Friday, October 31, 2008

Of figs and fusions: Darwin's great tree of life rehabilitated?

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In one of his notebooks, Darwin sketched an iconic figure of the tree of life, prefaced by a pregnant "I Think" (see adjacent imag...
Saturday, October 25, 2008

Even Koonin nods

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Classicists have a turn of phrase, "Even Homer Nods". The phrase originates from the Roman poet Horace ( et idem indignor quandoq...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Is America ready for a creationist president?

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That's a rhetorical question, as it looks like the answer is going to be no! But anyone comforted by the fact that neither presidential ...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

2009, Tom Paine's Remains and Darwin

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Prompted by Carl Zimmer's recent posting on Paine and Washington's experiment with marsh gas, I have finally gotten around to deali...
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Monday, October 20, 2008

Dodgy Darwinian analogies involving hedge funds

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And now evolution even features in the Financial Times , although the analogies between the Galapagos and hedge funds strike me as rather co...

Another snippet about the Darwin biog film Creation

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See " My Week " by Toby Jones writing in the Independent on his role as Huxley in the forthcoming film Creation . Looks like it is...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Darwin's Second Life

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During the completion of The Rough Guide to Evolution, the editor waggishly added his own title to the section on Artificial Life: "Get...
Friday, October 17, 2008

Icons of evolution: McCain as missing link

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My first thought when I saw the image at the top of this entry, which is in all the papers and all over the Internet is just how reminiscent...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Silly but fun KNTV song and show on Darwin

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As I write, the UK TV Channel 4 is broadcasting an amusing programme on Charles Darwin as part of a 10-part series for children, KNTV Philos...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Evolution and Poverty: Great is our Sin

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Wednesday 15th October is Blog Action Day 2008 , with the theme of POVERTY. Although I have missed the boat according to Greenwich Mean Time...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

The Beagles: Voyages, Death and Re-Birth

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Here is a modified early draft of a box that appears, much shortened, in the Rough Guide to Evolution ... The Beagles: Voyages, Death and Re...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Human evolution over or speeding up?

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"Compare and contrast..." goes the start of many an exam question. Well, in catching up on my reading of blogs and news media, I h...
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Not a lot happens in Cornwall...

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Why else would the fact that the actors working on a film about Darwin had to "to cover up against the elements during a break from fil...

Which science book should the next US president read?

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Nature magazine (which was founded with help from Darwin's associates Huxley and Hooker and celebrates its 139th birthday on US electio...
Monday, October 6, 2008

جميع الرجال الاخوة כל הגברים הם אחים

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Just picked up this poignant piece from Wired News on the recovery and display of pages from the diary of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon , wh...
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