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Dinner Party 101: In Which Ann Meets Dr. Skeptic, Part 1
We’ve all been there: Thanksgiving dinner with that uncle—the outspoken climate-change-denier (“Please, it was so cold this winter!”); a phone call with an anti-vaxxer friend (“Everyone knows that vaccines contain dangerous chemicals!”); or an attempt to impress by a daughter’s…
Misconception Monday: Can You See It Now?
Let me admit it: I do not like cells. Or at any rate, I do not like studying cells. I found “little bio” so tedious that in college I invented a major to avoid having too many classes in it. I don’t like little bio because I couldn’t see what was going on. “Um. Have you ever heard of a…
Friday Flicks: Bill Nye’s Big Think
  Hey Friday Flicks Fans, I’m letting my good buddy, friend of NCSE, lover of science, and movie blogger, Max Yip, pick this month’s Friday Flick! Max had a million ideas, but I was able to convince him to select just one video (not a conventional ‘flick’, but definitely worth a watch.)…
Well Said! Anthony Leiserowitz on Science Friday
I’ve been doing a fair bit of traveling lately, and although generally exhausting, traveling is great for playing podcast catch-up. I had been hopelessly behind on most podcasts, especially Science Friday. But I have been diligently listening away in airports, airplanes, cars and cabs and finally…
A Distinction for The Sixth Extinction
A year ago, I had a chance to interview New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert about her book The Sixth Extinction. As I said in my review for Reports of NCSE, it’s a remarkable book, thoughtful, deeply-reported, and passionate. I wrote: Throughout this unflinching…
Branch reviews Why Science Does Not Disprove God
NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch reviewed Amir D. Aczel's Why Science Does Not Disprove God (William Morrow, 2014) for eSkeptic (April 22, 2015). He was unenthusiastic about the book, particularly on account of its treatment of evolution, although he allowed, "Aczel writes…
Equal Time in My Home Town
A few times while reading about the history of the creationism/evolution controversy, I’ve noticed references to a policy adopted by the Columbus, Ohio, board of education in 1971 that provided for the teaching of creationism along with evolution. But there are rarely any details. In The…
The Parent Trap
Photo from PKub via Flickr Dealing with challenges to teaching climate change can be difficult under the best of circumstances. But what do you do if you're accused of not teaching the science at all but rather, indoctrinating students with a liberal agenda? I recently sat down with one teacher…
Comings and goings at NCSE
NCSE is pleased to announce that Emily Schoerning has joined the NCSE staff as Director of Community Organizing and Research. Schoerning earned her Ph.D. in microbiology at Arizona State University and then, as a post-doctoral research scholar at the University of Iowa, turned her attention to…

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