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Eugenie C. Scott Eugenie C. Scott, the former executive director of NCSE and the present chair of NCSE's Advisory Council, received the James Randi Educational Foundation's Award for Skepticism in the Public Interest at The Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 12, 2014…
I love whales. My undergraduate thesis was on whales, specifically the evolution of their vertebral column. I was fortunate enough to spend a lot of time in the bowels of the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History (not to mention days and days and days underground in a converted…
In Evolution in the Courtroom: A Reference Guide (2002), Randy Moore lists, among the colorful characters to flock to Dayton, Tennessee, for the Scopes trial, a fellow by the name of Elmer Chubb, who “claimed that he could ‘withstand the bite of any venomous serpent.’” Unfortunately, as…
They say that "no news is good news" and it is easy to come to that conclusion when it comes to climate change. News of the gloom and doom variety does seem the norm as attempts to ratchet down carbon emissions struggle for traction while "business as usual" fossil fuel…
The Scopes trial in 1925 attracted a lot of interesting characters to Dayton, Tennessee. In Evolution in the Courtroom: A Reference Guide (2002), Randy Moore lists “circus performers, Lewis Levi Johnson Marshall (‘Absolute Ruler of the Entire World, without Military, Naval or other…
The distinguished theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg died on September 5, 2014, at the age of 85, according to his former student Philip Clayton, posting at the Theoblogy blog (September 7, 2014). Often described, as Clayton says, as "the greatest theologian of the second half of the 20th century,"…
Next up on our tour of misunderstood and/or maligned evolution-related topics—embryos! I’d wager that if I asked you to draw an early-stage embryo of a human, fish, or chicken, you’d probably draw the same thing: A kind of C-shaped squiggly tube with an eye at one end. And I’d wager that for most…
Last week I presented a fossil along with some pretty big clues. You knew it was part of a scapula, dating to the Rancholabrean, and the modern descendants of this critter are known for their stubbornness. No it wasn’t your mother-in-law…it was from the Camelidae family. Today the family…
Ben Santer, a member of NCSE's board of directors, is among the ninety-seven climate scientists featured in Skeptical Science's 97 Hours of Consensus campaign. Launched on September 7, 2014, the campaign features an hourly statement on climate change from, along with a playful caricature of,…