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Answer Monday!
This past week on Fossil Friday, I gave you a pile of dino teeth! But which dino? It was a Spinosaurus, of course. Good for Sean Wells, who called it first. According to National Geographic: “Floating like a crocodile to stalk prey, the 50-foot-long (15.2 meters) predator bore…
Misconception Monday: How Old Is That Fossil in the Window? Part 2
Last week, we discussed some of the ways paleontologists order events in Earth’s history—using the principles of original horizontality, superposition, and faunal succession—but we did not talk about actual dates. Let’s do that now. Who’s up for some chemistry? Hopefully, you all know…
Fossil Friday!
This week’s fossil comes from our Fossil Fan Dan Phelps! This is the description from Dan: More than 15 years ago I went to a bankruptcy sale in Louisville for the chain Natural Wonders. They had a bin labeled “Dino teeth $.50/lb.” I nearly got in a fight with a friend, but between us we got…
The Two Theodores
I recently received a copy of Theodore Graebner’s Essays on Evolution (1925). A Lutheran theologian who spent the bulk of his career at the Lutheran Synod of Missouri’s Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, Graebner (1876–1950) was a prolific author on a number of topics. On the…
Standing Up For Skepticism
Climate change deniers often fancy themselves “skeptics.” For those of us active in movement skepticism, it’s flattering to see others try to ride our coat tails, but it’s also frustrating. Skeptics are known for debunking bogus claims (from ghosts to psychics to the Loch Ness Monster), for…
No tax incentives for ark park
"Kentucky's Tourism Arts & Heritage Cabinet Secretary Bob Stewart informed representatives of the proposed Ark Encounter tourist attraction today that their project will not be eligible for up to $18 million in tax incentives from the state, due to their refusal to pledge not to discriminate…
“Do You Know How Complex Feet Are?!?”: Adventures of a Creationist at the Field Museum
I don’t know how to say this word, so I’m just going to pretend that I know how to say it. That’s how creationist Megan Fox opens her self-styled “audit”of the exhibits of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. This homeschooling mom’s video recently went viral, and offers insight into…
Flubbing the Appeal in Scopes, Part 2
Prompted by a lacuna in Iain Ellis’s column “Mr. Mencken Went to Dayton and the Culture Wars Began,” posted at PopMatters (September 18, 2014), I was discussing what happened after the close of the Scopes trial in 1925. All along, the defense expected to lose the case, to appeal the verdict, and…
Kudos for Climate Smart & Energy Wise
NCSE's Mark McCaffrey's Climate Smart & Energy Wise: Advancing Science Literacy, Knowledge, and Know-How (Corwin Press, 2014) received a positive review from the National Science Teachers Association's NSTA Recommends. Citing the fact that "[t]he United States has a serious science…

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