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Posts from the Friends of Charles Darwin blog.
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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.
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Extinct monsters
Link to new blog post with lots of lovely scans of extinct megafauna.
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Baby’s first podcast
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.
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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.
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Darwin’s octopus
Photo of an octopus collected by Charles Darwin in the Cape Verde Islands.
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Darwin’s room
Photos from Darwin’s student room at Christ’s College, Cambridge.
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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.
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Molehill observation
I have made an (in all likelihood) irrelevant observation about the location of molehills.
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Darwin groupie’s study
My Darwin groupie’s study is finally complete!
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Finally, a half-decent swallow photo!
It’s taken me ages, but I got there eventually!
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The march of the bank notes
On the new Boulton and Watt bank note.