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Eugenie C. Scott in the NAS Great Hall
NCSE's founding executive director Eugenie C. Scott is featured in a multimedia exhibit about the Great Hall dome of the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington DC. Videos from the exhibit are available on YouTube and in a special iPad application. In the exhibit's video clips…
The Nobel Prizes for Serendipity
On Monday, Tu Youyou, Satoshi Omura, and William Campbell were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, for their discoveries of the antimalarial artemisinin, and avermectin, a key part of treatment for the parasitic diseases river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. On Tuesday, Takaaki…
Charles Coulston Gillispie dies
Charles Coulston Gillispie The eminent historian of science Charles Coulston Gillispie died on October 6, 2015, at the age of 97, according to a tweet from Princeton University. His books included Genesis and Geology (1951), The Edge of Objectivity (1960…
The Elephant in the Room
I was reading through Paul Johnson’s Darwin: Portrait of a Genius (2012) recently—not, I admit, with particularly high expectations. It's not just because there are plenty of excellent biographies of Darwin already, including Adrian Desmond and James Moore’s Darwin: The Life of a…
Eugenie C. Scott elected to AU board
Eugenie C. Scott NCSE is pleased to congratulate Eugenie C. Scott on her election to the board of trustees of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "Genie Scott is a longtime ally in the fight for church-state separation," said the Reverend Barry W. Lynn, executive…
Water on Mars
Above: Pluto's mountains, photographed by the New Horizons spacecraft as the sun sets, 7/14/2015. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Below: "Recurring slope linae," identified as evidence of flowing liquid water on the surface of Mars.…
A glimpse of The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack (St. Martin's Press, 2015). The preview consists of a portion of chapter 1, "Humankind's Place in Nature," which briefly reviews the history of Western scientific thought about humanity's place…
A Most Blatant Variety of Science Denial
There have been 42 school shootings in the U.S. so far this year. Last week, 10 people were killed at Umpqua Community College in Oregon. There have been (minimally) nearly 40,000 incidents of gun violence in the US over the last year. In communities across the country, students have lost…
Answer Monday
  Here’s another look at our specimen from last Friday.     Really very nicely preserved. This fossil was collected in Romania, and it’s the baculum of a cave bear. What is a cave bear? Species Ursus spelaeus, a bear that perhaps fortunately went extinct about twenty-…

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