Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Tomorrow is Darwin's 200th birthday, celebrate it with reddit

Some fellow geeks have started campaigning to celebrate this bicentennial with a big "Happy birthday, Chuck!" They're aiming to have 200,000 members on their facebook group by tomorrow and could use some help.

We're also expecting a number of scientists to call in tomorrow for a free web seminar (webinar?) - there's still room to join us @ 1pm Eastern.
  • Dr. George Amato, American Museum of Natural History
  • Professor Baker, Columbia; Director, Coral Research Lab
  • Professor Rodolfo Dirzo at Stanford
  • Professor John Dowling at Harvard
  • Dr. John Durant, MIT Museum
  • Professor Olsen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
  • Dr. Ploegh, Whitehead Institute, MIT
  • Professor Peter Raven at Washington University, President Missouri Botanical Garden
  • John Rennie, Editor-in-Chief, Scientific American
  • Professor Weiner at Columbia
I know at least one redditor wouldn't have a PhD to be working on right now if it weren't for ol' Chuck - she'd just be the weirdo spending 6 years wandering around Harvard muttering something about "evolutionary biology."

So take some time away from writing your Darwin Claus cards and join us to say Happy Birthday to one of the world's most influential scientists.
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