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Posts from the Friends of Charles Darwin blog.

  • Pick of my posts, 2009

    Apparently, it’s traditional on this date to post a set of links to your best blog posts from the year. Well, I don’t know about best, but here is a selection of the 2009 posts which I think best reflect my preferred blogging style, when I can find time to write.

  • Goldsmith’s Animated Nature

    An excellent Christmas present from my frankly gorgeous friend, Stense.

  • Scientific philistines: The Unenlightened

    I find it interesting that the English language does not seem to have an equivalent word to philistine for people who are hostile or indifferent to science.

  • My ridiculous hypothesis about starlings

    The other week, I came up with a frankly ridiculous hypothesis (I won’t dignify it with the description ‘theory’) about starlings.

  • Cold snap

    A seasonal photo of a robin, taken on my traditional Christmas Eve walk yesterday.

  • Ideal Darwin groupie Christmas present

    Amusing note left for my partner Jen.

  • What do you mean, you’ve never read ‘On the Origin of Species’?

    If you consider yourself a Darwin groupie, or simply ‘well-read’, yet you still haven’t read ‘On the Origin of Species’, why not make today’s 150th anniversary of its publication the perfect excuse to start reading the damn thing?

  • Hello, Honduras! 🇭🇳

    The Friends of Charles Darwin have their first member from Honduras.

  • Sagan’s 75th

    On the 75th anniversary of his birth, I reminisce about watching Carl Sagan with my mum.

  • Swanzilla

    I’ve produced another of my hilarious Beagle Project promo videos.

  • Creation review

    I finally got to see the film ‘Creation: the true story of Charles Darwin’ yesterday. I have posted a brief review in the Reviews section.

  • Event at the University of Porto, Portugal

    Conference: (Dis)Entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections on the Man and his Legacy.