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Answer Monday!
Friday’s fossil featured fabulous fancy flanges—weird processes at the rib-ends that look like overlapping rubber spatulas. What the heck are they for, and to whom do they belong? The latter is easier to answer: Eryops megacephalus. Eryops is a vertebrate palentology rock star…
What We’re Reading
Maybe you won’t be reading in the idyllic surroundings pictured by Edmund Leighton—even in the temperate San Francisco Bay Area, despite the data reflected in the last link below, it’s not nearly so balmy here right now—but the variety and depth of this week’s suggested reading will engross you…
Polling climate in Alaska
"Three-quarters of Alaskans are sold on the existence and seriousness of global warming, but far fewer are convinced that it's caused by human activity, according to a poll commissioned by Alaska Dispatch News," reports Alaska Dispatch News (February 13, 2016). Asked, "Which statement comes…
NCSE and the Grand Canyon 2016
Explore the Grand Canyon with NCSE! Reservations are still available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon — as featured in the documentary No Dinosaurs in Heaven. From June 30 to July 8, 2016, NCSE will again explore the wonders of creation and evolution on a Grand Canyon river run…
Fossil Friday!
After last week’s Darwin Day diversion, we’re back to an actual fossil. You’ll notice right away that it features yet another super cool, super funky axial skeleton. What’s up with those ribs, and more importantly, whose ribs are they? Winner takes all…
Tyndall Twice Twisted, Part 2
I’m still talking about John Tyndall (right; 1820–1893), the Anglo-Irish physicist remembered for demonstrating the greenhouse effect, and in particular about his 1878 essay “Virchow and Evolution.” Michael D. Barton devoted a 2010 essay in Reports of the NCSE to a case in which…
The Quest for Cash
Reaching an audience has not been a problem for the Science Booster Club Project. At the rate we’re going, we will have provided informal, engaging educational experiences on topics such as climate change and evolution to more than 5,000 people by the end of February. That’s not bad in-person…
Climate Change Education: Good News/Bad News
When we got the results back from our national survey of climate change education, the good news jumped out at us. Climate change is actually showing up in schools. 1500 teachers' responses when asked how much time they allocate to climate change. Widths of the green bars correspond to the…
Coverage of "Climate Confusion Among U.S. Teachers"
"Climate Confusion Among U.S. Teachers" (PDF), a paper in the journal Science describing the first nationwide survey of climate change education in the United States, conceived and funded by NCSE and conducted in collaboration with researchers at Pennsylvania State University, received…

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