Tonight at 6pm I will be a panelist in a discussion on science role models and inspiring the next generation of scientists. In true-to-science form, the event, hosted by the UK Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), will feature an...
Topics: having far too much fun, science education, who we are

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The Fourth Plinth , on the northwest corner of Trafalgar Square in London, was built in 1841 but was never topped with a statue (insufficient funds, apparently). In 1999, the Royal Society of Arts started the Fourth Plinth Project, which commissioned a...
Topics: 2009, Darwin art, Darwin events

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Get ready, readers, blog peeps, space tweeps, and all our fans out there because The HMS Beagle Project is about to get its feet wet! Regular readers may remember my announcement in March that we had been funded by the British Council Darwin Now Network.
Topics: blogpeeps, NASA, sailing and square riggers, science at sea

{"title":"The Beagle Project goes to Brazil","post_url":"http:\/\/thebeagleproject.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/beagle-project-goes-to-brazil.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/thebeagleproject.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss","author":"noahsnemesis","date":"2009-08-25 10:47:00","summary":"Get ready, readers, blog peeps, space tweeps, and all our fans out there because The HMS Beagle Project is about to get its feet wet! Regular readers may remember my announcement in March that we had been funded by the British Council Darwin Now Network."}

Note: this is a longer version of my recent Letter to the Editor published early online in Zoologica Scripta (doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00403.x). As long as I tell you that the 'definitive version' is available here , I am entitled by...
Topics: DNA barcoding, linnaeus, metagenomics, NASA, new Beagle, reasons to build a Beagle, sailing and square riggers, science aboard, science at sea

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Simmons Buntin has kindly agreed to let us reproduce his series of three poems as imagined letters from Darwin to his sister Catherine when he was aboard the Beagle. They are published in his book of poems Riverfall (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2005). They...
Topics: Darwin art, Voyage of the Beagle (1831-6)

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