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Hello, Bolivia! 🇧🇴
I am delighted to announce that the Friends of Charles Darwin have their first member from Bolivia.
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Hello, Saudi Arabia! 🇸🇦
I am delighted to announce that the Friends of Charles Darwin have their first member from Saudi Arabia.
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Ruskin’s aesthetic taxonomy
On the intriguing and rather barmy plant taxonomy suggested by the Nineteenth Century art critic and social thinker John Ruskin.
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Boring the pants off people about Darwin
In which I respond to John S Wilkins’ post ‘Darwin Day: Enough already’.
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Now we are 3,000
The Friends of Charles Darwin have their 3,000th member.
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The Darwin Bicentennial Oak, 2 years on
Two years ago today, to mark Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, I planted the Darwin Bicentennial Oak in my garden. Having survived two unusually harsh Yorkshire winters, here is how the oak looks today.
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Getting to know Charles Darwin in person
Forget the biographies. Forget the published works. If you really want to get to know Charles Darwin in person, you need to read his correspondence.
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Serendipitous juxtaposition
Two items just came up one after the other on my RSS reader. Their juxtaposition pleased me.
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People want to see the Beagle
The Beagle Project’s Karen James on this week’s Guardian Science Podcast.
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How the wheatear got its name
…Including my mum’s incorrect etymology.
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If everyone else is quote-mining Darwin, why shouldn’t I?
Darwin on the delights of English country walks.
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Nothing For any Purpose
Explanation of why the phrase ‘Nothing For any Purpose’ appears on the bottom of the Red Notebook blog’s sidebar.