Science Is Constantly Evolving
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I’ve been thinking about the ethics and benefits of confrontational activist strategies lately. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday remembrance, amid the ongoing protests over police abuses in Ferguson and elsewhere, shaped those thoughts, as does NCSE’s success using non-confrontational approaches…
When I was writing not so long ago about the enigmatic figure of the Gentleman with a Duster—whose animadversions on Darwinism in the preface to the American edition of The Glass of Fashion (1921) were invoked by Arthur I. Brown and William Jennings Bryan—I quoted the Gentleman as…
NCSE is seeking to hire a Director of Community Organizing and Research. The full-time position involves implementing a new NCSE program aimed at facilitating the development of local community groups focused on support of high-quality science education. The director will design, implement, and…
I thought about not covering this article because, as my English husband reminded me, the Daily Mail is more like the National Enquirer than The New York Times. It almost seems unreasonable to criticize such a newspaper for its inaccurate science reporting. But then I…
“How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!” was Thomas Henry Huxley’s reflection on reading Darwin’s Origin of Species. What might elicit such a reaction from a contemporary biologist? Today the question is answered by Douglas J. Futuyma, Distinguished Professor in the…
The New York Times recently ran an interesting article by Adam Frank titled “Is Climate Disaster Inevitable?” This piece posed an intriguing answer to this puzzling question: Where are all the extraterrestrials? (If you think the answer is “Roswell, New Mexico,” go sit with Bigfoot and…
NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on-line.The issue — volume 35, number 1 — contains Andrew Hughes and Randy Moore's "Measuring William Bell Riley's Anti-Evolution Crusade in Minnesota"; Elise K. Burton's "…
NCSE is pleased to congratulate David Morrison, who received the 2015 Education Prize from the American Astronomical Society. According to a January 16, 2015, press release, the honor recognized "a lifetime of outstanding contributions to the understanding of astronomy by college students and the…
When Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell took the gavel as Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, he swore that the first bill to reach the floor would be aimed at forcing the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. Climate activists have waged a pitched battle to block the pipeline, which would carry an…