Science Is Constantly Evolving
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Public opinion about climate change was reviewed in the National Science Board's Science and Engineering Indicators (PDF) 2016. Climate change, according to the NSB's report, "remains a central, and often divisive, environmental issue for the American public." The report…
Public opinion about evolution and the Big Bang was reviewed in the National Science Board's Science and Engineering Indicators (PDF) 2016. In the 2014 General Social Survey, respondents were asked whether "human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals"…
I have so much to do, readers, with work up to my eyeballs. I need to stay on task and to keep focused! And I was attempting to do just that when an e-mail popped into my inbox with the subject “Worst example of evolution misconception.” It was sent by Ralph Bouquet, with whom I worked on the NOVA…
Last week I gave you nothing but a shadow (and an epoch) and asked you to identify the casting fossil. Not at all to my astonishment, many of you got it. What exactly was it? A brachiopod, of course! When my paleo-memory was failing me, I had to describe it to curator Jessica as “one of those…
David Bowie told Vanity Fair in 1998 that his idea of perfect happiness was reading, and he certainly looks happy in the iconic poster from the American Library Association. Go, and do thou likewise. Genetic Flip Helped Organisms Go From One Cell to Many, The New York Times,…
In his final State of the Union Address, President Obama closed with a forceful restatement of the central theme of his 2008 campaign, a call for hope and change that can reach across and heal our divided politics. This passage stuck out in particular: Democracy grinds to a halt without a…
In “A Ringer in the Contest” (part 1; part 2), I mentioned T. T. Martin (the initials are for Thomas Theodore), who enterprisingly entered a contest conducted by the original Science League of America. Addressing the topic “Why Evolution Should Be Taught in Our Schools Instead of the Book of…
President Obama at the Johnson Space Center, April 15, 2010, with engines and orbital vehicles from the Apollo era in the background. Image: NASA/Bill Ingalls In his final State of the Union address, delivered on January 13, 2016, President Obama drew an important contrast between today’s…