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RNCSE 34:4 now on-line
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 34, number 4 — features Adam Benton's "Creationist Ministries Present a Distorted View of Human Evolution" and Alexandra Contosta's "A Land…
A preview of Going Ape
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Brandon Haught's Going Ape: Florida's Battles over Evolution in the Classroom (University Press of Florida, 2014). The preview consists of chapter 1, "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," which details the "red-hot anti-evolution…
Misconception Monday! Survival of the Fittest, Part 2
In Part 1 of this post, I introduced my new series, Misconception Monday, and let you in on the secret to my misconception know-how: student test papers. In this conclusion, I want to get into some ways that this misconception—that natural selection eliminates all bad variations—could be…
Misconception Monday! Survival of the Fittest, Part 1
This is going to be the first in what I hope will be a series of posts devoted to common misconceptions about evolution, climate change, and the nature of science. I’ve already talked about one of the most pervasive evolution misconceptions, that evolution occurs to serve a particular purpose, but…
Answer Monday!
Last week on Fossil Friday, I presented you with a tricky identification task. This egg-shaped rock was far afield from the jaws, spines and shells you've been used to. So what was this unique rock? It was a dinosaur gastrolith from the late Jurassic! What is a gastrolith? From the UCMP: "Lots…
Kitzmiller v. Dover team, climate science leaders honored by NCSE
The Friend of Darwin Award recognizes the Kitzmiller v. Dover legal team and a stalwart evolution writer. The new Friend of the Planet award recognizes an outspoken climate scientist and a revered writer It was the final legal nail in the coffin of creationism. In 2005, lawyers at Pepper…
Fossil Friday!
Last week’s winner of Fossil Friday, GrizzlyD, requested that we do a pseudofossil this week. “I work at a museum and have to crush many hopes of ‘dinosaur eggs’ that are just round rocks,” he said. But why would I give you a pseudofossil, when I have a giant archive of real fossils…
NCSE's next webinar for activists
NCSE is pleased to announce the next of a new series of on-line workshops aimed at broadening and deepening the networks that make our work possible. The next workshop focuses on involving students, who have a direct stake in the integrity of science education, in science education advocacy…
End Times: Oreskes and Conway’s Collapse of Western Civilization
Historians of science Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, authors of Merchants of Doubt, have written a new book as ambitious as it is concise. The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future is told from the perspective of a Chinese historian several centuries in the…

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