HMS Beagle

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First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

For The Love Of Science: A Call To Action

People often ask me how I got interested in science. I wish I could answer that I had a mentor when I was a child, that a biologist or a physicist visited my school when I was in third grade and transformed my life. But that's not what happened to me ... [Published NPR - May 15 2013]
First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

1863 May Am Civil War Gazette

The Extra!!! Edition of the American Civil War Gazette contains back issues as well as additional articles that did not appear in the daily edition.Highlights of the May 1863 Edition:- "The Fall of Richmond" - The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Bulletin ... [Published ZDNet - May 07 2013]
First reported Apr 01 2013 - Updated Apr 01 2013 - 1 reports

In which Charles Darwin gets trolled

From Darwin's diary written aboard the HMS Beagle, an accounting of an epic April Fool's prank of 1832. Knowing what I know about 19th-century sailors, this seems like a good way to get beaten up. ... [Published Boing Boing - Apr 01 2013]
First reported Dec 27 2012 - Updated Dec 27 2012 - 1 reports

MIDDAY UPDATE: Beer sales closing in on Tyler city limits

Today is Thursday, December 27, and it might be a good day to start something with a significant impact:On December 27, 1932, New York City's Radio City Music Hall opened to the public in midtown Manhattan.In 1822, scientist Louis Pasteur was born in ... [Published Tyler Morning Telegraph - Dec 27 2012]
First reported Dec 27 2012 - Updated Dec 27 2012 - 1 reports

Dec. 27, 1831: Beagle Sets Sail With a Very Special Passenger

HMS Beagle, a 10-gun, Cherokee-class brig sloop of the Royal Navy’s survey service, sets sail from Plymouth, England on its second voyage as a survey vessel. ... [Published Wired This Day In Tech - Dec 27 2012]

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"Time does it, a time so vast that it would be like a swallow taking a sip every day to empty a whole ocean" he once said
"for their good as well as everyone else's … the SPP recommended that all"
Baron says McElwee is "welcome to come and say his piece, as is any citizen" but doesn't expect the board to be swayed
"I can't resist a mystery so I pulled one open. What I found inside made my jaw drop! Inside were hundreds of beautiful glass slides. Almost the first I picked up was labelled "C. Darwin Esq," Falcon-Lang was quoted as saying."

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Charles Darwin Was Wrong, Not About Evolution B... [Published International Business Times - May 19 2013]
For The Love Of Science: A Call To Action [Published NPR - May 15 2013]
Armstrong’s “one small step” EKG among aerospac... [Published Gizmag - May 09 2013]
1863 May Am Civil War Gazette [Published ZDNet - May 07 2013]
The battle of Darwin and Wallace [Published Borneo Post Online - Apr 28 2013]
What If Darwin Had Never Existed? [Published Popular Science - Apr 15 2013]
What If Darwin Had Never Existed? [Published Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, ... - Apr 15 2013]
Latin America: Double delights [Published Travel Weekly - Apr 04 2013]
In which Charles Darwin gets trolled [Published Boing Boing - Apr 01 2013]
DNA key to mysteries of mimicry [Published Bend Bulletin - Mar 15 2013]
'Talk of Shirkers Echoes Victorian Past' [Published Economist's View - Jan 10 2013]
MIDDAY UPDATE: Beer sales closing in on Tyler c... [Published Tyler Morning Telegraph - Dec 27 2012]
Dec. 27, 1831: Beagle Sets Sail With a Very Spe... [Published Wired This Day In Tech - Dec 27 2012]
Darwin's lost fossils collection found in Britain [Published Topnews.in - Jan 17 2012]
Darwin''s travels that helped him conjure theor... [Published Topnews.in - May 08 2011]
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In which Charles Darwin gets trolled [Published Boing Boing - Apr 01 2013]
From Darwin's diary written aboard the HMS Beagle, an accounting of an epic April Fool's prank of 1832. Knowing what I know about 19th-century sailors, this seems like a good way to get beaten up. ...
'Talk of Shirkers Echoes Victorian Past' [Published Economist's View - Jan 10 2013]
What causes poverty?: Talk of ‘shirkers’ echoes Victorian past, by Tristram Hunt : ...thedebate about how to cut back Britain’s spiraling social security system is... replete with echoes of the past. The language of “workers” versus“shirkers” is a ...
Dec. 27, 1831: Beagle Sets Sail With a Very Spe... [Published Wired This Day In Tech - Dec 27 2012]
HMS Beagle, a 10-gun, Cherokee-class brig sloop of the Royal Navy’s survey service, sets sail from Plymouth, England on its second voyage as a survey vessel. ...
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