Comments on: In Honor of Charles Darwin’s Birthday: Huxley v. Wilberforce https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/ Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:17:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Denmark https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514780 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:17:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514780 This is off-topic, but Greg, I wondered if you know of the economic historian Gregory Clark?

He has written a new paper claiming, for instance:

“First, England, all the way from the heart of the Middle Ages in 1200 to 2009, is a society without persistent social classes, at least among the descendants of the medieval population. It was a world of complete social mobility, with no permanent over-class and under-class, a world of complete equal opportunity.”

Anyway, here is a post about the paper:

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/02/social-mobility-in-the-longrun.html

The comments make interesting reading, and Clark himself shows up.

]]> By: Jason Thibeault https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514779 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:35:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514779 Cold nothing. He was clearly trying to take Wilberforce’s head off! I don’t normally encourage debates to get violent like this one, though I have to admit it was entertaining to watch.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514778 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:03:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514778 He’s got a cold. In this case, it turns out to be a special effect.

]]> By: Katkinkate https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514777 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:49:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514777 That bear must have been heavy. The poor little tyke is breathing hard.

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514776 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:07:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514776 Cute. Thanks. The perfect start to a relaxing evening.

]]> By: Art https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514775 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:53:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514775 Don’t forget to archive those pictures and videos. Some day a 16yo Huxley will want to get a whole-body tattoo, take up toad licking (for spiritual reasons), and move to a commune to eat organic quantum-laser-tuned wheat grass juice, and worship the latest incarnation of “The Great One” … and the leverage will come in handy.

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514774 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:28:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514774 If Huxley could converse in English right now, he would say:

“Daaaaaaaaad! you keep putting me in embarrassing videos…
…and you’re showing to whom?
Stop it.”

]]> By: Charles https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514773 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:48:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514773 With Huxley’s Vulcan neck grip, Wilberforce didn’t stand a chance.

]]> By: J-Dog https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514772 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:46:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/12/in-honor-of-charles-darwins-bi/#comment-514772 Brilliant!

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