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Xenarthra: The Almost Perfect Clade, Part 2
In part 1, I started to pay a debt to Steve Bowden by writing about sloths. It used to be that sloths were considered as part of Edentata, which I regard as the Beatles of Mammalia, along with anteaters and armadillos, pangolins, and aardvarks. (Goofy yet endearing, sloths correspond to Ringo…
What Can 50,000 Teachers + NCSE Accomplish?
We're about to find out... A few weeks ago, my colleague Stephanie Keep wrote about the expansion of NCSE’s efforts from a focus solely on evolution and climate change to a larger effort to “support the development of a ‘science-savvy’ citizenry”. As she pointed out: “NCSE was founded in…
Answer Monday!
We returned this week to Germany’s stunning Jurassic Solnhofen limestone. I gave you the somewhat useless hint that I wouldn’t ever eat one of these creatures, let alone their extant relatives—the reason? I do not eat invertebrates. I find them… well, downright terrifying when they are dead and…
NCSE Goes to Bible Camp
I’ve been pretty busy out here in Iowa City, what with tracking down sweet, mysterious fossils and all. This is the place where we’re piloting one of our new initiatives, the Science Booster Club Project. I’ve been working to organize science-loving people in this community so that they can…
Answer Monday
Here’s another look at our specimen from last Friday, to help you get a sense of scale: See? Quite a sizable fossil, and yet the pattern really reminds me of the many patterns I’ve seen at the cellular level. It looks like scaled skin, but this fossil is not from an animal at all. This is an…
No Senate resolution on climate education
When the United States Senate passed the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 on July 16, 2015, a proposed resolution acknowledging the scientific evidence for climate change and affirming the importance of climate science education was not included. The resolution (SA 2175), proposed by Edward…
Fossil Friday
This week on Fossil Friday, I’m sharing one of my favorite specimens from the University of Iowa fossil repository. I found this fossil particularly cool because I love organic patterns. You see so many repeating motifs across time, space, and species. What do you think this pattern came from? I’…
Say What? NBC News Hasn’t Read This Blog
At the end of my last Misconception Monday post, I said that I was taking the summer off from that blog category. The reason is pretty simple: I’m running out of misconceptions! As it is, I’ve been playing it pretty loose with what counts as a misconception—there are researchers out there that…
Update from the Senate
Two of the three amendments concerning climate change education under consideration are out of commission as the United States Senate continues to discuss a bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. A proposed amendment (SA 2176) to establish the Climate Change…

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