In which I hit the Darwin motherlode.
Month: March 2008
Sedgwick memorial
In which I visit Adam Sedgwick's memorial in his home village of Dent.
Archetypes and sterotypes
Brian Switek, FCD, on the Richard Owen (villain) v Thomas Henry Huxley (hero) stereotype.
Moose, elk, whatever, lend me your antlers
Bizarre moose/elk experiment.
And was Darwin's Beagle builded here, amongst those brutal blocks of flats?
Peter McGrath, FCD, visits the Woolwich Dockyard.
Happy St Patrick's Day!
Why Ireland has no snakes.
New kid on the blog
The Beagle Project's very own Nunatak now has her very own blog.
Hello, Bangladesh! 🇧🇩
The Friends of Charles Darwin have their first member from Bangladesh.
Plinth Charming
Petition the PM to commission a statue of Charles Darwin to occupy the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square.
Vole piss detection
How kestrels track voles!
09-Mar-1833: FitzRoy buys a Unicorn!
On 9th March 1833, Capt. Robert FitzRoy bought a schooner to accompany HMS Beagle.
Here's a sentence I don't get to use very often…
I'm with the Vatican on this one.