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Entries from February 2009

Kindle?

February 27th, 2009 · 23 Comments

Does anybody who reads my blog have a Kindle eBook reader? It looks like it might be a great way to read books. The new version 2 that just came out is supposed to improve on most of the problems with the first one. On the other hand, it’s very expensive. Though you can download […]

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Happy birthday, Chuck!

February 12th, 2009 · 6 Comments

Today is the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin. It’s often mistakenly said that Darwin developed the theory of evolution. This is not accurate. In the mid-19th century it was widely discussed among many biologists that species seem to have developed from other species. The problem was that there was no known mechanism that could explain […]

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