Dear All,

Today I was expecting talks on food but was most inspired by the talk ‘Snake Bites’. The talk was introduced by Mark Maslin (UCL Department of Geography) and in doing so he let it be known that he had helped to choose the speaker, David Warrell.

‘Snake Bites’ was paradoxical in nature as the snake is full of contradictions. It is on the one hand a beautiful creature admired and even venerated by some and yet causes a strong and sometimes irrational fear in others.
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