Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
Back in late 2009, we started offering free evolution book excerpts on the NCSE web site and via Facebook. (Starting in 2012, we added excerpts from climate change books.) The excerpts—often complete chapters—were culled from a range of tomes, from illustrated versions of the Origin to…
As the COP21 talks wind down, you might need something else to read about. Here is a selection of articles NCSE staff found interesting this week.The iPhone 6 Makes Climate Change Simple, Bloomberg News, September 19, 2015 — An oldie, but a goodie! Eric Roston uses the iPhone to explain all…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of David E. Alexander's On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight (Oxford University Press, 2015). The preview consists of chapter 1, "Can't Tell the Players Without a Scorecard," in which Alexander…
If I had my way, the world would shift to three-day weekends just before Thanksgiving until after the New Year. Regardless of holiday traditions or lack thereof, it just seems like a cruel and unusual punishment to have to work on Fridays in December. With a miles-long to-do list and a longing for…
The vertebrate paleontologist is a peculiar creature—half geologist, half biologist, half lunatic, it spends as much time as it can in the hottest desert or the coldest tundra, all in the passionate pursuit of the interesting inedible. As many of you know personally, and others of you have no…
The title of the present post really ought to be “Tracking Dr. Fraas”—or perhaps “Fracking Dr. Fraas” for the alliteration?—for, as I explained in part 1, it turns out that “the famous paleontologist Dr. Traas,” who reportedly claimed, “The idea that mankind is descended from any Simian species…
“Ownage is ownage.” That’s what Mike Krukow, one half—along with Duane Kuiper—of the legendary San Francisco Giants broadcasting team, says when a great hitter just can’t get a hit on a certain pitcher. Or a great pitcher just can’t seem to get a certain hitter out. In my book, when it comes to…
With so many of the world’s major players in climate change gathered in the City of Light for the COP21 climate talks, it is not surprising that climate denialist groups are riding the coattails of this event to promote their anti-science agenda.
The Heartland Institute is one such group. As I…
Let’s take another look at last week’s fossil, just to remind ourselves what we're dealing with. What is it? It’s a tooth! What kind of a tooth? A GIANT SLOTH TOOTH!!! Okay, I was very excited to finally give you all something that was actually from a giant sloth. I…