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Category: Evolution

Evolution / Scientist

The Unknown Five Scientists Who Saved Science Education in Alabama

On Thursday, December 14th 1989, five Alabama scientists joined together, forming a small line of defense in a battle most of us weren’t even aware was happening. This clash was …

Evolution / Religion

The Absence of Evolution in Arkansas

On January 18th, 2005 the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas sent a letter to the school board of Beebe, a small town of less than 10,000 located in the Northeast Central …

Evolution / Maps / Religion / Statistics

Monkey’s Uncles, Evolution, and the South

My journey for understanding the frequently tense relationship between the South and science has led me to an unlikely place—Oakland, California. In what appears to be a former auto body …

Evolution / Fauna

A Lightning Bug Rave on the Forest Floor

If you bottled up a caricature of Southern culture and poured it all over a town, you would get Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The streets of Gatlinburg look more like the midway …

Evolution / Fauna / Food

I don’t care if its bee vomit, I still want it on my biscuit.

The greatest joy of the South is undoubtedly a fresh biscuit with Tupelo honey. That is until you realize that the honey is a product of multiple regurgitations. We tend …

Climate / Evolution / Fauna

Where There’s Heat, There Are Cockroaches

The sticky Southern summer heat makes me slightly insane.  It’s an agitation that grows deep within me as the season ripens, and the humidity and temperature rise in equal fashion. …

Evolution / Fishing / Food

On Cowboying Up & Catching Fish With Your Bare Hands

This post was originally published at Mental Floss Lincoln Sadler eyes one of his favorite fishing spots, Great Rock, from a distance, but times his approach around an oncoming boat …

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