Science Is Constantly Evolving

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NCSE staff share in the Huxley Award
NCSE is delighted to congratulate Laura A. Bankers, a graduate student in the department of biology at the University of Iowa, and her colleagues for winning the 2017 Thomas Henry Huxley Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution, in recognition of their work with NCSE's Science Booster…
Sorry, Montague!
A few years ago, in the introduction to a special issue of the philosophy journal Synthese focusing on creationism, I wrote:In the first wave of antievolution activity—the attempts during the 1920s to remove evolution from the classroom—philosophers were all but uninvolved in the debate.…
A preview of Atmosphere of Hope
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Tim Flannery's Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis (Grove Press, 2015). The preview consists of chapter 4, "How Are the Animals Doing?" which discusses climate change's threat to biodiversity, as well as a new…
Evolution nixed in Turkey
"Darwin's theory of evolution has been excluded from the most recent draft of Turkey's new national curriculum," reports the Hurriyet Daily News (June 22, 2017). As NCSE previously reported, a draft of the curriculum omitted evolution, with a unit entitled "The Origin of Life and…
A new survey on climate change
"[M]ost Americans are increasingly clear in expressing their views [on climate change], based on the Spring 2017 fielding of the National Surveys on Energy and the Environment (NSEE) from the University of Michigan and Muhlenberg College," reports the Brookings Institute (June 12, 2017).Asked "…
(Star)bursts of Genetics and Evolution!
This past month in my new role as the SBC Operations Manager, I’ve been working with Emily Schoerning and our Science Booster Club leaders around the country. SBC leaders receive kits with materials to run activities that we have developed. You might remember Emily’s January post about sending out…
Congratulations to Bob Melton
NCSE is delighted to congratulate Bob Melton on receiving the Jack Renner Distinguished Service to Oklahoma Science Education Award from the Oklahoma Science Teachers Association.The award is presented annually to "individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to the…
Inconceivable!
There are memorable lines aplenty in the beloved film The Princess Bride (1987), thanks to the screenwriter William Goldman, on whose 1973 novel it was based. Among them is the following, addressed to the villainous Vizzini (Wallace Shawn) by the fencer Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin): “You…
Congratulations to Michael E. Mann
NCSE is delighted to congratulate Michael E. Mann on receiving the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication for 2017. Presented by Climate One, a project of the Commonwealth Club of California, the award is "given to a natural or social scientist who has made…

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