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The Big Bang is Giving Me Big Headaches
This past month I’ve slept terribly and it’s all because of the Big Bang. You see I’ve been lucky enough to collaborate with Brian Kruse over at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific on a teacher workshop about the Big Bang this week (and again at NSTA next month). Why is NCSE interested…
Answer Monday!
As I anticipated, you guys jumped all over this one. Congratulations to Dan Coleman, who got it right in about 0.3 picoseconds. What is it? Edaphosaurus boanerges! Edaphosaurus is a member of the group too often called the “mammal-like reptiles.” I’m not a fan of that phrase…
What We’re Reading
Just a few choice reads this weekend because I know you’ll all be busy watching the Super Bowl L festivities. Wait, you don’t know what that is? It’s a football game—football, it turns out, is quite popular in the U.S. This is the last football game of the year and it’s being played right here in…
Fossil Friday!
I’m not going to lie, guys: I’m still feeling pretty smug about stumping you all last week. Will I be able to do it again? I rather doubt it. Surely you’ll recognize this creature. It’s the next stop on my tour of awesome backbones. If you know what it is and leave the first comment identifying it…
The Three Balfours
Carelessness, thy name is T. T. Martin. Martin (1862–1939) was, as you’ll recall, the Mississippi evangelist described by Ronald L. Numbers in The Creationists (1992) as “among the earliest and most outspoken critics of evolution…an itinerant evangelist with a reputation for combining…
Darwin Day resolution in Arizona
Andrew Sherwood Senate Resolution 1001, introduced in the Arizona Senate on February 2, 2016, would, if enacted, express the Senate's recognition of February 12, 2016, as International Darwin Day. The resolution acknowledges the 207th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth,…
Answer Monday!
Last week, I told you that you’d all recognize this specimen once I told you what it was, and I stand by that. Meet Deinonychus. You don’t recognize the name? Or the skull? Well, do you recognize this foot? Or this movie star? But wait! That’s Velociraptor, you say? In the…
Congratulations to Sean B. Carroll
Sean B. Carroll NCSE is pleased to congratulate Sean B. Carroll, a member of NCSE's Advisory Council and a recipient of NCSE's Friend of Darwin award, on winning the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.  Carroll's books include Endless Forms Most Beautiful…
What We’re Reading
The Apollo 10 crew, credited as the fastest people in history. How a scientist would talk about being the "fastest" became a sticking point in writing The Martian, as discussed in one of the pieces we read this week. NCSE moved offices this week, which left less time than usual for…

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