Blog For Darwin

Darwin on NatGeo

The National Geographic Channel is airing some Darwin-related programming, including Darwin's Secret Notebook and Morphed.

Charles Darwin - a 5 min. video biography

On Joost.com, you can view a very brief video biography on Charles Darwin from the "Need To Know" series.

Reading Darwin's Beagle diary

As the date for Blog For Darwin approaches, I wish to draw attention to the Blog For Darwin partner, Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary, which publishes Darwin's diary entry for the corresponding date 170 years later. As I was listening to the actor reading a passage of Darwin's Beagle diary the special In Our Time Darwin programs, it struck me what a treasure we have in the Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary blog. Hopefully, educators and others will use that blog as a great tool to explore Darwin's thoughts, specimen-collecting, and note-taking. His maniacal collecting of facts and observations was a critical part of the process that would eventually lead him to an insight, to a great Theory.

(Photo: "Charles Darwin On The Galapagos Islands," by Kaptain Kobold, a close-up of the photographer's entry in the Reasonably Clever Lego Scientist Competition.)