Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
Reading over comments from part 1, it seems most of you did pretty well. I was also delighted to hear from one teacher whose AP biology students all scored 100%. Unfortunately, her other class didn’t do as well, so they will be going over the misconceptions today in class (assuming that this…
Let’s find out how you did on the first part of our quiz! 1. A volcano erupted on an island. The ash released from the volcano changed the acidity (pH) of the soil from the level it had been for hundreds of years. This significant change resulted in new environmental pressures on species in the…
Creationists who think Noah’s Flood was a real historical event have a lot of explaining to do. Because nothing in the geologic record fits with their model of this universal deluge, they have to explain virtually every rock outcrop or fossil find by special pleading. Rocks today may form one…
Richard Blumenthal Senate Resolution 66 (PDF), introduced in the United States Senate on February 4, 2015, would, if passed, express the Senate's support of designating February 12, 2015, as Darwin Day, and its recognition of "Charles Darwin as a worthy symbol on which to celebrate the…
Image from Pandiyan V via Flickr This week The New York Times ran an article on what it called “a pretty boring star”. No, it wasn’t a Kardashian; it was our very own sun. It turns out that, as stars go, ours is dull, dull, dull. But this dullness is really great news for us…
Now, we all know that air pressure is a function of the atmospheric conditions, it’s a function of that. So, if there’s activity in the ball relative to the rubbing process[…] So the atmospheric conditions as well as the true equilibrium of the football is critical to the measurement. … The…
Asked to contribute to the recent “How Stupid Not to Have Thought of That!” series here at the Science League of America, Warren D. Allmon took a different tack, choosing to write about a theme in Darwin’s work that is too often overlooked: the importance of “vestiges” as evidence for evolution.…
Jim Himes House Resolution 67 (PDF), introduced in the United States House of Representatives on February 2, 2015, would, if passed, express the House's support of designating February 12, 2015, as Darwin Day, and its recognition of "Charles Darwin as a worthy symbol on which to focus and around…
On this Groundhog Day, I found myself thinking about the Harold Ramis/Bill Murray classic film of the same name, and the dangerous way that climate change policy has been stuck in a loop. By Ramis’s accounting, Bill Murray’s character kept reliving the same day for 30-40 years, until he finally…