Damn it...

was just heading to bed after an entire day dealing with the results of being written up in science blog Pharyngula (not that I'm complaining). One of them, and a good one was number 2 in the post below: biologist and blogger MissPrism dreamed up the idea of a blog and buy sale for us and said she'd start knitting a Darwin puppet which would go for sale on 12 February, Darwin's birthday, proceeds to go to building the Beagle replica.

Had a last check on Pharyngula to find PZ thinks MissPrism has a brilliant idea.

Too right she does. How nice if on Charles Darwin's 198th anniversary a Darwin puppet knitted by scientist (and who better?) with a great, nay brilliant, idea sold for £1 million and helped build a replica Beagle. Your bids, please. Buy the puppet for that and I guarantee you'll be standing on the end of the Beagle's bowsprit, holding onto a forestay when she sails into the Galapagos in 2009. PZ has offered his help with a blog and buy effort, too.

hms beagle replica, the beagle project, pharyngula, fundraising