{"id":1863,"date":"2019-02-21T22:17:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T22:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2019-02-21T22:17:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T22:17:40","slug":"iowa-city-darwin-day-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/2019\/02\/21\/iowa-city-darwin-day-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa City Darwin Day 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iowacitydarwinday.org\/events.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iowa City Darwin Day<\/a>&nbsp;celebrates science, evolution, and Darwin&#8217;s birthday this week! Sharon DeWitte and Ana Duggan will give talks about their research into epidemics and infectious diseases. Jeanne Serb will speak about the evolution of vision in animals, and Nicholas Strausfeld will present on the evolution of insect brains. There will be cake at Darwin&#8217;s birthday party on Saturday! The events will wrap up with a&nbsp;screening of the movie Contagion at FilmScene and a discussion led by Black Death expert Sharon DeWitte.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The UI Libraries offers numerous books, movies, and articles pertinent to Iowa City Darwin Day! We have the movie Contagion on DVD\/Blu-ray, the Greatest Show on Earth and other works on evolution, the complete works of Charles Darwin and the graphic adaptation of On the Origin of Species, and much more in our <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.lib.uiowa.edu\/icdd19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iowa City Darwin Day guide<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1871 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2019\/02\/Contagion-Cover-1-1-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"Image of movie cover Contagion\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2019\/02\/Contagion-Cover-1-1-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2019\/02\/Contagion-Cover-1-1.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1868 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2019\/02\/greatest-show-on-earth-book-cover-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Image of book cover The Greatest Show on Earth\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2019\/02\/greatest-show-on-earth-book-cover-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2019\/02\/greatest-show-on-earth-book-cover.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1869 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2019\/02\/On-the-Origin-of-Species-Graphic-Adaptation-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"Image of book cover On the Origin of Species a Graphic Adaptation\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2019\/02\/On-the-Origin-of-Species-Graphic-Adaptation-212x300.jpg 212w, 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Sharon DeWitte and Ana Duggan will give talks about their research into epidemics and infectious diseases. Jeanne Serb will speak about the evolution of vision in animals, and Nicholas Strausfeld will present on the evolution of insect brains. There will be cake at Darwin&#8217;s<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/2019\/02\/21\/iowa-city-darwin-day-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Iowa City Darwin Day 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":1872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,51,33],"tags":[102,101,100],"syndication":[41,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}