Van: algis.kuliukas@uwa.edu.au
Verzonden: zondag 29 oktober 2023 11:46

Dear One and All,

As we approach the end of the month, it has become my routine to send out an email to people
- who have expressed an interest in WHAT Talks (Waterside Hypotheses / Aquatic Theories),
- who have given one for us.
Usually, this e-mail would include an invitation to the next talk + a link to the forthcoming Zoom meeting (usu. scheduled for the 2nd Sunday of the next month).

However, on this occasion I’m not writing to you to do that:
I’m giving notice that the series has been paused for the next 18 months or so, at least.

The next scheduled speaker, Irit Zohar, very understandably decided to pull out of doing her talk after the terrible pogrom carried out recently by Hamas & the likelihood of a terrible aftermath in Israel.
This was on top of the fact we had no-one yet lined up for December, and that my wife & I are planning to go away travelling for a year, from next March.
That looming adventure had put the thought in my mind to take a break from the series at some point soon in any case.

All in all then, as talks have been given & recorded now for 24 consecutive months, this seemed the perfect time to stop.

I am very proud that we now have an impressive library of recorded talks & supporting material on our web site
https://whattalks.com/ & the associated YouTube Channel.
Please share links to this material to anyone you know who might be interested in these ideas, and feel free to comment underneath the videos on the YouTube Channel web site.

I must apologise to Kathleen Lowrey, who had kindly agreed to give a talk for us in January.
I was really looking forward to hearing her speak about the grand-mothering hypothesis from a waterside angle.
Perhaps she will write down her thoughts for people to read, in any case.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our excellent guest speakers for their generous time & effort, and our loyal attendees who regularly logged in, sometimes at bizarre times of the day or night.

I must give special thanks to Simon Bearder, for being the inspiration for the talks in the first place, back in 2021, as well as being one of the most regular attendees, along with Marc Verhaegen, Lesley Kuliukas, Malgorzata Danicka, Humphrey Boogaerdt, Francesca Mansfield, Gareth Morgan, Michel Odent, Vernon Reynolds & Andrea Andrews.

For the statistically minded, here are the current viewing stats for the videos…

Thanks to everyone for your interest and support.

Please do keep in touch!

------------Dr Algis KuliukasAnatomy, Physiology and Human Biology

A pity, of course, but thank you very very much, Algis, for the organisations of your WHAT talks, whcih were always very interesting.

We wish you & your wife a very prosperous travel next year!

--marc

Marc Verhaegen wrote:

> However, on this occasion I’m not writing to you to do that:
> I’m giving notice that the series has been paused for the next 18 months or so, at least.

I thought it was a VERY useful and enlightening tool, putting on display
the many varied takes on the one topic: Aquatic Ape.

But, it lost all integrity when they deleted the comments to the Colin
Hendrie video.

Aquatic Ape is a discussion, not a church sermon.

You think I'm wrong? Tell me I'm wrong. But tell me why and what you
believe is right, and why.

That's how a discussion works.

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