DARWIN ANNIVERSARY WEB SITES

British Museum of Natural History: Darwnin200 is a national programme of events honouring Darwin's scientific ideas and their impact. Many celebrations are taking place during the next few months but will continue until 24 November 2009, the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.; www.darwin200.org

Greater Boston Darwin Centennial: The Greater Boston Darwin Bicentennial is a committee hosted at Boston University to encourage and coordinate events at Boston University related to the Darwin Bicentennial. The committee is sponsored by the Boston University Provost's Office.; www.bu.edu/darwin2009/

BBC Darwin Website: A very rich web site that includes audio, video, and even a free poster.; www.bbc.co.uk/darwin

DARWIN LANDMARKS

Down House, The Home of Charles Darwin: www.english-heritage.org.uk/server.php?show=nav.14922

Darwin Correspondence Project, Cambridge: The Darwin Correspondence Project was founded in 1974 by an American scholar, Frederick Burkhardt, with the aid of Sydney Smith, a zoologist in the University of Cambridge (UK). They originally set out to locate, research, and publish summaries of, all letters written by Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. (1809-82). Following a pilot project, it was decided to include letters written to Darwin also—an unusual step for a collection of correspondence at the time, and one now widely followed—and to publish complete transcripts in chronological order.; www.darwinproject.ac.uk

Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online: The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (or Darwin Online) began in 2002 to assemble in one scholarly website all of Darwin's published writings and unpublished papers. It does not cover his unpublished letters which were already the focus of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Darwin Online is currently based at the University of Cambridge.; darwin-online.org.uk

Darwin College: Cambridge University: Visit the Darwin Lecture Series Podcast page to subscribe to the podcast or to listen to individual lectures online.; iTunes link to audio of this season's lectures

Darwin: The Genius of Evolution: Melvyn Bragg presents a major BBC Radio 4 series re-assessing Darwin's life and work. Listen to all five episodes.; www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/darwin/inourtimes.html

New York Times: Darwin in Song: Richard Milner is a singing Darwinian scholar.

Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online: The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (or Darwin Online) began in 2002 to assemble in one scholarly website all of Darwin's published writings and unpublished papers. It does not cover his unpublished letters which were already the focus of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Darwin Online is currently based at the University of Cambridge.; darwin-online.org.uk

New York Times Slide Show: "Darwin's Garden": www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20080425_DARWIN_FEATURE

Royal Mail Issues Darwin Stamps: To mark Darwin's 200th anniversary of Darwin's birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, we are issuing six special stamps, a Miniature Sheet of four additional stamps and a Prestige Stamp Book. We've created a radical "jigsaw" design for each stamp to demonstrate how the various areas of Darwin's studies—zoology, botany, geology, ornithology and anthropology—came together to inform his theory of Natural Selection.; www.royalmail.com/portal/stamps

New York Times Audio Slideshow: "What Darwin Saw Out Back" by Cornelia Dean: www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25darw.html

The Economist: "Charles Darwin: A life in poems"; February 5, 2009; www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13059028

The Economist: "Charles Darwin's ideas have spread widely, but his revolution is not yet complete"; February 5, 2009; www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13055948

The Guardian: "Half of Britons do not believe in evolution, survey finds. More than one-fifth prefer creationism or intelligent design, while many others are confused about Darwin's theory"; February 1, 2009; www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/01/evolution-darwin-survey-creationism

New York Times: "On Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’"; February 9, 2009; Darwin's writing can still offer surprises, insights and pleasures, and it can be sampled here, with selections by prominent scientists of their favorite passages and discussions of why these passages are important.

New York Times: "Digging for Darwin" by Peter Dizikes May 15, 2009; February 5, 2009; As celebrations of the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species publication continue, the episode raises a question. How many other first editions of the book are still tucked away in bookcases, boxes or attics?

New York Times: "Four Stakes in the Heart of Intelligent Design" by Chip McGrath; January 4, 2009; www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/education/edlife/books-t.html

New York Times: "Darwinists for Jesus" by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee; June 15, 2008; www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/magazine/15wwln-essay-t.html

The Observer: "How Darwin won the evolution race" by Robin McKie; June 22, 2008; It's 150 years since Darwin made one of the the most significant breakthroughs in scientific history - the theory of natural selection. But if it hadn't been for a young ornithologist on the other side of the world, his seminal work might never have appeared. Robin McKie tells the extraordinary story behind The Origin of Species.; www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/weekinreview/20word.html

New York Times: "My Dear Fellow Species" by Mary Jo Murphy; May 20, 2007; Last week, the Darwin Correspondence Project, based at Cambridge University, put about 5,000 letters to and from Darwin, some of them previously unpublished, online at darwinproject.ac.uk, with thousands more to follow. The searchable database lets anyone track the painstaking development of his research and thinking on all kinds of topics, personal and professional, and with a huge array of correspondents.; www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/weekinreview/20word.html

New York Review of Books: Why Darwin? by Richard Lewontin; Richard Lewontin reviews new books on Darwin

New York Times Book Review: "Charles Darwin, Abolitionist" by Christopher Benfey; Darwin on slavery

New York Times Book Review: "Darwin’s Descendant, on Origin of Poetry" by Charles McGrath; Darwin: A Life in Poems, timed to coincide with Darwin's bicentenary this year, is a verse biography of poet Ruth Padel's celebrated ancestor that reads at times like a family album.