Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
After the Portland, Oregon, board of education adopted a resolution on climate change education that called (PDF) for the elimination of instructional material "that is found to express doubt about the severity of the climate crisis or its root in human activities," NCSE's Josh Rosenau wrote a…
NCSE’s new website launches today! Why a new website? I’m so glad you asked.First of all, it was time. The old website launched 8 years ago, which as you know is at least 100 years in Internet Time. Like closets and garages, websites get cluttered over time, and stuff gets hard to find. The…
For a change of pace, I gave you the species—Vinctifer comptoni—and asked you to identify its provenance. Maybe that wasn’t so hard, given that it was preserved in a limestone nodule which, carefully opened, revealed these two spectacular halves. The Santana Formation in northeastern…
Welcome to NCSE's new website! As you will see (as Ann Reid explains in detail in a new blog post), NCSE.com has not only been modernized and streamlined but also optimized to work with your phone or mobile device. All the great content and resources are still there for you, but the navigation and…
There’s something here for everyone, whether you prefer vertebrates or invertebrates, history or current events, briefs or boxers. Well, not really that last one. I was just kidding about that. But I’m not kidding about this: NCSE has a new website and we’re real excited about it. Take a look…
I heart Fossil Friday! Today, for a change, I’ll give you the species. What we have here is Vinctifer comptoni, a Cretaceous fish originally described (as Aspidorhynchus comptoni) by no less a figure than Louis Agassiz. (It was later relocated to Vinctifer by the…
The first time I heard of NCSE was in a mass email from one of my professors. This particular professor sent tons of these emails over the semester with potential job opportunities for us experience-hungry students. Most of the time when I researched the positions being offered, I would find…
I just love it when scientists respond to criticism by rolling up their sleeves and doing science. This is especially heartening during magical thinking, er, I mean, campaign season. What follows is a two-step story of science making an effort to get it right when facing internal doubt. In the…
I have a confession. When I was discussing a misrepresentation of Ernst Haeckel a while back (in “Riled about Haeckel”), I mentioned that L. L. Pickett quoted the passage in question (“Most modern investigators have come to the conclusion” etc.) in his book God or the Guessers (1926). But…