Today is Darwin Day!!
And yes, we all know by now this is Darwin Year as we shall celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, his most famous and influential work.
And yes, we all know by now this is Darwin Year as we shall celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, his most famous and influential work.
Some of the SmS members started working last year on the possibility of celebrating a darwin Day, with an exhibition on the man himself, his famous voyage on the HMS Beagle, and his theories. Eventually this has become a joint celebration together with the Open Day, so it seems we shall have a great Open Day this summer with a strong Darwin flavour.
So far, we are still working on the specific areas of the Darwin Exhibition and how to give a Darwin coat to the rest of activities. Roni and her team are thinking of evolution-oriented experiments, there shall be Evolution-related projections, there probably be a play based on Darwin and the cafe Cientifico shall also be related to Darwinism and/or evolution... but we are still working on it all, so any ideas shall be welcome!
By the way, if you still haven't read The Origin of Species, it's available online here (1st edition on PDF format) and here (6th edition, project Gutenberg) among other websites. And if you want to go through all his works, they are available online at The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. And if you're affraid you won't have time to read it all in one go, why not suscribe to an e-mail per day with the book divided into 205 installments from Daily Lit?
And to explore a bit more on this topic, here's the list of websites we are collecting to refer to, or just as a matter of interest, as they are related to darwin year and evolution.
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