Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
For anyone living in the Northeast, this will come as no news to you: It’s flipping freezing outside. Temperatures have been downright frigid since Mother Nature’s how-much-snow-can-I-dump-on-Boston experiment began about six weeks ago. Drawing pedagogical inspiration from their surroundings,…
The recent death of Eugenie Clark, the famous ichthyologist, was sad news, though not unexpected. After a very full and productive life, she died at 92. Her passing reminded me of an article I wrote back in 2011 that I thought I might share with you on the Science League of America. Read on.…
Last month, I had you watch a great Frontline documentary called Climate of Doubt, which addressed attempts to undermine the science of climate change. One of the groups highlighted in that documentary, the Heartland Institute, just had one of its favorite scientists dinged for…
“Why Are There No Penguins at the North Pole?”—a February 6, 2015, article in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano by Carlo Maria Polvani, a biochemist-turned-priest working in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State—raises a good question, although in the service of a bad agenda. The…
Over the weekend, The New York Times published an article about the Heartland Institute’s number-one climate-change-denying scientist, Willie Soon. The article detailed Soon's previously undisclosed conflict of interest involving receiving money from the fossil fuel industry for…
Full disclosure: I ran the four-part (newly renamed!) natural selection misconception diagnostic because my idea well had run dry. I was hoping that by retreading some old misconception tropes, I would get inspired. Imagine my delight, then, when Larry Moran gave me an idea for this post in the…
NCSE is seeking to hire two summer interns — one full-time, one part-time — to work on science education activism projects, with a particular focus on climate change education. This is a unique opportunity for someone with a science background to learn about science advocacy to support one of…
Photo by Adam via Flickr “Dam!” “Dam!” “Dam!” No. I’m not swearing: I’m describing my Facebook feed this week. What was once filled with delightful photos of babies and cookie recipes from my friends in the Boston area (where I went to graduate school) now has shifted over the past month to…
“I has told you five or six times,” he said, “and the third will be the last.” The BFG, from Roald Dahl’s book of the same name The recent outbreak of measles—once eradicated in the United States—is a cause of deep concern and frustration to anyone who trusts the process by which…