Friday, January 30, 2009

I am turning into a grumpy old man

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I despair. Every day I am becoming more and more like Victor Meldrew . As if the twinges and aches that come with middle age weren't eno...
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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Rough Guide to Evolution on Irish Radio and the Origin in Irish

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I was interviewed on the Dublin-based radio station, Newstalk Radio earlier today. You can listen to what I had to say about Darwin, his tri...
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Of trees of life and straw men

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I am trying to write a grant proposal, but cannot help but get distracted by all this discussion (stemming from a recent new Scientist artic...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Rough Guide to Evolution on Radio Scotland

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I was interviewed for the BBC Radio Scotland show Radio Café earlier today. If you are interested to hear what I had to say, you can pick up...

Light blue touch paper and retire!

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Remember the old instructions that went with fireworks: "light blue touch paper and retire!" Well, I am looking forward to seeing ...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Charles Darwin: ecologist

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Our bicentennial Darwin Day celebrations in Birmingham are fast approaching (I will blog more on our exciting activities soon). Within our ...
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Celebrate the Darwin bicentenary in ceramics

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Despite the demise of Wedgwood brand, it appears that the ceramics industry is still going strong in that part of England known as the Potte...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Darwin and the Rough Guide to Evolution on the Radio and iTunes

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On Tuesday I drove from Malvern to Norwich and back (a nine hour round trip) to give a seminar. I used the time to catch up on my backlog of...
Thursday, January 8, 2009

Blogging the Origin

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John Whitfield, a London-based science writer is reading a chapter of the Origin each day until Darwin's 200th birthday and is going to ...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

So farewell then, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons...

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The china and ceramics firm Waterford Wedgwood, with its constituent companies, Wedgwood Limited and Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Limited, has...
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Monday, January 5, 2009

Ten myths about Darwin and his theory of evolution

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One of the things I discovered while writing The Rough Guide to Evolution was how much that I thought I knew about Darwin and his theory of...
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BBC Radio 4 on Darwin

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BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting various Darwin-related programs this week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/darwin/ If you don't get to listen to...
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Thursday, January 1, 2009

DARWIN ORIGINALS: 3-minute films on Channel 4

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Artsadmin has joined up with DVDance and Channel 4 to commission eight artists’ films inspired by Darwin, four of which will be broadcast on...

Results of RGE New Year quiz and competition

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Happy New Year to all blog readers! Well, I am pleased to announce that Glenn Branch of the NCSE achieved the highest score in the quiz wit...
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Monday, December 29, 2008

Darwin: a new anniversary and an old atheism

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The week before Christmas I was interviewed on the phone by Madeleine Bunting , who works as a journalist for the British broadsheet newspap...
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