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Darwin's Private Papers Get Released To The Internet
bibekpaudel writes "ScienceDaily reports that a wealth of papers belonging to Charles Darwin have been published on the internet, some for the first time. Some 20,000 items and 90,000 images were posted today to http://darwin-online.org.uk/. The new site is the largest collection of Darwin's work in history, according to organizers from Cambridge University Library 'This release makes his private papers, mountains of notes, experiments, and research behind his world-changing publications available to the world for free,' said John van Wyhe, director of the project. The collection includes thousands of notes and drafts of his scientific writings, notes from the voyage of the Beagle when he began to formulate his controversial theory of evolution, and his first recorded doubts about the permanence of species."
Should we tag this one "privacy"?
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
...that his works would be the ones to survive. Naturally"Who modded this informative? Whoever it is must've been smokin' some of that martian pot!"
News Item: Enforcement of 19th-century copyright precludes evolution of evolutionary sciences.
A little off-topic, but this just looks like the epitaph on the RIAA's grave
"Some 20,000 items and 90,000 images were posted today"
I'll assume this means that no one read the article before posting, although that isn't anything new.
When is someone going make a movie about the persecution of cartographers who believe in a flat earth? WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE MAP MAKERS??
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
One of the most interesting discoveries in these newly-released papers concerns Darwin's research into the FSM. Turns out that it originally swam before developing the ability to fly, the noodly appendages are actually vestigial flippers and the entire being evolved from a particularly virulent strain of fusili.
That sound you just heard was the collective orgasms of the entire RichardDawkins.net forum membership.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
20,000 items and 90,000 images were posted today... The new site is the largest collection of Darwin's work in history...
Wow, quite a feat. Must have taken some really intelligent design to put all that together and make it work.
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I know right!!! One time in a physics class I tried to argue that black body radiation was a result of the "heated" exchanges between particles resulting from domestic disturbances amongst ethnically darker sub-atomic units in objects. When he told to be quiet, I told him that he was committing his own brand of a holocaust and was just as guilty as Hitler for the murder of the Jews. The professor called me crazy and kicked me out of class and gave me a poor grade for the day!
Can you believe such barbarism exists in this day and age. It's outrageous. I'm sick and tired of these stiffs pushing "Dead White Male Science" that is little more than soma. ALL THEORIES DESERVE TO BE HEARD!! I will gladly become a martyr for any of my theories. We deserve the truth!
I got a catholic block.
Now, quickly, everyone search through the papers for Swastikas or Nazi propaganda. I hear Ben Stein would sell out his dignity for something like that.
I'll BUILD someone to replace you. Some kind of gamma-powered monster, with a heart as black as coal!
You have to leave your parent's basement first before you can start picking up chicks.
I guess you weren't watching when the CNN moderator asked the republican presidential candidate contenders to raise their hands if they thought that the theory of evolution was incorrect.
oh wait, you said 'civilized world'... never mind.
Not if you have a sister.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Maybe he's been taking lessons from SCO?
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