Southern Illinois University Carbondale is raising money for their Darwin Day celebration by selling something a little bit cheesy, but I may have to get one for my office anyway: a Darwin bobblehead. Cute, eh? Don't you need one, too?
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Man, I want one! Anyone here willing to donnate 39 bucks? lol.
I like my stuffed Darwin better.
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Yay! That's my hometown college! And considering that Southern Illinois is no stranger to religious-based ignorance, this is especially cheering news. =)
The weekend following "Darwin Day" (Feb.16-17), SIU-C will be hosting a colloquium on "Pragmatism and Biological Evolution". Hopefully the zoology department will be willing to sell the bobbleheads at our event as well. Unfortunately we do not have Dewey bobbleheads for sale, although a pragmatist set of bobbleheads would be pretty nice. I also wish there was a little Huxley-as-a-bulldog bobblehead that went with the Darwin bobblehead. A little copy of Origin could be in its teeth.
Ken Ham would probably buy all of them just to bite their heads off.
I'm not going to spend $30US on that. Much rather have the plush Darwin...
I agree that the Philosopher's Guild plushes are cuter. I really had to stifle the impulse to buy a stuffed Galileo last week at the AMNH. I was having visions of filming a puppet-dramatization of the "Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" for my astronomy class.
I'm a sucker and bought one. But I have a birthday coming up--will someone get me this?
I wondered where all the e-mails were coming from this morning! Thank you for putting this up -- we need all the help we can get with getting the word out.
I haven't seen the plush Darwins mentioned by another poster, but the bobbleheads are for a great educational cause, and they really are quite nice. I think everyone needs both a plush Darwin AND a Darwin bobblehead.
And if Ken Ham or anyone else wants to buy them, dress them up funny, drill holes in their heads, make them wear silly hats, or break them into tiny pieces, that's fine by me. We can always make more, and we will use their money to educate people about evolution!
I'm tempted to get the bobblehead. It'll match my Dalek action figures and the 10" Martian Manhunter on my computer desk.
Now where is the Stephen Jay Gould bobblehead?
hey, can i buy one with my british £10 note... umm, the one with an actual picture of Darwin on it? ;-)
Now with PayPal. Let's see if the students like the bobblehead as much as the plush.