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“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…
“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 Randolph M. Nesse, Foundation Professor of Life Sciences and…
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." —John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra Over the holidays, I visited Yosemite with my wife and stepdaughter, spending a rainy night at the Lodge by the Falls on Christmas eve.…
“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 David W. Deamer. Research Professor in the Chemistry and…
If you have been reading my posts for a while now, this will come as no surprise: I like order. I am the girl who puts away markers and crayons in rainbow order, who always keeps her money in descending order by denomination, who organizes books on the bookshelf in order of decreasing size…well,…