While procrastinating I've been catching up on my RSS feeds and figured I'd round up a collection of awesome sciencey happenings of the past few months.

Blogging the Voyage of the Beagle: As my housemate keeps reminding me, 2009 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of the Species and the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth. In ( Read more... )

Krystian Majewski has created an awesome interactive flash star map of the 32 stars within 14 light years of our sun.