Dr Delia Owens novel explores how isolated individuals behave differently from normal and how much we change when rejected by others. On their own and excluded, humans often revert to behaviours that resemble those of early humans, who survived aeons ago on the savannas, or of wild creatures who still live “way out yonder where the crawdads sing.”

Featuring Catriona Nguyen-Robertson, Sarah Belet and Dwan Price.

The Annual General Meeting for the Royal Society of Victoria’s 2019 Financial Year. Voting members only please. This meeting will be held online as a Zoom conference.

Our second watch party features a half an hour looking at the future of electronics, the interactions of our brains with the “second brain” in our gut and the remarkable medicinal and nutritional properties of the plant kingdom. Join us to enjoy some of the highlights of the RSV’s science program.

Our first watch party features a half an hour looking at simulating the cosmic interactions of dark matter, the whims of fashionable science (and scientific fashion) and the neuroscience of addiction and compulsion. Join us to enjoy some of the highlights of the RSV’s science program!