(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

The Institute for Creation Research appears to concede defeat in its
lawsuit over its graduate school. Plus selected content from RNCSE
30:3 is now available on-line.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

NCSE's Steven Newton takes on the latest crop of misleading headlines.
Plus a preview of Iain McCalman's Darwin's Armada.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

It's not too late to submit your cartoon to Florida Citizens for
Science's Stick Science contest! Plus videos from the University of
Chicago's Darwin conference are now available on-line, and Lauri Lebo
rehearses the connections between "intelligent design" and earlier
manifestations of creationism at Religion Dispatches.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

A new batch of videos for your edification and entertainment on NCSE's
YouTube channel, plus a new batch of statements in NCSE's Voices for
Evolution. And a chance to explore Darwin's Universe.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

A new survey reveals what Australians think about evolution. Plus:
sneak peeks of three reviews forthcoming in Reports of the NCSE, the
latest from Livingston Parish, and the return of Florida Citizens for
Science's Stick Science contest.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Creationism is stirring in Louisiana. In the meantime, the History
News Network commemorates the anniversary of the Scopes trial with a
pair of essays, and the American Academy of Religion affirms that
creation science or intelligent design are wrong for the science
classroom.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Barbara Forrest slams the so-called Louisiana Science Education Act again. 
Meanwhile, a host of new videos is now available on NCSE's YouTube channel, 
and there's unsurprising poll data on the acceptance of evolution in 
Canada, Great Britain, and the United States.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Plenty of summer reading, with new content from Reports of the NCSE and a 
sample chapter from Nick Lane's Life Ascending now available on NCSE's 
website.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

The first year of Randy Moore's "People & Places" column is now
available on-line. Chris Comer's appeal failed -- the Texas Education
Agency's policy requiring "neutrality" of its employees when "talking
about evolution and creationism" is not unconstitutional. And NCSE's
Eugenie C. Scott is profiled in the Capital Times.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

A special issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach in honor of
Eugenie C. Scott's sixty-fifth birthday is published, and Creation is
now available on DVD.