The Friends of Charles Darwin

Writing tagged: ‘beagle project’

  • The Dickens Connection

    Dickens, FitzRoy and how a tragic loss at sea spurred efforts to forecast storms.

  • Will a new HMS Beagle set sail in 2013?

    The Beagle Project’s Peter McGrath, writing in the Guardian Notes & Theories blog.

  • People want to see the Beagle

    The Beagle Project’s Karen James on this week’s Guardian Science Podcast.

  • Kids and dinosaurs

    Kids love dinosaurs. Kids love science. I wonder what we do to so many of them to drive away their natural sense of wonder.

  • Swanzilla

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

  • Blogs in Space!!

    HOLY CRAP!! The Beagle Project has a blog post written on board the International Space Station by astronaut Mike Barratt.

  • 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.

  • Friends in high places

    The Beagle Project chaps receive email from the International Space Station.

  • That’s Magic!

    Video featuring yours truly.

  • The Beagle Project’s first podcast

    …recorded in deepest Wales, is online now. And top-notch stuff it is too.

  • 44 not out

    It’s my 44th birthday.

  • Reflections on the Darwin exhibition

    Now that I’ve returned home and a couple of days have passed, I think it only right and proper that I give a well-considered summary of the Natural History Museum’s Darwin exhibition.