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What Alfred Russel Wallace Really Thought About Darwin

Calopteryx writes "The correspondence of Alfred Russel Wallace has gone online for the first time. New Scientist has opened a wormhole between the 21st and 19th centuries and has 'interviewed' the great man."

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  1. Re:Is a blog format possible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No. No digital representation of a date can represent values before 1900, nor is it even mathematically possible.

  2. Re:Is a blog format possible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whatever buddy, it doesn't really matter.

    It's all in the past now.

  3. The Wallace Award by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Wallace Award is for people who would get a Darwin Award, but are slighted full recognition for their achievement.

  4. Re:Blacklisted, not just "fired" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    there's nothing racist about the word "blacklisting" or "blacklisted."

    Agreed. Incorrectly perceived racism is no reason to be niggardly with your vocabulary.

  5. Re:Correct. by TarPitt · · Score: 3, Funny

    We gained color as compensation for the missing days, under the Law of Conservation of Colors/Days:

    http://www.reoiv.com/images/random/dadbandwandcolour.jpg

    Little known fact that Wallace lived in a black and white world

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