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Last week on Fossil Friday, I asked you to identify a little swimming reptile. What was it? Where was it from? When was it from? So many questions! And there were so many answers! Mesosaurus? Plesiosaurus? Sloth?…
"The Place of Skulls" is the nickname someone has given our new conference room at NCSE, which is otherwise known as the Blue Room on account of its sky-blue walls. The skulls in question are facsimilies of hominid skulls. They decorate the shelves around the room, but on occasion…
Welcome back to Fossil Friday! We had a great run in 2013: some vertebrates, lots of skulls, many formerly squishy things. To start us off for 2014, I thought I'd challenge you with this full skeleton. This fellow was an aquatic vertebrate, about the length of my hand. …
Recently Time magazine ran an awful article. (This is a bit like saying Kevin Costner was in a bad film—you’ve got to be more specific.) Time's offense was an uncritical piece by Jeffrey Kluger titled, “Why There Are No Atheists at the Grand Canyon: All it takes is a little…
A recent letter from John R. Armstrong, a long-time member of NCSE in Edmonton, Canada, included, without comment, a sheaf of interesting documents (which appear also on David Emery’s About.com Urban Legends website). The first was a computer-generated map, in modern Greek, of the Peloponnese,…
Six in ten Americans accept human evolution, while a third hold that humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. Asked, "Which comes closer to your view?" and presented with "Humans…
The distinguished scholar of science and religion Ian Barbour died on December 24, 2013, at the age of 90, according to Carleton College (December 27, 2013). Often credited with founding the academic field of science and religion, Barbour was the author of Religion in an Age of Science…
NCSE's archives now contain three thousand books! The lucky 3000th book in NCSE's collection is Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem, edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry (University of Chicago Press, 2013). As it happens, the book contains…
As 2013 draws to a close, NCSE would like to thank its Supporting Organizations for their generous assistance during the year. The current Supporting Organizations of NCSE are the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of…