(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Science Friday's suit against a creationist imitator is settled, and
the second public draft of the Next Generation Science Standard is now
available for inspection and comment. Plus a preview of the new
edition of How to Build a Habitable Planet, and NCSE's Eugenie C.
Scott argues for the importance of understanding evolution,
adaptation, and phenotype in Frontiers in Evolutionary and Population
Genetics.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

A mutation in the expected antievolution bill in the Montana
legislature, and sad news of the death of Carl R. Woese.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

To end the year, a preview of Cold Cash, Cool Climate.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

A school board in Louisiana votes to ban creationism from its schools.
Plus two new polls on climate change, the recrudescence of a bill in
Texas that ostensibly would shield proponents of "intelligent design"
in higher education from persecution, and a reminder that spaces are
still available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

A creationist legislator in Kentucky says that he won't push for
creationism there, there is a mixed result for climate change in
Nebraska's new state social studies standards, and newspapers in
Indiana denounce the antievolution bill expected in that state's
legislature. Plus a new issue of RNCSE is available on-line, and
NCSE's Minda Berbeco appears in California Classroom Science.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

A new twist for the expected antievolution bill in Indiana. And in
Louisiana a controversial voucher program was ruled to be
unconstitutional, while in Britain private religious schools receiving
government funding are being required to present evolution.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

A new issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is published -- with
exciting news about the journal's future to boot. The issue of public
funding of private schools that teach creationism is in the news again
in Louisiana. And a bill requiring the teaching of "intelligent
design" is expected in Montana.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

A preview of Rudolf A. Raff's Once We All Had Gills. NCSE's Joshua
Rosenau writes about science denial in Trends in Microbiology. And a
creationist radio show is accused of trademark infringement and
cybersquatting.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Carl Zimmer wins a prestigious science journalism award. And
antievolution legislation is likely to resurface in Indiana.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Sad news of the death of Molleen Matsumura. And congratulations to J.
William Schopf.