Beagle Project Podcast episode 2: Messages from Above
Jul 19th, 2009 by beagleproject
The Beagle Project’s Director of Science, Dr Karen James, and the Friends of Charles Darwin's Richard Carter FCD discuss the recent, and frankly awesome, Darwin bicentennial festival in Cambridge, UK. They go on to talk about recent International Space Station sightings over the UK, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and Karen's extraordinary phone call from a friend in high places.
Links to stuff mentioned in this podcast
- Cambridge Darwin Festival website
- Cambridge Darwin Festival audio and video on YouTube
- Into the field again: re-examining Charles Darwin's 1835 geological work on Isla Santiago (James Island) in the Galápagos Archipelago
- The brachiopods do not lie!
- A Voyage Around the World
- Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts
- Michael Barton's blog
- Michael Barton's first pint
- Photos from the Sedgwick Museum
- Photos from Cambridge Zoological Museum
- Darwin's Room
- Michael Reed Barratt (M.D.), Nasa Astronaut
Errata
- The book written by William Paley was Natural Theology, not Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. The latter was actually written by Robert Chambers (although published anonymously).
- The correct URL for the satellite-tracking website mentioned by Karen is http://www.heavens-above.com/, and most definitely not the one she gave out, which is that of an adult store!
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1/2 way through, and must say that the audio quality is most cool.
Cool! By the way, the link to my blog is to the old version…
Richard - we seemed to forget about recording some stuff during our Monday of Darwiniana…
William Paley: “Natural Theology”
Robert Chambers: “Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation”
Sorry, everyone: forgot the comments were moderated. I’ve approved them now!
Graham, the audio quality was much improved with the help of the Levelator: http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator
Yes, Michael, I’d noticed the Vestiges mistake. There is another (funnier, but harder-to-spot) one too. Will post an errata note soon. (I have corrected the link to your website.)