THE ECONOMIST EXPLAINS ECONOMICS, DARWINISTICALLY

Darwin even explains how we do our Christmas shopping, according to a piece in today's Economist. 

DARWIN WAS A CONVERSATIONAL 'DEADWEIGHT', SAID MRS DARWIN

Review of a cookbook including recipes by Mrs Emma Darwin. Includes delights such as: "Mrs Darwin said of a dinner party in 1839 that conversation flowed "notwithstanding those two dead weights, viz., the greatest botanist and the greatest geologist in Europe".'

DARWIN DAY OFF?

The Guardian reports on proposals for national Darwin day: most importantly, that it should be a bank holiday. 

MADAM BUTTERFLY

Swedish Crooners the Knife, who wrote the original song which became Jose Gonzalez's massive hit last year, are working on a Darwin-themed opera for 2009.

BLACK COUNTRY DARWIN ART

Wolverhampton is showing works from a Soviet-era museum devoted to pictures of Darwin.