A week from today Charles Darwin turns 200. On his birthday I will be enjoying a brief escape from this harsh New England winter in the temperate climes of North Carolina. I’ll be giving a talk at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, entitled “Darwin and Beyond: How Evolution Is Evolving.” I’ve got a couple big articles in the pipeline next week about Darwin, and they’ll be the raw material for my talk.
The talk is free, but the museum does ask that folks pre-register. If you can’t make it, you can still catch the talk when it’s posted online (details to come). More information is available at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (one of my hosts) and at the museum site.
The trip is going to be a busy two days. The Raleigh-Durham area is packed to the gills with people I’d like to meet in person, including biologists I’ve written about in the past, who I want to write about in the future, or who themselves write stuff I like to read. So I am cramming my stay in the Triangle with a lot of visits. And, of course, with barbeque. Connecticut does many things well, but ribs are not on that list.
February 5th, 2009 at 10:57 am
See you soon
February 5th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Any chance of your coming to Norfolk soon? The barbecue is good here, too.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
[...] (ya know, the bearded Darwin). You may have already seen the painting on Carl Zimmer’s blog The Loom, but here it [...]
February 5th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Some of your readers might wish to sing “The Ballad of Charlie Darwin” at the BBQ’s:
http://blog.genewilburn.com/archives/90
February 11th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
[...] am hanging out at the airport, having just missed my flight to Raleigh, but free wireless makes it just an extra office. I’ve just read a few complaints on my post [...]
September 18th, 2011 at 7:34 am
Just in case anyone needs this Darwin for a party, please visit http://colinpurrington.com/graphics/science/portabledarwin … I’ve moved all my pages to a new site (WordPress blog).