Dear All,
The Science Discovery Club will be screening the third episode of the seven part BBC series "Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages" on Jan 25, 2019 in the Vikram Sarabhai Hall, Convention Centre, from 7 to 8 PM. All members of the Science Explorers Club of AECS, Staff Club of RRCAT and HBNI scholars are invited to the screening.
Episode Brief: The Lost Gods of Easter Island
A carved wooden idol that Attenborough purchased in an auction room is traced back to its origin: Easter Island. It was cheap because the seller believed it was a forgery. During the course of this programme its whole history is discovered: carved on Easter Island while there was still wood of the Toromiro tree (now extinct on the island), to represent the god Makemake, traded with the crew of captain Cook's ship, transported to Tahiti, probably traded by the Tahitians with the crew of an American whaling ship and ended up in the US.(Source Wikipedia).
Sendhil
Activity In-charge
Science Discovery Club
