Kids Research Express has a pretty good summary of the issue of species and speciation, which it wouldn't hurt most people to read. Sure, they repeat the mistake about Plato and typology, but that's OK. It's for kids and nonspecialists. We can fix up their errors later when they get the basics.
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Several science bloggers this month are spotlighting sexual violence as a social problem and the Scienceblogs portal has jumped on board.
Archaeological chronology aims to answer the question "When did this or that event happen?". This question can usually be re-phrased as "When was this or that thing made?", where the thing under study may be anything from a bead up to the Great Wall of China.
To celebrate Charles Darwin's bicentennial, Dear Reader, let me tell you about a less well-known way in which his great idea was misunderstood or misappropriated. You may have heard of social Darwinism and eugenics.
Yesterday's Science had a letter to the editor regarding an editorial I mentioned previously (and that was touched on in
John, are saying that we can teach our children scientific mistakes? Are you making an argument for Framing Science?:)
Who is the target audience? The piece struck me as being written in a fairly dense style, using more vocabulary than necessary, and not reading well. Nothing wrong with making new paragraphs for new subjects.