Science
Mark Adams Offers His Thoughts
Check out Mark Adams’ views on evolutionary manufacturing in the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Journal. Find out more about him at http://www.thersa.org/events/speakers-archive/a/mark-adams.
Evolutionary Manufacturing by Mark Adams
Mark shares his views on evolutionary manufacturing and the government’s failure to understand design in the summer edition of the RSA journal, www.theRSA.org “Nature doesn’t have trade fairs each year where it unveils a whole load of species and some of them survive and others don’t. That’s what the manufacturing world is locked into.” “I [...]
Darwin inspired animation
Check out this short animation at http://www.johnhendicott.com/ A piece written for the ‘Ditto’ weekend at the Roundhouse on the theme of Darwin and Creation. Visuals – Mark Hunter @ Flawless Media Sound – John Hendicott
Interesting link
Check this out. The Natural History Museum celebrates the International Year of Biodiversity. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/biodiversity/international-year-biodiversity/
Performances planned for Conference in October
Wellcome Trust are organising an International Education conference with British Council and Natural History Museum 25-30 October in York. During the evening of Monday 26th October, they would like to showcase some of the Evolving Words performances and films.
After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions — National History Museum
After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions is the latest exhibition in the Natural History Museum’s contemporary arts programme. It features newly commissioned film and installation pieces by artists Jeremy Deller, Matthew Killip and Diana Thater together with video by Bill Viola, writing by Mark Haddon and poetry by Ruth Padel – Darwin’s great-great granddaughter. The artists used Darwin’s book ‘The Expression of the Emotions [...]
Why Darwin? The New York Review of Books
Why do we call the modern theory of organic evolution “Darwinism”? Charles Darwin certainly did not invent the idea of evolution, that is, of the continuous change in time of the state of some system as a fundamental property of that system, or even the idea that a process of evolution had occurred in the [...]
Thoughts from Dinesh at Museum of Liverpool
Dinesh Allirajah 18 May 2009 : “I suppose one interesting thing about our workshops is how site-specific they are. We’re working in amongst the collections, both what’s on display and what’s preserved in the basement. It’s felt like an induction into a world of curators, scientists and collectors…
Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090519/twl-scientists-unveil-missing-link-in-ev-3fd0ae9.html
Heads-up
Check out this interesting link on species of origin: www.speciesoforigin.org. Leave a note and let us know what you thing…
