Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure
an exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden is on display April 25 to June 15, 2008.
An article and a slide show about the exhibit were in the April 25 issue of the New York Times.
Emma Darwin's Book
Read On the Origin of Muffin Pudding by Emma Darwin in the New Scientist.
As well as digitizing all of Charles Darwin's works, The Complete Work of Charles Darwin has included Emma Darwin's Recipe Book.
Teaching Evolution is Vital
Dr. David Hillis, Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor at the University of Texas-Austin and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow, will give the talk Teaching Evolution is Vital at Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday, May 4, 2008, 3:00 pm as part of the Church's 2008 Kilgore Lecture program.
The Church is located at 1900 Bering Dr., 1/2 block north of Westheimer, 1 block west of Chimney Rock. For more information, call 713.782.8250.
God, Darwin, and Design: Lessons from the Dover Monkey Trial
Dr. Kenneth Miller, Professor of Biology, Brown University, will be giving a lecture at the University of Texas-Austin, Friday, April 4, 2008 at 7:00 pm.
There will be a Live WEBCASE.
Check out information at http://www.esi.utexas.edu/outreach/ols/lectures/Miller/.
Genetic Evidence for Evolution
On Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 2:00 pm, Dan Graur, PhD, John and Rebecca Moores Professor, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, will present a lecture titled "Genetic Evidence for Evolution" at The Health Museum, 1515 Hermann Drive.
Dr. Graur's lecture is part of a series of talks, Decoding Genetics, which complements the exhibit GENOME: The Secret of How Life Works.
Beagle still navigating
Today's Beagle is not making the historic voyage the HMS Beagle, which it was named after, did. But it is still navigating the same waters in Tierra del Fuego.
Thanks to Dr. Robert Rakel for photos.
Darwin's 199th
A section of February 12, 2008 Guardian Newspaper (UK) isdevoted to Darwin's work and developments from it with losts of links. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/darwinbicentenary
Image from http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/S/Speciation.html
199th Birthday
February 12, 2008 is the 199th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.
Check out international activities at http://www.darwinday.org/englishL/home/2008.php and local activities at http://www.houstondarwinday.org/
Evolution is a scientific fact, and every organization ...
whose research depends on it should explain why
Nature 451, 108 (10 January 2008) Editorial - SPREAD THE WORD
Three cheers for the US National Academy of Sciences for publishing an updated version of its booklet Science, Evolution, and Creationism (see http://www.nap.edu/sec). The document succinctly summarizes what is and isn't science, provides an overview of evidence for evolution by natural selection, and highlights how, time and again, leading religious figures have upheld evolution as consistent with their view of the world.
As the National Academy of Sciences and Padian have shown, it is possible to summarize the reasons why evolution is in effect as much a scientific fact as the existence of atoms or the orbiting of Earth round the Sun, even though there are plenty of refinements to be explored. Yet some actual and potential heads of state refuse to recognize this fact as such. And creationists have a tendency to play on the uncertainties displayed by some citizens. Evolution is of profound importance to modern biology and medicine. Accordingly, anyone who has the ability to explain the evidence behind this fact to their students, their friends and relatives should be given the ammunition to do so. Between now and the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth on 12 February 2009, every science academy and society with a stake in the credibility of evolution should summarize evidence for it on their website and take every opportunity to promote it.
Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: [Nature] (doi:10.1038/451108b), copyright (2008)
For the complete editorial, see http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html.
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
This NOVA program about the 2004 Kitzmiller v. Dover Trial airs Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 7:00 pm on HoustonPBS KUHF Channel 8. For a preview of the program and resources on the trial, evolution and science education, see http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/.
