Science Is Constantly Evolving
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Photo from Kakela One of the most vivid early memories from my childhood was when Hurricane Gloria struck in the fall of 1985. I was 7 years old, living in a suburb of Boston and was completely confused about what was going on. What were hurricanes anyway? Why did we need to stock the…
For the last few weeks, we’ve been tracking West Virginia’s flirtation with climate change denial in science standards. The state was on track to adopt NGSS, which emphasize evolution and climate change, and to fold in some material from their old standards as well. While that merger defeats…
“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 Rudolf Raff, Distinguished Professor and James H. Rudy…
In his essay “On the Reception of the ‘Origin of Species,’” which was published in The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887), Thomas Henry Huxley famously commented on how he himself received it: “My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the ‘Origin,’ was…
Rafters ponder their doom before rafting Lava Falls
Last Monday, we reached the deadline for applications for the first ever NCSE Grand Canyon teacher scholarship. For the 141 applicants(!), this is the end of the hard part, but for those of us making the selection, it’s the start of a really…
It's time to dust off your Darwin costume again: less than a month remains before Darwin Day 2015! Colleges and universities, schools, libraries, museums, churches, civic groups, and just plain folks across the country — and the world — are preparing to celebrate Darwin Day, on or around…
Okay, people, we’re getting back to the basics. After my (frankly) exhausting exasperation with Nicholas Wade, I need a palette cleanser. So what’s the most basic misconception I have on my to-do list? This one: Misconception: Weather and climate are the same thing. …
What, specifically, were the grounds for Scopes’s appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court? That was the question that I began to address in part 1, relying on a copy (big PDF) of the brief at the Clarence Darrow Digital Collection of the University of Minnesota’s Law Library. I started to…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of James McClintock's Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). The preview consists of chapter 2, "It is All about the Ice." "The ecological impacts of rapid climate change on the marine life of the…