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The Dispersal of Darwin (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Pitchfork: The Knife Writing Darwin-Inspired Opera I'll bake the cake, you round up the candles: November 2009 marks the 150th birthday of Charles Darwin's epochal evolution text On the Origin of Species. And who better to commemorate the occasion than, okay, the Knife ! With an opera?? ... The piece is set to debut in Copenhagen in November 2009, and takes as its inspiration...
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National Geographic (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stunned by slavery and "the glories of the vegetation of the tropics," Charles Darwin explored Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state in 1832—a voyage now being retraced with the help of one of his great-great-grandsons.
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Mike the Mad Biologist (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... effective," the author of the presentation, Air Force chaplain Capt. Christian Biscotti, brings up Charles Darwin for the first time in defining what he calls "3 Levels of Purpose."Oh, no he di'nt! Yes, yes, he did:And here's the chance canard:Oh, did you know that Charles Darwin is the opposite of George Washington'I didn't either. Mikey Weinstein put it best:The shocking...
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Bartholomew's Notes on Religion (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Chris Rodda reports, from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation: I was sent a PowerPoint presentation by an airman at RAF Lakenheath, the largest U.S. Air Force base in England…In March 2008, this presentation, titled “A New Approach To Suicide Prevention: Developing Purpose-Driven Airmen,” was shown at a commander’s call that was mandatory for an estimated 1,000 [...]
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The Dispersal of Darwin (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
From LINNEAN-NEWS : Darwin and Huxley’s disagreement over taxonomy’s connection to evolution Polly Winsor FLS Lecture at the Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BF Thursday 4th December, 6.00pm In 1857 T. H. Huxley wrote to Charles Darwin about the logical relationship between taxonomy and evolution, asserting that classification was a free-standing...
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Reformed Covenanter (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
R.J. Rushdoony explains why Darwinian evolution is really a religion, which requires a lot of faith to believe: Darwin had denied the need for God as Creator “scientifically.” His thesis was illogical and racist, since he saw non-Europeans as less developed races. Darwin’s “science” was a concoction of wild, irrational, and unscientific assumptions. [...]
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The Dispersal of Darwin (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
PZ shares his experience at a Philadelphia conference this last weekend: "Understanding Darwin: The legacy of evolution." He describes Darwin biographer Janet Browne's talk: And now for something completely different — Janet Browne talked about Charles Darwin and the Natural Economy of Households. She has this wealth of information about Darwin, one of the best documented...
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The Dispersal of Darwin (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
"Contemplate the validity of evolution and natural selection with this five piece Evolving Darwin Play Set. Each meticulously detailed, hard vinyl figure represents a different stage of human evolution all the way from fish-man to a modern day Homo sapien in the form of Charles Darwin. Figures range from 3/8" to 3-1/4" tall." From Archie McPhee ...
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bjoern.brembs.blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Last night, at the workshop dinner in the Trattoria Verdi , I got to know Horace Barlow , 86-year old great-grandson of Charles Darwin . As the most experienced researcher at the workshop, he is very noticably revered by the other participants and captivates with his sharp mind and wit. At the same time, Horace's scientific family tree shows one of the problems in science today: it's...
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The Rough Guide to Evolution (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Now I am probably put two and two together and making five, but having read in the last few days that: the mammoth genome has been sequenced using mammoth hair as a starting point Charles Darwin's beard hair has gone on display at the Darwin's Big Idea exhibition I should like to launch the Charles Darwin Genome Project, by suggesting that DNA extracted from the hair...
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My Green Meadows (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
clipped from www.theonion.com Darwinic pilgrims claim the image fills them with an overwhelming feeling of logic. DAYTON, TN—A steady stream of devoted evolutionists continued to gather in this small Tennessee town today to witness what many believe is an image of Charles Darwin—author of The Origin Of Species and founder of the modern evolutionary movement—made [...]
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Audley Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Pinnacle rock, Galapagos Islands 2009 marks the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin as well as the 150th anniversary of his “Origin of the Species”; his revolutionary theories that changed our understanding of the world as we see it today. Many Galapagos boat operators are marking this special occasion with special lectures and more in depth conversation of [...]
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Later On (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
A facsimile of the first edition is now available, and here’s a review from the Atlantic Monthly of July, 1860, when the book was first published: Darwin on the Origin of Species A review by Asa Gray Novelties are enticing to most people: to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted theory, just as [...]
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Millard Fillmore's Bathtub (Free subscription) | yesterday
Almost let one slip by — Larry Moran at Sandwalk remembered it, though, and probably better than I could here. November 24 was the 149th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s “big book,” On the Origin of Species. If history studies turning points, that’s one date that needs to be remembered. Even better, David Quammen [...]
