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Darwin Day-related websites we have compiled sofar
OTHER DARWIN DAY CELEBRATIONS, TO GET IDEAS FROM:Darwin 200 year Celebration in UK 
(Isabel, Maruxa & Nuria)http://www.darwin200.org/ A good source of ideas, as they are compiling here all the activities in UK:
“An incredible variety of events to celebrate the life and legacy of Charles Darwin. From conferences and exhibitionsto graphic novels and dramatic performances, there is something for everyone from scientiststo young children.” 
Darwin Celebration in Cambridge 2009
(Nuria)http://www.darwin2009.cam.ac.uk/Good for some ideas, also we can check the programme in PDF, which I have uploaded also toour google group:http://www.darwin2009.cam.ac.uk/uploads/The%20Darwin%202009%20Festiva...
Event on evolution that took place in November at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans
forhigh school students (Maruxa):http://www.iec.cat/gc/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=929&languageId=1&con...Also
the Institut d’Estudis Catalans has a series of activities for Darwin Year
during2009 (Urko)http://www.iecat.net/butlleti/126/actiu.htm 
The Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva (SESBE) proposes to join all Darwin Yearevents
on their website(Aurea):http://www.sesbe.org/darwin_day
NEWS AND MATERIAL TO USE FOR THE EXHIBITION:Document on a new publication: fossils from the pre-Cambrian period have beenfound for the first time ever.
Not having these fossils was one of the problems with Darwin´stheory of evolution (looked like many animal forms appeared suddenly at the Cambrian).http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease&releasei...It can be used saying that evolution is something that may take many years to be able to see orprove, and that even nowadays we are finding new evidences to support Darwin's theory of 150years ago? (Maruxa)
Blog of a freelance journalist who is doing a trip to the Galápagos, following onDarwin´s footsteps
, for the newspaper El Periodico. The blog is in Spanish and Catalan.www.elperiodico.com/darwin(ES)www.elperiodico.cat/darwin(CAT) (Maruxa)
Information on the Surtsey Island, emerged just 40 years ago
being studied for evolutionmatters, as it’s the newest earth.About volcanic eruption:http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=e73uesIwOLc&NR=1 About the Island as example to study the recent evolutionhttp://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=42537&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_S... About the Island in generalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surtsey(compiled by Nuria Perez)
The case of melanian industrialism happened with English butterflies in XIXthcentur
y, short info in Spanish (Urko):http://www.evolutionibus.info/carbonaria.html 
Nature special on Darwin
(Maruxa):http://www.nature.com/news/specials/darwin/index.html And a nice example, the eye:http://www.nature.com/news/specials/darwin/gallery/index.html 
An embryo exhibition
that links with Darwin (Nuria).http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/visibleembryos/ 
Embryos gained a prominent place in the richvisual culture of Darwinism.
Biologists collaborated with publishers, artists and journalists toexploit opportunities created by the booming production of printed books and museum exhibits.
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The Beagle Project
 http://thebeagleproject.com/(Aurea) aims to rebuild the ship that carriedCharles Darwin around the world, starting in Darwin's bicentenary year of 2009. The new Beaglewill sail the world in Darwin's wake, and will inspire global audiences through unique publicengagement and learning programmes, and original scientific research in evolutionary biology,biodiversity and climate change. (Aurea)
 
On Darwin himself and his worksThe complete Works of Charles Darwin, bibliography, etc
 http://darwin-online.org.uk/ (Rui), Darwin’s works on Project Gutenberghttp://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d#a485 and
Darwin’s complete correspondence
 http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/(Aurea)
Pictorial biography of Darwin
 http://www.thesecondevolution.com/darwin_intro.htmlin 5parts/5 stages of his life (Aurea)
The Origin of the Species as a free audiobook 
at Librivoxhttp://librivox.org/the-origin-of-species-by-charles-darwin/-could be used for audio tracks?! (Aurea)
The Friends of Charles Darwin
http://darwin.gruts.com/Darwin appreciation society that maybe handy (Aurea)
The Mis-portrayal of Darwin as a Racist
http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/darwin_nazism.htmthis website talks about howevolution opponents try to merge Darwinism and Nazism, etc. Could be interesting to mentionthis kind of debate that appears now and then (Aurea)
Wikiquotes in English and Spanish
, not just by Darwin but on him, misquotes andmisattributions:http://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Darwinandhttp://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin(Aurea)
Ten Fun Facts on Darwin
, but not too sure they’re all right or just webjunk as I readsomewhere… we’ll have to check! (Alba)http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/04/10-fun-facts-about-charles-darwin/
A number of Darwin-Day and other related webpages
given by Nuria:
 
http://www.darwinday.org/andhttp://www.darwinday.org/map.htmlkept separate as they don’t sem. to work!Also,
Science & Society links
from the British Councilhttp://www.britishcouncil.org/science-society.htm http://www.britishcouncil.org/talkingscience.htm http://www.britishcouncil.org/talkingscience-centres-festivals.htmhttp://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/society/funding/public_engagement_awards.html
A number of Darwin-related webpages
given by Rui:I think Rui had more links to add, please check!
GAMES:Alba Jené was sent the evaluation copy of the software for "Simbio":
Macintosh -http://www.simbio.com/downloads/esamplers/SimBioEvoSampler.dmg Windows -http://www.simbio.com/downloads/esamplers/SimBioEvoSampler.zip 
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