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Charles Darwin was born on 12 February 1809. It's wonderful that this birthday of one of the greatest scientists falls just one d...

In view of my total enthusiasm for the work in evolutionary biology of my hero Richard Dawkins , it's surprising that I should be equall...

This year’s sunny Darwin Day at Gamone seems like the first day of spring… but I might well be a little over-optimistic.

This morning, once again, I strolled up along the road at Gamone to admire our splendid wild orchids, while attempting to identify as many a...

In this poor-quality photo—taken yesterday through the smudgy glass of my bedroom window on an overcast afternoon—the little creamy-hued tit...

Yesterday evening on TV, like millions of viewers, I could have watched the election of Miss France. Instead, I was attracted by an Australi...

If God were a cyclopean creature, then his huge eye might look like this: This artificially-colored NASA image of the Helix nebula combin...

In The Origin of Species , Charles Darwin wrote timidly: Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. As Richard Dawkins poi...

The problem, if I don't manage to sell this book—which I bought out in Australia in 1961, shortly before leaving for Europe—is that I mi...

In his Pharyngula blog [ display ] , the biology professor PZ Myers warns us immediately of every tiny flame of crazy Creationism or insip...

For a year at the University of Sydney, I attended the classes of John Anderson [1893-1962] in Greek philosophy. It wasn't very excitin...

This Irishman, John May , is a lunatic, but his accent is cute. I don't know what he might have said after the first minute or so, becau...

Readers of the Antipodes blog will have noticed that my enthusiasm for the ideas of Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins is such that I hav...

In my article of 8 February 2010 entitled Mystery as philosophy [ display ] , I deplored the announcement of a book (which I'm not at a...

The world has learned that the Large Hadron Collider [LHC] was revved up to cruising speed yesterday. My home in France is not far away fro...

A year ago, I wrote my first blog article on Darwin Day [ display ] . This National Photographic photo must be dedicated grudgingly to the...

We Aussies never forget that the world is a stage, and that we are actors. No matter what our field, we have a knack of looking the part. It...

Today, November 24, is the 150th anniversary of the publication of a celebrated book: Its author was Charles Darwin [1809-1882]. On the web...

This year, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin . And it so happens that the world has just been introduced to ...

It's only recently that I've fully grasped the fact that there are times, particularly in a media context, when it's preferable ...