Happy Darwin Day! Celebrate by:
Going to a Darwin Day event near you!*
Checking out all of his work over at The Complete Work of Charles Darwin. The site includes scans of his notebooks/journals, books, publications, and even audio of his books (text to speech though). It’s an amazing collection.
Get some free books (PDFs) from the National Academies Press:
Science, Evolution, and Creationism
Understanding Climate’s Influence on Human Evolution
Evolution in Hawaii: A Supplement to Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science
In the Light of Evolution Volumes I, II, III, and IV
*This should have posted this morning, but apparently Tumblr doesn’t like me. It may be too late to go to a Darwin Day event at this point, but bookmark the site for next year!
NO MORE CUTS A masked protester in Lisbon poses for the camera. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest against austerity measures ahead of next week’s evaluation of Portugal’s bail-out programme by officials from the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund.