Thursday, April 30, 2009

Talk: Erasmus and Charles Darwin on Evolution

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A talk by Dr Chris Smith: Erasmus and Charles Darwin on Evolution Speaker: Dr Chris Smith Date: Thursday 7 May Time: 7....

Convergent evolution featuring The Apprentice and The Origin

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UK readers who watched last night's edition of the cult TV show The Apprentice might be interested to see life imitating art, or conv...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Obama's stirring speech on science skirts around the "e word"

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Barack Obama gave a stirring speech on the place of science in the American dream yesterday, while addressing the US National Academy of Sci...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Darwin's Kampf

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Today's issue of Nature contains an interesting letter from Professor Ulrich Kutschera , in which he points out that Darwin's interp...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Darwin, Pasteur, their sleep among the immortals and the need to dig back to primary sources

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a short piece for the magazine Microbiology Today , entitled Darwin; from the origin of species to the origin ...
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Monday, April 20, 2009

15 Evolutionary Gems from Nature magazine

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Nature magazine has created a neat resource entitled 15 Evolutionary Gems , which lists papers published by the journal that exemplify the ...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Darwin in the house: Baba Brinkman in the Vancouver Evolution Festival

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Baba Brinkman, creator of the Rap Guide to Evolution is featured this week in an article entitled "Darwin in the House" in The Van...
Sunday, April 5, 2009

Favourable reviews of The Rough Guide to Evolution: but what do you think?

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I have to confess that I am a little disappointed that The Rough Guide to Evolution hasn't received more reviews, whether in the qualit...
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Friday, April 3, 2009

Celebrating Matthew Boulton in 2009

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2009 is not just the bicentenary of the births of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln and the death of Thomas Paine , but also the 200th ann...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

So who is guilty of suppressing freedom of speech at New Scientist...?

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Have just come across this posting on the blog Afarensis : http://scienceblogs.com/afarensis/2009/03/15/this_is_n_example_of_why_i_sto/ whic...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Baba Brinkman confronts Canadian science minister

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Forget Kansas, all eyes are on Canada now as the laughing stock of the developed world for the bizarre and non-committal attitude of its sci...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Darwin's Pilgrims in Cambridge: the Movie

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Here is the next installment in the Darwin's Pilgrims movies, our trip to Cambridge.  Link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5139...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

The Tangled Bank: speculative fiction exploring Darwin's legacy

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Have just received notice of this interesting bicentenary project: T he Tangled Bank: an e-anthology of speculative fiction, artwork, and po...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Darwin's Pilgrims in Malvern: the Movie

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I am trying to create a movie of the Darwin's Pilgrims tour, where I hosted a tour of Darwinian sites and series of shows from Lauri Leb...
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Thursday, March 5, 2009

A double dose of Darwniniana on BBC2 tonight

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BBC 2 is screening the first episodes of two new Darwin-related series tonight: Jimmy Doherty in Darwin's Garden 8pm In three one-hour ...
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