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One of the joys of working at NCSE is the chance to explore and explain cool science to interested members of the public. Such a chance happened recently when I got a note asking why the Neanderthals went extinct. I’m not an anthropologist, and haven’t spent much time following the…
In part 1, I described how Kanawha County, West Virginia, almost anticipated Dover, Pennsylvania, in provoking the first legal case over the constitutionality of teaching “intelligent design” in the public schools. After a proposed equal-time-for-creation-science policy was unsuccessful in 1999…
Let’s take another look at last week’s fossil, this time with its original specimen card. I may be geeking out a little, but check out that card! This specimen was collected more than a hundred years ago, and there are plenty of details on this card that I think are…
Yes, it’s true—we’re coming to the end of our month of trees here at Misconception Monday. This week brings three more misconceptions to tackle, including the one that needles me the most as a paleontologist. I’m saving that one for last. Misconception: A long branch that doesn’t split…
This week for Fossil Friday, we have an unusual presentation of something many of you could easily identify. The UIowa fossil curator, Tiffany Adrain, thought the specimen looked particularly toothsome laid out this way. Collected in West Union, Iowa, in the late 1800s: identify it in the comments…
Charles Darwin Movie in the Works at Disney, reports Variety: Disney has launched development on a Charles Darwin movie with Stephen Gaghan on board to direct from his own screenplay. The studio acquired an untitled pitch from Gaghan, whose credits include writing the Oscar-winning “…
I’ve been volunteering in the NCSE archives since I retired, and it’s been a lot of fun rummaging through old files. I came across one this week that brought me up short, because its contents suggested the possibility that the 2005 “intelligent design” trial, Kitzmiller v. Dover, could…
NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on-line. The issue — volume 35, number 4 — contains Michael Buratovich's "Where Are My Genes? Genomic Considerations on Darwin's Doubt, Lorence G. Collins…
Recently, libertarian television journalist John Stossel vented about the phrase “war on science,” declaring: “This year is the 10th anniversary of a book called “The Republican War on Science.” I could just as easily write a book called “The Democratic War on Science.” …