Darwin Day Special: Bicentennial of the Birth of Charles Darwin

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🗓️ 11 February 2009

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In part 1 of this special Darwin Day podcast, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin on February 12th, Richard Milner performs part of his one-man show about Darwin; Scientific American Editor in Chief John Rennie and Darwin descendant Matthew Chapman read from The Origin of Species; and Chapman talks about his book 40 Days and 40 Nights, about the Dover intelligent design trial as well as about his efforts to get presidential candidates to discuss science--a project called ScienceDebate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.
0:02.3	Hiya.
0:02.9	So, Benny has really blossomed this term.
0:05.6	You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.
0:09.6	Oh, that's not quite what I meant.
0:11.1	It's free to sell on there.
0:12.3	Free to sell?
0:13.4	Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.
0:16.8	You sold my guitar?
0:19.9	Shall we talk about Benny?
0:22.1	When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.
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0:30.9	Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the week of February 12th, 2009.
0:37.0	I'm Steve Merski. This week on the podcast,
0:39.6	we celebrate Darwin Day. February 12th is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin, and we'll
0:46.4	actually have Darwin on the program. This past weekend, I attended a Darwin Day event put
0:52.8	together by the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
0:55.5	We'll hear from a number of the presenters who spoke that day in this special three-part podcast.
1:01.1	In this first episode, we begin with an appearance by Darwin himself in the person of historian and evolution expert Richard Milner.
1:08.1	We had him on the podcast a few weeks back talking about Darwin. This week,
1:11.9	we'll share a few minutes of him performing part of his one-man show as Darwin, including a couple of musical numbers.
1:19.3	Next up, we'll hear from Scientific American Editor-in-Chief John Rennie, and author, filmmaker, and Darwin great-great-grandson, Matthew Chapman,
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