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  1. Accept it: Talk about evolution needs to evolve

    W atch your language! It’s a common message from Eugenie Scott, a physical anthropologist and director of the National Center for Science Education (www.ncseweb.org), an organization dedicated to promoting and defending the teaching of evolution in public schools. Scott recently spoke with Science News writer Susan Milius. So you urge scientists not to say that […]

    By Eugenie Scott

  2. Five problems in physics without the definite article

    In a 2006 book that garnered much press for its silly attacks on string theory, author and physicist Lee Smolin provides a list of “The Five Great Problems in Theoretical Physics.” There are many offensive things about this list, starting with the use of the definite article in the title, which implies that people not […]

    By Paul Fendley

  3. Intel ISEF Discussion Panel

    Nobelists to students: Being wrong may be just right.