I'm heading to the New York Botanical Gardens to moderate a World Science Festival panel on crops, biodiversity, seed banks, and the amazing life of the Soviet scientist Nikolai Vavilov. (For some background, see this New Yorker article from last year.)
If you come to the panel, stick around for the Cafe Scientifique afterwards. And check out the "Darwin's Garden" exhibit. You'll find me snooping around the cycads and ferns.
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January 26th
1630 - Death of Henry Briggs, English mathematician
Births
1703 - Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist
I'll be giving three talks in the next couple weeks in New York.
I get a fairly steady stream of emails from Eruptions readers, some of which are very worth a post, but sometimes it takes me a while to get around to posting.