Torre Agbar in Barcelona. Photo from http://www.nextstop-barcelona.com/torre-agbar-barcelona/
In order to continue the recent thread of posts on sex and the city, I am sharing the following excerpt from an article I wrote in 2009 that can be found here.
The space of power has traditionally imitated the masculine form and has been occupied according to the logic of masculine values.
CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (Photo credit: AlphaBetaUnlimited)
Charles Darwin became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1838. He became involved in a wide variety of geographical matters, ranging from publication of his ‘Note on a Rock Seen on an Iceberg in 61o South Latitude’ in the Society’s Geographical Journal of 1839, to reviewing the geological content of articles submitted to the Society for publication. He frequently used the Society’s library at No. 3, Waterloo Place; ranging from his examination of samples of Mastodon or Elephant tusk from Peru with the Society’s Librarian, to requesting copies of charts from the Society’s collection relating to the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific Ocean which he had visited on his expedition aboard His Majesty Ship Beagle.
The Royal Geographical Society is a leading world centre for geographers and geographical learning dedicated to the development and promotion of knowledge together with its application to the challenges facing society and the environment. Founded in 1830, it has been one of the most active learned societies.
Today, the Society continues supports and promotes geographical research, education, fieldwork and expeditions, and geography in society; it also advises on policy issues. The Society has substantial collections, accessible to all. The Society is a charity with a broad-based membership that supports its missions and aims.
Darwin has an impact on Geographical Research.The idea of development has its influence on Geomorphologial processes.
Darwinian Legacy
Darwin and Darwinism interact with Geography in interesting and significant ways.
Both during the HMS Beagle expedition and in the years immediately after his return, Charles Darwin’s scientific interests were primarily geological and geographical. He made an immediate impact with his theory of coral reef development, and much of his present, somewhat limited, reputation as an ‘earth scientist’ is based on this specific contribution, together with the innovative methodology used to propose his model of reef development.
From his early observations of landforms and rocks, and his reading of contemporaries such as Lyell and others, Darwin embarked on a search for a coherent theory of the Earth of which the nature and causes of uplift formed a core issue. Although eclipsed for 150 years by other priorities, recent research in the earth sciences is again focussing on the causes and patterns of crustal uplift as a component of a holistic view of how the Earth functions. Lessons can still be learnt from Darwin’s original wide-ranging research agenda, his linkages of apparently unrelated phenomena, and his geographical innovations.
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Cross posted from The H Word blog.
For historians of science, Jonathan Swift's book Gulliver's Travels is well known both as a work of what we might call proto-science fiction and as a satire on the experimental philosophy that was being promoted by the Royal Society at the time of its publication – two years before the death of Isaac Newton.
The Apartheid Wall in Palestine: The photos tell the tale of segregation created by the state of Israel
Global Peace Index (GPI) is the world’s leading measure of national peacefulness. Now in its seventh year, it ranks 162 nations according to their ‘absence of violence’.
The GPI is developed by IEP under the guidance of an international panel of independent experts with data collated and calculated by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). It is composed of 22 indicators, ranging from a nation’s level of military expenditure to its relations with neighbouring countries and the percentage of prison population.
The 2013 Global Peace Index was launched on the 11th of June 2013. The seventh edition of the index found that the world has become less peaceful, with a rise in the number of homicides worldwide. See the results, highlights and download the report on the 2013 GPI Findings page.
Britain is to push the European Union to relax restrictions on the licensing of genetically modified crops for human consumption amid growing scientific evidence that they are safe, and surveys showing they are supported by farmers. The Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, is expected to use a speech next week to outline the start of a new government approach to GM…
The module carrying the telescope and scientific instruments of ESA’s Euclid ‘dark Universe’ mission is now being developed by Astrium in Toulouse, France.
Euclid will be launched in 2020 to explore dark energy and dark matter in order to understand the evolution of the Universe since the Big Bang and, in particular, its present accelerating expansion.
Dark matter is invisible to our normal telescopes but acts through gravity to play a vital role in forming galaxies and slowing the expansion of the Universe.
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