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I have seriously cool friends (part 3)
My wonderful, long-suffering partner, Jen, filled a gaping hole in my Darwin-groupie library this Christmas: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Vol. 19 (1871) (middle shelf, far right) How on Earth...
View ArticleCharles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 10th January, 1860
Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.- The...
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Moonlighting
CHARLES DARWIN MODELS ORANGE CHEQUERED SLACKS IN LONDON MEN’S FASHION WEEK SHOCK! Nice pants, Charles.
View ArticleDarwin in plain English?
This is my contribution to the #upgoerfive meme in which we are challenged to use this text editor to ‘explain a complex topic using only the 1,000 most common English words’. In my case, I have tried...
View ArticleDarwin’s Evolution Revolution Song
The Virtual School has created a video to celebrate Darwin Day 2013. This is exactly the sort of thing the internet was invented for: How very appropriate! As everyone knows, Darwin (and God,...
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No parsonage for Darwin!
From Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary, on this day in 1834: 12th With very baffling winds we anchored late in the evening in Gregory Bay, where our friends the Indians anxiously seemed to desire our...
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The Darwin Bicentennial Oak, four years on
Planted 12-Feb-2009 24-May-2009 12th-Feb-2011 12-Feb-2013 Four years ago today, I planted the Darwin Bicentennial Oak in my garden. I am pleased to report that it is doing well, and has now grown into...
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Weather-forecasting frogs
In recent years, I’ve become a huge fan of the writings of the late W.G. Sebald. Not that I always understand what’s going on in them, you understand. Sebald blends fiction, biography, memoir, and a...
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How to put Darwin on your iOS device
Want to put a nifty Charles Darwin icon on your iPhone, iPad or other iOS device? It’s dead easy. Simply visit any page on the Friends of Charles Darwin website in your device’s Safari browser (I would...
View ArticleA Secular Thought for the Day
The National Secular Society recently ran a competition to write a Secular Thought for the Day in the style of BBC Radio 4′s stubbornly unsecular Thought for the Day. I’ve just posted my entry on my...
View ArticleUCL’s free public Lunch Hour Lecture series
I just received the following email, which might be of interest to those of you within easy reach of London (although the event will also be available online): I’m hoping that one of UCL’s free public...
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19th April, 1882: the death of a hero
After decades of mysterious ailments, and a short, final illness, Charles Darwin died at 4 o’clock in the afternoon on Wednesday 19th April, 1882, at Down House, Downe, in Kent. His devoted wife,...
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Darwin and Wallace: the lost photograph
I’d heard the legend, of course. Every Darwin groupie has. The missing photograph of the two co-discoverers of evolution by means of Natural Selection, Darwin and Wallace, standing side-by-side....
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The Friends of Charles Darwin are now on Facebook
After 18 years on the Internet, the Friends of Charles Darwin now have an official Facebook page. To follow us on Facebook, please ‘Like’ the page, and don't forget to tell all your Darwin groupie...
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New book review
New in the Friends of Charles Darwin book reviews section, a review of Darwin's Apprentice: an archaeological biography of John Lubbock by Janet Owen.
View Article18th June
On this day in 1858, Darwin received a bombshell in the form of a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace. More »
View ArticleNew website design
The Friends of Charles Darwin website has a new (dare I say it) intelligent design: simpler, faster, cleaner, and more adaptable to different browsers and reading devices. The new design should also...
View Article1st July
On this day in 1858, Darwin and Wallace's joint paper on evolution by means of Natural Selection was read to the Linnean Society.
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Change for a tenner?
If Charles Darwin taught us anything, it's that nothing is permanent. Things change. It's inevitable. Back in April, the Bank of England announced that Sir Winston Churchill is to replace Elizabeth Fry...
View ArticleBank of England caves in to pressure
BBC: Mark Carney to review female representation on bank notes Bank of England governor Mark Carney will look at the women represented on banknotes by the end of July. […] He wrote a letter in response...
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