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Ah, California living. Land of fruits and nuts. And fungi. Impressed one day by the unusually high number of kinds of mushrooms at my local produce store (I stopped counting at 25), I posted a picture of the array on my Facebook page. Whereupon Jim Strickland waggishly warned me about using the…
Tauriel: Wood elves love best the light of the stars. Fili: I always thought it is a cold light, remote and far away. Tauriel: It is memory, precious and pure. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug The most distant galaxies ever…
This week on Fossil Friday, I bring you a fossil that you can really sink your teeth into! Or maybe this animal would have sunk its teeth into you! This air-breathing marine reptile dates back to the Jurassic and was found in what is now the Sahara Desert. Although they are considered…
William Paley died in 1805, and there’s no reason that his shade should be haunting me. And yet he appears even in my leisure reading. I recently finished Charles Palliser’s novel Rustication (2014). On the flap copy, the Guardian is quoted as describing Palliser as “our…
Eugenie C. Scott Eugenie C. Scott, the former executive director of NCSE and the current chair of its Advisory Council, will be presented with a Distinguished Service to Science Education Award from the National Science Teachers Association. The award is presented to members of…
“We behold the face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food; we do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their eggs,…
"When teaching scientific argumentation, selecting the wrong topic can impair — rather than increase — student understanding." That was the message of four members of NCSE's staff, Minda Berbeco, Mark McCaffrey, Eric Meikle, and Glenn Branch, in their commentary "Choose Controversies Wisely,"…
Maybe it’s just me, but lately I’m having trouble telling if normal news pieces are from The Onion. Consider these koan-like headlines about the new Noah movie: Conservative Christians Criticize Russell Crowe’s ‘Noah’ Film as ‘Historically Inaccurate’ The Ark: Could Noah’s…
Brian Alters Brian Alters, president of NCSE's board of directors, was profiled in the Orange County Register (April 1, 2014). The article described how Alters's twin interests in Charles Darwin and Walt Disney now intersect in his popular class "Pursuit of Happiness:…