July 2009 – The Friends of Charles Darwin

Blogs in Space!!

HOLY CRAP!! The Beagle Project has a blog post written on board the International Space Station by astronaut Mike Barratt.

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.

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.

Darwin's beetles

The University of Cambridge Zoological Museum has a rather wonderful box of beetle specimens collected by Charles Darwin when he was at the university. Here are some photos.

Darwin's octopus

Photo of an octopus collected by Charles Darwin in the Cape Verde Islands.

Darwin’s room

Photos from Darwin's student room at Christ's College, Cambridge.

Back from Cambridge

Just back from a pretty awesome couple of days in Cambridge with Michael Barton, FCD. More posts to follow over the next few days.

Correspondence Vol. 17 is out

Those frankly wonderful people at the Darwin Correspondence Project have announced the publication of volume 17 of their stupendously researched series of books.