The Darwin Festival

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N ature interpretation centers are a romantic expression of the desire to understand and experience nature without giving up the comforts of civilization. Advances in digital technologies let us collect and store masses of data about our natural environment, but we are more removed from it than ever. As a society, we find ourselves trading experience-based knowledge for comfort. Interpretation ...

Darwin

The idea of biological evolution has a complex history throughout science and society. In Darwin, Darwin College at Cambridge University brings together nine scholars from diverse fields to discuss the legacy of the college namesake. This series of highly accessible lectures, intended for a popular audience, presents Darwin’s theory as both a vital part of our culture and an ongoing global deba...

Darwin

ADRIAN DESMOND and JAMES MOORE, Darwin, London, Michael Joseph Ltd, 1991, pp. xvii, 773, illus., £20.00 (0-7181-3430-3). Charles Darwin has attracted many biographers fascinated by the paradox of the wealthy and industrious Victorian invalid who, immured in rural isolation, reluctantly destroyed the world-picture of the wealthy Victorians. Adrian Desmond and James Moore, in their lengthy new bi...

Festival speaks Italian!

Finally Festival speaks Italian. In this work, the development of the first Italian version of the Festival TTS system is described. One male and one female voice for three different speech engines are considered: the Festival-specific residual LPC synthesizer, the OGI residual LPC Plug-In for Festival and the MBROLA synthesizer. The new Italian voices will be freely available for download for ...

The Hon. Lady Darwin