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Information Today
August 4, 2015 |
The USDA and Microsoft Present a Data-Centric Food Resiliency Challenge The challenge will explore how climate change will impact the U.S.'s food supply and how the country can achieve better food resiliency.   |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out? |
Scientific American
October 2008
Sally Lehrman |
The Christian Man's Evolution: How Darwinism and Faith Can Coexist A geneticist ordained as a Dominican priest, Francisco J. Ayala sees no conflict between Darwinism and faith. Convincing most of the American public of that remains the challenge. |
Science News
February 16, 2002 |
The Way We Were Website on the science of human evolution. |
Science News
May 9, 2009
Charles Niederriter |
At Nobel Conference, Scientists And Public Converse The author, a physics professor at Gustavus Adolphus College directs the Nobel Conference, an annual forum where scientists and the public discuss a contemporary scientific topic. |
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. |
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... |
Popular Mechanics
September 2, 2008
Matt Sullivan |
Adam Savage's Plan to Banish Boring Science Education & More Adam Savage discusses everything from No Child Left Behind to the evolution debate in America's schools |
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'. |
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
September 2003
David Applegate |
Opposition to Evolution Takes Many Forms A 1987 Supreme Court decision forced evolution opponents to reassess their approach and seek alternative strategies that would not run afoul of the constitutional wall of separation between church and state. In the intervening years, two such strategies have emerged. |
Scientific American
October 2006 |
Let There Be Light Science and faith can coexist happily as long as neither tries to take on the functions of the other. |
Geotimes
September 2005
Lee J. Suttner |
Believing vs. Knowing: Faith's Role in the Evolution Debate Belief in evolution does not preclude belief in God. But belief is the key word. Fully understanding the concept of belief is fundamental to arguments for keeping creationism and its clever smokescreen, intelligent design, out of the science classrooms of all of our schools, not just the public ones. |
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
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
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. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
September 1, 2005
Humphrey Taylor |
Back Page: Evolution? It's Not Right! The Religious Right is likely to influence the future of medicine, healthcare, and medical research. |
Chemistry World
October 22, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
Free legal help for embattled US scientists A pro bono network that will provide legal protection for US scientists in government and academia has been launched by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an environmental group based in Washington, DC. |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012
Cori Vanchieri. |
Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College. |
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. |
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. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover Area School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design -- a religious theory -- as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional. |
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. |
AFP eWire
August 9, 2004 |
BBB to Expand Charity Evaluation Program The Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance, a charity monitoring group based in Arlington, Va., has developed the Online Charity Reporting and Evaluation System, which will allow the organization to evaluate more nonprofits every year. |
Reason
May 2006
Ronald Bailey |
Separate But Equal? Can science tell us anything about religion? |
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
November 2004
Megan Sever |
More Challeneges to Evolution In three states this week, battles rage on about the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools. |
Geotimes
July 2005
Mark A. Wilson |
Geomedia Books: Seeing Landscapes from Above... Creationism's Trojan Horse... DVDs: Hubble's Anniversary... On the Shelf: Mars and Beyond... etc. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design (ID) as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional. Just two weeks after the decision, schoolboard members voted to remove ID from its curricula. |
Wired
December 2004 |
Rants + Raves Letters to the editor: Darwin vs. intelligent design... The Long Tail... Response to climate change... etc. |
National Defense
May 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Water, Climate Change: Recipe for Trouble? We still lack a comprehensive understanding of how the world's water possibly could be affected by the phenomenon of climate change. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012
Kendalll Powell |
Jeffrey Kieft: Inspired to Serve In addition to running his University of Colorado lab, he engages church groups on the theory of evolution. He's driven to advocate for science. |
Popular Mechanics
February 20, 2010
Tyghe Trimble |
Do Climate Scientists Need to Be More Transparent? Scientists at AAAS 2010 talk about the need for better transparency in science, particularly for climate research. Here is what they have to say. |
