0
0
The music in my headphones changed to Smetana’s Moldau. I put down my 100 μL pipette, looked up, and, instead of the occasionally rainbow-and frequently sunset-reflecting windows of the HPK, saw a tree.
The tree. It doesn’t really bloom much or look particularly pretty or happy, but it does have a lot of branches, which in the summer occupy the happiest third of the field of view from my desk. The tree was back in the picture, my picture. It was starting to grow leaves. And, in a second bit of astonishing news, it was still visible, determinedly and clearly. At 8 pm!
It had been a long lab day, one of many more long days to follow. But it was also Spring. It was officially the first sweet, warm, cozy, Bellini-colored and Aperol-inviting dusk. The first, also of many more. Allow Polykum to further sweeten one of these evenings for you.
This time, we bring you artificial people of ETH, an interview about life on other planets, a primer on adjusting the Sun’s brightness settings for this particular planet of ours, and a little advertisement of a planet-moving art form.
Enjoy the sunshine, the music, the light, and the overall –very much not artificial –magic of Spring!
Lisa
