And if you want to amuse yourself for an hour, look at the first few issues of their journal The Philosophical Transaction, filled with
deadly serious experiments and a whole lot of various sort of flakey, gentlemanly figures who sent in all kinds of, well, just observations.
Although seemingly lighthearted, the toy octopus
experiment is part of a
deadly -
serious effort to understand the worrying ecological implications of a process known as ocean acidification.