Back from Cambridge
Cousins. Just back from a pretty awesome couple of days in Cambridge with Michael Barton, FCD. More posts to follow over the next few days.
View ArticleDarwin's room
Dr John van Wyhe, FCD on his Darwin groupie bike yesterday Heart-felt thanks to Dr John van Wyhe, FCD, who kindly showed Michael Barton, FCD and me around Charles Darwin's old room at Christ's College,...
View ArticleDarwin'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. The young Darwin had an inordinate fondness for...
View ArticleBaby'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....
View ArticleFinch by Finch
The University of Cambridge Zoological Museum is currently displaying artist Tolly Nason's cast glass sculpture installation Seeing the Light: Finch by Finch, which is based on the beaks of Darwin's...
View ArticleDarwin and Dawkins stand shoulder-to-shoulder
As a 100%, card-carrying, take-no-prisoners atheist, Richard Dawkins, like myself, must rue the fact that he will never get to meet his hero Charles Darwin in any sort of afterlife. Unlike me, however,...
View ArticleThe brachiopods do not lie!
There is none so blind as those who will not see, but those who are absolutely determined to see something will often do so, even when it's not there. Psychologists call it confirmation bias, and it...
View ArticleA cat among the pigeons
So-called ‘domesticated’ cats. As an unabashed Darwin fanboy (and very much not ‘a cat person’), for many years, I’ve been meaning to get to the bottom of a story about my hero that I soooo wanted to...
View ArticleNewsletter No. 15: ‘Darwinian associations’
19TH AUGUST 2022 Dear Friend of Darwin, Putting together these newsletters, I’m always surprised at just how many news stories and recent scientific studies have Darwinian associations. Clearly...
View ArticleCambridge Darwin pilgrimage
When I learnt of there was to be an exhibition entitled Darwin in Conversation at Cambridge University Library to mark the completion of the Darwin Correspondence Project, I realised a trip to...
View ArticleNewsletter No. 16: ‘Pilgrimages and plans’
23RD DECEMBER 2022 Dear Friend of Darwin, My partner, Jen, and I recently visited Cambridge on a wonderful Darwin pilgrimage. We got to see many of Darwin’s original papers, specimens collected during...
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