Darwin vs. Darwin

2009 was both the anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth (200th) and his release of On the Origin of Species (150th).  I recently stumbled across a documentary entitled The Voyage that Shook the World, an aptly named film that purports to “examine the ideas of Darwin in light of today’s knowledge.”

The documentary was of high production quality: soothing British narration, period re-enactments, travels to the Galapagos Islands etc. There was something not quite right about the documentary, though, as they kept quoting “facts” that clearly weren’t factual.

The film was almost over before they drop the bombshell: evolution is a lie and creationism is the only valid explanation for the natural world. The film is a propaganda piece produced by Creation Ministries International (www.creation.com), a young-Earth creationist sect seeking to expose the bias and evil of the “evolutionists.”

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other look at the creationists’ URL above), it appears the producers are trying their best to appeal to a religious crowd.

In tandem, The Voyage That Shook the World did everything in its power to suck people in by using sec

ular wrapping around its creationist DVD. The marketing campaigns of these two films speak volumes about our collective insecurities surrounding Darwin’s “big idea” and our society’s discomfort with evolution in general (still! 150 years later!).

Rock Mars With Wero Creative

Last summer I was involved with more Mars work (but notice the small “r” and “s”). I wrote some curriculum links for a new project by Wero Creative that uses graphic novels to get kids into science and technology.

The Rock Mars project is a story about Alex and Zazi, two friends who help astronauts with their trip to colonize Mars in the year 2030. The graphic novel is entirely deliverable on-line, and has a number of web-based challenges the kids must complete in order to move forward in their mission.
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Off to MaRS

I’m off to MaRS! In February I started working at MaRS along with the fine folks at Social Innovation Generation working on some education files. I’m also going to be working with the new MaRS Education Initiative setting up school programs and events. Look for more events hosted by both The Treehouse Group and MaRS in the upcoming months.

Our first planned series is going to be Treehouse Talks, a series of eclectic talks held on the first Friday of every month. The rules: 15 minutes, no Powerpoint, no boundaries. The first one is on March 5: check out www.treehousetalks.com for details.
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“Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.” – Gaston Bachelard

My partner and I are smug in our new house in Hillcrest.

It’s been a good opportunity to explore the book Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard. He introduces the reader to the world of “topoanalysis,” by which he means a “psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives.”  He explores those hazy memories we have our our childhood homes, and how they change as we grow up.
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Collaborating Across Disciplines

This summer I was pleased to contribute an article for the July 2009 edition of the Open Source Business Resource.  I wrote about the practice of collaborating across disciplines. Businesses that want to survive need to borrow ideas from other fields of study, or they’ll get swamped by group-think.

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