Charles Darwin’s daughter Henrietta Litchfield with her grandnephew, Richard Keynes, in the early 1920s Charles Darwin’s manuscript sheet on the origin of species Charles Darwin was born at The Mount, Shrewsbury on February 12, 1809. The Charles Darwin statue outside Shrewsbury Library What makes the fragment of Darwin’s hand so …

Chris Capossela, Microsoft Marketing Director. (Microsoft photo) About six years after starting his career at Microsoft, one of Chris Capossela’s colleagues suggested he apply for a very unusual position: speechwriter for then-CEO Bill Gates. His friend thought it would provide him with great stories. “It sounded like crazy, exciting and …

BEIJING – A small silk parchment can be found in an underground warehouse near the Washington Mall. Written 2,300 years ago, it is a Chinese version of the Dead Sea Scrolls, with text that swirls like stars across the firmament and describes the relationship between humans and the sky. For …