HOLY CRAP!! The Beagle Project has a blog post written on board the International Space Station by astronaut Mike Barratt.
Month: July 2009
Finch by Finch
Video of artist Tolly Nason's cast glass sculpture installation 'Seeing the Light: Finch by Finch', based on the beaks of Darwin's Galápagos finch specimens.
400 years of telescopic astronomy
400 years ago today, on 26th July, 1609, the early English scientist Thomas Harriot pointed his new-fangled telescope at the moon and made a drawing.
Extinct monsters
Link to new blog post with lots of lovely scans of extinct megafauna.
Baby's first podcast
This afternoon, the Beagle Project's Director of Science, Dr Karen James, and I recorded a podcast, which I have named 'Messages from Above', for reasons which will become apparent if you listen to it.