Charles Darwin is even more fascinating when horribilized by Horrible Histories. Such delightful horribleness started back in 1993 with author Terry Deary whose books got kids interested in the past via gory details and humorous asides, then spun off into several TV series and sites packed with online games. After writing so much about mayhem and […]
Continue ReadingIn the first part of our Countdown to Big School, my daughter and I covered Art and Science, and in part two we’ll be looking at Biology and History… London’s Natural History Museum is a truly amazing place. The building …
Continue Reading“Do you remember those Magic Eye images from a few years ago?” I’m sitting in a hotel lobby, chatting with author Sean Connolly, who’s currently on tour promoting his new book, The Book Of Potentially Catastrophic Science. He continues, “You’d …
Continue ReadingWe homeschoolers often get a bum rap for trying to insulate our kids from evolutionary theory. But it’s just as likely that your public school student has never heard of the subject. In fact, “about one-third of biology teachers support …
Continue ReadingI’ve enjoyed reading the wide range of posts that have shown up about Darwin Week on a myriad of sites, including GeekDad. However, one thing that the Innerwebs can do is to distort one’s sense of local coverage of events. I had to think about it for a few minutes, then resort to Google to […]
Continue ReadingWe hope you’ve been enjoying Darwin Week here on GeekDad. Today is its final day, though I’m sure we’ll have more Darwin posts from time to time, leading up to our next Darwin week on the occasion of his 300th birthday in 2109. (We can hope, can’t we?) In honor of the last day of […]
Continue ReadingLate last fall, the Church of England issued a formal apology to Charles Darwin for "misunderstanding [him] and … encouraging others to misunderstand [him] still." While couching their apology in a warning of the social interpretation of Darwin’s work, the fact that it took 150 years since the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species is […]
Continue ReadingThis week marks the bicentennial of the birth of everyone’s favorite naturalist, Charles Darwin. Few names in science are more recognized – or are more synonymous with controversy – than the British father of evolution. To celebrate his birthday, we’ll be taking a look at Darwin in many ways this week. Please be sure to […]
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