30th March - Cardiff Breakfast's Open Evening

An opportunity to spend some time with President Edwin and the members of the Cardiff Breakfast club and also to learn some of the intricacies of bee keeping. The speaker tonight was Prof Rob Pritchard who spoke about his passion for bees and their highly sophisticated and organised collaborative society. Apparently female led societies, like bees, are naturally collaborative whereas male dominated societies, like the humans, are not. He has a theory that the massive growth in micro-electronic communications is providing an enormous extension to our collective brains and that this will move our society closer to that of the bees. Interesting heady stuff, but a thoroughly enjoyable evening. Well done President Edwin and the club.

Professor Robert Pickard
Robert Pickard provides scientific advice to the broadcasting media and an extensive range of companies, charities and public bodies. He is Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Cardiff; Visiting Professor at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester; a Fellow of the Institute of Biology and the Royal Society of Medicine; Chairman of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management; and Chairman of the Consumers' Association, Which?. Formerly, he was Director-General of the British Nutrition Foundation; Chairman of the UK Government’s Foresight Task Force, Food's Contribution to Health in the Future; and served on the Welsh Ministerial Task Group, Food and Fitness for Children and Young People, and the Expert Panel for School Meal Guidelines at the Caroline Walker Trust. He is also an international authority on the biology of honeybees.