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Chemistry World
June 12, 2015
Vicki Marshall |
The vital question: why is life the way it is? Despite saying the book is for the general reader, The vital question is not written as a typical popular science book. It is perhaps aimed at an audience engaged with biochemistry research.   |
Science News
April 3, 2004 |
Understanding Evolution Understanding Evolution is an extensive Web site designed to meet the needs of K-12 teachers presenting evolution in the classroom. |
Science News
July 2, 2005 |
Evolution at the Academies This Web site provides access to books, position statements, and additional material on evolution education and research. |
Wired
December 2002
Gregg Easterbrook |
The New Convergence After centuries of battle, scientists and theologians are finally forging a grand unified theory. As the era of biotechnology dawns, scientists realize they're stepping into territory best navigated with the aid of philosophers and theologians. |
Chemistry World
July 9, 2015
Henrik Jonsson |
Fluorine in Space Fluorine is more than just the stuff that keeps your teeth in good health: it is a cosmic marker that can tell us where the Universe has come from and where it might go from here. |
Scientific American
December 2008
John Rennie |
Dynamic Darwinism: Evolution Theory Thrives Today The naturalist would approve of how evolutionary science continues to improve |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2015
Erin Withans |
Undeniable: evolution and the science of creation Bill Nye's Undeniable is an account of Darwin's theory of evolution with a good overview of the scientific research that make evolution, in Nye's view, 'undeniable'. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012 |
The Cosmological Supercomputer How the Bolshoi simulation evolves the universe all over again |
Salon.com
May 4, 2001
Fiona Morgan |
Louisiana calls Darwin a racist The state Legislature casts him in the same league as Hitler. A science educator says it's going to be a rough year for evolutionists... |
Wired
January 18, 2008
Thomas Hayden |
Why Things Suck: Science Science makes us look like bit players in the Big Story of the universe, and it exposes some key limitations of the human brain. |
Science News
February 16, 2002 |
The Way We Were Website on the science of human evolution. |
Chemistry World
February 13, 2014
Simon Poulton |
The Earth as a cradle for life This enjoyable book by Stacey and Hodgkinson takes a long-term view of Earth's development as a habitable planet, incorporating physical, chemical and biological processes on the early Earth, to the modern world. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Megan Sever |
Textbook battle over evolution Now that the Texas board is considering 11 biology and science textbooks for adoption and use in its 2004-2005 school year, the evolution debate has once again erupted in Texas and around the country. |
Chemistry World
June 25, 2012 |
Chemistry in Evolution In "Evolution's Destiny," the authors explore the role of chemistry in evolution, and in particular the changing role of inorganic elements in the evolution of the ecosystem. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Megan Sever |
Georgia: evolution on the mind Over the past month, evolution has been back in the news. In an 800-page draft of Georgia's educational standards released for public comment in January, the word "evolution" had been removed from the biology curriculum. |
Science News
September 3, 2005 |
Changing Earth Developed by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, this Web site focuses on Earth's history. |
Science News
April 6, 2002 |
TimeLine: April 2, 1932 Teletypewriters can now be used in home... Einstein and de Sitter return to Euclidean idea of cosmos... Cannot know universe's shape without more observations... Entire universe still young, little older than earth itself... New long-time clock is rotation of Milky Way... etc. |
Scientific American
February 7, 2005
Govert Schilling |
String Revival Are cosmic strings behind unusual lensing effects? |
Chemistry World
December 2009
Jon Cartright |
Reading between the lines Since its emergence in the mid 19th century, spectroscopy has become the most important tool in astronomy, and in recent years there has been no end to its new discoveries. |
Science News
December 7, 2002 |
TimeLine: December 3, 1932 New scientific high-speed photography can take 13 "frames" of motion pictures in a fortieth of a second... Super-radium supplied energy for rapid cosmic evolution... Neutron, element zero, may gain place in periodic table |
Science News
June 24, 2006 |
From the June 20, 1936, issue Lightning portrait repays patience of photographer... Stars and comets affected by cosmic radiation... Helium suggested as new preventive of "the bends"... |
Geotimes
November 2003
Megan Sever |
Evolution to stay in Texas texts On Nov. 7, the months-long debate over how evolution would be presented in high-school biology textbooks in Texas came to a head: Evolution is here to stay, in its entirety. |
Scientific American
August 2007 |
Cosmic Questions -- Baboon Melodrama Books on the origin of the universe. Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe is Just Right for Life... Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind... The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology... |
Scientific American
October 2006
Michael Shermer |
Darwin on the Right Why Christians and conservatives should accept evolution |
Geotimes
November 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Kansas Vote Challenges Evolution The Kansas State Board of Education voted yesterday to approve science education standards that treat evolution with skepticism. Scientists say that the standards open the door for nonscientific beliefs such as intelligent design to enter science classrooms across the state. |
Popular Mechanics
December 10, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
What NASA's WISE Space Mapper Will Look for in the Sky Hunting for brown dwarf stars, crashing galaxies, and asteroids. |
Science News
May 20, 2006 |
Science Safari: Darwin and Evolution This online exhibit is a fascinating account of how Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution and how that theory is regarded today. |
Reason
July 2008
Ronald Bailey |
Flunk This Movie! Ben Stein's new anti-evolution propaganda film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, is all worldview and no evidence. It gives no scientific evidence against biological evolution nor none for intelligent design. |
Chemistry World
September 2006
Mark Peplow |
Editorial: Making a Monkey Out of Evolution If a scientific concept as well supported as evolution can be widely regarded as false, what hope for the greenhouse effect, radiocarbon dating, or the second law of thermodynamics? Chemists have as much responsibility as other scientists to uphold the value of hard evidence. |
Chemistry World
May 13, 2014
Patrick Walter |
Star chamber sparkles with space dust Nasa has created star dust down here on Earth. The dust was produced in a lab by simulating the conditions found in the atmosphere of a red giant star. |
Fast Company
January 2002
Seth Godin |
Survival Is Not Enough Hey, it's a jungle out there! So if you want to win, do more than embrace change -- learn how to evolve... |
Geotimes
October 2005
Megan Sever |
Evolution Battles Continue The battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools in the United States reached a fervor this week, as a number of prominent scientists testified in an ongoing court trial that pits evolution against intelligent design. |
Geotimes
March 2006
Bergstrom & Lipsitch |
Evolution Lessons From Infectious Diseases Even though the critics of evolutionary biology rarely dispute examples of microbial evolution on human timescales, the public appears largely unaware of the importance and success of evolutionary biology in dealing with human disease. |
Geotimes
November 2006 |
Geomedia Books: Evolving a Higher Understanding Between Religion and Science: A Look at the Evolution Dialogues... After the Earth Quakes: Elastic Rebound on an Urban Planet... |
Science News
January 11, 2003 |
TimeLine: January 7, 1933 Atom building keeps stars shining, says A.A.A.S. Head... Millikan and Compton debate cosmic-ray facts and theories... Growth of plants stimulated by proper x-ray treatment |
Science News
September 2, 2006 |
Timeline: From the August 29, 1936, issue Modern science helps to combat forest fire menace... Milky Way still in infancy judging by mass radiated... New kind of atom destruction found in Pike's Peak tests... |
CIO
December 15, 2003
Michael Fitzgerald |
Smart Systems - 2010 The process of evolution provides models for dealing with the complexity of advanced IT systems. You could think of studying the development of species over time -- or building models that replicate natural selection -- as a giant Google search for the species that thrives rather than falters. |
PC Magazine
January 17, 2008 |
Cell Phones: Talking Trash Some factors that have contributed to the cell phone's evolution into low-cost landfill fodder. |
Geotimes
September 2005
Nisbet & Nisbet |
Evolution & Intelligent Design: Understanding Public Opinion Tensions in American society over religious and scientific accounts of human origins are centuries old, and the divide between the two contending worldviews continues today as part of an escalating political conflict over science education. |
Wired
October 2004
Evan Ratliff |
The Crusade Against Evolution In the beginning there was Darwin. And then there was intelligent design. How the next generation of "creation science" is invading America's classrooms. |
Geotimes
May 2003
Branch & Evans |
All About Steve (and Darwin) Project Steve is a parody of the lists used by creationists to try to convince the public that evolution is shaky. But there is a serious side to it, too: to remind the public that scientific questions are not answered by acclamation but by scientific research, which, of course, overwhelmingly supports evolution. |
Geotimes
April 2005
Linda Rowan |
Creationism: Back in Kansas Again Unfortunately, a brief history of the creationism movement over the past 80 years suggests that the debate has not been resolved, but rather the movements in Kansas and elsewhere are subtly changing tactics to try to gain the same objective. |
Wired
October 23, 2007
Clive Thompson |
Clive Thompson on Why Science Will Triumph Only When Theory Becomes Law Turns out, the real culture war in science isn't about science at all -- it's about language. And to fight this war, we need to change the way we talk about scientific knowledge. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Megan Sever |
Evolution debate continues in Texas At a public hearing on Wednesday, people on both sides of the ongoing evolution debate duked it out over how the topic should be covered in Texas high school biology textbooks. |
Wired
November 2003 |
View What will replace today's batteries?... Stamping Out Short People... DirecTV Takes No Prisoners... Cosmic Reality Check... The New Road to the White House |
Science News
December 6, 2003 |
TimeLine: December 2, 1933 Scientists unleash largest atom-attacking machine... 10,000 observations yield new cosmic ray theories |
Science News
June 30, 2007 |
Timeline: From the June 26, 1937, issue Guereza monkeys source of fashionable fur... New theory on cosmic-ray origin offered by physicists... Oxygen face tent for pilots advocated as safety measure... |
Science News
October 5, 2002 |
TimeLine: October 1, 1932 Warning spots or targets?... Cosmic rays bombard earth with 40,000 million volts... New nebular theory explaining origin of planets proposed... |
