by Greg Mayer
John van Wyhe, of Christ’s College, Cambridge, director of the absolutely fabulous website The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (which I have had occasion to notice previously), has recently published a terrific short book entitled Darwin in Cambridge (Christ’s College, Cambridge). It’s not available yet on Amazon UK or Amazon, but you [...]
by Greg Mayer
I’m slipping in to make a quick plug here for one my favorite websites, The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, and its founder and director, John van Wyhe of Christ’s College, Cambridge. The website contains text and image copies of at least one edition of all Darwin’s works (and often of [...]
Unsurprisingly, the answer is “of course not!”” In fact — also unsurprisingly — evolution seems to strengthen the narrator’s belief. This one-hour show was on the BBC last week, and although their website won’t play it in the US, the program has been put on YouTube in six segments. You can access segment 1 below, [...]
An alert reader from Basel has sent me a link to an April Fool article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, published in Munich. It describes a new movie in which Quentin Tarantino directs Tom Cruise in a movie about the life of Charles Darwin. Using my rough German (no time to translate the whole piece), [...]
by Greg Mayer
If you’re going to be in or near southeastern Wisconsin this Friday, March 13, the next presentation in “Darwin 1809-1859-2009″, the University of Wisconsin–Parkside’s series of events commemorating the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth and the sesquicentennial of the publication On the Origin of Species, is being held at noon in Greenquist Hall [...]
by Greg Mayer
An interview with Jerry on evolution vs. creationism appears in the online pages of American Scientist. In the interview, Jerry talks mostly about his approach to teaching evolution based on 25 years experience, and how he applied that experience in the writing of WEIT. A couple of highlights:
…when you read Darwin, the thing [...]
by Greg Mayer
The now iconic images of President Obama created by Shepard Fairey last year have been widely imitated. It was perhaps inevitable that Darwin should be included among those so honored.
Created by Mike Rosulek, he is selling t-shirts and posters of this, and several other designs, with proceeds to benefit the National Center for [...]
February 26, 2009 – 7:57 am
by Greg Mayer
In an earlier post, Jerry called Janet Browne’s two-volume work the best of Darwin biographies, calling it “magisterial and engagingly written.” I concur, and some of our readers have mentioned it approvingly in the comments. But, at 1200 + pages, it may be a bit daunting as a starting place. Let me offer [...]
February 15, 2009 – 7:49 am
Yesterday’s Washington Post reviewed my book together with Adrian Desmond and James Moore’s new book, Darwin’s Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin’s Views on Human Evolution. An o.k. review for me, though the “too textbooky” comment stung a bit. More important, it described Desmond and Moore’s book in detail, and [...]
February 8, 2009 – 10:16 am
Last Thursday’s Times Higher Education Supplement (the UK one) has a series of short pieces on Darwin and his legacy. Perhaps the most interesting is by Tim Birkhead, the noted evolutionist who works on sperm competition in birds and has written a number of academic and popular books on the topic. Birkhead claims that Darwin [...]
