Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
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…
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…
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…
Hats off to Anahad O’Connor of The New York Times, whose article “So Will Processed Meat Give You Cancer?” does a nice job putting into perspective the IARC announcement that processed meats probably cause cancer. In a nutshell, his conclusion is that processed meats probably do cause…
Marshall Berman The physicist and science education activist Marshall Berman died on October 25, 2015, at the age of 76, according to a November 8, 2015, obituary from the Coalition for Excellence in Science and Math Education (CESE) in New Mexico. Passionate about the quality of science…
Returning to our specimen from last week, this time with appropriate scale: Doesn’t it look familiar? If any of you like flyfishing I’m sure it looks familiar. As you might have cleverly deduced from the picture, this specimen is an Ephemeropsis trisetalis;…
Hope you don’t have too many weekend plans, because 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 during the week with things that caught your eye. We’ll add the best to…
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This week on Fossil Friday, another lovely specimen from Dan Phelps, from which I have removed a certain amount of both scale and context.What do you think? Even though it’s one of my posts, this probably isn’t a plant, right? The first person to identify it wins bragging rights for the week…