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Hello, Bosnia and Herzegovina! 🇧🇦
I am delighted to announce that the Friends of Charles Darwin have their first members from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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The seahorse and the pelican
In which I (perhaps) help piece together a vague memory from my father’s childhood.
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Putting the multiverse into perspective?
In which I try to envisage the number of universes in the multiverse.
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Video: Peter Greenaway’s ‘Darwin’
Peter Greenaway’s 53-minute exploration of the life and work of Charles Darwin.
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Video: David Attenborough on Darwin
CG animator Richard Spence recently uploaded a 3-minute sequence he created of Sir David Attenborough explaining the entire history of life on earth.
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Two triumphant predictions for science
In which one of Darwin’s correspondents compares Darwin’s famous moth prediction with the prediction of the orbit of the planet Neptune.
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Video: ‘Darwin: A Portrait in Ink’
Timelapse video of someone drawing an ink portrait of Darwin.
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Video: ‘The Evolution of Charles Darwin’
Best selling author John Darnton shares his insight into the life and work of Charles Darwin.
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Darwin gets his hair cut
I just came across two delightful animations about Charles Darwin made by London schoolchildren. I’m sure they must have done the rounds in the science blogosphere before, but I somehow missed them.
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Darwin’s uncontrollable farting
Letter to the London Review of Books, in response to a recent piece claiming that Darwin suffered from uncontrollable farting.
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Voting with my feet
In which I finally get to show New Scientist what I thought of the infamous ‘Darwin Was Wrong’ cover.
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185 years ago today…
On 22nd May, 1826, His Majesty’s Ship ‘Beagle’ set sail from Plymouth on a surveying voyage to South America.