Four contributors to the Beagle project were involved in a serious car crash in Argentina

On Wednesday night four contributors to the Beagle project were involved in a serious car crash in Argentina, near Puerto Madryn. Petra Niegeman, who was visiting her partner, soundman Charles Kersten, died in the accident. The ship’s doctor Charles Boissevain and historian Jane Cameron were seriously injured and are still in hospital in critical condition. [...]

Digital libraries bridge the Atlantic : JISC

The hand-written annotations Charles Darwin made on 700 of the books in his personal library were painstakingly transcribed in the 1980s. Now, thanks to high-resolution digital imagery and an international partnership between the University of Cambridge, the Darwin Digital Library of Evolution at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Natural History [...]

Follow The Beagle today

Follow the Beagle voyage in English here. DUTCH: Het mooiste is de clipper live te volgen via Google map. In dit screen zit ook een window met 4 actuele webcams!  En kijk vanavond 13 september:  op TV om 21:20uur op Nederland 2, online om 21:20uur op http://player.omroep.nl/?zenid=002 en op deze site vanaf 22:30. Praat ook mee op Twitter – [...]

Sarah Darwin interview

Download an audio file of Sarah Darwin talking to Michael Reiss about her work and about her great-great-grandfather Charles Darwin. Listen here: Sarah Darwin interview. Follow Sarah on the Clipper Stad Amsterdam for an epic voyage around the world via Twitter!

Beagle voyage starting today: a multimedia experiment

Beagle ship the Clipper Stad Amsterdam is an experiment in itself. This three mast sailing ship will be rigged with advanced scientific measurement equipment. Scientists from various disciplines and from all over the world will execute experiments on board this sailing science lab. The ship also has a built-in TV studio from which parts of [...]

Beagle, in het kielzog van Darwin: prachtig multimediaal project!

In het Darwinjaar onderzoekt de VPRO, in samenwerking met Teleac en de Vlaamse VRT, de richting van die ontwikkeling. In twee series zal de VPRO de route van de HMS Beagle opnieuw bevaren met de clipper Stad Amsterdam. De eerste serie gaat van Engeland naar het zuidelijkste puntje van Zuid-Amerika. In 2010 brengt de tweede [...]