Fate remains the enigma. Some chance event at the beginning of our lives keys in its plot. That this is so is the understanding of both folklore and the highest fiction. Dick Whittington’s cat, the ...

In the previous post of this two-part series, we looked at Charles Darwin’s life through the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. In this post, we will complete his life’s story, and ...

In an earlier posting, I summarized the life of Herman Melville as a model for exploring the relationship of creativity and mental illness in writers and artists. In this article, we will extend these ...

The Bean Life Science Museum celebrated Charles Darwin's 216th birthday with various family friendly activities on Feb. 15. “We have five options for activities, and if you do four of them, you get a ...

This text provides new factual material on Charles Darwin, following many years of research into Darwin's relationship to his cousin William Darwin Fox. siris_sil_925122 ...

Long before there were modern laboratories and high-powered microscopes, a curious young Englishman began asking simple but powerful questions. Why do animals look the way they do? How do plants adapt ...

While Darwin's work on evolutionary biology was revolutionary and laid the foundation of modern scientific thinking on the subject, his views on social injustice are equally important, and carry ...