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Forget dead presidents, racial minorities and religion. The UC Museum of Paleontology has declared its own holiday in the name of Science! Starting this year, February 12 takes on new significance as “Darwin Day,” transforming a date that was once known only as “two days before Valentine’s Day” into a day of celebration, joy and uh, special lectures.
The festivities began yesterday with a couple of events at the Valley Life Sciences Building, including a short course about evolution (surprise, surprise) and how it’s influenced by an obscure concept that the progressive scientific community is calling “global warming.” However, the bulk of Darwin-related stuff is happening on Tuesday at the UC Botanical Gardens, the Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Museum of Entomology.
OK, we’ll admit it. We didn’t even know that museums of entomology existed, but that doesn’t mean we won’t give a shout-out to our favorite Beagle-riding homeboy. Plus, most of the events are free. Yep, you can pay almost goose egg (which, incidentally, may or may not have come before the goose) and see all kinds of Science-y things. They’ll run the gamut from Bigfoot to Bay Area Biosystematists–who, we hear, are actually quite sexy. Next year, we’re voting for a symbolic releasing of the finches on Sproul Plaza. Now the big question is when the creationists will declare a counter-holiday in honor of Jesus. Oh, wait …
Darwin Day 2008 at Cal [Website]
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