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...area for its outstanding cultural and ecological offerings, Kakadu includes one of the finest and most extensive collections of rock art and embraces some spectacular scenery, from a rugged 500-km-long sandstone escarpment to extensive woodlands and wetlands. It is also on Asia's doorstep: its gateway city, Darwin, is closer to Jakarta and Singapore than to the nation's capital, Canberra. Most people visit during the dry season (April-September), when the humidity is low and comfortable 21C-33C temperatures prevail. But we chose to come in February despite the intense humidity, frequent downpours, flooded roads and dramatic...
...their ways: "Between sessions in the electric chair, they dragged him, naked, to a damp cell...To keep him from sleeping they taped his lids to his eyebrows..." You would not want to push the comparison much further, except to say that both authors have a knack for turning Darwin into harrowing fiction...
However, he claimed that Darwin made an illogical jump when he linked these tenets of evolution together under the model of natural selection...
...mandatory religion course and held monthly convocations with religious themes. He also created a “Freshman Studies” program—a mandatory course for first-year students at the college—designed to expose student to a diverse range of educational experiences, from Darwin to Dostoevsky...
...really know what is going on out there (no matter what Paul Krugman says), and linguists are groping in the dark for foundations as well. But the wild days before the structure of DNA, or before an expanding universe, or before the periodic table, or before Chomsky, Turing, Darwin, Keynes and Einstein are long gone. The great men and their great discoveries have sucked the exhilarating marrow out of the great fields of science. All we do now is stand on their shoulders to collect stamps that nature has stuck to the ceiling...