Science Is Constantly Evolving

Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.

What Did Exxon Know?
  It looks like the party is over for climate change deniers.They had a good run through the 1990s and early 2000s, gaining a lot of traction as they attempted to undermine the science on climate change, but the public is getting too savvy and the reality too severe. Climate change can no…
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…
Answer Monday!
Do you all think these vertebrae are as gorgeous as I do? Just look—beauuutiful. I’m not sure if I’ve told you this before, but I did my undergraduate research on the evolution of vertebral column anatomy among whales. So every time I visit the MCZ, I climb up to the top of the gallery to get a…
"Must Be Some Better Way"
Watching the news from Paris (and the bombing in Beirut, and other tragedies unfolding), my mind kept returning to the image of our little blue marble floating in space, and how close together all of us are on it. Not a new thought, as shown by this song, written by Malvina Reynolds and sung by…
What We’re Reading
If you feel like settling down to read the news, feel free to wear your powdered wig, but we suggest that you skip the pipe. 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…
Fossil* Friday!
Readers, it’s NABT week! The National Association of Biology Teachers is descending on Providence, Rhode Island, and a bunch of NCSE’s finest and I are busy knocking people out of their socks with our awesomeness (promoting NCSEteach and the Science Booster Clubs, while we’re at it). So I’m going…
Science Denial: Emotional Roots, Part 2
In part 1 of this post, I told you about the game-changing experience I had when I really started listening to how many of my students felt about my beloved language of science—i.e., that they hated it. I promised to tell you how people’s reaction to a hands-on climate change activity triggered…
Science Denial: Emotional Roots, Part 1
Do you ever think about where science denial comes from? I know I had various ideas about the sources of science denial when I started working for NCSE. Science denial, I thought, was in part a product of certain corporate and religious interests. And perhaps I also thought of science denial as…
Evolution for John Doe, Part 3
Still on the agenda is Henshaw Ward’s Evolution for John Doe (1925), a popular exposition of evolution from the Scopes era, by a teacher of English turned science popularizer, who claimed that for twenty years he sought a popular treatment of evolution to recommend to the curious, but…

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