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Aug.03.2010
Last night the National Center for Science Education, the premier defender of good science teaching in the nation's schools, spotlighted Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z, on their websiteand recommended the book to their Twitter and Friends lists. Fifteen pages of the book—complete with...
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Jun.16.2010
Happy to report some significant recognition for the Milner shows and book. First eight of my songs about Darwin and evolution were chosen to be performed by a 100-voice children's choir at MIT by the North Cambridge Family Opera Company. The children were amazing in their performances of my rapid-...
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Apr.28.2010
(Here's the beginning of an opinion piece I wrote that AOL News posted last week. You can read the rest here.)
"First they came for Darwin and I did not speak out, then they came for Jefferson and I did not speak out, and then they came for me."
When German cleric Martin Niemoller (1892...
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Mar.28.2009
I don’t know the guy who put up this blog, but obviously he is very intelligent and perceptive, and you will see by clicking here.
His posting shows the undeniable relationship between me, Darwin’s comet orchid, and Barack Obama.When you go to the site, scroll down past his latest entries until...
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Mar.27.2009
What an exciting night was last night! I performed my one-man musical, "Charles Darwin: Live & In Concert" at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco to a sold-out house of 450. Two days earlier, I gave a lecture on Darwin in their 200 seat lecture hall--also sold out.
It was...
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Mar.22.2009
The SF Chronicle has run a major story today about me, my new book Darwin's Universe, and my one-man musical "Charles Darwin: Live & In Concert," which I am going to perform at the Jewish Center of San Francisco on March 26th.
Coming back to play a show in San Francisco is a...
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About Richard
Richard Milner, an Associate in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, has written books on Darwin, evolution, paleoart, and urban anthropology. Milner has performed his one-man musical Charles Darwin: Live & In Concert...