The Friends of Charles Darwin

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Posts from the Friends of Charles Darwin blog.

  • FitzRoy’s sword

    Robert FitzRoy’s ceremonial sword to be auctioned.

  • West Yorkshire event

    Darwin walk in Ilkley, Wednesday 28th October, 2009.

  • American Museum of Natural History event

    Plug for ‘Darwin on Facebook: How Culture Transforms Human Evolution’ at the American Museum of Natural History.

  • Misleading chart

    Link to a post I wrote about a chart presented on the BBC website, which gives a misleadingly high impression of the church membership in the UK and Ireland.

  • To the editor of the London Review of Books

    Regarding their false claim that someone other than Darwin ‘wrote the definitive work on barnacles’.

  • Oystercatchers

    Photo of a flock of oystercatchers in Anglesey.

  • Nature waiting

    Nature waiting involves finding a nice spot, sitting down quietly, and waiting for nature to appear. It’s a bit like nature watching, but more passive: you don’t go looking for nature; you wait for nature to come to you.

  • The brachiopods do not lie!

    Image of Charles Darwin spotted in some brachiopods shock!

  • Darwin’s wen

    How Darwin’s facial blemish can help you spot when his image has been reversed.

  • Antarctica Calls!

    Vote to send GrrlScientist to Antarctica.

  • 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.