by Greg Mayer The Dinosaur Discovery Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is becoming a hotbed of evolutionary activity. I already posted about their Darwin Day celebrations, and now I want to announce an upcoming event in their Spring Lecture series: Life and Death in a Cretaceous Coastal Swamp by my colleague, Prof. Chris Noto. The lecture […]
by Greg Mayer Sorry for the late notice, but today, from 1-4 PM, is Women in Science Day at the Kenosha, Wis., Dinosaur Discovery Museum. I know some WEIT readers made it to the Darwin Day festivities there, so I thought I’d mention today’s event as well. Among the women paleontologists participating will be my […]
by Greg Mayer As ever-alert reader Dominic has reminded us, 2013 is the centenary of Alfred Russel Wallace’s death, and it is thus an appropriate time to reflect on the many contributions of this great scientist who was, along with Charles Darwin, the co-discoverer of natural selection. Like Darwin, who was his older contemporary, Wallace’s […]
by Greg Mayer Well, as previously noted, today is Darwin’s birthday and Mardi Gras. Laissez les bons temps rouler! At the Dinosaur Discovery Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the festivities began on Sunday. I am happy to report that some WEIT readers made it to the Museum for the activities; unfortunately, they had left by the […]
by Greg Mayer If you’ll be in or near southeastern Wisconsin on this coming Sunday (instead of being on your way to New Orleans), you’ll want to visit the Dinosaur Discovery Museum in Kenosha (5608 Tenth Avenue, Kenosha, WI 53140, 262-653-4450) for their Darwin Day event. Darwin Day Sunday, February 10, 2013; 1-4pm An international […]
by Greg Mayer Mardi Gras (“Fat Tuesday”), one last big party before the Lenten season of fasting and penance, is fast upon us, and this year, by coincidence it corresponds with Darwin’s birthday (February 12). New Orleans, as usual, will have a big parade, with floats, music, and costumed dancers. The parades are organized by […]
by Greg Mayer This year is the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the oldest natural history museum in the United States. Although now surpassed in size by some later-founded institutions, it is still one of the most important natural history museums in America, rich in types and […]
On Wednesday Christopher Hitchens (ill with pneumonia in Washington, D.C.) was fêted in an event at Royal Festival Hall. Richard Dawkins and Stephen Fry were the hosts, but a gaggle of luminaries weighed in by video. As The New Statesman reports, Richard Dawkins, Hitchens’s fellow anti-theist, appeared on stage with Fry in London, and Martin Amis, […]
Yes, I know a fair number of my readers think that courses on vampires, Batman, and the like are perfectly valid things to have at a good university, and I’m not averse to academic studies of popular culture. But there are limits. This is one of them. A student at the University of Chicago has […]
I don’t know why I feel compelled to report the deaths of “last war veterans”; perhaps it’s because I feel that my own generation is moving into the front lines. At any rate, the Washington Post reports that Claude Choules, the “only remaining veteran of World War I and one of the last people to have […]
