Darwin Fish Contest

Here is your chance to come up with your own parody of the fish emblem! Ring of Fire is holding a contest to come up with a new fish, they will manufacture and sell the winner's design. Click here to read more and check out my submission (below), which to be honest is a big large and probably won’t be practical for manufacturing:) The contest closes on 16 April.

Emma Darwin's Diaries Go Online

The diaries of Emma Darwin, the wife of naturalist Charles Darwin have been published online. The 60 pocket-sized books document six decades of her life with Charles Darwin, giving academics and enthusiasts a new perspective on the scientist.

The diaries begin in 1824 when Emma (then Wedgwood) was 16. She married her cousin, Charles 15 years later and kept a diary until she died. Her perspectives focus on visitors, dinners, and her family life. Emma Darwin’s diaries are available online at http://darwin-online.org.uk/EmmaDiaries.html, published on the same website as the complete works of her husband, which went online last year at http://darwin-online.org.uk.