a new voyage for the beagle

The Beagle Project aims to build a replica of HMS Beagle and retrace Darwin’s famous voyage. The intention is that this will inspire global audiences through unique public engagement and learning programmes, and original scientific research in evolutionary biology, biodiversity and climate change. I think it’s great! I’ve been keeping half an eye on the website, […]

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happy birthday, Earth!

I’ve just remembered (well, Ken reminded me) that today’s the Earth’s birthday. According, that is, to the chronology proposed by Archbishop James Ussher, way back in 1650. So, Happy Birthday, Earth! Back in 2005 we celebrated this happy event with a Cafe Scientifque – we had a cake & everything. Of course, we also talked about […]

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