Science Is Constantly Evolving

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Progress in South Korea?
A panel overseeing revisions to science textbooks in South Korea "reaffirmed that the theory of evolution is an essential part of modern science that all students must learn in school," according to a report in Nature (September 6, 2012). The panel was convened after it was revealed that, owing to…
NCSE's Scott receives Dawkins award
NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott received the Atheist Alliance of America's Richard Dawkins Award at the group's annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, on September 1, 2012. Unable to attend the ceremony in person, the namesake of the award began his video introduction by saying, "Eugenie…
Climate Change Biologist Joins NCSE
Minda Berbeco joins NCSE's new climate change initiative Biologist Minda Berbeco joins NCSE to expand its climate change education initiative. Berbeco comes to NCSE from UC Davis, where she was a post-doctoral scholar conducting research on climate change and agriculture. An expert on…
NCSE staffers in Nature Climate Change
"Science literacy still matters" — a letter by NCSE's Mark McCaffrey and Joshua Rosenau — was published in the journal Nature Climate Change (2012; 2[9]:636; subscription required). Responding to mischaracterizations in the media of a recent study finding that science literacy is negatively…
NCSE and the Grand Canyon 2013
Explore the Grand Canyon with NCSE! Reservations are now available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon — as featured in the documentary No Dinosaurs in Heaven. From July 15 to 23, 2013, NCSE will again explore the wonders of creation and evolution on a Grand Canyon river run conducted by…
Bill Nye video on creationism
Bill NyeA two-and-a-half-minute video with Bill Nye discussing the creationism/evolution controversy went viral, garnering over 2.5 million views in its first week on-line. Posted on August 23, 2012, on the YouTube channel of Big Think, under the title "Creationism is not…
RNCSE 32:4 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 32, number 4 — features Valerie First's "My Niche in Human Evolution," reporting the author's experiences in discussing evolution as a docent at…
Discussing climate change in informal education
"With many zoos and aquariums now working with conservation organizations and financed by individuals who feel strongly about threatened habitats and species, managers have been wrestling with how aggressive to be in educating visitors on the perils of climate change," reports The New York Times…
NCSE's McCaffrey and Rosenau at Daily Kos
When the popular Daily Kos blog decided to devote a week-long blogathon, running August 17 through August 24, 2012, to climate change, two NCSE staffers were invited to contribute. In "Why climate literacy matters," posted on August 20, 2012, Mark McCaffrey observed, "Ideology, cultural norms,…

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