Vol. 39, No. 1, January 2010
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Darwin Film Released
Creation, the new film about Darwin starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly, premiered on Friday, January 22, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, and Washington, DC.
The movie is based on Annie's Box (Creation: Darwin, His Daughter & Human Evolution in the U.S.), written by Randal Keynes, Darwin's great-great-grandson. Keynes sums up his great-great-grandfather:
[Darwin's] love for his wife; his observations of his children; his friendships with gardeners, schoolteachers and pigeon fanciers; his fears about death, revolution, bankruptcy, inbreeding...all these things found their way into his theory. He was the most inclusive of thinkers.
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Notes from the Inside
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News
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Member News
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2009 HSS Annual Meeting Survey
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2009 Employment Survey
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Adventures in Romantic Science
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The True Story of Newton and the Apple
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Perspectives on Science
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Darwin Film Released
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What’s In A Session?
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Letter: How Not to Engage “Anti-Evolutionist” Historians
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The John Tyndall Correspondence Project
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The 2010 Election Slate
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2009 Prize Winners
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D. Kim Foundation for the History
of Science and Technology in East Asia
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HSS 2010 Annual Meeting: Call for Papers
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Jobs, Conferences, Grants
National Run
The "Creation" national run began on January 22 in these markets:
- New York City:
Landmark's Sunshine Cinema
Clearview's 1st & 62nd - Los Angeles:
The Landmark - San Francisco Bay Area:
Landmark's Embarcadero Center Cinema (SF)
Landmark's Shattuck (Berkeley) - Washington, DC
Landmark's E Street Cinema - Boston/Cambridge
Landmark's Kendall Square
Group rates may be available—readers should contact the theater in question.
Panels and Screenings
Want to meet the author, the filmmaker, and/or evolution experts?
Bay Area: the Embarcadero Center Cinema (in San Francisco) will host a Q&A panel after the 7:30pm screening on the 22nd featuring the film's director Jon Amiel, Dr. Eugenie Scott of the NCSE, and Dr. Kevin Padian, Professor of Integrative Biology and Curator in the University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley.
Los Angeles: 7:30pm screening at UCLA on January 19. The Q&A panel will feature author Randal Keynes, Director Jon Amiel, and UCLA professors Soraya De Chadarevian (history) and Anthony Friscia (ecology and evolutionary
biology). The screening if free, but you must RSVP at www.eeb.ucla.edu/creation_movie.
Boston: screening on January 14, 7pm, at the Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge. The Q&A panel includes author Randal Keynes, and professors Thomas Glick and Jon Roberts of Boston University. RSVP at CreationBoston@43kix.com
More Information
For more info about the movie, trailers, schedules, etc., go to:
Darwin on the Big Screen: http://ncse.com/evolution/darwin-gets-hollywood-treatment
The official site: www.creationthemovie.com
The Facebook page: http:// www.facebook.com/pages/CREATION-The-Movie/39212784860
The Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/Creation_Movie