Next month will mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, the man who had perhaps the greatest idea 
of all time.
This week, Melvyn Bragg is doing a four part special series (”Darwin: The Genius of Evolution”) of his excellent BBC Radio 4 program “In our Time” on Darwin which you can download and listen to on your pod.
Even more stunning are the video podcasts of the 10 lecture course Stanford University (”Darwin’s legacy”) presented at the end of last year (September through December), featuring some of the world’s foremost experts on Darwin (including the remarkable Daniel Dennett). Be aware though these are high quality productions and will chew up nearly five gigs if you download them in one hit. They are also available on youtube.
Back in the physical world, the National Museum in Canberra has an excellent exhibition which is based on an exhibition organised by the American Museum of Natural History, New York (www.amnh.org) in collaboration with the Museum of Science, Boston; The Field Museum, Chicago; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; and the Natural History Museum, London.
There’s even a blog for Darwin event in the offing: “February 12th-15th, 2009 participating bloggers around the world will be celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth (February 12th, 1809) with a BLOG SWARM, in which posts will be aggregated on BLOG FOR DARWIN to be kept as a resource for educators, students, and others. CLICK HERE to learn how you can participate!”
Go for it, Darwin and evolution are endlessly fascinating stuff.
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Thanks for this Trev!