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Hansen receives Ridenhour Courage Prize
James E. HansenNCSE is delighted to congratulate James E. Hansen on receiving the Ridenhour Courage Prize for 2013. Hansen was recognized "for bravely and urgently telling the truth about climate change, even when the Bush administration tried to silence and penalize him as…
Polling American scientific literacy
A new poll from the Pew Research Center and Smithsonian magazine offers a degree of insight into American scientific literacy on natural selection, the age of the earth, and climate change, although there were no questions directly addressing evolution in the sense of common ancestry or climate…
RNCSE 33:2 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 33, number 2 — features Minda Berbeco's "Political Bias Meets Climate Bias: Overcoming Science Denial in a Politically Polarized World" and Barbara…
A preview of My Beloved Brontosaurus
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Brian Switek's My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs (Scientific American / Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2013). The preview consists of chapter 7, "Birds with Feathers," in which Switek discusses…
Jindal connects the dots
Interviewed by NBC News (April 12, 2013), Louisiana's governor Bobby Jindal (R) explicitly stated that the so-called Louisiana Science Education Act permits the teaching of creationism, including "intelligent design." Jindal was asked (at around 9:00), "Should creationism be taught in schools?" He…
Exciting news from Evolution: Education and Outreach
Evolution: Education and Outreach — the journal promoting the accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience — is now open access! As its editors Gregory Eldredge and Niles Eldredge explain, "From now on, we will be fully Open Access on our website…
Evolution and climate change in the NGSS
The final version of the Next Generation Science Standards was released on April 9, 2013 — and the topics of evolution and climate change, as expected, were not neglected. The new standards, as NCSE's Mark McCaffrey discussed at LiveScience (April 5, 2013), are a new set of state science…
A new Gallup poll on climate change
"U.S. worry about global warming is heading back up after several years of expanded public skepticism," according (PDF) to a new poll from Gallup. Also heading back up are the rate of understanding that most scientists accept global warming and the rate of accepting that increases in the global…
Three new climate advisors for NCSE
NCSE is pleased to announce three new additions to its Advisory Council, reflecting the addition of climate education to NCSE's area of concern: James E. Hansen, Michael MacCracken, and Bill McKibben. "NCSE has long relied on a select group of distinguished scientists, scholars, and educators to…

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