Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Rap Guides to Aquatic Biology

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Here are two biological takes on Lonely Island's "I'm on a Boat" ( on YouTube ) that might amuse you. The first parodies ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Origin of Species: new online variorum

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Yesterday, the world celebrated the sesquicentennial of the publication of The Origin of Species . But it is worth stressing that there was ...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

First thoughts on "Creation"

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Yesterday afternoon, I went to see " Creation ", the new film out centred on Charles Darwin's relationships with his wife and ...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The evolution of the Origin revisualised

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A few years back, Peter Robinson and Barbara Bordalejo , both textual scholars, came to work here in Birmingham. They, along with local Ne...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

I have outsold my advance!

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Just a brief note to report the good news that I have outsold the advance against royalties that I was given for my book, The Rough Guide to...
Sunday, September 6, 2009

The Darwin Song Project

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I have to confess that there is not much folk music in my iTunes library, but last week my copy of the Darwin Song Project CD arrived. And ...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Lamarck, Darwin and the Tree of Life

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There has been some interesting discussion in the blogosphere as to whether Lamarck beat Darwin to the Tree of Life metaphor: http://science...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

Happy Birthday to this Blog! And hello to a new blog on bacterial pathogenomics

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Last week, while I was away on vacation in France, this blog had its first birthday. During this last year, the blog has plotted the complet...
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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Rough Guide to Evolution in Nature again this week

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The Rough Guide to Evolution features again in the prestigious scientific journal Nature this week, thanks to Eugenie Scott (executive dir...
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Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide to Evolution now available in MP3

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Canadian Lit Hop artist Baba Brinkman has just released his new album, The Rap Guide to Evolution , and as a special promotion, the album ca...
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 ...