Tuesday, July 21, 2009

From Digbeth watesland to darwin-inspired arts space

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Just picked this up from the Behind Closer Doors project website : Two artists from Birmingham are part of an unusual project which has tran...
Monday, July 13, 2009

PCR in song and video!

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The polymerase chain reaction revolutionised molecular biology twenty years ago, opened up the study of ancient DNA from extinct organisms...

Baba Brinkman at the Cambridge Darwin festival

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I ducked out of the Cambridge Darwin festival for a variety of reasons, including severe cash flow problems after renovating my house. But B...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Another stray link between Darwin and the Wire...

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Perhaps my earlier attempts to draw up links between the Darwins and the cult TV show The Wire were rather fanciful...  But how about this ...

I was suckered too...

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In case anyone is thinking I have been too rough in publicising quite how many people have fallen for the Annie myth, let me confess, I was ...

The spread of the Annie myth: it's worse than I thought

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My posting on the spread of the Annie hypothesis has elicited this interesting posting on "the Angry Bitter Atheist myth"--the i...
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Sunday, July 5, 2009

The surprising spread of the Annie hypothesis

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As I have pointed out in previous posts, I have been working on a paper on the unsubstantiated claim that his daughter Annie's death led...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009

David Hume's influence on Charles Darwin

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As a result of helping my son Charlie with his homework, I have just (re-)read David Hume 's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion , whi...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

Emma Darwin's poignant diary entry

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I am still slowly but surely working away on a paper debunking the myth that Annie Darwin's death had anything to do with Charles Darwin...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Please help Darwin's medical students URGENTLY! #2

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This week for the second time (see earlier posting) I have been supervising a student-selected activity entitled "The Darwins, Evolutio...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The amazing power of Darwinite

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You remember Superman and how he suddenly lost all his powers in the presence of the element kryptonite?  Well, I am beginning to wonder if...
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Monday, June 15, 2009

In The Light of Evolution III

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The current early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences of the USA has just been released and is chock full of ar...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

New review of The Rough Guide to Evolution

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Fyrefly has just posted a review of The Rough Guide to Evolution  here. Generally highly positive, although Fyrefly doesn't like the wa...
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