Running out of steam a bit on this Twelve Days Of Darwin blogging marathon (I have never blogged so hard!), but I thought it would be good to give a quick run-down of some of the events going on to celebrate Darwin's 200th Birthday.
Your first port of call should be the Darwin 200 website, at least if you're in the UK. There are hundreds of events over the next few days and throughout the year. At the Natural History Museum there's a great big birthday party for Chuck complete with cake. I wish I could go to it. There are almost certainly things going on at your local science museum, so check them out for more details.
How about online? There are already some great posts about Darwin and evolution linked from the official Darwin Day 2009 site. There's some nifty code if you're participating, which will give you a spiffy Darwin Day badge (as modelled by my post above). There's a Blog For Darwin carnival from 12-15 February. If you're on Facebook, join the "Can we find 200,000 by Feb 12 to wish Darwin a happy 200th birthday?" group. As of this moment they have about 170,000 so they need about 30,000 more. Go do it and invite all your friends.
Finally, haven't you always wanted to be best buddies with Charles Darwin? Well now you can, by becoming a Friend Of Charles Darwin. It's free to join and you can put the letters FCD after your name. I dare you all to put those letters on your CV. And then to keep a straight face the next time you have a job interview and they ask you what they stand for. And then to put both opposable thumbs up.
If there's a link I haven't mentioned, please feel free to post it in the comments.
Your first port of call should be the Darwin 200 website, at least if you're in the UK. There are hundreds of events over the next few days and throughout the year. At the Natural History Museum there's a great big birthday party for Chuck complete with cake. I wish I could go to it. There are almost certainly things going on at your local science museum, so check them out for more details.
How about online? There are already some great posts about Darwin and evolution linked from the official Darwin Day 2009 site. There's some nifty code if you're participating, which will give you a spiffy Darwin Day badge (as modelled by my post above). There's a Blog For Darwin carnival from 12-15 February. If you're on Facebook, join the "Can we find 200,000 by Feb 12 to wish Darwin a happy 200th birthday?" group. As of this moment they have about 170,000 so they need about 30,000 more. Go do it and invite all your friends.
Finally, haven't you always wanted to be best buddies with Charles Darwin? Well now you can, by becoming a Friend Of Charles Darwin. It's free to join and you can put the letters FCD after your name. I dare you all to put those letters on your CV. And then to keep a straight face the next time you have a job interview and they ask you what they stand for. And then to put both opposable thumbs up.
If there's a link I haven't mentioned, please feel free to post it in the comments.
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