This week's BERG meeting: Wednesday 6th March - BERG

4 Mar 2013

Dear all,

We have not got a speaker lined up for this week, so for a change we are going to take
advantage of some of the amazing educational resources that are accumulating on the
internet (it's not just for funny videos of cats apparently?).  Hannah drew the TED
talks to my attention (http://www.ted.com/talks) with the suggestion that we could watch
one of these during one of our BERG meetings this semester.  There are loads of great
talks by big names, so we could easily listen to Richard Dawkins or Jane Goodall telling
us things we already know about and agree with, which would be fine.  Or alternatively we
could take the opportunity to listen to something more controversial, which sounded a bit
more fun to me.

So this week I propose that we watch Elaine Morgan's talk about the aquatic ape
hypothesis.  The video is short (less than 20 minutes) so there will be plenty of time for
us to have a bit of a chat about what we think about it afterwards.

We start at 5.30pm as per usual in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell).  Drinks and
nibbles will be provided.  Bathing costumes (for a quick dip in the loch afterwards)
strictly optional.

Christine.

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