Atheist Experience 21.50 with Jen Peeples and Clare Wuellner

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The Atheist Experience episode 21.50 for December 31, 2017, with Jen Peeples and Clare Wuellner. Science Education. Clare talks about the state of science education in Texas with a focus on biology.

New Years Eve Evolution Difficulties Special!

Supplemental Links:

Evolution is a fact:
http://www.nas.edu/evolution/TheoryOrFact.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/just-a-theory-7-misused-science-words/
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html

Primate evolution:
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-fossil-discovery-just-changed-everything-we-thought-about-our-last-common-ape-ancestor

Denisovan/Primate DNA
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny-genetic-differences-between-humans-and-other-primates-pervade-the-genome/
http://ajendu.blogspot.com/2013/07/hybridization-hypothesis-origin-of.html

Hillis et alia Tree of Life
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-14616161

Naked mole rat—one wacky rodent (Order Rodentia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole-rat

Theory of Mind in Horses:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4780548/

Horse Pain Scale (visible pain expression in horses):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4312484/
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0092281

Non-human animal emotion:
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/50/10/861/233998

Non-human farming in animals:
https://www.asm.org/index.php/general-science-blog/item/6839-the-leaf-cutter-ant-s-50-million-years-of-farming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%E2%80%93fungus_mutualism

Tool use in non-human animals:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5703/1903

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