Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# science
Humans are still evolving and a new study shows exactly what changed in our genomes over the last 10,000 years.
# science
Respectful debates help us learn and improve the public discourse. But there's a catch. Those debates can't be so respectful that they refuse to call out abject nonsense.
# education
Parents were shocked by the offensive content on the t-shirts worn by the Smith-Cotton High School marching band: a reference to evolution.
# science
Just because the appendix is a vestigial organ doesn't mean it can't perform a minor beneficial function every once in a while.
# science
Bill Dembski thinks he can disprove evolution with information theory. But he doesn't understand enough about biology or statistics to apply it.
# politics
Science is under attack in classrooms and pop culture. The NCSE is trying to change that.
# science
The Creation Museum is running a science fair. Yes, it's the same thing as a slaughterhouse having a confab about veganism.
# science
Philosopher Michael Ruse would like his discussions about science and religion to have a lot less science and a lot more credulity towards faith...
# evolution
Bill Dembski decided to fight evolution using that most scientific of methods: asking his students to troll science bloggers.
# science
Ken Ham's temple of ignorance asks a simple-minded, leading question. We should still answer it.