A miserable birthday aboard HMS Beagle
Sometimes even plain sailing isn't plain sailing: 12th There has been a little swell on the sea to day, & I have been very uncomfortable: this has tried & quite overcome the small stock of...
View ArticleHappy birthday, Charles Darwin
Cross-posted from the Guardian.In 1819, he might have spent the day memorising Homer at boarding school. As it was a Friday, he would have rushed home at the end of the day, eager to assist his brother...
View Article40 Degrees South - a voyage on the HMB Endeavour
By Australian guest blogger Rachel Slatyer. Rachel is a soon-to-be PhD candidate, studying ecology and evolution. She has volunteered on the sail training ship STS Leeuwin II for the last two years and...
View ArticleBringing Darwin into the 21st Century
Charles Darwin lived much of his adult life at Down House, the family home he established in Kent. It was where he fine-tuned his theories on natural selection, and where he wrote The Origin of...
View ArticleA kinder, gentler view of the Falklands
By UK guest blogger Dr Claire Goodwin. Claire is a marine biologist at National Museums Northern Ireland. Her work involves SCUBA diving survey projects and the study of marine invertebrates – she has...
View ArticleDarwin's diaries: the equator, a leap year, and Brazil
By guest blogger, paleontologist and HMS Beagle archivist Dr Gordon ChancellorHMS Beagle’s voyage round the worldwas well under way in March 1832. After three weeks in the Cape Verdes, Captain FitzRoy...
View ArticleQuestions, Questions
By Australian guest blogger Rachel Slatyer. Rachel is a PhD candidate studying adaptation in alpine grasshoppers. She spends her spare time sailing on tall ships and hopes to combine her science and...
View ArticleSick and tired in Brazil
Excellent post on a "cousin" blog today by Rob Viens, science teacher and current Dean of the Science Division at Bellevue College in Washington State (and soon-to-be blogger in this forum). Here's an...
View ArticleIf your house was on fire...
By American guest blogger John Romano. John is head of science at an independent school in the US where he teaches evolution and comparative anatomy and biology. He channels his overzealous love for...
View ArticleMy other ship’s a clipper: inside the restored Cutty Sark
A tour of the newly restored Cutty Sark by guest blogger Anna Faherty. Anna is a writer, editor and lecturer and a long-term advisor to the HMS Beagle Project. She works with major publishers and...
View ArticleApologies, your Majesty.
The HMS Beagle Project really should have been more on the ball in congratulating Her Majesty the Queen on her 60 years on the throne.Stage left: 'Oh for heaven's sake, has the infernal man found a...
View ArticleDawkins on Bacon (the radio show, not the food).
A rather good interview with Richard Dawkins on BBC Radio 5 Live's Richard Bacon show today.The interview was loosely about the forthcoming paperback release of Dawkins' book The Magic of Reality...
View ArticleGo and admire this model of HMS Beagle...
5 years in the building, a labour of love by Richard Painter of the Rocky Mountain Shipwrights.
View ArticleDarwin disperser Michael Barton
brings to our attention this charming illustration of the young Darwin as an Galapagosian iguana might have seen him.The pic will be gracing the pages of Jason Chin's forthcoming book Island: A Story...
View ArticleLonesome George 19??-2012
I just learned that Lonesome George, last of the Pinta Island tortoises, has died, signaling the extinction* of that subspecies of Galapagos giant tortoise, Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni.The coverage is...
View ArticleWhy we need a Beagle (n)
To help stop this kind of intellectual abuse of schoolchildren happening.US creationist text book uses Loch Ness Monster to 'disprove' evolution.As the good book says, 'Canst though draw out leviathan...
View ArticleBird's eye view of the Beagle's grave.
A fascinating blog post from Sean B. Palmer. He has published aerial photos and maps of the Beagle's proposed resting place near Paglesham.The site was identified in 2004 by Dr Robert Prescott formerly...
View ArticleThe 21st Century Naturalist (Or What the HMS Beagle Project Means to Me)
Guest post by Rob Viens, science teacher and current Dean of the Science Division at Bellevue College in Washington State. See here for Rob's earlier post about facing illness and fear in the...
View ArticleDarwin's Armada and beyond - are sailing and science the perfect match?
By Australian guest blogger Rachel Slatyer. Rachel is a PhD candidate studying adaptation in alpine grasshoppers. She spends her spare time sailing on tall ships and hopes to combine her science and...
View ArticleBlogkeeping: important stuff.
1. Dr Karen James, scientist of this parish, has jumped a very important hurdle. She has made the first cut for NASA astronaut training. If there is anyone not aware of this (Dr. K is a prolific...
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