Good Morning, reader (if it is not morning, due to laziness or the inevitable passing of time, then Good Day). More importantly, Happy Darwin Day. Today is the 200th Anniversary of Darwin’s birth, and various events are taking place today and throughout this year, notably the Natural History Museum’s special exhibition. Nature has put on a special issue to mark the occasion, as well as a free podcast. I am also looking forward to the Endless Forms exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum here in Cambridge, about the connections between Darwin and visual art. And, as I know you love words as much as I, Ben Zimmer (brother to Carl Zimmer, one of my favourite science writers) has a blog post about Darwin’s influence of language.
On an unrelated note, my astrophysicist friend Olaf Davis, co-author of our game Biology or Physics (as featured on German TV!), has started up a blog. It is called Cosmic Web, and he intends to talk about astronomy and more general science communication. Olaf is a pretty awesome writer, and good at explaining complex ideas in simple ways, so the blog should we well worth checking out.
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