After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions and contemporary neuroscience

After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions has just opened at the Natural History Museum. It’s a lot of fun. Based on Darwin’s book less-known tome The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals it veers into less obvious territories than some of the other Darwin200 events and exhibitions, looking at the … Go to RSA Arts [...]

Short Darwin films online

I’ve just been watching a series of short films exhibited online by the artist-moving-image agency Lux in honor of the 200th year of Darwin’s birth. They’ve put up four short films that consider, in their words, “Darwin’s complex legacy”. There are a couple of real gems there; go have a look. In particular: Paul Bush’s [...]

A brief history of the world in 60 seconds

Via the Long Now blog, and in celebration of Darwin 200, Seed Magazine presents the 4.6 billion year history of the world condensed into one minute. SPOILER: Blink and you miss the walk on part by the human race. Go to RSA Arts & Ecology Blog

Darwin and Havel

As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to [...]