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 32, number 6 — features Lorence G. Collins and Barbara J. Collins offering "More Geological Reasons Noah's Flood Did Not Happen." For his regular…
NCSE's Minda Berbeco contributed "Getting the Science Right: Teaching Climate Change in the Classroom" to California Classroom Science, a publication of the California Science Teachers Association. "As the newest Programs and Policy Director here at the National Center for Science Education, I am…
"All free schools will be forced to present evolution as a comprehensive and central tenet of scientific theory," the Guardian (November 29, 2012) reported, "following lobbying by senior scientists concerned that Christian-run institutions could exploit loopholes in the rules to present…
The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach — the new journal promoting the accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience — is now published. The theme for the issue (volume 5, number 4), edited by Bruce S. Lieberman, is biogeography.…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Rudolf A. Raff's Once We All Had Gills (Indiana University Press, 2012). The preview consists of chapter 19, "Creationist Makeovers," in which Raff reviews the last half century or so of the contentious history of teaching evolution, addressing "…
NCSE's Joshua Rosenau's invited essay "Science Denial: A Guide for Scientists" was published in Trends in Microbiology 2012;20(12):567-569. After a discussion of a successful vaccination drive at the Dragon*Con science fiction and fantasy convention, promoted by conference-goers in Harry Potter…
The producers of the NPR show Science Friday filed a suit against the operators of a right-wing radio show that features a creationist segment, Real Science Friday, according to the New York Post (November 15, 2012). In documents filed with the Supreme Court of New York on November 9, 2012,…
Carl ZimmerNCSE offers its congratulations to Carl Zimmer for winning the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for 2012 in the large newspaper category. Zimmer will receive $3000 and a plaque at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston in February 2013, in recognition of three articles on…
Molleen MatsumuraMolleen Matsumura, a former employee of NCSE, died on October 30, 2012, at the age of 64. Born in Riverside, California, on May 1, 1948, Matsumura earned a B.A. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970. Starting in 1981, she was a senior editor for the…