Dar­win Day is an inter­na­tional cel­e­bra­tion of Darwin’s achieve­ments in sci­ence held on Feb­ru­ary 12^th, the day that Charles Dar­win was born in 1809. The Dar­win Day Cel­e­bra­tion started with one event in 1995 and last year there were more than 850 Dar­win Day events world-wide. Dar­win Day fes­tiv­i­ties include debates, lec­tures, essay con­tests, film fes­ti­vals and you can even have an “Evo­lu­tion Ban­quet” with “Pri­mor­dial Soup” fol­lowed by a “Dar­win Fish Fry.” Here we are mostly writ­ing arti­cles but if you have a fish fry, be sure to let us know and we’ll link to it.
[via sci­en­tificblog­ging]

Today every­one can read Darwin’s books for free: The Ori­gin of Species by Means of Nat­ural Selec­tion (1889) and The Ori­gin of Species (1909). You can even grab a copy in PDF. Power of Google books and Stan­ford Lirary ;-)

11th February, 2008 3 Comments