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Breeding Hyperskepticism?
Lindsay Miller was an intern in spring 2014 at NCSE, where she worked with Minda Berbeco on the Understanding Global Change project. She is a student at Colorado College. Last spring I had the pleasure of working on the Understanding Global Change (UGC) project as an intern for NCSE…
In The Classroom: The Great Fossil Find
This month’s evolution resource comes from a marvelous site full of great stuff and with deep ties to NCSE: the Evolution and the Nature of Science Institutes (ENSI) web site. From the “About” page: In February 1987, the [ENSI] “founders” (and faculty-to-be) met for the first time at the Field…
“And Thereby Hangs a Tail,” Part 3
I return at last to “And Thereby Hangs a Tail,” a sketch based on the Scopes trial that appeared in The Garrick Gaieties, a revue that originally ran in 1925. (There were sequels of the same name in 1926 and in 1930.) The lyrics in the sketch are by Lorenz Hart (1895–1943), while the…
What Happened to the Neanderthals? Part 1
One of the joys of working at NCSE is the chance to explore and explain cool science to interested members of the public. Such a chance happened recently when I got a note asking why the Neanderthals went extinct. I’m not an anthropologist, and haven’t spent much time following the…
Could Kitzmiller Have Happened Five Years Earlier? Part 2
In part 1, I described how Kanawha County, West Virginia, almost anticipated Dover, Pennsylvania, in provoking the first legal case over the constitutionality of teaching “intelligent design” in the public schools. After a proposed equal-time-for-creation-science policy was unsuccessful in 1999…
Answer Monday
  Let’s take another look at last week’s fossil, this time with its original specimen card.     I may be geeking out a little, but check out that card! This specimen was collected more than a hundred years ago, and there are plenty of details on this card that I think are…
Misconception Monday: Do You Talk Tree? Part 4—The Finale
Yes, it’s true—we’re coming to the end of our month of trees here at Misconception Monday. This week brings three more misconceptions to tackle, including the one that needles me the most as a paleontologist. I’m saving that one for last. Misconception: A long branch that doesn’t split…
Fossil Friday
This week for Fossil Friday, we have an unusual presentation of something many of you could easily identify. The UIowa fossil curator, Tiffany Adrain, thought the specimen looked particularly toothsome laid out this way. Collected in West Union, Iowa, in the late 1800s: identify it in the comments…
Mr. Darwin Goes to Hollywood
Charles Darwin Movie in the Works at Disney, reports Variety: Disney has launched development on a Charles Darwin movie with Stephen Gaghan on board to direct from his own screenplay. The studio acquired an untitled pitch from Gaghan, whose credits include writing the Oscar-winning “…

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