Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Evolution: The musical!

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“Charles H. Darwin” meets Jesus in this Rocky Horror re-mix of the creation versus evolution debate, which I just discovered on the IMDB. IM...
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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Life imitating art in museum bungle--not quite

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When I first heard that a British museum had to cover up a reference to evolution after a complaint, I thought we were in for a re-run of t...
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Evolutionary poetry, art, drama and music from the cutting room floor

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Yesterday I received the proofs from the last chapter of narrative text from the Rough Guide to Evolution, on evolution's influence on...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Teaching evolution to American school kids

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Just read through this interesting article  from the New York Times on the trials and tribulations of teaching evolution in a US classroom....

Blast! An ORF is not a coding sequence!

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Now that The Rough Guide to Evolution is very nearly finished and the summer holidays are nearly over, my thoughts are returning to my ...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The inter-species kiss we weren't allowed to use...

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While we are on the subject of copyright, let me highlight another absurdity. When the first round of mockups were created for the cover for...

Wikipedia and the question of who owns Darwin

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We live in age where "information wants to be free" and steadily ever more information that one used to have to pay for is now ava...
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Triumph and disaster

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Disaster! Returned from holiday on Friday to face a hard drive failure on my MacBook Pro! Unfortunately I didn't have a recent back up o...
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Friday, August 15, 2008

Birmingham, England now relocated to the Bible belt

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One last short post before I go on holiday... Hot on the heels of the news from Effect Measure  and the BBC that Birmingham City Council h...

Dawkins on Darwin, economics and Hitler

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Dawkins Episode 2 I am just about to disappear off on holiday for a week, but last night my wife pointed out that the blog was getting a l...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008

In search of the ultimate evolutionary concept album part 2...

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I had hoped to finish up on my earlier post in the search for the ultimate Darwinian concept album, but am not going to have time to do this...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Dawkins stitched up by Ofcom?!

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My wife just alerted me to this statement from Dawkins, buried away on his web site: http://richarddawkins.net/articleComments,2956,Richard-...

Neanderthal jigsaw puzzles

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In August 1856, more than three years before Darwin published The Origin of Species , the top of a skull and fifteen other bones were recove...
Saturday, August 9, 2008

Ever wondered what it is like to experience the visual aura of a migraine attack?

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As I write I am experiencing what medics call a scintillating scotoma , which is something that happens to me every once in a while. Usually...
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Friday, August 8, 2008

Is there life on Mars: yes, probably...

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Now that the Rough Guide to Evolution is nearly finished and a couple of grant proposals are off the desk, I have been able to grab a bit of...
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