(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Kentucky's department of education and board of education rebuffs
evolution denial and climate change denial. A new poll probes the
views of young voters on climate change. Kansas Citizens for Science
is honored by the Kansas Association of Teachers of Science. And there
are glimmerings in Pennsylvania of a new antiscience bill on the
horizon.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of RNCSE,

News of the death of the Louisiana attorney general who defended the state's Balanced 
Treatment Act in the 1980s.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A new poll on evolution and creationism offers a degree of encouraging
news. And a Houdini award for NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

New poll data on public understanding of evolution in Australia. A new
issue of Reports of the NCSE is now available on-line. NCSE offers a
free preview of Peter M. Hoffman's Life's Ratchet. Elaine Morgan,
advocate of the "aquatic ape" hypothesis, is dead. And videos of a
conference on communicating climate science, featuring NCSE staff, are
now available from the American Geophysical Union.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Antievolution activity is still a problem in Turkey. NCSE is seeking a
new editor for Reports of the NCSE. And climate change is back in the
national curriculum in Britain.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

The Next Generation Science Standards are now five for five. And
Eugenie C. Scott talks about the challenges to climate education with
Inside Climate News.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A discouraging report on evolution education in Turkey. New videos on
NCSE's YouTube channel. And kudos from the Society for the Study of
Evolution for Judy Scotchmoor.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Congratulations to Bill McKibben. A reminder that you can help NCSE's
archives. And two voices from evolution from the Sooner State.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Kansas adopts the Next Generation Science Standards despite protests
about evolution and climate change. Plus a symposium on "Democracy and
Science" that addresses evolution and climate science, and a free
preview of Adam Rutherford's Creation.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Louisiana's equal-time-for-creation-science law remains on the books.
A reminder that NCSE is seeking a new executive director. A new issue
of Reports of the NCSE is available. And a new voice for evolution is
raised in Oregon.