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Misconception Monday: That is So Random, Part 2
Last week, we started talking about a common misconception: Misconception: Evolution is random. For which I earlier offered a correction: Correction: Evolution is neither entirely random nor entirely non-random. Mutations, I explained, are random in the sense…
Videos, videos, videos
Eugenie C. Scott NCSE is pleased to announce the addition of a further batch of videos to NCSE's YouTube channel. Featured are a promotional video for Climate Smart & Energy Wise, a new book from Mark McCaffrey; Glenn Branch speaking on "After Kitzmiller —…
A preview of Don't Even Think About It
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of George Marshall's Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2014). The preview consists of chapter 42, "In a Nutshell: Some Personal and Highly Biased Ideas for Digging Our Way Out of This…
Answer Monday
Last week I presented you with a pretty easy fossil, but in my defense you haven’t been the quickest in identifying plants in the past… But no doubt you guessed pretty quickly this specimen was from the genus Acer (AKA a maple of some sort). Which is spot on.  It’s actually of the…
Climate Education Denial 101
Recently, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy made news (briefly) when she endorsed climate change education. The Irish Times, in an exclusive scoop asked, "Do you think that climate change should be part of the educational system?" Her answer: Very much so. I think part of the challenge of…
Fossil Friday
This week’s fossil may be way too easy to identify. It looks identical to something we see today—a winged samara (that is a fruit) from some…mystery…tree. The shape of the samara today helps the wind carry the seeds further, which one could guess was the purpose of this fossil back in the day as…
What, and Why, Is Science Literacy?
Working at NCSE inevitably leads to lots of discussion about the nature of science literacy. All of us, and just about all of our supporters and allies, are pretty passionate about promoting science literacy. And yet, when you start digging around, the whole question of what science literacy even…
The Noted Authority W. P. Barbellion, Part 2
In his pamphlet “Monkeyshines: Fakes, Fables, Facts Concerning Evolution” (1926), the creationist Harry Rimmer claims that he studied “under men who were strong believers in the theory of monkey ancestry of man,” yet “it is quite common today to meet folks who will say that the evolutionists…
The Noted Authority W. P. Barbellion, Part 1
Not so long ago, when I was writing about the original Science League of America’s essay contest in 1925, I digressed in order to discuss a lawsuit launched in 1940 by William Floyd, the freethought writer who proposed the topic of the contest (“Why Evolution Should Be Taught in Our Schools…

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