledging the scientific evidence for climate change and affirming the importance of climate science education was not included. The resolution (SA 2175), proposed by Edward…
This week on Fossil Friday, I’m sharing one of my favorite specimens from the University of Iowa fossil repository. I found this fossil particularly cool because I love organic patterns. You see so many repeating motifs across time, space, and species. What do you think this pattern came from? I’…
At the end of my last Misconception Monday post, I said that I was taking the summer off from that blog category. The reason is pretty simple: I’m running out of misconceptions! As it is, I’ve been playing it pretty loose with what counts as a misconception—there are researchers out there that…
Two of the three amendments concerning climate change education under consideration are out of commission as the United States Senate continues to discuss a bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. A proposed amendment (SA 2176) to establish the Climate Change…
The history of the creationism/evolution conflict is stalking me again, and in the unlikeliest contexts. I was recently reading Jason Fagone’s Horsemen of the Esophagus (2006), a book about competitive eating that I acquired on a whim from a used book store in Clovis, California. In a…
The paleontologist David M. Raup died on July 9, 2015, at the age of 82, according to a press release from the University of Chicago (July 14, 2015). The press release explains, "Raup was widely known for the new approaches he brought repeatedly to paleontology, such as extensive computation,…
Nikita Daryanani is a summer intern at NCSE. She recently graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning, and is interested in global climate change and environmental justice. Last week, Minda went to the National Education Association meeting in…