(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A preview of The Monkey's Voyage. The first antiscience bill of the
year surfaces in Virginia. And a welcome to NCSE's new executive
director Ann Reid.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Interesting data about American attitudes toward evolution and
creationism in a new Pew Research Center report. Sad news of the death
of Ian Barbour. And NCSE's archives reach a milestone.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

To end the year on a high note, NCSE thanks its Supporting Organizations.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Evolution is slightly up and creationism is slightly down in a new
poll. A final victory in the Texas textbook adoption process. And a
chance to help NCSE's archives.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Encouraging news from Texas with regard to the textbook adoption
process. A reminder about NCSE's Grand Canyon excursion for 2014.
Edward T. Oakes, a Catholic theologian publicly critical of
"intelligent design," is dead. And a preview of Henry Gee's The
Accidental Species.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

News about NCSE's next webinar for activists. A development in the
lawsuit over Kansas's adoption of the Next Generation Science
Standards. A Church & State interview with NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott.
And a slew of new videos at NCSE's YouTube channel.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Glenn Branch reviews American Genesis in Evolution: Education and
Outreach. Victory in Texas! And a new issue of Reports of the NCSE for
your reading pleasure.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

It's not too late to register for NCSE's first webinar for science
education activists. Meanwhile, NCSE recruited fifty-two scientific
and scholarly societies to support good science education in Texas.
Kudos for NCSE's incoming executive director Ann Reid in Science
Insider. A decision from the Supreme Court of Ohio ends a creationist
teacher's challenge to his termination. And NCSE's announcement that
Ann Reid is to be its new executive director.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

The Dallas Observer looks at Texas antievolutionism past and present.
NCSE offers a preview of John Gurche's Shaping Humanity. The executive
director of the National Science Teachers Association offers good
advice to the Texas state board of education. And a new survey
examines public opinion about climate change in Canada.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A host of on-line resources in honor of the centenary of Alfred Russel
Wallace's death. NCSE's Facebook page attains the thirty kilofriend
mark. A new fossil is named after a member of NCSE. And a new poll on
climate suggests that the partisan divide continues.