http://verywide.net/blog Just trying to catch butterflies, fish, lunatics, and stars, metaphorically speaking. Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://verywide.net/blog/2009/02/12/happy-birthday-darwin/ http://verywide.net/blog/2009/02/12/happy-birthday-darwin/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:00:46 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/?p=243 In 1868, on the Isle of Wight (renowned for its dinosaur fossils), the talented photographer Julia Margaret Cameron took the picture of Charles Darwin you see here. Today is his birthday. Were he alive today, he’d be 200 years old. One can imagine that his beard would be all the longer and whiter and his [...]

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