Science Is Constantly Evolving

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What We're Reading
There’s something here for everyone, whether you prefer vertebrates or invertebrates, history or current events, briefs or boxers. Well, not really that last one. I was just kidding about that. But I’m not kidding about this: NCSE has a new website and we’re real excited about it. Take a look…
Fossil Friday
I heart Fossil Friday! Today, for a change, I’ll give you the species. What we have here is Vinctifer comptoni, a Cretaceous fish originally described (as Aspidorhynchus comptoni) by no less a figure than Louis Agassiz. (It was later relocated to Vinctifer by the…
NCSE’s Newest (Intern) Generation
The first time I heard of NCSE was in a mass email from one of my professors. This particular professor sent tons of these emails over the semester with potential job opportunities for us experience-hungry students. Most of the time when I researched the positions being offered, I would find…
Scientific Study Proves Scientific Studies Can’t Prove Anything
I just love it when scientists respond to criticism by rolling up their sleeves and doing science. This is especially heartening during magical thinking, er, I mean, campaign season. What follows is a two-step story of science making an effort to get it right when facing internal doubt. In the…
In Praise of Pickett, Part 1
I have a confession. When I was discussing a misrepresentation of Ernst Haeckel a while back (in “Riled about Haeckel”), I mentioned that L. L. Pickett quoted the passage in question (“Most modern investigators have come to the conclusion” etc.) in his book God or the Guessers (1926). But…
RNCSE 36:2 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 36, number 2 — is the second issue in the newsletter's new, streamlined, and full-color format. Featured are "Taking the…
“I, For One, Welcome Our Molluscan Overlords”
We talk about cephalopods (such as squids, octopoduses [or octopodes, not octopi!]), and cuttlefish) a lot at NCSE. Not because we need to but because we like to. As regular readers know, while xenarthrans rule as my favorite all-time vertebrate group, cephalopods reign supreme in my…
Chevron Plays Kick the Can
If you had two minutes with John S. Watson, the CEO of oil industry giant Chevron, what would you ask? Climate scientist and NCSE Board member Ben Santer recently got that opportunity, when he attended the company’s annual shareholder meeting in San Ramon, California. You would be correct in…
Answer Monday
Not as cuddly as a bunny, but cute nevertheless, it’s Streptaster! One of the Edrioasteroidea, a class of echinoderm, Streptaster “is distinguished by the very high, long, and strongly curved ambulacra, all of which curve counterclockwise,” as the University of Georgia…

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