- Darwin Festival 2009 from the Naked Scientists
What has evolution got to do with us? Bringing some of the world's top minds to Cambridge, the Darwin
Festival celebrates the enduring influence of Darwin's ideas 150 years after the publication of The Origin of Species, the book
that rewrote the way we see the world.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2009
Darwin Festival 09.08.24 - Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Sandra Herbert
This week historian Sandra Herbert tells how she retraced Darwin's footsteps to the Galapagos in search of rock samples to prove his volcanic theories were right...
00:06:33 |
Mon 24 Aug 2009
Darwin Festival 09.08.12 - Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Sir Terry Pratchett
This week we're in conversation with Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the multi-million selling Discworld series. We find out what inspired 'The Science of Discworld 3: Darwin's Watch', get Richard D…
00:10:07 |
Tue 11 Aug 2009
Darwin Festival 09.08.04 - Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Brian Rosen
Darwin's first book was on coral reefs. Brian Rosen, from the Natural History Museum in London,takes up the story...
00:08:55 |
Tue 04 Aug 2009
Darwin Festival 09.07.28 - Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Sir John Sulston
This week we're in conversation with Nobel laureate Sir John Sulston, the man behind the human genome project. He tells how he went from chemist to biologist to work on a tiny worm, C. elegans, that …
00:10:31 |
Tue 28 Jul 2009
Darwin Festival 09.07.21 - Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Ruth Padel
Poet and Darwin-descendent Ruth Padel talks about how the history books led her to write "Darwin, a life in poems", an anthology of fifteen poems charting the major events of Darwin's life.
00:12:13 |
Tue 21 Jul 2009
Darwin Festival 09.07.16 - The Rap Guide to Evolution - Darwinian Hip Hop
Award winning Canadian hip hop artist Baba Brinkman brings us his Rap Guide to Evolution, an hour of clever, witty and scientifically accurate rhymes that will have you seeing Darwin from a whole new…
00:59:56 |
Thu 16 Jul 2009
Darwin Festival 09.07.10 - The Daily Darwin - Friday - From The Naked Scientists
We tie up the Darwin Festival with predictions on global warming and the future of the human species. Plus, we find out about cultural selection and how tricky it is putting together an exhibition on…
00:14:52 |
Fri 10 Jul 2009
Darwin Festival 09.07.09 - The Daily Darwin - Thursday - From The Naked Scientists
The fourth day brings together geologists and an exploration of Darwin's early scientific forays. We also find out how we have the power to solve climate change in a generation, why we should make fr…
00:14:27 |
Thu 09 Jul 2009
Darwin Festival 09.07.08 - The Daily Darwin - Wednesday - From The Naked Scientists
Day three of the festival and if you've ever wondered what a Darwin rap sounds like, this show is for you. We also explore Darwin's foibles, nice scientists, first cousin marriages and evolutionary p…
00:14:10 |
Tue 07 Jul 2009
Darwin Festival 09.07.07 - The Daily Darwin - Tuesday - From The Naked Scientists
We catch up with festival attendees and speakers on the second day of the Darwin Festival at Cambridge. Today we search for the origins of religion, meet the man who got the Human Genome Project goin…
00:13:49 |
Tue 07 Jul 2009
Darwin Festival 09.07.06 - The Daily Darwin - Monday - From the Naked Scientists
This week sees Cambridge University celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Each day our team will bring you highlights from the events and e…
00:14:18 |
Mon 06 Jul 2009
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