Charles Darwin Has a Posse

Many thanks to the Stingy Scholar for the link to the Charles Darwin Has a Posse sticker page, the creation of the very public-spirited Colin Purrington at Swarthmore (one of my college choices many, many, many years ago, though in the end I chose Vermont). Make sure you check out all the links, and don’t miss this clever little item: “If you are reading Voyage of the Beagle, or are planning a trip to the Galapagos Islands, please consider using a bookmark that contains a map of the Galapagos as well as a recipe for a regional drink called canelazo.”

I can’t think of anything better for stocking stuffers for the whole family — and not necessarily your own family — than Charles Darwin Posse bookmarks, stickers, and tattoos (the temporary kind, of course).

As Darwin himself said, and as you can be reminded daily from a bookmark, “Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life as one can, in any likelihood, pursue.”

Updated in February 2013 to add that Colin has a Charles Darwin Posse store at Cafe Press.