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Game Theory comes to BRLSI

Anyone who heard Melvyn Bragg’s ‘In Our Time’ programme this week, all about Game Theory, will know that it began with the study of board games.A timely topic for BRLSI, because this coming Thursday we have a talk by a world expert on Mancala Games: rich territory for Game Theorists.

Museums at Night 2012

On Saturday 19th May the BRLSI’s current exhibition, ID Marks of Identity, will be kept open until 8PM as part of Museums at Night. You can see the full programme here.

Climate Change: the current status

Professor Philip C. Reid of the University of Plymouth will review the current status of Climate Change at a meeting in the science series on Friday May 25 at 7.30 pm. Evidence for rapid global warming is unequivocal and ideas of how to tackle this grave issue will be outlined.

New lecture series on Anthropology and Psychology at BRLSI

A new lecture series, being convened by Linda Gamlin, starts at BRLSI on May 17th. The series will cover the fields of anthropology, sociology and psychology.

Freshly Prepared Fish

We have just uploaded two spectacular fossils to the JESBI gallery, showing the detailed preparatory work undertaken by Lorie Barber.

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Rev. Leonard Jenyns, one of the stalwarts of the Institution, was asked to go on the voyage of The Beagle, but declined saying he was far too busy with his parish but recommended his friend Charles Darwin go instead!!

Curatorial Curiosities

pallasite, a stony-iron meteorite

Stony-iron Meteorite: Consisting of planet core and mantle materials, peridot olivine crystals in an iron-nickel matrix, there are only 61 Pallasites known. This is a small section of the first ever found: in 1772 German naturalist Peter Pallas studied a 680kg specimen found near Krasnoyarsk in the mountains of Siberia. Our small section was given to us by the antiquarian and traveller Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS (1758 – 1838).