Project Brighton

Last night Davina Bristow of the BBC spoke at the monthly Café Scientifique on “The Neuroscience of Love”. Davina gave a good account of recent research into attraction, sex and relationships with reference to work on reptiles, fish and humans.

What struck me as really interesting was that the talk had to be held in two halves…because 100 people turned up for the event! The venue was a bar called ‘home’ in Kemptown - 40 of us crammed into the downstairs for the second talk, I felt for those in the first talk.

I used to be involved in the early days of Café Scientifique in Brighton - I remember when we had just 10-30 people along. Jenny (co-organiser) told me that the event’s popularity had been steadily building and now 90 attendees is not an unusual number. Having missed the events for a year I’m darn impressed at the growth in attendance.

Next month Jenny speaks on “Science, the media and a tale of gay Sheep”, with John Gribbin and others to follow. Full details at cafe-scientifique-brighton.org.uk.