Science Is Constantly Evolving
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Hats off to Anahad O’Connor of The New York Times, whose article “So Will Processed Meat Give You Cancer?” does a nice job putting into perspective the IARC announcement that processed meats probably cause cancer. In a nutshell, his conclusion is that processed meats probably do cause…
Marshall Berman The physicist and science education activist Marshall Berman died on October 25, 2015, at the age of 76, according to a November 8, 2015, obituary from the Coalition for Excellence in Science and Math Education (CESE) in New Mexico. Passionate about the quality of science…
Returning to our specimen from last week, this time with appropriate scale: Doesn’t it look familiar? If any of you like flyfishing I’m sure it looks familiar. As you might have cleverly deduced from the picture, this specimen is an Ephemeropsis trisetalis;…
Hope you don’t have too many weekend plans, because NCSE found a lot of interesting articles this week. Here are some of them. Feel free to share articles that crossed your screen in the comment section, or e-mail us directly during the week with things that caught your eye. We’ll add the best to…
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This week on Fossil Friday, another lovely specimen from Dan Phelps, from which I have removed a certain amount of both scale and context.What do you think? Even though it’s one of my posts, this probably isn’t a plant, right? The first person to identify it wins bragging rights for the week…
The American Academy of Pediatrics, representing 64,000 pediatricians, recently released a policy statement on "Global Climate Change and Children's Health" that includes a call for climate change education. The statement, published in the November 2015 issue of Pediatrics, notes, "…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of The Voyage of the Beagle: The Illustrated Edition of Charles Darwin's Travel Memoir and Field Journal (Zenith Press, 2015). The preview consists of chapter 17, "Galapagos Archipelago," in which Darwin notes "by far the most feature in the…
In part 1, I introduced Henshaw Ward’s Evolution for John Doe (1925). Ward, a teacher of English turned science popularizer, claimed that for twenty years he sought a popular treatment of evolution to recommend to the curious, but without success. “Apparently biologists know so much of…