Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
The rallying cry of science deniers in 2013? "One more time!" Once again legislators across our fair land have been pushing anti-evolution and anti-climate change bills. Many are classic "academic freedom" or "strengths and weaknesses" bills. Others take a less obvious tack, allowing teachers to "…
Responding to a new report that found the term “global warming” motivated people more than the term “climate change”, a blog in the New Yorker entitled “Scientists Consider New Names For Climate Change” spoofs that “leading scientists are recommending replacing it…
Like the swallows returning to Capistrano, science deniers flocked to familiar ground in 2014. Three bills attacking evolution and three bills hammering on "scientific controversies" were trotted out in Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Virginia. All went down to defeat. Bills targeting…
There were no surprises in the latest Gallup poll on public opinion about evolution in the United States. Asked in May 2014 "[w]hich of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings," 31% of the respondents accepted "Human beings have developed…
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"Evolution will soon be a mandatory part of the middle-school science curriculum, after years of being an optional subject that most students were never taught," according (registration required) to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (June 1, 2014). "Until now, evolution was taught in high…
The Cosmos series is drawing to a close, and in Sunday's penultimate episode, “The World Set Free,” Neil deGrasse Tyson delved deeply into a topic touched upon in almost every episode so far: climate change. Tyson did a spectacular job explaining the fundamentals of climate science, in…
Photo Credit: PeterThoeny via Compfight cc Last week on Fossil Friday, I accidentally posted a summer rerun! No, I wasn't being lazy, I was just forgetful! Blame it on the summer heat! So what was this rerun? If you missed it before, you certainly got it this time. As…
Photo Credit: www.ericcastro.biz via Compfight cc Education comes in many forms, and not always in a formal classroom setting. Sometimes education occurs in museums or parks or aquariums, sometimes in the media, and sometimes in conversations with a wise neighbor who has a strong background in a…