Podcasts about Jussieu

Dans cet extrait, Luc Julia me raconte une anecdote aussi inattendue qu'inspirante : comment un livre sur la physiologie du chat, ouvert par hasard à la fac de Jussieu, a littéralement révolutionné sa recherche en intelligence artificielle.Ce jour-là, il découvre que changer de perspective — même par accident — peut tout changer. Depuis, il a fait de la multidisciplinarité une philosophie, intégrant dans ses équipes aussi bien des informaticiens que des psychologues ou même des scénaristes hollywoodiens.Un moment passionnant où l'on comprend à quel point la diversité — de spécialités, de parcours, de cultures — peut devenir un formidable moteur d'innovation.

Vous écoutez le podcast "Les interviews Histoire", notre émission hebdomadaire gratuite pour tous. Abonnez-vous à "Timeline 5.000 ans d'Histoire" et accédez à environ 350 podcasts d'1 heure pour seulement 2€ par mois sans Pub ! Avec une nouvelle émission chaque semaine : https://m.audiomeans.fr/s/S-tavkjvmo À la découverte de la première expédition scientifique française du XVIIIe siècle.En mai 1735, l'Académie des Sciences de Paris envoie au vice-royaume du Pérou, près de l'équateur, la toute première expédition scientifique française pour déterminer la véritable forme de la Terre. À l'époque, deux « écoles » s'affrontent : les partisans de Newton qui pensent que notre planète est aplatie aux pôles et ceux qui, comme Descartes, sont persuadés qu'elle a la forme d'un œuf. Pour relever ce formidable défi lancé à la science, ils étaient une dizaine de savants aventuriers dont trois académiciens, Charles Marie de La Condamine, Pierre Bouguer, Louis Godin, et un botaniste, Joseph de Jussieu.L'apport de la mission sera considérable. Outre ses calculs pour connaître la forme de la Terre, La Condamine ramènera en France le quinquina et le caoutchouc, et il sera le premier scientifique à décrire et cartographier la « rivière des Amazones ». Quant à Joseph de Jussieu, il passera 35 ans à explorer la botanique de l'Amérique australe, expédiant en France une quantité considérable de descriptions de plantes, de planches d'herbier, de dessins et aquarelles, tous conservés aujourd'hui au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.Membre de la Société de Géographie, Bernard Jimenez, notre invité en studio, a suivi les pas de ces intrépides explorateurs pendant plusieurs années, depuis les cimes glacées de la cordillère des Andes jusqu'au cœur des jungles luxuriantes. Ce minutieux travail de terrain vient compléter les sources historiques pour restituer avec précision sa compréhension des lieux et des événements qui s'y sont déroulés. Grâce au récit vivant et à la très riche iconographie que livre ici l'auteur, nous voilà plongés au siècle des Lumières pour revivre une grande odyssée humaine sur un continent où à l'époque tout était nouveau.

Événements - le 7 novembre 2024 au ministère de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur à Paris à un séminaire de présentation du programme de “recherche à risque” lancé par l'État fin 2023.Détails dans un post de 14 pages sur https://www.oezratty.net/wordpress/2024/recherche-a-risque/ - Le Laboratoire international CNRS Majulab  organisait son premier Symposium Franco-Singapourien sur le quantique la semaine du 5 au 7 novembre. - Journées Teratec sur les algorithmes et les capteurs quantiques chez EDF à Palaiseau des 13 et 14 novembre (slides)  - Journées du GDR TEQ ont eu lieu à Jussieu des 13 au 15 novembre pour faire le point de la recherche quantique au CNRS et aussi dans les autres ONR comme Inria, avec des intervenants de renom d'autres pays comme David Awschalom de l‘Université de Chicago (lien, book of abstracts). Le prochain GDR TEQ aura lieu à Grenoble fin novembre 2025. - OVHcloud Summit, c'était le 28 novembre et le cloud provider Français fêtait ses 25 ans. Mais surtout Octave Klaba son fondateur annonçait une roadmap quantique sur 6 ans en commençant après 6 émulateurs avec une première QPU à 100 qubits dans le cloud dès 2025 avec Pasqal comme partenaire. Efforts salué par la Secrétaire d'État chargée de l'Intelligence artificielle et du Numérique Clara Chappaz. - le 8 novembre le UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase 2024 par Innovate UK, une journée dédiée aux acteurs du pays qui présentaient leurs solutions. L'événement rassemblait plus de 2000 participants dans un lieu magnifique. Le replay des conférences est disponible. Il y avait beaucoup de startups présentant leur offre dans différents segments du domaine des capteurs quantiques. - L'événement EQTC2024 (European Quantum Technologies Conference) rassemblait du 18 au 20 novembre les acteurs des projets européens quantiques à Lisbonne avec plusieurs centaines de participants. Le tout associait des talks techniques (sur les simulations quantiques, les communications quantiques, l'intégration HPC-QPU, les capteurs, le benchmarking) et plus business ou politiques. Comme sur the European Quantum Declaration (avec la participation d'Eleni Diamanti), sur la formation, le quantique dans la société (avec Raja Yehia représentant la QEI), la standardisation (avec Florent Staley du CEA). - Le second symposium Alain Aspect organisé par Quantonation et Pasqal portait sur le climat. Cela commençait avec un panel animé par Etienne Klein (CEA) avec Alain Aspect et Tim Palmer, un physicien spécialisé dans les questions climatiques. Événement à venir : - Q2B à Santa Clara du 10 au 12 décembre avec un beau programme.   - QEI Workshop à Grenoble du 6 au 10 janvier 2025. Inscriptions (gratuites) : https://qei2025.sciencesconf.org/ - Quantum Computing Scalability Conference 2025Du 2 au 4 avril 2025 à Oxford.https://www.nqcc.ac.uk/scalability-conference-2025/  Actualités : France- Début novembre, Quandela annonçait la mise en place d'une offre de cloud chez Scaleway.  - Le 21 novembre, Pasqal annonçait une nouveauté dans le cadre de son partenariat avec IBM. Pasqal s'intègre dans Qiskit pour créer des workflows de calcul hybride analogique/digital quantique (détails). I - Miles Stoudenmire (Flatiron Institute) et Xavier Waintal (CEA-IRIG) ont publié leur papier sur les limitations de l'algorithme de Grover dans PRXOpening the Black Box inside Grover's Algorithm, Stoudenmire and Waintal, PRX, November 2024. International - Qolab, un nouvelle startup créée au début de l'année 2024. Elle a été lancée entre autres par John Martinis d'UCSB, l'ancien patron du hardware de Google qui avait créé la fameuse expérience Sycamore de 2019 liée à l'annonce de « suprématie quantique ».How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer: Scaling Challenges and Opportunities by Masoud Mohseni, John M. Martinis et al, arXiv, November 2024 (64 pages). - Le lendemain de Qolab, Atom Computing sortait deux preprints sur arXiv, dont l'un avec Microsoft. Le premier papier portait sur la publication de résultats sur les fidélités de leurs qubits qui utilisent le spin de noyaux d'atomes d'ytterbium. Le second concernait la réalisation de qubits logiques avec le même système.High-fidelity universal gates in the 171Yb ground state nuclear spin qubit by J. A. Muniz, B. J. Bloom et al, arXiv, November 2024 (14 pages).Logical computation demonstrated with a neutral atom quantum processor by Ben W. Reichardt, Matthew B. Hastings, Krysta M. Svore, Benjamin J. Bloom et al, Atom Computing, Microsoft, Stanford University, USC, arXiv, November 2024 (17 pages). - D-Wavehttps://thequantuminsider.com/2024/11/06/benchmarking-results-d-waves-4400-qubit-advantage2-processor-can-tackle-materials-science-tasks-25000-times-faster/ - IQM révélait sa nouvelle roadmap le 13 novembre.  - Lors de sa conférence développeurs organisée à Yorktown Heights, IBM révélait de nouveaux éléments incrémentaux. - L'action d'IonQ se porte très bien. Elle a doublé en un mois. Probablement vu que leur carnet de commande est rempli grâce à $70M de projets financés par l'AFRL. Ils mettent le paquet sur l'IA en annonçant prévoir de créer une intelligence de type humaine. Quantum Circuit Components for Cognitive Decision-Making par Dominic Widdows et al, Entropy, Mars 2023 (22 pages) qui met en place un modèle probabiliste de décision qui gère des problèmes comme le dilemme du prisonnier. Voir

Thomas a 24 ans, il est fan de jeux vidéo. On est en septembre 2002, il joue en réseau à War Kraft, Everquest, Dark Ages of Camelott... dans les salles de jeux parisiennes comme Parkage ou Game Core, près de Jussieu. Lucide et philosophe, Thomas compare son univers à une bulle de laquelle il sort peu. Mais parfois, le réel peut surgir brutalement. Comme ce jour de printemps 2002, où Jean-Marie Le Pen, le candidat Front National, passe au premier tour de l'élection présidentielle. C'est la première fois qu'en France un candidat d'extrême droite se retrouve au second tour et c'est un choc pour la plupart des Français, jusqu'au fond des salles de jeux vidéo.*** Crédits archive *** Extrait de l'émission radiophonique "Les pieds sur terre : Les cyber dépendants". Reportage de Jérôme Sandlarz. Réalisation Monique Veilletet. Production Sonia Kronlund - France Culture - 23/09/2002.*** Crédits podcast *** Documentaliste : Stéphanie Place - Textes : Lætitia Fourmond - Restauration et mixage : Stéphane Rives - Enregistrement : Guillaume Solignat, Laurent Thomas - Voix off : Clara De Antoni - Musique(s) avec l'aimable autorisation d'Universal Production Music France - Chargée de production : Delphine Lambard - Cheffe de projet : Lætitia Fourmond - Responsable éditoriale : Zoé Macheret - Un podcast INA.

EvénementsÉvénement Teratec chez IBM le 5 septembre sur les questions de scalabilité (slides et vidéos).Pot de départ de Neil Abroug du SGPI le 23 septembre. Passage de relai à Loic Le Loarer qui a pris sa succession.IEEE Quantum Week à Montréal (lien).QuantumTech Europe à Londres le 24 septembre (agenda) European Champions Alliance à Amsterdam le 26 septembre (lien). Citation sur le panel à Lindau : https://cacm.acm.org/news/nobel-laureates-consider-the-state-of-quantum-computing/ À venirLes QuantAlps Days où nous serons qui sont l'occasion de découvrir les travaux scientifiques récents réalisés à Grenoble (programme).La journée Minalogic où nous intervenons tous les deux à Lyon (programme).Séminaire du projet AQADOC qui associe EDF et Welinq le 3 octobre à Paris (lien).Munich Quantum Software Forum les 24 et 25 octobre où je serais (lien)Quantum + AI à NY Les 29-30 octobre (lien).Les deux journées GDR TEQ à Jussieu les 13 au 15 novembre qui font le point de la recherche quantique au CNRS et avec des invités étrangers (lien).Les deux journées Teratec sur les algorithmes et les capteurs quantiques chez EDF à Palaiseau les 13 et 14 novembre (lien).Le livre : Sortie de la 7ième édition de Understanding Quantum Technologies. 1554 pages. Organisé en cinq volumes.  (lien). France Quandela qui inaugurait sa filiale au Canadahttps://www.quandela.com/news-press-release-quandela-canada-subsidiary/ Kwan-TekLa société bretonne spécialisée dans les capteurs quantiques à base de NV centers Kwan-Tek levait 1.2M€ (lien). Prix pour Silvano de Franceschi du CEA-IRIG Il obtenait le prix Friedel-Volterra en Italie (lien). International Roadmap Quantinuum et papiers avec Microsoft En septembre, toujours avec l'aide de Microsoft, Quantinuum mettait en œuvre 12 qubits logiques avec 56 qubits physiques et créait des états intriqués GHZ logiques de 4, 8 et 12 qubit. Demonstration of quantum computation and error correction with a tesseract code by Ben W. Reichardt, Krysta M. Svore, Matt Zanner et al, Microsoft and Quantinuum, arXiv, September 2024 (12 pages). Simultanément, avec Microsoft, Quantinuum mettait en œuvre une simulation chimique de bout en bout à l'aide de deux de leurs qubits logiques.  End-to-End Quantum Simulation of a Chemical System by Wim van Dam, Krysta Svore, Matthias Troyer et al, Microsoft, arXiv, September 2024 (15 pages). En septembre 2024, Quantinuum mettait à jour sa feuille de route. Ils prévoient d'assembler des milliers de qubits physiques et des centaines de qubits logiques d'ici 2030 avec des taux d'erreur inférieurs à 10-6. Quantinuum accelerates the path to Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing; supports Microsoft's AI and quantum-powered compute platform and “the path to a Quantum Supercomputer” by Quantinuum, September 2024. Nord QuantiqueNord Quantique publiait un blueprint pour créer une architecture FTQC (mais pas une roadmap à proprement parler).  Hardware-Efficient Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing with Bosonic Grid States in Superconducting Circuits by Marc-Antoine Lemonde, Philippe St-Jean et al, Nord Quantique, arXiv, September 2024 (17 pages).  Amazon sort du bois avec ses cat-qubitsAmazon publiait des résultats concernant une puce comprenant 5 cat-qubits et 4 transmons classiques utilisés comme qubits auxiliaires pour la correction d'erreurs.  Hardware-efficient quantum error correction using concatenated bosonic qubits by Harald Putterman, Fernando G.S.L. Brandão, Oskar Painter et al, AWS, arXiv, September 2024 (60 pages). Google revient à la chargeLes chercheurs de Google proposaient un moyen efficace de mettre en œuvre la magic state distillation, rebaptisée « magic state cultivation » d'états magiques pour créer des portes T logiques et avec moins de qubits physiques.  Magic state cultivation: growing T states as cheap as CNOT gates by Craig Gidney, Noah Shutty, and Cody Jones, Google, arXiv, September 2024 (33 pages). QSolidCe projet en Allemagne vise à créer 10 qubits supraconducteurs et 30 en 2026. Avec 73M€ de financement. Ils travaillent aussi sur de la cryoélectronique cryo-CMOS avec des puces fabriquées à Dresde par Global Foundries.  Quantum Source Levée de fond en Israël de $50M pour cette startup qui travaille sur des clusters states de qubits photons générés par des atomes de rubidium (source). AustralieCommission d'enquête sur l'investissement dans PsiQuantum, initialisée par l'opposition au gouvernement travailliste.Investigation into the investment in PsiQuantum announced by the Australian and Queensland governments, August 2024. AutresTurning Water...

À l'occasion de la journée internationale de la santé des végétaux le 12 mai, faisant suite à la journée mondiale des espèces menacées le 11 mai, BSG rediffuse les épisodes sur quelques grandes familles de plantes !Les Lamiacées, Labiacées ou Labiées, comprennent environ 6.700 espèces.Cette famille regroupe la plupart des plantes aromatiques et condimentaires de la région méditerranéenne : Lavande, romarin, mélisse, sauge, thym, basilic, menthe, sarriette …. Elle est source d'huiles essentielles, d'infusion et antibiotiques naturels pour l'aromathérapie, la parfumerie, même si les parfums de synthèse tendent à remplacer ces essences.Une étude a montré que 94 % de ces espèces présentent un effet sédatif voire dépresseur.Lamia désigne dans la mythologie grecque une créature monstrueuse, une vilaine ogresse croque-mitaine. La racine de lamia provient de laimos, «gorge, gosier». Cette même racine est à l'orgine du nom de la famille du grand Requin blanc : les lamnidés.Pline l'Ancien évoque le Lamium comme une «ortie morte», une fausse ortie qui aurait perdu son pouvoir urtican, comme le lamier, qui ressemble comme deux gouttes d'eau à l'ortie !Le nom scientifique initial de Labiées est donné en 1789 par Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu dans Genera plantarum, ouvrage considéré comme la bible de base de la nomenclature des familles par le Code international de la nomenclature botanique.Le terme Labiée provient du latin labia, « lèvre », en référence à la corolle typique de ces plantes : La lèvre supérieure en casque (formée de 2 pétales soudés) protège les organes reproducteurs des intempéries et du soleil. La lèvre inférieure (formée de 3 pétales soudés) sert de plate-forme à l'insecte qui vient chercher le nectar._______ Le Chemin de la Nature (CDN) a pour objectif de transmettre la connaissance des plantes sauvages, des champignons et de leurs usages au plus grand nombre. Le Chemin de la Nature a été fondé par Christophe de Hody en 2011. Herbaliste, botaniste et mycologue de terrain, Christophe anime des balades et des formations depuis plus de 10 ans.Après une formation théorique et pratique approfondie, Christophe a développé de solides connaissances sur les plantes sauvages, les champignons et leurs usages. Il rassemble autour de lui une équipe unique de professionnels aux compétences complémentaires (pharmaco-chimistes, pharmaciens, botanistes, biologistes, ingénieurs pédagogiques, développeurs) afin de développer des contenus de qualité, pédagogiques, multimédias et innovants.  Le CDN propose des ateliers et stages hebdomadaires, mais également des formations en ligne qui permettent aux amoureux de la nature d'acquérir des connaissances solides sur les plantes et les champignons sauvages et leurs usages._______ 

Événements Séminaire Innovacs du 11 mars à GrenobleReplay. Inauguration Quandela chez OVHcloud à Croix le 18 marsIl s'agissait de l'inauguration officielle de l'installation de l'ordinateur quantique de Quandela dans un datacenter chez OVHcloud.Voir Certified randomness in tight space by Andreas Fyrillas, Boris Bourdoncle, Aristide Lemaître, Isabelle Sagnes, Niccolo Somaschi, Nadia Belabas, Shane Mansfield et al, Quandela, C2N and University of Bristol, January 2023 (23 pages). Quantum Enabling Technologies Workshop à Télécom Paris le 21 marsslides Décode quantum Jay GambettaNous avons publié le podcast enregistré à Yorktown Heights avec Jay Gambetta, le VP d'IBM en charge du quantique. L'audio et le transcript sont disponibles. A venir : 5 avril : conférence sur les atomes neutres au Collège de France le 5 avril https://pro.college-de-france.fr/jean.dalibard/CdF/2024/colloque.pdf 14 avril : Journée internationale du quantique le 14 avril. 30 avril : après-midi organisée par PCQT, l'écosystème quantique de Paris, à Jussieu.Inscriptions.21 mai : France Quantum, à Station F. Inscriptions ouvertes. Actualités en France Pasqal annonçait sa nouvelle roadmap qui intègre notamment pour la première fois officiellement le modèle « gate based ». Voir PASQAL Announces New Roadmap Focused on Business Utility And Scaling Beyond 1,000 Qubits Towards Fault Tolerance Era by Matt Swayne, The Quantum Insider, March 2024. Voici la vidéo de l'annonce. Alice&BobIls annonçaient un partenariat avec Nvidia. Alice & Bob to Integrate Cat Qubits in Datacenters, Accelerated by NVIDIA Technology, March 2024. La startup annonçait aussi la validation du projet « Usine à chats » par le Premier Ministre avec 14.5M€ d'aide de Bpifrance dans le cadre d'un projet i-Démo. ViqthorLa startup spécialisée dans la connectique et le contrôle de qubits annonçait une levée de fonds en seed  Annonce d'un avantage quantique par D-WaveComputational supremacy in quantum simulation by Andrew D. King et al, D-Wave, arXiv, March 2024 (55 pages). 6100 atomes froids contrôlés chez CaltechA tweezer array with 6100 highly coherent atomic qubits by Hannah J. Manetsch, Gyohei Nomura, Elie Bataille, Kon H. Leung, Xudong Lv, and Manuel Endres, Caltech, arXiv, March 2024 (21 pages). IBMIBM annonçait la fin prochaine mi-mai 2024 de de l'accès à leur émulateur en ligne Qiskit.Annonce de la Commission EuropéenneL'Union Européenne lançait le « pacte quantique » qui vise à garantir la compétitivité de l'Europe dans le domaine. Nvidia faisait pas mal d'annonces en mars autour des émulateurs quantiques lors de leur conférence GTC aux USA. https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-cloud-quantum-computer-simulation-microservicesNVIDIA Amplifies Quantum Computing Ecosystem with New CUDA-Q Integrations and Partnerships at GTC, HPCwire, March 2024.NVIDIA Launches Cloud Quantum-Computer Simulation Microservices, HPCwire, March 2024.NVIDIA Powers Japan's ABCI-Q Supercomputer for Quantum Research, HPCwire, March 2024. Ils y lançaient aussi leur nouveau GPU de compétition, le Blackwell 200 ou B200. 208 milliards de transistors en 4 nm, étalés sur 2 puces.Nvidia Unveils Blackwell, Its Next GPU by Samuel K. Moore, IEEE Spectrum, March 2024. CerebrasIls annonçaient de leur côté un processeur avec 4 trillions de transistors, le CS-3, qui succède au CS-2 qui faisait 2.6 trillions de transistors. Il est adapté aux grands LLMs. QuokkaCette startup australienne lançait un émulateur supportant 30 qubits sous forme d'un « appliance » avec un processeur quadcore de smartphone et 4 Go de RAM.C'est un projet lancé sur Kickstarter. A BullshitHere Are 6 Actual Uses for Near-Term Quantum Computers by Michael Nolan, IEEE Spectrum, March 2024.  

Événements Passés : ·       La Journée Nationale Quantique organisée par le SGPI avait lieu le 6 mars à la BNF comme en 2023. Occasion de faire le point via des panels sur les différents volets de la stratégie quantique nationale.·       La Q2B Paris les 7 et 8 mars près de Montpartnasse. ·       L'APS March Meeting la même semaine. o   Annonce QuantWare et Qblox. https://www.qblox.com/blog/aps-mm-quantum-computer. Et QuantWare Say Its Next Generation of Quantum Processors Reach 99.9% Gate Fidelities by Matt Swayne, The Quantum Insider, February 2024. For single qubit gates. And 99.7% for two qubit gates. Readout fidelities of 97.5% with their TWPA.·    50 Partners Day devant des investisseurs pour décrire l'articulation des financements privés et publics sur le quantique.  À venir·       18 mars : inauguration de l'ordinateur quantique de Quandela installé dans un datacenter d'OVHcloud à Croix dans le Nord.·       22 mars : j'interviens à l'Université Paris 8 à Saint-Denis dans un séminaire IAGAN sur les usages de l'informatique quantique dans la création numérique, pour y détailler le lien entre IA et quantique, notamment au niveau des LLMs.·       4 avril : journée à Lannion organisée par Orange. qui couvre les communications quantiques, les capteurs et le calcul quantique sachant qu'Orange y présentera surtout ses activités dans les communications et la cryptographie quantique.https://www.photonics-bretagne.com/techno-conference-voyage-centre-quantique-capteurs-communications-informatique/·       30 avril : après-midi organisée par PCQT, l'écosystème quantique de Paris, à Jussieu.https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCt-gyhvzVVN5RSY9nhgpCAbTCmbMNcxP1pSQFT4VZy1qPJA/viewform·       21 mai : France Quantum, à Station F.https://www.francequantum.fr/Voyage à New York IBMIBM Yorktown Heights à une heure de route ou de train de New York. Vers le nord.Une journée avec des chercheurs comme Oliver Dial, Scott Crowder, Matthias Steffen, Blake Johnson et Olivia Lanes. Puis un enregistrement d'un épisode de Decode Quantum avec Jay Gambetta qui sera publié d'ici 2 semaines.Seconde partie avec un jour et demi avec un groupe de français de grandes entreprises (SNCF, EDF, Renault, Axa, Air Liquide, …) et ColibrITD.Visite de l'imposant System Two qui comprend trois processeurs Heron de 133 qubits, avec un cryostat Bluefors KIDE.Intéressantes présentations de Jay Gambetta et de ses équipes sur leur roadmap. SeeQCVisite de SeeQC pas loin de chez IBM à Elmsford.Nous avons rencontré leur CEO John Levy et leur CTO Oleg Mukhanov. QunnectVisite de Qunnect avec leur CEO, Noel Godard, et leur CTO Mael Flament.  Actualités des startups françaises PASQALRéorganisation avec l'arrivée d'un nouveau chairman qui vient de Google et Amazon et Loic Henriet qui était CTO et devient co-CEO. PASQAL Announces New Chairman, Deputy CEO and Creates New Divisions in Response to Rapid Growth, HPCwire, February 2024. Après la création d'une filiale en Corée, la société annonçait son établissement à Sherbrooke avec 90M€ à la clé, dont une aide du gouvernement du Québec, annualisée sur de nombreuses années. Puis divers partenariats, avec le laboratoire d'IA MILA de Montréal et aussi l'Université de Calgary. PASQAL Joins Forces with Mila to Enhance Generative Modeling in Quantum AI by Matt Swayne, The Quantum Insider, January 2024.PASQAL, University of Calgary, and Quantum City Initiate New Quantum Computing Partnership by Pasqal, HPCwire, February 2024. QuandelaFin février, ils installaient leur premier QPU de 6 qubits chez Exaion, filiale d'EDF, au Québec, à Sherbrooke. En partenariat avec PINQ² (Plateforme d'innovation numérique et quantique) et l'Université de Sherbrooke. Dans un datacenter hybride classique/quantique. Installé dans DistriQ, la zone d'innovation quantique de Sherbrooke. Sera accessible notamment pour les étudiants de l'Université. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7168181527569223681/ Alice&BobIls présentaient les résultats scientifiques lors de l'APS March Meeting.Ils annonçaient aussi l'ajout de scientifiques prestigieux à leur board scientifique : Daniel Gottesman, David DiVincenzo, John Martinis, and Yasunobu Nakamura.Quantum Computing Pioneers Join Alice & Bob's Consultative Board by Matt Swayne, The Quantum Insider, February 2024. Cat qubits reach a new level of stability – Physics World by David Schlegel, Physics World, March 2024.https://alice-bob.com/blog/alice-bob-talks-at-march-meeting-2024/ Annonce d'un partenariat avec Classiq, startup israélienne spécialisée dans la compilation.https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/classiq-and-alice-bob-announce-new-partnership-to-advance-fault-tolerant-quantum-computing/ ColibrITDVient de sortir une librairie Python qui a pour objectif de faciliter le calcul quantique : MPQP (Multi-Platform Quantum Programming). Elle permet de créer des circuits quantiques de façon ergonomique et de les exécuter facilement sur une multitude de simulateurs et machines quantiques (backends), sans avoir à réécrire une seule ligne de code pour changer de backend.La librairie est en open-source, accessible sur GitHub au lien suivant : https://github....

Julien Cernobori a rendez-vous avec une  crêpière. Est-elle la femme qui a bien connu les deux tueurs ? CERNO est un podcast créé par Julien Cernobori Reportage, montage, réalisation et mixage : Julien Cernobori Assistant : Pierre Mouchel Musique originale : Théo Boulenger Ecoutez les épisodes suivants sur patreon.com/cerno !

durée : 00:25:00 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Philippe Garbit - Antoine Lefébure, historien et fondateur avec Brice Lalonde de "Radio Verte" en 1977, revient sur la tentative cocasse de créer, avec un groupe d'étudiants de Jussieu, "Radio-active", une radio ayant pour sujet principal la lutte contre le nucléaire. Attention ! La maréchaussée veille au grain... - invités : Antoine Lefébure Historien des médias

Une aventure Game of Rôles dans le monde de l'édition enregistré en public à Jussieu dans le cadre du festival Play Sorbonne à Paris le 16/09/2023 diffusé en direct sur Twitch et retransmis ici en podcast. Suivez l'équipe Game of Rôles :Game of RôlesFibre TigreMaia MazauretteDazLydiaClément ViktorovitchGozultingMontage : Zu====Ecoutez Game of Roles sur Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/game…ic/id1350491357Ecoutez Game of Roles sur n'importe quelle app de podcasts: rss.acast.com/game-of-roles-magicRejoignez-nous :Sur le twitter de Qualiter : twitter.com/dequaliterSur la chaine Twitch de Qualiter: twitch.tv/dequaliter Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Une aventure Game of Rôles dans le monde de l'édition enregistré en public à Jussieu dans le cadre du festival Play Sorbonne à Paris le 16/09/2023 diffusé en direct sur Twitch et retransmis ici en podcast. Suivez l'équipe Game of Rôles :Game of RôlesFibre TigreMaia MazauretteDazLydiaClément ViktorovitchGozultingMontage : Zu====Ecoutez Game of Roles sur Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/game…ic/id1350491357Ecoutez Game of Roles sur n'importe quelle app de podcasts: rss.acast.com/game-of-roles-magicRejoignez-nous :Sur le twitter de Qualiter : twitter.com/dequaliterSur la chaine Twitch de Qualiter: twitch.tv/dequaliter Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Une aventure Game of Rôles dans le monde de l'édition enregistré en public à Jussieu dans le cadre du festival Play Sorbonne à Paris le 16/09/2023 diffusé en direct sur Twitch et retransmis ici en podcast. Suivez l'équipe Game of Rôles :Game of RôlesFibre TigreMaia MazauretteDazLydiaClément ViktorovitchGozultingMontage : Zu====Ecoutez Game of Roles sur Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/game…ic/id1350491357Ecoutez Game of Roles sur n'importe quelle app de podcasts: rss.acast.com/game-of-roles-magicRejoignez-nous :Sur le twitter de Qualiter : twitter.com/dequaliterSur la chaine Twitch de Qualiter: twitch.tv/dequaliter Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

C'est un patron touche-à-tout et aux prises de position tranchées qui est venu dans les studios de RFI : Mamadou Sinsy Coulibaly, fondateur du groupe Kledu, présent dans de nombreux secteurs d'activité comme le commerce, les assurances, l'agriculture, l'élevage d'autruches, le tourisme, les services, la communication et les médias, qu'il s'agisse de la radio ou de bouquets de télévision avec le groupe Malivision.  Parfois présenté comme l'homme le plus riche du pays, il répond aux questions de Bruno Faure (RFI) et Julien Clémençot (Jeune Afrique).Libéral convaincu et fervent critique de la politique menée par la junte militaire au pouvoir au Mali, il dénonce un mauvais traitement infligé selon lui aux entreprises, les mauvaises conditions pour le commerce régional, une coopération inappropriée avec certains pays voisins. Mamadou Sinsy Coulibaly n'hésite pas à aborder les sujets les plus sensibles comme la lutte contre le terrorisme ou la corruption, l'un de ses principaux chevaux de bataille. Il en appelle à un rapprochement avec la France, tout en rejetant toute collaboration avec la Russie et d'autres pays qu'il considère totalitaires. Il dévoile enfin son affection pour le cinéma malien, à l'occasion de la remise par le Festival de Cannes du Carrosse d'or, prestigieuse récompense, à Souleymane Cissé. LE PARCOURS DE NOTRE INVITÉ Mamadou Sinsy Coulibaly (67 ans), est à la tête du groupe Kledu, du nom de sa mère. Ce conglomérat a employé jusqu'à 3.000 personnes, avant d'être mis en difficulté par la crise politique, sécuritaire et économique que traverse le Mali.  De 2015 à 2020, il a été président du Conseil national du patronat du Mali. L'aventure s'est mal terminée. En 2020, il a contesté la validité de l'élection emportée par Amadou Sankaré, affirmant avoir obtenu un second mandat. La crise a paralysé le patronat pendant près de deux ans jusqu'à l'élection à sa tête en 2022 de Mossadeck Bally, fondateur du groupe hôtelier Azalaï. Ce parcours très riche a débuté par des études à Mopti et à Bamako avant un départ en France : des études de mécanique à l'Université de Jussieu, puis au Mans pour une école de commerce dans le secteur automobile. Dans les années 1970, Mamadou Sinsy Coulibaly a créé sa première entreprise pour assurer la sécurité d'un supermarché. Quand ce contrat n'est pas reconduit, il s'envole pour les États-Unis, où il va fonder une société de services funéraires à destination des diasporas africaines avant d'investir dans une compagnie aérienne reliant Miami à Haïti, puis de revenir définitivement au Mali en 1979 et fonder ensuite le groupe Kledu.Retrouvez-nous sur :      - Facebook- Twitter

C'est un patron touche-à-tout et aux prises de position tranchées qui est venu dans les studios de RFI : Mamadou Sinsy Coulibaly, fondateur du groupe Kledu, présent dans de nombreux secteurs d'activité comme le commerce, les assurances, l'agriculture, l'élevage d'autruches, le tourisme, les services, la communication et les médias, qu'il s'agisse de la radio ou de bouquets de télévision avec le groupe Malivision.  Parfois présenté comme l'homme le plus riche du pays, il répond aux questions de Bruno Faure (RFI) et Julien Clémençot (Jeune Afrique).Libéral convaincu et fervent critique de la politique menée par la junte militaire au pouvoir au Mali, il dénonce un mauvais traitement infligé selon lui aux entreprises, les mauvaises conditions pour le commerce régional, une coopération inappropriée avec certains pays voisins. Mamadou Sinsy Coulibaly n'hésite pas à aborder les sujets les plus sensibles comme la lutte contre le terrorisme ou la corruption, l'un de ses principaux chevaux de bataille. Il en appelle à un rapprochement avec la France, tout en rejetant toute collaboration avec la Russie et d'autres pays qu'il considère totalitaires. Il dévoile enfin son affection pour le cinéma malien, à l'occasion de la remise par le Festival de Cannes du Carrosse d'or, prestigieuse récompense, à Souleymane Cissé. LE PARCOURS DE NOTRE INVITÉ Mamadou Sinsy Coulibaly (67 ans), est à la tête du groupe Kledu, du nom de sa mère. Ce conglomérat a employé jusqu'à 3.000 personnes, avant d'être mis en difficulté par la crise politique, sécuritaire et économique que traverse le Mali.  De 2015 à 2020, il a été président du Conseil national du patronat du Mali. L'aventure s'est mal terminée. En 2020, il a contesté la validité de l'élection emportée par Amadou Sankaré, affirmant avoir obtenu un second mandat. La crise a paralysé le patronat pendant près de deux ans jusqu'à l'élection à sa tête en 2022 de Mossadeck Bally, fondateur du groupe hôtelier Azalaï. Ce parcours très riche a débuté par des études à Mopti et à Bamako avant un départ en France : des études de mécanique à l'Université de Jussieu, puis au Mans pour une école de commerce dans le secteur automobile. Dans les années 1970, Mamadou Sinsy Coulibaly a créé sa première entreprise pour assurer la sécurité d'un supermarché. Quand ce contrat n'est pas reconduit, il s'envole pour les États-Unis, où il va fonder une société de services funéraires à destination des diasporas africaines avant d'investir dans une compagnie aérienne reliant Miami à Haïti, puis de revenir définitivement au Mali en 1979 et fonder ensuite le groupe Kledu.Retrouvez-nous sur :      - Facebook- Twitter

Les Lamiacées, Labiacées ou Labiées, comprennent environ 6.700 espèces. Cette famille regroupe la plupart des plantes aromatiques et condimentaires de la région méditerranéenne : Lavande, romarin, mélisse, sauge, thym, basilic, menthe, sarriette …. Elle est source d'huiles essentielles, d'infusion et antibiotiques naturels pour l'aromathérapie, la parfumerie, même si les parfums de synthèse tendent à remplacer ces essences. Une étude a montré que 94 % de ces espèces présentent un effet sédatif voire dépresseur. Lamia désigne dans la mythologie grecque une créature monstrueuse, une vilaine  ogresse croque-mitaine. La racine de lamia provient de laimos, «gorge, gosier». Cette même racine est à l'orgine du nom de la famille du grand Requin blanc : les lamnidés. La corolle bilabiée (à deux « lèvres ») des Lamiacées peut évoquer, avec un peu d'imagination, une gueule ouverte. Pline l'Ancien évoque le Lamium comme une «ortie morte», une fausse ortie qui aurait perdu son pouvoir urtican, comme le lamier, qui ressemble comme deux gouttes d'eau à l'ortie ! Le nom scientifique initial de Labiées est donné en 1789 par Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu dans Genera plantarum, ouvrage considéré comme la bible de base de la nomenclature des familles par le Code international de la nomenclature botanique. Le terme Labiée provient du latin labia, « lèvre », en référence à la corolle typique de ces plantes : La lèvre supérieure en casque (formée de 2 pétales soudés) protège les organes reproducteurs des intempéries et du soleil. La lèvre inférieure (formée de 3 pétales soudés) sert de plate-forme à l'insecte qui vient chercher le nectar. _______   Le Chemin de la Nature (CDN) a pour objectif de transmettre la connaissance des plantes sauvages, des champignons et de leurs usages au plus grand nombre.   Le Chemin de la Nature a été fondé par Christophe de Hody en 2011. Herbaliste, botaniste et mycologue de terrain, Christophe anime des balades et des formations depuis plus de 10 ans. Après une formation théorique et pratique approfondie, Christophe a développé de solides connaissances sur les plantes sauvages, les champignons et leurs usages.   Il rassemble autour de lui une équipe unique de professionnels aux compétences complémentaires (pharmaco-chimistes, pharmaciens, botanistes, biologistes, ingénieurs pédagogiques, développeurs) afin de développer des contenus de qualité, pédagogiques, multimédias et innovants.    Le CDN propose des ateliers et stages hebdomadaires, mais également des formations en ligne qui permettent aux amoureux de la nature d'acquérir des connaissances solides sur les plantes et les champignons sauvages et leurs usages. _______  

Événements passésQuandela LOQathon des 7, 8 et 9 novembre 2022. Un hackathon organisé à Jussieu, en partenariat avec QICS, le hub quantique de Sorbonne Université, OVHcloud et le GENCI. Le 8 novembre avait lieu le lancement de EQSI, l'European Quantum Software Institute. https://www.quantum.amsterdam/launch-of-eqsi-european-quantum-software-institute-in-paris/OVHcloud EcoEx On Stage à l'Olympia. Le Summit du cloud provider avec 30 minutes dédiées au Quantique illustré par une interview enregistrée d'Alain Aspect suivie d'un panel Maud Vinet (SiQuance), Valérian Giesz (Quandela) et Christophe Legrand (Pasqal). Octave Klaba (fondateur) et Michel Paulin (DG) ont affirmé l'engagement d'OVHcloud autour du quantique. https://ecoexonstage.ovhcloud.com/en/ à 1h20 dans le replayAutre initiative en Allemagne, lancée et soutenue plus directement par le gouvernent allemand (Germany's Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action, BMWK), autour de Ionoshttps://thequantuminsider.com/2022/11/14/germany-to-create-its-first-quantum-computing-business-cloud/Conférence Innovacs, le 24 novembre : « Scénarisez votre futur » sur le quantique, organisé par le groupement de recherche INNOVACS en sciences sociales de l'innovation.https://my.weezevent.com/soiree-ateliers-design-fiction.https://www.oezratty.net/Files/Work/Olivier%20Ezratty%20Design%20Fiction%20Quantique%20Nov2022.pptxJournée Quantique Minalogic du 4 octobre 2022https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYkgljOcCgszPUSHLTpXHnKlUAKS0ZFfiWorld Quantum Congress à Washington DC Village français avec Pasqal, Quandela, Alice&Bob et Siquance.https://www.quantum.gov/the-united-states-and-france-sign-joint-statement-to-enhance-cooperation-on-quantum/Événements à venirIEDM avec Maud Vinet « Enabling full fault tolerant quantum computing with silicon based VLSI technologies »https://www.ieee-iedm.org/program-overviewQ2B de Qc-Ware aux USA à Santa Clara dans la Silicon Valley.https://q2b.qcware.com/2022-conferences/silicon-valley/Conférence GDR RO sur la recherche opérationnelle à l'Université de Technologie de Troyes du 17 au 21 avril 2023. “Emerging optimization methods: from metaheuristics to quantum approaches”.https://perso.isima.fr/~lacomme/GT2L/EUME_JE/EUME_Joint_Event.phpÉvénement international avec une formation sur le calcul quantique (tutorials and practical work on quantum computing for optimization) lance par les groupes de travail EUME (Europe) et GT ROQ (France). StartupsLe 29 novembre 2022 avait lieu à Grenoble une conférence de presse pour l'annonce de la création de Siquance, la startup lancée par Maud Vinet, Tristan Meunier et François Perruchot. https://www.siquance.com/Visite de PasqalSee Quantum Feature Maps for Graph Machine Learning on a Neutral Atom Quantum Processor by Boris Albrecht, Loic Henriet et al, November 2022 (19 pages) présenté dans https://medium.com/pasqal-io/predicting-toxicity-with-qubits-c9dd2517df59. Quandela communique sur la mise en route de son premier calculateur quantique dans le cloud. Leur logiciel Perceval est disponible dans le cloud via OVHcloud pour accéder aussi bien à 12 qubits ainsi qu'à de l'émulation classique.https://www.quantum-inspire.com/https://www.quandela.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Quandela-The-first-European-quantum-computer-on-the-cloud-developed-by-Quandela.pdfXanadu lève $100MScienceVisite de l'IRIG à Grenoble.https://thequantuminsider.com/2022/11/10/nqcc-appoints-professor-elham-kashefi-as-chief-scientist/ et … déjeuner avec elle le 8 Annonce d'IBM Osprey et de 433 qubits. https://www.oezratty.net/wordpress/2022/assessing-ibm-osprey-quantum-computer/.Une tribune de Xavier Vasquez d'IBM : https://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/la-decennie-quantique-avance-encore-plus-vite-que-prevu-39950318.htmLa Chine de son côté à 121 qubits supraconducteursDigital simulation of non-Abelian anyons with 68 programmable superconducting qubits by Shibo Xu et al, November 2022 (27 pages).Microsoft Resource EstimatorAssessing requirements to scale to practical quantum advantage by Michael E. Beverland et al, Microsoft Research, November 2022 (41 pages).https://alice-bob.com/2022/11/17/alice-bob-tests-azure-quantum-resource-estimator-highlighting-the-need-for-fault-tolerant-qubits/Architecture de réseaux quantiquesEleni Diamanti et Iordanis Kerenidis ont publié un papier portant sur la simulation d'un réseau quantique urbain avec ressources d'intrication.Quantum City: simulation of a practical near-term metropolitan quantum network par Raja Yehia, Simon Neves, Eleni Diamanti et Iordanis Kerenidis, Sorbonne Université LIP6 and Université Paris Cité IRIF, Novembre 2022 (28 pages).Et dans le domaine, Tom Darras et Julien Laurat du LKB de l'Ecole Normale (et aussi cofondateurs de la startup WeLinQ avec Eleni Diamanti) ont publié un pré-print où ils décrivent un protocole de conversion de qubits photons entre leurs variantes à variables discrètes et continues, permettant d'établir des liaisons distantes entre ordinateurs quantiques.A quantum-bit encoding converter by Tom Darras, Julien Laurat et al, November 2022 (15 pages).Le wormhole de Googlehttps://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-create-a-wormhole-using-a-quantum-computer-20221130/https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/making-traversable-wormhole-with.htmlhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05424-3https://twitter.com/skdh/status/1598175023067717632?s=49&t=RHEFuw_j2qSqJMmRQqrBWw 

Prix Nobel d'Alain AspectBelle surprise le 4 octobre dernier avec le prix Nobel d'Alain Aspect. Pour la petite histoire, c'est le premier scientifique que nous avions rencontré lors de nos débuts dans la découverte du quantique en 2018. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-universe-is-not-locally-real-and-the-physics-nobel-prize-winners-proved-it/?amp;text=TheLes explications de Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://twitter.com/skdh/status/1577870071526998016  Why ψ is incomplete indeed: a simple illustration by Philippe Grangier, October 2022 (2 pages). Impact immense de ces travaux dans tous les piliers des technologies quantiques. Semaine du Quantique à Grenoble- Gagnants du hackathon : équipes du Ministère des Armées (avec Alice&Bob), de Thales et de CACIB.- Minalogic - Journée QuantAlps Visite des laboratoires à Grenoble organisées par QuantAlps le 24 novembre 2022.https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6988222804059914240/ UNISTRA (Université de Strasbourg) lance une nouvelle infrastructure européenne pour l'informatique quantique avec des atomes de Rydberg : EuRyQa.https://www.unistra.fr/communiques-presse/detail-des-communiques-et-dossiers/20731-une-nouvelle-infrastructure-europeenne-pour-linformatique-quantique-avec-des-atomes-de-rydberg-euryqa  BIG de Bpifrance le 7 octobre Le Lab Quantique le 19 octobreAnnonce DeepNum20 de la FrenchTechAvec Alice&Bob, Pasqal et Quandela parmi les lauréats. A venir : Conférence Optica à Saint Germain en Laye les 8 et 9 novembre. https://www.optica.org/en-us/events/industry_events/2022_optica_industry_summit_quantum/ LOQCathon QICS. Hackathon organisé par Quandela avec OVHcloud comme partenaire. Les 7, 8 et 9 novembre à Jussieu. Gagnants sélectionnés et dévoilés l'après-midi du mercredi 9 novembre. Organisé par QICS, le cluster quantique de Sorbonne Université dont fait partie le LIP6. EcoEx On Stage OVHcloud à l'Olympia le 8 novembre avec Valerian Giez, Maud Vinet et Christophe Legrand de Pasqal et Alain Aspect.https://ecoexonstage.ovhcloud.com/fr/Conférence de design fiction sur les technologies quantiques à Grenoble le 21 novembre organisée par INOVACS.https://www.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/actualites/agenda/agenda-formation/quantique-scenarisez-votre-futur--1154756.kjsp?RH=1573726031684Aux USA Google à Santa BarbaraJoe Biden visite IBM à Poughkeepsie. https://thequantuminsider.com/2022/10/18/the-rise-of-the-chief-quantum-officer-and-the-prospect-of-quantum-at-the-governance-level-an-interview-with-shai-phillips-president-of-psirch/ Science Recherche sur la création de cluster states de photons très active en ce moment. See Generation of large-scale continuous-variable cluster states multiplexed both in time and frequency domains by Peilin Du, [Submitted on 19 Oct 2022]. Création d'une classe de complexité NISQ. The Complexity of NISQ by Sitan Chen, Jordan Cotler, Hsin-Yuan Huang, Jerry Li, October 2022 (52 pages). Classification  utile des algorithmes hybrides.See Classification of Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing by Frank Phillipson et al, October 2022 (8 pages). Un article d'IBM explique avec une bonne pédagogie la correction d'erreur.Trois catégories :Quantum Error Suppression (QES) : réalisée au niveau du hardware.Quantum Error Mitigation (QEM). Correction d'erreur pour le NISQ, après les calcul, avec méthodes statistiques et souvent du machine learning.Quantum Error Correction (QEC). Correction des erreurs après chaque opération. Notion de qubit logique et de tolérance de panne.https://research.ibm.com/blog/quantum-error-suppression-mitigation-correctionIntérêt de D-Wave pour les algorithmes d'optimisation.See On the Emerging Potential of Quantum Annealing Hardware for Combinatorial Optimization by Byron Tasseff et al, October 2022 (25 pages).Les "autres" sujetsMastercard sort une carte de crédit avec une PQC. https://www.mastercard.com/news/press/2022/october/mastercard-and-partners-deliver-first-contactless-cards-for-quantum-world/ Un rapport de Capgemini fait le lien entre technologies quantiques (capteurs compris) et la « sustainability », en reprenant la classification des Nations Unies.https://prod.ucwe.capgemini.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Quantum-Technologies__Sustainability_20-09-2022_final.pdf Cerveau quantique : un chercheur irlandais prétend qu'une expérience démontre que le cerveau fonctionne comme un ordinateur quantique. https://thequantuminsider.com/2022/10/20/new-research-suggests-our-brains-use-quantum-computation/https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/our-brains-use-quantum-computation/https://www.journals.elsevier.com/physics-of-life-reviews/news/discovery-of-quantum-vibrations   

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events   1747 Birth of Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ("do-Shane"), French botanist, gardener, and professor at Versailles. A specialist in strawberries and gourds, Duchesne was a student of Bernard de Jussieu at the Royal Garden in Paris. A plant pioneer, Duchesne recognized that mutation was a natural occurrence and that plants could be altered through mutation at any time. And when he was a young botanist, Duchesne began experimenting with strawberries. Ever since the 1300s, wild strawberries have been incorporated into gardens. But, on July 6, 1764, Duchesne created the modern strawberry - the strawberry we know and love today. Strawberries are members of the rose family, and their seeds are on the outside of the fruit. Just how many seeds are on a single strawberry? Well, the average strawberry has around 200 seeds. Now, if you're wondering whether to cut your strawberry plants back for winter, you should cut your plants back about three inches after your final harvest.  As you tidy up your strawberry plants for winter, you can remove all dead leaves and trimmings. Right about now, strawberry growers are winterizing their plants, which is pretty straightforward. Simply cover your plants with 6-8 inches of mulch. Then when spring returns, remove the winterizing mulch as your strawberry plants wake up and start growing.    1817 On this day, James Madison, America's fourth President, was elected to serve as the President of his local Agricultural Society. James had just retired from his presidential duties and quickly resumed his passion for cultivating the land. James spent many hours every day working in his four-acre Montpelier garden. The horse-shoe-shaped bed was assumed to be an homage to the floor of the house of representatives.  The following May, James spoke to his fellow farmers and gardeners in the Agricultural Society about some of the latest discoveries in agriculture, such as the benefits of incorporating manure to leverage nitrogen and optimizing the water for plant uptake.  James Madison was one of America's earliest conservationists. He was primarily concerned with preserving the land and wise stewardship of natural resources.   1817 Birth of Joseph Stayman, Kansas horticulturist. His obituary announcement said, Dr. Stayman is dead at Leavenworth. He came to Kansas in 1859 and brought a half million fruit grafts with him, from which he started the fruit industry of the state. The doctor was well-named, and lived true to the name as his fruit trees were.   Joseph helped establish the Kansas State Horticultural Society in 1866. He dropped his medical practice to pursue horticulture and bred new varieties of apples, strawberries, and grapes at his orchards, which hosted over 3,000 trees. Joseph specifically worked to cultivate varieties best suited to the Kansas soil and climate.  Joseph was a renaissance man and developed skills across a spectrum of skills and science. He bred the famous Clyde strawberry and established himself as an outstanding botanical artist (many of his drawings are at the Smithsonian). And Joseph was one of the country's best checker players. Some games lasted months to a year since Joseph played many matches by correspondence.   1849 Birth of James Whitcomb Riley, American writer and poet. In his poem, The Ripest Peach, he wrote, The ripest peach is highest on the tree -- And so her love, beyond the reach of me, Is dearest in my sight. Sweet breezes, bow Her heart down to me where I worship now! She looms aloft where every eye may see The ripest peach is highest on the tree.   In the US, over thirty states grow peaches. The peach season varies by state, but it usually ends by early October.  Peaches are a member of the rose family and are rich in vitamins A and C.  Freestone peaches are the type of peaches that we buy whole and eat raw. The Clingstone peach is canned commercially. Clingstone peaches get their name because Cling peaches have stones that cling to the peach flesh. By extracting the stone, the fruit is damaged yet still tasty, so processing and canning are ways to redeem the damaged fruit. And although Georgia is known for its peaches, California produces more peaches every year.   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation Growing Joy by Maria Failla ("Fy-ELL-ah") This book came out in 2022, and the subtitle is The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness (and Plants). And Maria says her book is full of planty practices to grow your way to a happier and more peaceful life. Well, this is another garden book that was conceived during the early days of the pandemic. And if you remember that time, so many of us were feeling disconnected and stressed and anxious - and we were looking for ways to feel more anchored, healthy, stronger, and positive. And this was definitely the case with Maria. In fact, she introduces her book this way: We've only just met, but I'm going to confess something to you. I wrote this book about joy in what seemed to be the least joyful period in my life. Funny how that happens. When I first envisioned this book, I had my list of ideas and practices all lined up and tied in a pretty bow for you. But then there was a little plot twist. And when the time came around for me to actually write this book, My life kind of imploded in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. lost my job. My wedding was postponed due to social distancing. And through a series of unexpected events, my partner and had to move three times in a year - with a six-month stint living with my parents. The ultimate romantic dream for any engaged couple.   So you can tell that Maria is doing a fantastic job setting the stage. And a lot of this sounds SO relatable for so many of us. But then Maria had an epiphany. And she writes, I looked around at my plant collection and I noticed that my plants also looked miserable. Limp leaves, thirsty, yearning for light, and seeing them so unhappy made me pause and realize how much I related to them. And in the midst of moving pivoting and mourning, I had let the beautiful practices and routines that I had developed lapse.   And then she writes, This realization hit me like a two-ton bag of potting mix.    (I love that Maria has plenty of little snippets of humor in her book that will surely bring a chuckle.) Maria continues. A deeper realization set in. let my plant care routine lapse, and I'd also let my therapy and workout appointments slip through the cracks. I stopped checking in with my friends and my screen time was at an all-time high; my plants and I both needed some serious nurturing.   Maria concludes: I don't claim to have all the answers, but I do know that if you're open to it, this stuff works. No matter what season of life you're in, whether you're simply looking for fun ways to enliven your days, suggestions for how to take the next step forward in plant parenthood, or maybe you're looking for something deeper. But wherever you are, I see you and I'm here for you. And let's grow some joy together, one leaf at a time.   As you can tell, Maria's book is perfectly titled, Growing Joy. This book is 272 pages of connecting with plants and ourselves and, in the process, gaining new insights and a more positive and healthier lifestyle. This book is a delightful mix of self-care through plant care, helping you to feel more joyous, grounded, and optimistic. I think it's the perfect book as we all come back into our homes and snuggle in, cozy in, and get ready for winter. You can get a copy of Growing Joy by Maria Failla and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $8.   Botanic Spark 2015 It was on this day that Thomas Rainer and Claudia West's Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes debuted. Eight years ago, it was through this book that Thomas introduced the notion of gardens as communities, which makes gardeners much more sensitive to concepts like density and diversity in our plantings. I love what they write at the beginning of their book because I think it sets the tone for what they are trying to accomplish: The way plants grow in the wild and the way they grow in our gardens is starkly different. In nature, plants thrive even in inhospitable environments; in our gardens, plants often lack the vigor of their wild counterparts, even when we lavish them with rich soils and frequent water. In nature, plants richly cover the ground; in too many of our gardens, plants are placed far apart and mulched heavily to keep out weeds. In nature, plants have an order, an individual harmony resulting from their adaptation to a site; our gardens are often arbitrary assortments from various habitats, related only by our personal preferences.... In fact, the very activities that define gardening weeding, watering, fertilizing, and mulching - all imply a dependency of plants on the gardener for survival. Gardeners are often frustrated when some plants spread beyond their predetermined location and are surprised while others struggle to get established... A further complication is the availability of plants from every corner of the globe... So how do we shift the paradigm, making desirable plantings that look and function sympathetically with how they evolve in nature? By observing and embracing the wisdom of natural plant communities.   A master of garden design and designing with native plants, Thomas wrote his vision of the Post-Wild World: The front lines of the battle for nature are not in the Amazon rainforest or the Alaskan wilderness; the front lines are our backyards, medians, parking lots, and elementary schools.   and The uncertainty of the future will provide an incredible gift: it will liberate planting from all those forces that try to tame it...   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

Manque d'offre, loyers exorbitants, appartements vétustes… De nombreux jeunes peinent à trouver un endroit pour vivre alors que les cours ont déjà commencé. Près de 40 % d'entre eux ont donc un job pour subvenir à leurs besoins. En Ile-de-France, cela se transforme en quasi-obligation pour certains, notamment à Paris, où les loyers atteignent 800 euros en moyenne.  Trouver un logement est une épreuve pour ces étudiants rencontrés à la fac de Jussieu. Selon la dernière enquête de l'Observatoire de la vie étudiante, le logement reste aujourd'hui le premier poste de dépense des étudiants, avec en moyenne 550 euros de loyer. ► À lire aussi : France: la rentrée étudiante, entre précarité et mal-être ► À écouter aussi : La galère des étudiants pour se loger

This Latin Quarter episode begins at Place Émile Mâle and features the strange story of the disappearing Roman arena. We also talk about the discrete author of The Story of O, and the wonderful botanist, Bernard de Jussieu, who is responsible for my all-time favourite tree. This episode wraps up in the lush Jardin des Plantes, where so many Parisians took refuge in the shade during this past excessively hot summer.  Remember to visit my website for extra links & images. As always, thanks to Bremner Fletcher for technical expertise. The Improbable Walks theme music is performed by David Symons, New Orleans accordionist extraordinaire. 

Je vous retrouve aujourd'hui pour un épisode un peu spécial : je vous emmène aujourd'hui à la journée parité qui a eu lieu le 5 juillet à l'université de Jussieu à Paris. L'objectif de cette journée était de discuter des problèmes de parité qui touche le milieu des mathématiques à travers des conférences et des discussions. Je remercie Indira Chatterji qui m'a invitée pour réaliser ce podcast. Si vous trouvez le concept de cette journée intéressant, n'hésitez pas à la contacter, elle recherche quelqu'un pour prendre la relève ! Vous pouvez laisser un commentaire et vous abonner pour soutenir le podcast. Vous pouvez aussi vous abonner au compte Instagram du podcast qui s'appelle “parcoursmathspodcast” pour découvrir les coulisses du podcast. Bonne écoute ! https://www.instagram.com/parcoursmathspodcast/ Site de la journée parité : Opération Postes (emath.fr) Je remercie Mélanie Lab pour la vignette de cet épisode. Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

  Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events   1686  Birth of Antoine de Jussieu ("Ann-twan do Jyou-sue"), French naturalist, botanist, and physician. Born in Lyon, Antoine was the son of an apothecary.  After touring Spain, Portugal, and southern France with his brother Bernard, he went to Paris and ultimately succeeded Joseph Pitton de Tournefort as director of the royal gardens.  In 1713, Antoine shared the first scientific reference to coffee with the Royal Academy of Sciences of France. He called it Jasminum arabicanum, but Carl Linneaus gave the official botanical classification forty years later in 1753. Antoine once wrote about finding plant fossils in a quarry. I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in the Lyonnais, in the nearby provinces, and even in the rest of France, that I felt like collecting plants in a new world...  The number of these leaves, the way they separated easily, and the great variety of plants whose imprints I saw, appeared to me... as many volumes of botany... [in] the oldest library of the world.   1865 On this day, members of the John Wesley Powell expedition raided a garden on an island in the Green just above the mouth of the White River. The expedition had just thrown out more spoiled food, and the group faced the constant fear of hunger. In Powell of the Colorado (2015), William Culp Darrah wrote, Fresh fruit had been mighty scarce and the temptation to steal some greens was irresistible. The Major, Andy, and Bill Dunn filled their arms with young beets, turnips, carrots, and potatoes. The men rowed a few miles down the river and paused to enjoy the stolen fruit. Of course the season was not advanced enough to yield sizable vegetables, so Andy cooked up the whole mess as greens. It was a not-quite-unpleasant stew. After eating their fill and disposing of the remainder, the men resumed the journey. They had not gone a mile before all hands except Bradley and Howland were violently nauseated. Bradley explained that the potato tops were so bitter he had not eaten any. The Major said their illness was caused by a narcotic in the potato leaves, but Hall swore that it was all his fault; in their haste he had only half-cooked the stuff. Sumner wrote in his diary, "We all learned one lesson--never to rob gardens."   1887 Birth of Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal)(books about this person), Russian-French artist of Belarus. He was an early modernist and created in various formats, including paintings, drawings, stained glass, ceramics, and tapestries, among many others. The art critic Robert Hughes called Chagall "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."  And Pablo Picasso once said, When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.   It was Marc Chagall himself who once wrote, Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.   1907 Birth of Frida Kahlo (books about this person), Mexican painter. Frida is remembered for her portraits, self-portraits, and work inspired by Mexican nature and artifacts. She once wrote, I paint flowers so they will not die.   She also wrote, I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”.  Then I'd arrange flowers, all day long.  I'd paint pain, love and tenderness.  I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she's crazy!   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide by Jenny Rose Carey  This book came out in 2020, and the subtitle is Simple Ideas For Small Outdoor Spaces. In this book, Jenny Rose Carey is essentially teaching a master class on ornamental gardening. If you are looking for ways to add interest, color combinations that are guaranteed to work instead of clash, and how to incorporate favorite blossoms or aspects of flowers, you'll find everything you're looking for in this very inspiring and jam-packed book on all kinds of beautiful flowers. Most flower experts teach color first. Jenny brings new dimensions into play - namely shape and texture. But Jenny's focus on texture and shape works surprisingly well - especially if you are someone who struggles with color in the garden. Shape and texture are two often overlooked floral elements, but they are equally important as color in garden design. Without shape and texture, gardens would lack that sense of excitement, mystery, and magnetism that exist in our most beloved gardens. Jenny also does a great job of keeping today's gardener in mind. She selected the annuals and perennials that she recommends in her book based on their ease of care, appeal to pollinators, and wildlife friendliness.  This book is 364 pages of beautiful flower gardening all season long - no matter how big or small your space - giving you the confidence you need to make flowers the focus of your dream garden. You can get a copy of The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide by Jenny Rose Carey and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $27.   Botanic Spark 1932 Death of Kenneth Grahame, Edwardian British writer, and conservationist. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Kenneth is most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. The book celebrates nature, friendship, loyalty, and adventure among four anthropomorphizing animals: Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger. Kenneth had a lifelong appreciation of nature and landscapes.  Throughout Kenneth's life, the beauty of nature was a balm to his many sorrows, including the death of his mom and alcoholic father. When he was five, after his mom died, Kenneth and his siblings went to live with their grandmother, who lived in an old, dilapidated house with a huge attic to explore and an entire garden to play in. The garden backed up to willows that framed the shores of the Thames river and would later serve as the inspiration for the setting of The Wind in the Willows. During his miserable married life, Kenneth once confided in his wife that he felt a better understanding of nature and wildlife than of his own species, writing, I like most of my friends among the animals more than I like most of my friends among mankind. As a father, Kenneth began telling the story of The Wind in the Willows in installments at bedtime and in letters to his only son, Alastair, who Kenneth nicknamed "Mouse."    In the story, Kenneth wrote of 'the pageant of the river bank,' referring to the array of wildflowers in bloom: purple- and white-flowered comfrey, willow-herb, purple loosestrife, dog roses, and meadowsweet. Throughout his life, Kenneth's favorite indulgence was reading books in his garden. Sadly, Mouse's life story was tragic. He grew up battling chronic illness and blindness in one eye. He had challenging behaviors and was bullied in school. After his struggles grew worse in college, Alastair committed suicide at 19. At his funeral, Kenneth scattered lilies of the valley over his coffin. For twelve long years, Kenneth lived out the rest of his days with his wife. Kenneth never got over the loss of his darling Mouse, and he stopped writing altogether. Aside from lengthy trips to Italy to avoid friends and family,  Kenneth and his wife lived reclusively in their house along a riverbank until Kenneth's death from a stroke on this day in 1932. At Kenneth's funeral, the church was decorated with gifts of willow branches and flowers from children across England. Kenneth was buried next to his beloved Mouse in the cemetery at St. Cross Church.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1803 Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson, American transcendentalist, essayist, philosopher, and poet. After graduating from Harvard, Ralph decided to go by his middle name, Waldo. He was beloved by his fellow Harvard classmates, and many became his lifelong friends. Waldo served as his class poet.  Waldo met his first wife, Ellen, on Christmas Day six years later. Two years later, he lost her to tuberculosis. Her death eventually made him a wealthy man — although Waldo had to sue his inlaws to get his inheritance. After losing Ellen, Waldo traveled to Europe and visited the Royal Botanical Garden while he was in Paris. The experience was a revelation to him. There Waldo began to see connections between different plant species thanks to Jussieu's natural way of organizing the garden. The American historian and biographer Robert D. Richardson wrote about this period of heightened awareness for Waldo. He wrote, Emerson's moment of insight into the interconnectedness of things in the Jardin des Plantes was a moment of almost visionary intensity that pointed him away from theology and toward science.   When he returned to the states, Waldo became friends with other forward thinkers and writers of his time: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas Carlyle. In 1835, Waldo married again. His second wife was named Lydia Jackson. Waldo changed her name to Lidian, and he also had many pet names for her, like Queenie and Asia - but she always called him "Mr. Emerson." Around that time, Waldo began to think differently about the world and his perspective on life. As the son of a minister, his move away from religion and societal beliefs was quite impressive. In 1836, Waldo published his philosophy of transcendentalism in an essay he titled "Nature." He wrote: Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word;  but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but [a] language put together into a most significant and universal sense.  I wish to learn this language, not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book that is written in that tongue.   Waldo also advised, Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.   As Waldo grew older, he immensely enjoyed gardening. His time in the garden also proved revelatory. Waldo had hired workers to help him in the landscape as a younger man. As a mature man, he recognized the benefits of exercise and a feeling of satisfaction from doing garden work all by himself. Waldo wrote, When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and [good] health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.   He also quipped, All my hurts my garden spade can heal. In the twilight of his life, Ralph Waldo Emerson was invited to join a group of nine intellectuals on a camping trip in the Adirondacks. The trip had one mission: to connect with nature. Waldo's traveling companions included Harvard's naturalist Louis Agassiz, the great botanist James Russell Lowell, and the American naturalist Jeffries Wyman. They had a marvelous time. It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who wrote, The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it.   And another Waldo quote is a personal favorite, The Earth laughs in flowers.   Finally, here's a little prayer Waldo wrote to thank God for the gifts of nature. For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!   1909 On this day, Miss Amanda Palmer, a teacher at Wilmington Normal School in Wilmington, North Carolina, shared her experience of taking her students on nature-based field trips. Her report was published in the Atlantic Educational Journal. Amanda wrote, On a field trip, a pupil... gains more of life's lessons than could possibly be learned in the schoolroom. These trips lead the children to ask questions, which the teacher must answer.  My class is composed of children in the fourth year primary. On one trip, trees of the neighborhood were studied. The flowers commanded our attention on still another trip. [Flowers like] the wild carrot, the yarrow, and wild mustard were examined. On one occasion a great mullein, or velvet dock, was brought into school. It was greatly admired by the children. On the next field trip no child had to be told what a mullein was. They, themselves, each saw and knew the mullein. On our trips, we sometimes catch glimpses of shy, wild creatures-a water-snake or, perhaps, a prairie hen. Again we may see only tracks here, the tiny footprints of a field-mouse; there, the path of a snake. On one trip we looked for birds especially, using field glasses. After hearing and seeing many birds, we sat down, about six o'clock in the evening, to listen to the concert--not one for which we were forced to give a silver offering, but a concert free to all. It was the sweetest music ever heard.  On May 25, 1909, we either saw or heard these birds: A phoebe, a pewee, a flicker, a cuckoo, a black and white warbler, a magnolia warbler, a chestnut-sided warbler, a water thrush, a Maryland yellow-throat, a red-start, a catbird, a brown thrasher, a Carolina wren and a hermit thrush. I think it is very instructive to show children the various birds' nests. They have observed, with keenest wonder, the blackbird's nest, the swinging nest of the oriole, the mud-lined nest of the robin, the feather-lined nest of the plain English sparrow, and the horsehair-lined nest of the red-eyed vireo ("vir-ē-ˌō").  I have [recently] added... a catbird's nest and a barn swallow's nest. [And when I was] in Haddonfield, N. J., I learned where a hummingbird's nest was. It will be [added to] the school's collection.   And then Amanda ends with this recommendation. [The following nature books are] helpful and interesting: The Audubon Leaflets, The Home Nature Study Library, and Julia Rogers' Among Green Trees.   Wilmington Normal School (where Amanda taught) was the first school in Wilmington, North Carolina, to admit African-American students. The school operated from 1868 to 1921.   1939 On this day, George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, wrote that his hens had laid two hundred eggs in the previous two weeks. When George returned to his home in Wallington after the Spanish Civil War, he recorded the activity of his chickens as he recovered from his war injuries and another bout of lung issues. George noted everything about his chickens: their daily egg production, their behavior, and what they ate and required in terms of care. George's diary begins in April, three years after arriving at Wallington, We have now twenty-six hens, the youngest about eleven months. Yesterday seven eggs (the hens have only recently started laying again.)  Everything greatly neglected, full of weeds, etc., ground very hard & dry, attributed to heavy falls of rain, then no rain at all for some weeks. . . .  Flowers now in bloom in the garden: polyanthus, aubretia, scilla, grape hyacinth, oxalis, a few narcissi.  Many daffodils in the field...These are very double & evidently not real wild daffodil but bulbs dropped there by accident. Bullaces & plums coming into blossom.  Apple trees budding but no blossom yet.  Pears in full blossom.  Roses sprouting fairly strongly.   Well, there you go - a little update from George Orwell about his garden over 90 years ago. And before I forget, there's a fabulous book from 2021 called Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit, and when it debuted, it received all kinds of critical acclaim. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction, and the writer, Margaret Atwood, raved that it was an exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times — and also the life and times of roses. And Harper's said that it was "A captivating account of Orwell as a gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker." And then the publisher wrote this, In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.” So begins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on George Orwell's passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power.   1988 On this day, the Ripley Garden at the Smithsonian was dedicated. Tucked in between the Arts and Industries Building and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Ripley Garden is home to rare and unusual trees and shrubs as well as annuals and perennials - many in elevated beds, Which is terrific for folks of all different abilities and also for little children, it gets the garden up to eye level. And it's lovely for people like me with rheumatoid arthritis or arthritis in general because you don't have to stoop Over to see the flowers, It's all brought up to at least waist level, and you can examine Many of the specimens very closely. And also just want to say that this garden is immaculately maintained. The garden was the inspiration of Mary Livingston Ripley. She was a lifelong plant scholar, collector, gardener, and wife of the Smithsonian's eighth Secretary. Mary came up with the idea for a "fragrant garden" in a location slated to become a parking lot. In 1978, she rallied the Women's Committee of the Smithsonian Associates to support the garden. That group was an organization Mary founded in 1966 to raise money for Smithsonian projects. Ten years later, on this day in 1988, the Women's Committee recognized their founder and friend, Mary Livingston Ripley, by naming the garden after her. In 1996, Mary Livingston Ripley's obituary shared some fascinating details about her life. During the twenty years her husband worked at the Smithsonian, [Mary] frequently accompanied him on scientific expeditions to exotic reaches throughout the Far East.  She volunteered her time to fundraising and gardening exhibits at the museum. Mary was an avid gardener at her homes in Washington and in Litchfield. She was the person behind the Smithsonian's huge collection of orchids. She was also adept at skinning birds and turning over rocks in search of insects. Today, a lovely woman named Janet Draper is the horticulturist for the Mary Livingston Ripley Garden - a position she has relished since 1997. You can see her work on the Smithsonian Gardens Twitter feed. It's one of my favorite feeds on Twitter to follow. So check that out. And also, I'm a friend of Janet's on Facebook. So I get to see all her posts about the incredible flowers and rare specimens planted in that garden. The garden posts are just absolutely astounding. Janet is a wonderful person, and I met her during the Garden Bloggers Fling in DC several years ago. So I would be remiss not to mention the wonderful and dedicated Janet Draper in conjunction with the Ripley Garden.   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation Potted History by Catherine Horwood  This book came out in 2021. It's one of my favorites. This is a revised edition, and the subtitle is: How Houseplants Took Over Our Homes. This is a great little garden history book, and it's all about houseplants. Now houseplants are crazy popular, and that's one of the reasons why Catherine revised this book. It was over a decade ago when the first edition came out, and so this is the second edition. As Catherine mentions, a surprising amount has changed in the story of plants in the home since this book first appeared. Now, what has caused this massive expansion in popularity? Well, in addition to the pandemic, which turned so many people toward gardening and growing houseplants. That trend had already started but was definitely nudged along by the pandemic. Catherine believes three factors have contributed to this overwhelming demand for houseplants. First, improved propagation techniques lead to increased availability and lower prices, which is fantastic. For me, our local Hy-Vee grocery store has a beautiful floral section. I find it quite interesting that the houseplant area is right at the east entrance of my store - that's the side that I always like to go in, of course, because the houseplants are there. But I am entirely fascinated that houseplants are impulse buys these days and are positioned at the front of the store. And while cut flowers are offered, they are not as close to the entrance as houseplants - they're a little further in the store.  Another factor behind the houseplant craze is changing lifestyles - particularly of millennials. Millennials are definitely into houseplants. When I took my daughter to college this past fall, her roommate took up half of the windowsill with her houseplants, and then my daughter's houseplants took up the other half of the windowsill. But as a wise gardener - and knowing that my daughter's room was facing north plus knowing Emma would forget about plant care - 99.9% of the houseplants I sent along with Emma were permanent stems or fake. That said, I did have two super tough live plants in the mix. One of them was moss in a closed terrarium environment. Yes, I am a gardener, and yes, I love houseplants — but I'm also a realist. The other factor causing the phenomenal growth of houseplants is social media. Just the other day. I saw someone post a picture of their living room on Twitter, and it was filled with houseplants. Somewhere in the back of this jungle, you could just see one lone chair, and the caption was, "Is this too many houseplants?" Even I was like, yes - that is too many houseplants. So crazy. There is no doubt that social media has encouraged this trend of houseplants, bringing plants indoors and turning your home into a conservatory. In the introduction, Catherine tells of a man named Sir Hugh Platt. He was a garden writer, and he published one of the first books on gardening techniques. He was also the first person to write a little section about having a garden within doors. Sir Hugh Platt would have loved an idea house that I saw a couple of years ago. Sponsored by one of our local nurseries, the home is updated in the spring and fall with all of these wonderful decor ideas. One particular year, they took one of the bedrooms upstairs and turned it into an indoor potting shed. Fantastic idea. The upstairs bath doubled as a place to wash your hands or water some plants. The little potting bench in the middle of the room was so cute. They also repurposed a bookshelf to serve as their system for organizing all their garden paraphernalia, their garden books, and their garden supplies. A beautiful display of different containers and pots - and tons of terracotta - made me go wild for this room idea. So, if you love this craze of indoor houseplants, you will love Catherine's book of houseplant history and the fascinating stories behind some of our most beloved houseplants. And what better time of year to read about houseplants than right now? This week, most gardeners are starting to move their houseplants back outside for summer, where there'll be deliriously happy before they have to come back in for the winter. And if you are giving someone the gift of a houseplant, then, by all means, order a few copies of Catherine's book to include that along with the present. Talk about amping up a houseplant gift! Sizewise, this is a little book. I love it by the chair in my garden library. And the cover is so pleasant. It's beautifully illustrated with just a single little houseplant. It is just so stinking cute. It's 176 pages of houseplant history. So who wouldn't love that? You can get a copy of Potted History by Catherine Horwood and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $8.   Botanic Spark 1905 On this day, Louisa Yeomans King wrote in her diary recorded in the book The Flower Garden Day by Day: MAY 25. Species lilacs are wonderfully interesting. If there is room, get a few of these;  if there is no room, get one or two,  and if there is room for but one, get Syringa sweginzowi superba, or Syringa oblata for its crimson leaves in October, the only lilac to color so.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.  

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1735 On this day, a French expedition made the first attempt to transport cinchona trees to Europe. The scientist Charles Marie de La Condamine was the first man to describe the Cinchona tree, the scientist Charles Marie de La Condamine, was on the expedition along with the botanist Joseph de Jussieu. Their mission was to add the trees to a Paris collection, but sadly the trees were lost when they were washed overboard. Once Europe learned of the power of the Cinchona tree, they were eager to get their hands on the bark. Cinchona's name was in honor of a Spanish Countess named Ana, and her second marriage was to the Count of Chinchon. After the Count was given the job of serving as the viceroy of Peru, a station that oversaw the entire continent of South America, except for Brazil, the couple arrived in Lima in 1629.   The following year, the Countess grew gravely ill with tertian ague. She suffered a fever that occurred every other day, the Governor of Loxa, Don Francisco Lopez de Canizares, sent over a life-saving parcel of cinchona bark. With the cinchona powder, the Countess made a rapid recovery. Eleven years later, when the Count and Countess began their return trip to Spain, they brought along a precious supply of the curative Quina bark for use with their people. They also hoped to introduce cinchona medicine to the rest of Europe.   Sadly, Ana died during the long voyage home in Cartegena in December 1639. But Ana's legacy lives on in the medicine we know today as quinine. After her husband, the Count returned to Spain, the medicinal Quina bark powder became known as Pulvis Comitissa in honor of the Countess. And over 100 years later, Linneaus named the genus Cinchona in honor of the Countess of Chinchon in 1742. Linneaus should have called it Chinchona, but he forgot the "h."   1809 On this day, the herbalist and midwife Martha Ballard worked in the raised beds in her garden and recorded her annual spring gardening efforts. For 27 years, Martha kept a journal of her work as a gardener, town healer, and midwife for Hallowell, Maine.  Today, Martha's great journal gives us a glimpse into the plants she regularly used and how she applied them medicinally. As for how Martha sourced her plants, she raised them in her garden or foraged them in the wild. As the village apothecary, Martha found her own ingredients and made all of her herbal remedies personally. As a midwife, Martha assisted with 816 births. In May of 1809, Martha worked in the gardens surrounding her house. She sowed, set, planted, and transplanted.  On May 15, she planted squash, cucumbers, muskmelons, and watermelons. And on this day, May 16, she sowed string peas at the end of her garden. In Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's work, The Life of Martha Ballard, she writes, Martha's was an ordinary garden, a factory for food and medicine that incidentally provided nourishment to the soul.  "I have workt in my gardin," she wrote on May 17, the possessive pronoun the only hint of the sense of ownership she felt in her work. The garden was hers, though her husband or son or the Hallowell and Augusta Bank owned the land.  "I have squash and Cucumbers come up in the bed [on the] east side the house," she wrote on May 22.  The garden was hers because she turned the soil, dropped the seeds, and each year recorded in her diary, as though it had never happened before, the recurring miracle of spring.   1861 On this day, Union Captain Jacob Ritner wrote back to his wife, Emeline. Jacob and Emeline exchanged marvelous letters throughout the Civil War that depicted their heroic lives on both the battlefield and homefront. While Jacob wrote with the tragic news of war, Emeline kept him apprised of their four small children and the challenges of maintaining the family farm. Emeline's news from home kept Jacob sane and anchored to the happier reality that awaited him after the war. Emeline often wrote about the garden and the landscape, proving that even news of a faraway garden can be anchoring and grounding amid hardship. And so, on this day back in 1861, Jacob wrote in his letter, Now Emeline dear, you must write me a great long letter next Sunday.  Tell me all the news, how the trees grow, the garden and grass, what everybody says...   1918 On this day, the rose season began at Munstead Wood, the Arts and Crafts style home and surrounding gardens in Surrey, England, created by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. Munstead Wood became famous thanks to Gertrude's books and articles in magazines like Country Life. Gertrude lived at Munstead Wood from 1897 to 1932. Volume 82 of The Garden celebrated the first rose to open at Munstead Wood on this day by reporting, The rose season begins. The opening the first Rose is always a source of delight. The first we have seen in the open this year was the pink Rosa rugosa at Munstead Wood on May 16. This is one of the oldest garden roses and is said to have been cultivated since 1100 A.D. in China, where the ladies of the Court prepared a kind of potpourri from its petals, gathered on a fine day, and mixed with Camphor and Musk.   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation The Secret Garden Cookbook, Newly Revised Edition by Amy Cotler This book came out in 2020, and the subtitle is Inspiring Recipes from the Magical World of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden. If you've been listening to the show, I've been on a little bit of a cookbook kick lately, and cookbooks tied to literature. So this is continuing in that same vein with this great book called The Secret Garden Cookbook by Amy Kotler. Amy is a professional chef, caterer, and cooking-school teacher - and if you're a cookbook lover, you will truly appreciate her background in the kitchen. When this book came out, people were going crazy for the Toffee Pudding recipe that you can find on page 32. So that's just a little heads up. If you're a gardener, I'll point out that right at the beginning of the book is a beautiful picture of the Francis Hodgson Burnett Memorial Fountain. It's both a statue and a tranquil fountain filled with lily pads that depicts Mary and Dickon from The Secret Garden. It's located in Central Park in New York City, and it's just a gorgeous photo of this Memorial. Here's how Amy introduces us to The Secret Garden and the magic of food: She writes, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden is about the magic of making things come alive. Mary, Colin, and Dickon all help the forgotten secret garden to grow again. ButMary and Colin come alive, too, through hard work, friendship, and good, nourishing food.  When Mary Lennox first arrives atMisselthwaite Manor from India, she is thin,sallow, and unhealthy looking. But as she goes outside, skips rope, and works in the garden, her appetite grows. Colin, too, is sickly until he learns the secret of the garden. By the end of the novel, he is enjoying food as much as Mary. Pails of fresh milk, dough cakes with brown sugar, hearty porridge, fire-roasted potatoes-Mary, and Colin can't get enough of them! The children of The Secret Garden grew up during the reign of Queen Victoria... commonly known as the Victorian era. In those days, food took a long time to cook and serve.  Even Mrs. Sowerby, Dickon's mother, though she must feed fourteen people, manages to find a little extra food for Mary and Colin when they experience the joys of eating.   And that's what this book is all about; a hardy appreciation of good food. This book is 112 pages of fifty recipes inspired by The Secret Garden, and they're all updated for the modern kitchen and appeal to today's tastes. You can get a copy of The Secret Garden Cookbook, Newly Revised Edition by Amy Cotler, and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $10.   Botanic Spark 1905 Birth of Herbert Ernest Bates (pen name H. E. Bates) English author. He once wrote, The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.   H.E. is remembered for his books, Love for Lydia (1952), The Darling Buds of May (1958), and My Uncle Silas (1939). The Darling Buds of May inspired a TV series in the 1990s. In his book, A Love of Flowers (1971), H.E. wrote, It is wonderful to think that one of the few unbroken links between the civilization of ancient Egypt and the civilization of today is the garden. And he also wrote, Gardens… should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises, and then still more curves.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee   Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1746 Birth of André Michaux (books about this person), French botanist and explorer. André grew up on a royal farm in Satory south of Versailles. His father trained both he and his brother in horticulture, and after his father died, André carried on at the farm. André married a prosperous farmer's daughter from a nearby farm named Cécile Claye. A month shy of their first wedding anniversary Cécile delivered a son, Francois-André. Later in life, André would name an oak in his son's honor. Tragically, Cécile died after the delivery. André battled through the next decade by studying horticulture. His friend, the naturalist Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier ("Lew-ee Ghee-ohm Lew-moh-nay"), urged him to focus on exotic plants, and the great botanist Bernard de Jussieu gave André a solid understanding of botany. The next step for André was travel. In 1786, André was asked to go to North America. As a single father, he brought François-Andre, then 15, along with him. André's mission was to establish a botanical garden in America. The goal was to set up a botanical clearinghouse of sorts and send seeds and specimens back to France. André established his nursery on the land where the Charleston Area National Airport exists today. In fact, at the Charleston airport, there is a stunning mural installed in 2016 that honors Andre and his son. In one panel, Andre-François and his father are depicted in the potager or kitchen garden. The central scene shows the rice fields along the Ashley River and the Charleston Harbor, where Michaux introduced one of the first Camellia plants. Native to Asia, Camellias are small, evergreen flowering trees or shrubs, and Camellias are in the Theaceae or tea family, which is why Camellias are commonly called tea plants. In Floriography ("FLOOR-EE-ah-grah-FEE") or the language of flowers, the Camellia represents love and loyalty. Camellia blossoms are beautiful and come in various colors, sizes, bloom times, and forms. And, best of all, Camellias are long-lived and can grow for 100 to 200 years. Finally, here are two fun facts about the Camellia: In California, Sacramento is nicknamed the Camellia City, and the Camellia is the state flower of Alabama.   1836 Birth of Sir Michael Foster, English physician, and iris breeder. He's regarded as the father of iris cultivation. In the late 1800s, Michael became the first person to crossbreed new varieties of Iris. He started his work with purple and yellow iris and made a beautiful blend by the third generation. Soon Michael had large wild iris specimens arriving from all over the world. He found that missionaries could be a great help to him. They sent Trojana, Cypriana, and Mesopotamica varieties from the Near East. In time, Michael's iris creations had bigger flowers and grew taller. He crossed Irises in every conceivable way, and he once wrote to the plant breeder William John Caparne, "In hybridizing, be bold." Michael once said, Nature is ever making signs to us; she is ever whispering to us the beginnings of her secrets.   April 26, 1970, Elizabeth Lawrence (books by this author) reflected on the spring, writing, This spring, I was asked if I am bored. How can anyone ask that of a gardener? No Gardener could ever be bored, for ... Every season is new and different from all those that went before.  There always is something new in bloom, something expected and something unexpected, something lost that is found, and there is always disappointment, but being sad is not the same thing as being bored. “It acts like spring, but I dare not hope,” Carolyn Dorman wrote on Saint Valentine's Day. "It was about this time in 1899 that the temperature here in Northern Louisiana was 20 degrees below… God spare us, daffodils are beginning now, and Magnolia Alba Superba will soon be in bloom.”  It is the white form of Magnolia x soulangiana that Caroline calls “alba superba”. She thinks it more beautiful than the Yulan. In my garden the Yulan (Magnolia denudata) and two of its hybrids M. x soulangiana and M. x veitschii, came into bloom together on March 8th. I can't think of when, if ever before, all three have bloomed at once when the weather was warm but not hot, when there was no frost and no rain, and when only a few petals were whipped off by wind.   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation Private Gardens of Santa Barbara by Margie Grace This book came out in 2020, and the subtitle is The Art of Outdoor Living. Margie is a two-time-named International Landscape Designer of the Year. She has worked in the field for over three decades, and she is the perfect host to showcase these magnificent private gardens in Santa Barbara, which is often called the American Riviera.  This book features eighteen gardens designed by Margie and representing a range of spaces from large estates to surf retreats. This is an elegant coffee table book - a total escape - to the lush spaces of Santa Barbara's private gardens, and they are water-smart, maintenance-smart, and fire-smart. This book is 256 pages of incredible private California gardens showcased by one of the country's top designers. You can get a copy of Private Gardens of Santa Barbara by Margie Grace and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for $28.   Botanic Spark 1897 Birth of Joseph Pla (books by this author), Spanish journalist and a popular author. His seminal work, The Gray Notebook, was a diary he wrote in 1918 during the onset of the Spanish flu pandemic. Joseph was a law student at the University at Barcelona, but when the school shut down, he was forced to return home to Palafrugell ("Pala-frew-yay") on the coast of Spain. Realizing he would rather be a writer than a lawyer, he kept a journal to improve his writing skills. It was Joseph Pla who once said, Cooking is the landscape in a saucepan.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter   Facebook Group The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you'd search for a friend and request to join.   Historical Events 1515 Birth of Valerius Cordus, German physician, botanist, and pharmacologist. He wrote one of the most popular herbals in history and discovered a way to synthesize ether, which he called oleum dulci vitrioli, or "sweet oil of vitriol." Centuries later, the botanist Thomas Archibald Sprague re-published "The Herbal of Valerius Cordus" with his older sister. In 1544, Valerius spent the summer botanizing in Italy with two French naturalists. At some point, he waded into marshes in search of new plants. When he became sick, his friends brought him to Rome. Then, they continued on to Naples. When they returned to Rome, they found Valerius had died. He was 29. The Swiss botanist Konrad Gesner collected and preserved Cordus' work, which was significant. One expert once said, There was Theophrastus; there was nothing for 1,800 years; then there was Cordus. The plant genus Cordia is named for him. Cordia's are in the borage family, and many cordias have fragrant, showy flowers. Some cordias produce edible fruits called clammy cherries, glue berries, sebesten, or snotty gobbles.   1896 Birth of André Robert Breton (books by this author), French writer and poet. He is remembered as the co-founder of surrealism and he wrote the first Surrealist Manifesto. He once wrote, The man who can't visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.   1931 Birth of Toni Morrison (books by this author), American writer, book editor, and college professor. In her book, Jazz, she wrote of the change in seasons. What can beat bricks warming up to the sun? The return of awnings. The removal of blankets from horses' backs. Tar softens under the heel, and the darkness under bridges changes from gloom to cooling shade. After a light rain, when the leaves have come, tree limbs are like wet fingers playing in woolly green hair.   Grow That Garden Library™  Book Recommendation The Secrets of the Great Botanists by Matthew Biggs This book came out late in 2018, and the subtitle is What They Can Teach Us About Gardening. Matthew Biggs loves to research botanists and share their stories. In this book, he profiles 35 botanists who significantly increased our understanding of plants. As with most RHS books, this book is beautifully illustrated with that RHS look and feel. It is loaded with plenty of drawings, portraits, and photographs to make each story come alive. This book is 224 pages of pioneering botanists and how knowing their work can make us better gardeners. You can get a copy of The Secrets of the Great Botanists by Matthew Biggs and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for $16.   Botanic Spark 1827 Death of Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ("do-shayn") (books about this person), French botanist, gardener, and professor at Versailles. As a young botanist, Antoine was a student of Bernard de Jussieu at the Royal Garden in Paris and made many scientific discoveries. Antoine recognized that mutation was a natural occurrence and that plants could be altered via mutation at any time. In his work with mutation, Antoine began experimenting with strawberries. Ever since the 1300s, wild strawberries have been incorporated into gardens. But on July 6, 1764, Antoine changed the trajectory of wild strawberries when he created the modern strawberry - the strawberry we know today. Strawberries are members of the rose family, and they are unique in that their seeds are on the outside of the fruit. Just how many seeds are on a single strawberry? The average strawberry has around 200 seeds. To get your strawberry plant to produce more fruit, plant your strawberries in full sun, in well-drained soil, and trim the runners. Of the strawberry, Toni Morrison wrote, I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

Sylvie Topaloff est avocate, inscrite au barreau de Paris depuis 1976. Elle se spécialise au départ en droit de la famille et devient à l'époque l'un des fers de lance de la section féminine du Mouvement d'action judiciaire, une organisation d'extrême gauche fondée au lendemain de Mai 68. Cet engagement lui fera notamment organiser des voyages à Amsterdam pour permettre aux femmes d'avorter avant la loi Veil. Elle résumait dans un portrait que Baudouin Eschapasse lui consacrait dans en mai dernier : « Je me rends compte rétrospectivement que, si je suis devenue avocate, c'est pour porter la voix des femmes dans les prétoires. »Plus tard, la juriste s'oriente dans le droit social et, dans les années 1990, la défense de travailleurs maliens sans papiers souffrant de graves pathologies pulmonaires lui fait comprendre que, s'ils sont si malades, c'est parce qu'ils ont inhalé des poussières toxiques sur le chantier de décontamination du campus de Jussieu où ils étaient employés. C'est ce dossier de l'amiante qui la fera travailler avec Jean-Paul Teissonnière, en 1996, et tous deux vont s'atteler pendant près de dix ans à obtenir des réparations civiles mais aussi des sanctions pénales contre les responsables de cette catastrophe sanitaire à l'origine de 2 000 à 3 000 cancers mortels par an.En 2002, ils fondent un cabinet commun, le cabinet TTLA (Teissonniere Topaloff Lafforgue Andreu), qui se concentre sur la défense des victimes du travail dans tous les domaines de l'industrie, en lien étroit avec les syndicats et les associations de défense des victimes. Ce cabinet compte aujourd'hui douze associés et une quarantaine de salariés répartis entre Paris et Marseille.En plus du dossier de l'amiante, on retrouve l'invitée des Contrariantes dans nombre de grands procès de notre époque, comme celui de France Télécom, du Mediator, d'AZF. Et Sylvie Topaloff fait aujourd'hui partie des avocats des parties civiles au procès des attentats du 13 Novembre, où elle représente dix-neuf clients, dont les familles de quinze victimes, parmi lesquelles trois sont décédées. Un procès, comme elle le détaille au micro de Lætitia Strauch-Bonart et Peggy Sastre, permettant de poser « la question de savoir ce qu'est devenu notre pays ». Vaste programme. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

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 Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia le 22 janvier 1879 à Paris (2e arrondissement) et mort le 30 novembre 1953 dans la même ville, est un peintre, dessinateur et écrivain français, proche du mouvement dada, puis surréaliste.Francis Picabia est le petit-fils de Juan Martinez Picabia, né à Cuba, puis émigré à New York et Madrid et, côté maternel, d'Alphonse Davanne (1824-1912), chimiste et photographe, et président de la Société française de photographie. Son oncle, Maurice Davanne, est conservateur à la bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève à Paris.Sa mère, Marie Davanne, meurt en 1886. Il fait ses études chez les maristes au collège Stanislas, puis au lycée Monge, à Paris. En 1894, voulant éprouver la vocation tôt manifestée de son fils, « Pancho » Picabia envoie, au Salon des artistes français, la toile de Francis intitulée Vue des Martigues. Le tableau ayant été non seulement accepté, mais primé, Picabia entre, après une scolarité compliquée, à l'École des arts décoratifs l'année suivante, où il sera l'élève de Wallet, Humbert et Cormon; mais il fréquente plus volontiers l'École du Louvre et l'Académie Humbert, où il travaille aux côtés de Georges Braque et de Marie Laurencin. L'année 1897 marque un tournant dans sa carrière : la découverte d'Alfred Sisley lui révèle l'impressionnisme, pour lequel son enthousiasme se renforce avec la rencontre de la famille Pissarro, en 1898. Il commence à exposer régulièrement au Salon des artistes français. C'est pour lui le début d'une période extrêmement féconde, qui durera dix ans ; les centaines de toiles qu'il peint alors, où l'influence impressionniste reste toujours plus ou moins sensible, sont propres à séduire le public : sa première exposition personnelle de 1905, à la galerie Haussmann à Paris, est un triomphe. Les tableaux exposés, étrangers aux nouvelles recherches plastiques, relèvent de l'imitation du « pur luminisme impressionniste »[réf. nécessaire] (Bords du Loing, 1905, Philadelphie, Museum of Art). Cependant, Picabia remet peu à peu en cause les valeurs plastiques qui lui valent son succès grandissant et, en 1908, sa rencontre avec Gabrièle Buffet — qui l'encourage à poursuivre de récentes recherches —, détermine la rupture avec l'impressionnisme comme avec ses marchands, rupture permise aussi par sa fortune personnelle. De 1903 à 1908, influencé par les peintres de Barbizon, il côtoie Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro et Marius Borgeaud. Son aquarelle Caoutchouc de 1909 (Musée national d'Art moderne, Paris), qui serait antidatée de 1907 et pourrait représenter des balles de caoutchouc, comme dans La Petite fille au ballon de 1908 de František Kupka, fut considérée plusieurs années plus tard, comme une des œuvres pionnières et fondatrices de l'art abstrait. À sa majorité, il prend possession de l'héritage maternel qui lui assure de confortables revenus. Sa première exposition personnelle (61 tableaux) est organisée en 1905 à Paris à la galerie Haussmann, chez Danthon, la suivante à Berlin à la Kaspar Kunstsalon. Il montrera ensuite ses œuvres à nouveau chez Danthon en 1907, puis à Londres, Munich, Barcelone. De 1905 à 1908, Picabia séjourne deux fois à Martigues et réalise de nombreux paysages de style impressionniste de la ville et de ses canaux. En 1909, il épouse Gabrièle Buffet, peut-être petite-nièce d'Alphonse de Lamartine[réf. nécessaire], petite-fille de l'amiral de Challié et descendante d'un frère de Jussieu, « l'homme qui rapporta le cèdre du Liban dans son chapeau », dixit Picabia[réf. nécessaire]. Une fille, Laure Marie Catalina, naît en 1910 ; un garçon, Pancho Gabriel François, en 1911. Ils auront encore une fille, Gabrielle Cécile, dite « Jeannine », en 1913, et un garçon, Vincente, né en 1919. À cette époque, il peint de manière très colorée à la manière des Fauves et fait ses premières incursions dans le domaine de l'abstraction. En 1911, il rejoint le groupe de Puteaux qui se réunissait dans le studio du peintre Jacques Villon, frère de Marcel Duchamp, qu'il a rencontré en 1910. Il devient aussi orphiste et crée en 1912, à Puteaux, le Salon de la Section d'Or, avant de connaître un premier succès international à l'exposition de l'Armory Show de New York, en 1913. Marqué par la Broyeuse de chocolat et le concept de ready-made de Marcel Duchamp, il confectionne, dès 1913, une série d'œuvres où il reprend l'esthétique du dessin industriel, recopiant ou simplifiant des images qu'il trouvait dans le magazine scientifique La Science et la Vie.

Today we celebrate a man who changed his personal beliefs and life philosophy after studying nature. We'll also learn about a woman who writes about her lifelong relationship with the garden. We hear an excerpt about the spring garden with a bit of empathy for what it is like to be a weed. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a fabulous reference for plant identification. And then we’ll wrap things up with the son of a gardener who grew to love plants and nature and became one of America’s best-loved poets.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Curated News DIY Strawberry Rocks | Washington Gardener | Kathy Jentz   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you’d search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events May 25, 1803 Today is the birthday of the American transcendentalist, essayist, philosopher, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a son of Boston. By the time he finished his schooling at Harvard, he had decided to go by his middle name, Waldo. He was his class poet, and he wrote an original poem for his graduation. Six years later, on Christmas Day, he would meet his first wife, Ellen. Two years later, he lost her to tuberculosis. Her death eventually made him a wealthy man — although he had to sue his inlaws to acquire the inheritance. Deeply grieved after losing Ellen, Waldo eventually traveled to Europe, where he visited the Royal Botanical Garden in Paris. The experience was a revelation to him. At the Paris Garden, Waldo sees plants organized according to Jussieu's system of classification. Suddenly he can see connections between different species. The American historian and biographer. Robert D. Richardson wrote, "Emerson's moment of insight into the interconnectedness of things in the Jardin des Plantes was a moment of almost visionary intensity that pointed him away from theology and toward science". Upon his return to the states, Waldo befriended other forward thinkers and writers of his time: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas Carlyle. In 1835, Waldo married his second wife, Lydia Jackson. Waldo changed her name from Lydia to Lidian, and he calls her by other names like Queenie and Asia. She always calls him “Mr. Emerson.” Around this time, Waldo began to think differently about the world and his perspective on life. Waldo was also the son of a minister, which makes his move away from religion and societal beliefs all the more impressive. By 1836, Waldo published his philosophy of transcendentalism in an essay he titled "Nature." He wrote: "Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language, not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book that is written in that tongue." The next year, Waldo gave a speech called "The American Scholar." It so moved Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. that he called Waldo’s oration text America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence." After his Nature essay, Waldo befriended Henry David Thoreau. In late September of 1838, the Salem Massachusetts Unitarian minister and American botanist John Lewis Russell visited Waldo, and they spent some time botanizing together. Waldo wrote about the visit in his journal: "A good woodland day or two with John Lewis Russell who came here, & showed me mushrooms, lichens, & mosses. A man in whose mind things stand in the order of cause & effect & not in the order of a shop or even of a cabinet." In 1855, when Walt Whitman published his Leaves of Grass, he sent a copy to Emerson. Waldo sent Whitman a five-page letter of praise. With Emerson’s support, Whitman issues a second edition that, unbeknownst to Waldo, quoted a passage from his letter that was printed in gold leaf on the cover, "I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career." Waldo was displeased by this; he had wanted the letter to remain private. In the twilight of his life, the man who once advised, “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience,” Ralph Waldo Emerson was invited to join a group of nine intellectuals on a camping trip in the Adirondacks. The goal was simple: to connect with nature. The experience included Harvard’s naturalist Louis Agassiz, the great botanist James Russell Lowell, and the American naturalist Jeffries Wyman. It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who wrote, "The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it."   "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."   And “The Earth laughs in flowers.”   Finally, here’s a little prayer Waldo wrote - giving thanks for the gifts of nature. “For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!”   May 25, 1949 Today is the birthday of the Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer Jamaica Kincaid born Elaine Potter Richardson. Jamaica Kincaid is a gardener and popular garden writer. Her book Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya offers many wonderful excerpts. And here, she discusses the dreams of gardeners - and how they form from our desire and curiosity. She writes, “Something that never escapes me as I putter about the garden, physically and mentally: desire and curiosity inform the inevitable boundaries of the garden, and boundaries, especially when they are an outgrowth of something as profound as the garden with all its holy restrictions and admonitions, must be violated.” Jamaica’s book My Garden offers an intimate look at her relationship with her garden. She writes, "I shall never have the garden I have in my mind, but that for me is the joy of it; certain things can never be realized and so all the more reason to attempt them." Here she talks about time and the destruction of a garden: “In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture—it won’t accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy’ time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.” "The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not." She also wrote, “I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don’t like tidying up the garden afterwards.” During the pandemic in August of 2020, Jamaica wrote an essay for the New Yorker called, The Disturbances of the Garden. She wrote about learning to garden from her mother: “My mother was a gardener, and in her garden it was as if Vertumnus and Pomona had become one: she would find something growing in the wilds of her native island (Dominica) or the island on which she lived and gave birth to me (Antigua), and if it pleased her, or if it was in fruit and the taste of the fruit delighted her, she took a cutting of it (really she just broke off a shoot with her bare hands) or the seed (separating it from its pulpy substance and collecting it in her beautiful pink mouth) and brought it into her own garden and tended to it in a careless, everyday way, as if it were in the wild forest, or in the garden of a regal palace. The woods: The garden. For her, the wild and the cultivated were equal and yet separate, together and apart.” Later she writes about her own relationship with the garden. “But where is the garden and where am I in it? This memory of growing things, anything, outside not inside, remained in my memory… in New York City in particular, I planted: marigolds, portulaca, herbs for cooking, petunias, and other things that were familiar to me, all reminding me of my mother, the place I came from. Those first plants were in pots and lived on the roof of a diner that served only breakfast and lunch, in a dilapidated building at 284 Hudson Street, whose ownership was uncertain, which is the fate of us all. Ownership of ourselves and of the ground on which we walk, ...and ownership of the vegetable kingdom are all uncertain, too. Nevertheless, in the garden, we perform the act of possessing. To name is to possess…” “I began to refer to plants by their Latin names, and this so irritated my editor at this magazine (Veronica Geng) that she made me promise that I would never learn the Latin name of another plant. I loved her very much, and so I promised that I would never do such a thing, but I did continue to learn the Latin names of plants and never told her. Betrayal, another feature of any garden.”   Unearthed Words After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made. ― Stephen M. Irwin, Australian screenwriter, producer, and novelist, The Dead Path   Grow That Garden Library Plant Identification Terminology by James G. Harrison   This book came out in 2001, and the subtitle is An Illustrated Glossary. Well, to me, this book is an oldie, but goodie; I first bought my copy of this book back in 2013. This book aims to help you understand the terms used in plant identification, keys, and descriptions - and it also provides definitions for almost 3,000 words. Now, if you're looking to improve your grasp of plant identification terminology, this book will be an invaluable reference.   And just as a heads up. there are around 30 used copies that are reasonably priced on Amazon. But of course, they're not going to last forever, so if you're interested in this book, don't wait to get a copy. (After those used copies are gone, then the next lowest price is around $200.) This book is 216 pages of exactly what it says it is: plant identification, terminology - and I should mention that there are also helpful illustrations. You can get a copy of Plant Identification Terminology by James G. Harrison  and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $12   Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart May 25, 1908 Today is the birthday of the Michigan-born poet, gardener, and the 1954 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, Theodore Roethke (“RETH-key”). Ted wrote about nature and the American Northwest. He enjoyed focusing on “the little things in life.” His father was a gardener, a greenhouse grower, a rose-lover, and a drinker. As a result, many of Ted’s pieces are about new life springing from rot and decay. His best poem is often considered to be “The Rose.” The poem reminded him of his father, and he could barely speak the poem without crying. Today, garden signs and social media posts quote Ted’s verse, “Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.”   Ted battled bipolar depression most of his life, and his darkness can be seen in his poem called The Geranium. When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail, She looked so limp and bedraggled, So foolish and trusting, like a sick poodle, Or a wizened aster in late September, I brought her back in again For a new routine - Vitamins, water, and whatever Sustenance seemed sensible At the time: she'd lived So long on gin, bobbie pins, half-smoked cigars, dead beer, Her shriveled petals falling On the faded carpet, the stale Steak grease stuck to her fuzzy leaves. (Dried-out, she creaked like a tulip.) The things she endured!- The dumb dames shrieking half the night Or the two of us, alone, both seedy, Me breathing booze at her, She leaning out of her pot toward the window. Near the end, she seemed almost to hear me- And that was scary- So when that snuffling cretin of a maid Threw her, pot and all, into the trash-can,I said nothing. But I sacked the presumptuous hag the next week, I was that lonely.   A sunnier and more tender poem was called Transplanting. Ted wrote the poem from the perspective of "a very small child: all interior drama; no comment; no interpretation.” Watching hands transplanting, Turning and tamping, Lifting the young plants with two fingers, Sifting in a palm-full of fresh loam,-- One swift movement,-- Then plumping in the bunched roots, A single twist of the thumbs, a tamping, and turning, All in one, Quick on the wooden bench, A shaking down, while the stem stays straight, Once, twice, and a faint third thump,-- Into the flat-box, it goes, Ready for the long days under the sloped glass: The sun warming the fine loam, The young horns winding and unwinding, Creaking their thin spines, The underleaves, the smallest buds Breaking into nakedness, The blossoms extending  Out into the sweet air, The whole flower extending outward, Stretching and reaching.   Theodore Roethke died in 1963. He was visiting friends on Bainbridge Island. One afternoon he was fixing mint juleps by the pool. The friends went to the main house to get something. When they returned, three perfect mint juleps sat on a table by the edge of the pool, and Ted was floating face down in the water. He’d suffered a brain aneurysm. After his death, the family honored their friend by filling in the pool. They installed a beautiful zen garden in the pool's footprint that is framed by conifers and features raked sand and a handful of moss-covered stones. There is no plaque. Today, we’ll end the podcast with Theodore’s ode to spring - called Vernal Sentiment. Though the crocuses poke up their heads in the usual places, The frog scum appear on the pond with the same froth of green, And boys moon at girls with last year's fatuous faces, I never am bored, however familiar the scene. When from under the barn the cat brings a similar litter,— Two yellow and black, and one that looks in between,— Though it all happened before, I cannot grow bitter: I rejoice in the spring, as though no spring ever had been.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

J’attends avec impatience vos participations au guide de survie que nous allons écrire ensemble pour fêter le 2000e épisode du podcast ! Cela approche vite ! Il peut s’agir d’un mot, d’une histoire, d’une suggestion de dialogue. Toutes les infos sur le site du podcast. www.onethinginafrenchday.com Vendredi dernier, le temps était agréable. A onze heures et demie, j’ai retrouvé Anne-Laure à la gare de Bécon, nous avions prévu d’aller nous promener au Jardin des Plantes pour le déjeuner. Nous avions aussi rendez-vous en tout début d’après-midi à la boulangerie Archibald qui se trouve dans le même quartier, à deux pas de l’université Jussieu.  La suite du texte est dans le TRANSCRIPT, abonnez-vous! http://bit.ly/OneThingTranscripts  

Today we celebrate a French botanist and explorer who became an accomplished botanist after losing his wife. We'll also learn about the man remembered in the late spring/summer-flowering genus Roscoea (ross-COE-ee-uh), which includes extremely fragrant herbaceous perennials in the Zingiberaceae “Zin- jah-bah-RAY-see-ee" or ginger family. We hear an excerpt from a delightful book about pruning wisteria - if you have a wisteria in full sun that hasn’t bloomed - you can thank your pruning regimen for that. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about floral cocktails. Cheers to that. And then we’ll wrap things up with a little story about a female botanist and botanical illustrator known to her family and friends by her nickname: Shadow.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Curated News Build an Affordable Grow Light System | Fine Gardening | Carol Collins   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you’d search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events March 8, 1746 Today is the birthday of the French botanist and explorer André Michaux. Most people think of André Michaux as the accomplished old botanist, but I always prefer to recall the beginning of his story because that’s what set him on his course. André grew up on a royal farm in Satory south of Versailles. His father trained both he and his brother in horticulture, and after his father died, André carried on at the farm. André married a prosperous farmer’s daughter from a nearby farm named Cécile Claye. Within a month after marrying, Cécile became pregnant. And a month shy of their first wedding anniversary Cécile delivered a son, Francois-André, and later in life, André named an oak in his son’s honor. Tragically, Cécile died after the delivery of their only son, which plunged André into depression. Yet mercifully, the decade after Cécile’s death ended up accelerating André’s horticultural learning and development. First, his friend, the naturalist Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, persuaded André to work with exotic plants that needed study and acclimation to France’s weather. Then, André started studying with the great botanist Bernard de Jussieu at Versailles and in the Royal Botanic Garden in Paris. And then, André began starting to travel to collect plants. In 1786, André was asked to go to North America, and he brought his 15-year-old son François-Andre along with him. André’s mission was to establish a botanical garden in America and send specimens back to France. In quick fashion, André established his nursery on the property that the Charleston Area National Airport now occupies. Today, as you leave the Charleston airport, you’ll notice a stunning mural that honors Andre and his son. The mural was installed in 2016. In one panel, Andre-François and his father are depicted in the potager or kitchen garden. The central scene depicts the rice fields along the Ashley River and the Charleston Harbor, where Michaux introduced one of the first Camellia plants. Native to Asia, Camellias are small, evergreen flowering trees or shrubs, and Camellias are in the Theaceae or tea family, which is why Camellias are commonly called tea plants. In Floriography ("FLOOR-EE-ah-grah-FEE") or the language of flowers, the Camellia represents love and loyalty. Camellia blossoms are beautiful and come in various colors, sizes, bloom times, and forms. And, best of all, Camellias are long-lived and can grow for 100 to 200 years. Finally, here are two fun facts about the Camellia: In California, Sacramento is nicknamed the Camellia City, and The Camellia is Alabama’s state flower.   March 8, 1753 Today is the birthday of the Liverpool poet, historian, botanist, and politician William Roscoe. William grew up in the Presbyterian church. He learned his love of poetry from his mother, and he’d helped his father with his work as a market gardener. As an adult, William was an early abolitionist during a time when the slave trade was the backbone of the economic success of Liverpool. In 1803, William led a group of botanists and naturalists and helped found the Liverpool Botanic Garden - one of England’s earliest public gardens. And William gave the inaugural address for the Botanic Gardens and served as its first president. For the rest of his life, William loved working in the garden, and he especially enjoyed studying the tropical plants. In fact, William also authored a book on the ginger plant family, which included Canna Lilies, Arrowroot, Ginger, and Tumeric -something we hear an awful lot about on TV commercials today. As for William's book, his talented daughter-in-law, Margaret Roscoe, provided some beautiful illustrations for his work. And in 1807, William wrote a whimsical poem about a party for insects for his ten children to get them excited about the natural world called The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast with the famous verse: Come take up your hats,  and away let us haste,  To the Butterfly's Ball,  and the Grasshopper's Feast. It's no wonder that a biography of William referred to him as “Liverpool’s greatest citizen.” Today William Roscoe is remembered in the late spring/summer-flowering genus Roscoea (ross-COE-ee-uh), which includes extremely fragrant herbaceous perennials in the Zingiberaceae “Zin- jah-bah-RAY-see-ee" or ginger family. Roscoea or Alpine Gingers are native to China and the Himalayas. Roscoea blossoms look like the bloom of an orchid, and they are perfect for a woodland garden or a shady border.   Unearthed Words After planting, remove all but the three strongest vines. Wind those around and tie them [to whatever you're going to be growing them on.] Make sure you wrap the vines in the direction they naturally want to grow. Chinese and Japanese Wisteria naturally winds in different directions. To entice the plant into blooming, you need to do some special pruning. Wisteria normally blooms in mid-May, and soon after the blooming period is over, tendrils begin to grow out of the main structural vines. For the first few years, your Wisteria won't bloom because it's too young. But the tendrils will still begin to grow right after the normal blooming period is over. And each tendril is capable of growing 25 feet in one season. The trick to encouraging flowering is to cut back these rapidly growing tendrils to about six inches long. This is called spur pruning. All the energy that would have gone into 25 feet of growth is captured in the six-inch spur and now stimulates flower bud production instead. Spur pruning is a lot of work that must be done every spring. Soon after, the tendrils begin to grow. But pruning in this manner usually results in flowering within four to five years after planting. — Ciscoe Morris, Oh, La La!: Homegrown Stories, Helpful Tips, and Garden Wisdom, Wisteria   Grow That Garden Library Floral Libations by Cassie Winslow  This book came out in 2019, and the subtitle is 41 Fragrant Drinks + Ingredients (Flower Cocktails, Non-Alcoholic and Alcoholic Mixed Drinks, and Mocktails Recipe Book). Well, Cassie's book is a gardener’s delight, and I first ran across it in a gift shop back in 2019. The cover is absolutely gorgeous, and Cassie's creativity shines in this beautiful book. Nowadays, edible flowers and botanically-infused drinks are all the rage - and they are irresistibly beautiful. And Cassie teaches us how to make them taste as good as they look. Cassie's recipes include an Iced Lavender Café au Lait, Rose Petal Almond Milk, Dandelion Tea Cinnamon Cappuccino, Hibiscus Old Fashioned, Orange Blossom Moscow Mule, and my favorite — Plum Rosewater Gin and Tonic — just to name a few. Another outstanding feature of Cassie's book is the beautiful photographs that accompany every single recipe. And if you're in the Facebook Group for the show, I shared a gorgeous video of Cassie making her Blackberry Hibiscus Lemon Drop - it's so easy and so pretty. This book is 128 pages of beautiful floral drinks fit for a gardener and perfect for a garden party. You can get a copy of Floral Libations by Cassie Winslow and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $4   Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart March 8, 1963 Today is the anniversary of the death of the little-known, multi-talented, driven, and dauntless plant explorer, plant collector, gardener, and botanical artist Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe. Born in Wimbledon in 1867, Charlotte was the youngest daughter in her family. Charlotte became very ill at some point in her childhood, and her sickliness caused her family to give her a little nickname that would follow her for the rest of her life: “Shadow.” At the age of 30, Charlotte married a man she had known since her childhood, Otway Wheeler-Cuffe. Otway was a civil engineer who had secured a posting in Burma, and after the wedding, Otway and Charlotte immediately left for Maymyo (“MAY-me-oh”). Charlotte’s life with Otway blossomed in Burma as she discovered a world with natural wonders and beauty she could have never imagined. A lifelong gardener, one of Charlotte’s first letters from Burma tells of meeting a Mr. Carter who was, “...going to start me with plants for our little compound, which I think I shall be able to make very pretty in time.” For over two decades, between 1897 and 1921, Charlotte painted brilliant watercolors of the beautiful flora of colonial Burma, especially the region’s bountiful orchids. Her work was a delight to the folks back at Kew and other botanic gardens. So much so that plant explorers like Reginald Farrar, George Forrest, and Frank Kingdon Ward would stop by on their travels to visit Charlotte and check out the areas she had explored. Charlotte would saddle up a small pony during her time in Burma and go jungling - Charlotte's word for botanizing in Burma’s jungles and mountains. Charlotte’s adventures, maps, paintings, and notes were all vividly described and preserved in prolific letters home to her mother and other relatives. Today Charlotte’s materials are housed at Glasnevin. Charlotte’s love of gardening and horticulture attracted the attention of the locals. While many ex-pats in Burma tried and failed to grow plants from their homeland, Charlotte committed early on to growing the beautiful tropical plants native to Burma. In no time, government officials asked Charlotte to create a garden that would become her legacy: Burma’s Botanical Garden. Charlotte worked on designing and planting the garden during her final five years in Burma. Among the plants named in Charlotte’s honor is a blue Anemone called the Shadow's buttercup. In 2020, the author and former director of the botanic gardens at Glasnevin, E Charles Nelson, wrote a beautiful book about Charlotte called "Shadow Amoung Splendours." Nelson’s book follows Charlotte’s experiences in Burma and shares many of her charming personal letters and writings. As for Charlotte, her dear Otway died in 1934. She carried on without him at their home back in Kilkenny for 33 years until she died on this day in 1967, just a few months shy of her 100th birthday.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Today we celebrate the French botanist who created the modern strawberry. We'll also learn about the sweet little orchid known as the moccasin flower. We hear words that offer perspective on our loss of wildlife and habitat. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about one of the world’s best botanical illustrators - and here’s a hint: she was a dear friend of Alice Lounsberry. And then we’ll wrap things up with the story of the new rare-plant house at the Fairchild Tropical Garden rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Curated News The Little Fern That Could | Earth Island Journal | Anna Gibbs   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you’d search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events February 18, 1827 Today is the anniversary of the death of the French botanist, gardener, and professor at Versailles, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (“do-Shane”). A specialist in strawberries and gourds, Antoine was a student of Bernard de Jussieu at the Royal Garden in Paris. A plant pioneer, Antoine, recognized that mutation was a natural occurrence and that plants could be altered through mutation at any time. As a young botanist, Antoine began experimenting with strawberries. Ever since the 1300s, wild strawberries had been incorporated into gardens. But on July 6, 1764, Antoine created the modern strawberry - the strawberry we know today. Strawberries are members of the rose family, and they are unique in that their seeds are on the outside of the fruit.  Just how many seeds are on a single strawberry? The average strawberry has around 200 seeds. To get your strawberry plant to produce more fruit, plant in full sun, in well-drained soil, and trim the runners.   February 18, 1902 Today the Showy Lady’s-Slipper became the State Flower of Minnesota. The Lady Slipper orchid was discovered in 1789 by William Aiton. The Lady Slipper’s common name is inspired by the unusual form of the third petal, and it’s what makes the bloom look like a little shoe. During his lifetime, Darwin repeatedly tried to propagate the Lady’s-Slipper Orchid. He never succeeded. The Lady Slipper’s growing conditions are quite particular - which is why they are almost impossible to keep in a traditional garden. It’s also illegal to pick, uproot or unearth the flowers - which was a problem in the 1800s when people collected them almost to extinction. Since 1925, the Lady’s-Slipper has been protected by Minnesota state law. In the wild, Lady’s-Slippers grow in swamps, bogs, and damp woods. They take forever to grow, and they can grow for almost a decade before producing their first flower, which can last for two months in cooler weather. As long-lived plants, Lady’s-Slippers can grow as old as 100 years and grow up to 4 feet tall. To Native Americans, the Lady’s-Slipper was known as the moccasin flower. An old Ojibwe legend told of a plague that had occurred during a harsh winter. Many people died - including the tribal healer. Desperate for help, a young girl was sent to find medicine. But, the snow was deep, and in her haste, she lost her boots and left a trail of bloody footprints in the snow. The legend was that her footprints were marked with the beautiful moccasin flower every spring. One summer, when Henry David Thoreau came upon a red variety of Lady’s-Slipper in the woods, he wrote about it, saying: “Everywhere now in dry pitch pine woods stand the red lady’s slipper over the red pine leaves on the forest floor rejoicing in June. Behold their rich striped red, their drooping sack.”   Unearthed Words I remembered reading that during the great flight year of 1926-27, over 2,300 snowy owls were shot and kept his trophies in the United States alone. One of the greatest difficulties for modern conservationists, I think, is to rightly conceive how much we have lost. We trudge so far today to see so little that the result is often a strangely pathetic elation.  — Robert Finch, Nature writer, Common Ground, Snowy   Grow That Garden Library Ellis Rowan, 1848-1922 by Kate Collins This book came out in 1989, and it’s part of the Australian book series that featured its most outstanding artists. My copy arrived last week, and it features incredible full-page color plates of Australian native flowers, birds, and insects. Born in Melbourne, Ellis married Frederic Rowan in 1873. Ellis discovered painting after her botanist husband, Frederick, encouraged her to develop talent, and it was a passion that she pursued until her death. Ellis’s life was full of adventure. She traveled and painted abroad. Three of her paintings were presented to Queen Victoria. My favorite stories about Ellis concern her wonderful friendship with the botanist and writer Alice Lounsberry, and they created three beautiful books about the flowers of North America. During the First World War, Ellis was living in New Guinea. At one point, she painted 45 of the 62 known species of birds of paradise. As a woman living during the mid-1800s, Ellis followed the dress code of her era. Wherever she went, whether on an expedition or at home, Ellis was always impeccably dressed. Ellis’s daily attire included heavy ankle-length dresses, high collars with full sleeves, crinolines, corsets, whalebone stays, and a hat. Just before Ellis died, the federal parliament in Australia debated whether to buy 1,000 of Ellis' paintings. The Australian artist and novelist Norman Lindsay called Ellis' work vulgar - believing wildflowers were unworthy subjects for art. But ultimately, Ellis' paintings were purchased for $5,000, and they are now a treasured part of Australia's National Library. This book is 52 pages of the beautiful work of Ellis Rowan. You can get a copy of Ellis Rowan, 1848-1922 by Kate Collins and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $9   Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart February 18, 1996 On this day, The Miami Herald shared a story about rebuilding the rare plant house at the Fairchild Botanical Garden. “The born-again rare-plant house at the Fairchild Tropical Garden called Windows on the Tropics has a new roof and new walls - and a whole collection of staghorn ferns mounted like prize stag heads overlooking the inner courtyard.  The new $1 million conservatory at the Fairchild Tropical Garden that is being built on the footprint of the hurricane-demolished rare plant house is nearing its opening day.  It will be the last piece of the Hurricane Andrew puzzle to be put back into place in the garden. More than 2,000 plants will be on display in the conservatory showing about 1,000 species grouped in themes or windows onto the natural tropical world. One window into plant and animal interactions will feature everything from ant plants to carnivorous plants.  Recently a buttonwood tree was bolted to a wall for the display beneath which visitors will walk and come eyeball-to-eyeball with insect-dissolving pitcher plants. The window featuring epiphytic or air plants will open into the old orchid display room [which] will include orchids, bromeliads, and climbing philodendrons. The new conservatory path will lead through the most modern of greenhouse spaces [and will] house Economic plants — those used by man — [like] coffee, pepper, vanilla, and other tropical food and medicine plants. Three new waterfalls are being built in the lower level of the conservatory where ferns, tree ferns, and palms will reside ...and here, the conservatory becomes a sensual experience.  The building is the largest aluminum structure in Florida [that also meets] the 120-mile-an-hour wind code. Soaring 12 feet taller than the old Rare Plant House, the plastic roof has clerestory windows that open for ventilation and come with built-in storm shutters. And, plants no longer will be subjected to chemicals in city water but to rainwater collected in two cisterns that will hold 45,000 gallons.  The conservatory will be opened on March 23rd (1996)… Instead of having a guest speaker, the garden is letting Windows on the Tropics do all the talking, says Barbara Schuler, director of development.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

« Si les musées contemporains se proposent comme des containers immergeant leurs visiteurs dans un univers de formes pour suppléer à l'épanouissement de leur imaginaire, les bibliothèques peuvent être considérées comme de véritables mécanismes orthopédiques favorisant la réflexion. Louis-Etienne Boullée imaginait sa bibliothèque comme un amphithéâtre de livres d'où le monde pouvait être lu et comme une scène montrant des savants en train de débattre ou d'écrire. Tandis qu'à Exeter, Louis Kahn propose une vision dualiste où l'espace lumineux du savoir s'oppose à celui, sombre et silencieux, de la révélation. Des questions de lumière et d'ombre qui prennent moins d'importance avec Rem Koolhaas. Son projet pour Jussieu se donne comme un sol unique et continu, un parcours initiatique scandé de nombreuses séquences programmatiques : auditoriums, magasins, espaces de détente... Quant à son projet pour la TGB, il s'affirme comme un espace cérébral dont les salles de lecture s'étirent comme des neurones pour connecter les zones de conservation. Mais la bibliothèque est aussi un équipement à la recherche de son identité, renommée médiathèque puis Learning Center ou simplement troisième lieu, elle tend à s'affirmer comme un entre-deux neutre favorisant le développement des individus en les libérant simplement des obligations de l'université ou du bureau, comme de celles du logement ». Richard Scoffier, au Pavillon de l'Arsenal en février 2017. « Bibliothèques » est le deuxième chapitre de l'Université Populaire 2017 du Pavillon de l'Arsenal. Richard Scoffier, architecte, philosophe et professeur des Écoles Nationales Supérieures d'Architecture, évoque les enjeux constructifs, sociétaux et symboliques que revêtent les hauts lieux culturels contemporains.

durée : 00:14:55 - Journal de 22h - Le généticien critique la stratégie vaccinale française. Moins de deux cents personnes ont déjà été vaccinées contre plus de 600 00 au Royaume-Uni. Par ailleurs, 300 élus publient une tribune pour vaincre les réticences des Français face au vaccin. - invités : Michel Parigot Fondateur et vice-président de l'Association nationale des victimes de l'amiante et autres polluants et président du Comité anti-amiante Jussieu, président de l'association Coronavictimes

durée : 00:14:55 - Journal de 22h - Le généticien critique la stratégie vaccinale française. Moins de deux cents personnes ont déjà été vaccinées contre plus de 600 00 au Royaume-Uni. Par ailleurs, 300 élus publient une tribune pour vaincre les réticences des Français face au vaccin. - invités : Michel Parigot Fondateur et vice-président de l'Association nationale des victimes de l'amiante et autres polluants et président du Comité anti-amiante Jussieu, président de l'association Coronavictimes

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Today we celebrate a son of France who developed the first natural classification of flowering plants. We'll also learn about the young female garden writer who teamed up with an Australian botanical illustrator and turned out some fabulous garden classics. We salute the English Poet Laureate who wrote inspiringly about gardens. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a tour book of American Gardens that was just released this past week. And then we’ll wrap things up with the birthday of one of the greatest plant collectors of all time.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” It's just that easy.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and blog posts for yourself, you're in luck because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There’s no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.    Important Events November 6, 1777   Today is the anniversary of the death of the French naturalist and botanist Bernard Jussieu. We remember Bernard for developing the first natural classification of flowering plants. And although both Bernard and his brother Antoine were botany professors in Paris, Bernard was the stronger botanist, and there's a famous story about his incredible dedication to botany: One time, after botanizing in Lebanon, Bernard was sailing back to France. Of course, drinkable water onboard a long voyage home would have been a precious commodity. Yet, Bernard Jussieu purportedly shared his precious water with a little Lebanon Cedar seedling he was bringing home. He wanted to plant the little seedling in the Royal Garden, and he was determined to bring the little tree back alive to Paris. The French say the seedling lived to be over 200 years old and grew to eighty feet high. As for Bernard Jussieu, in 1759, he was summoned to Versailles to develop the Royal Botanical Garden at the Petit Trianon. Unassuming and laid back, Bernard quietly began arranging the plants in the garden in a new way. Jussieu's system of organizing plants into a more natural order was revolutionary at the time, and his method was something he wouldn't disclose to others. However, Bernard did put together a catalog of the plants in his garden. Bernard recognized a kindred spirit in his nephew, Antoine-Laurent. Bernard trained him for four years, and when he came of age, Bernard confided his methods of plant classification. As a result, Antoine-Laurent's work extended his Uncle Bernard's ideas around grouping plants. It took Antoine-Laurent Jussieu almost twenty years of refinement and perfecting of his Uncle's work before he finally published it as the Bastille was falling in 1789. Antoine-Laurent Jussieu kept Linnaeus' binomial nomenclature in his book, Genera Plantarum, but he grouped plants by genera and then into families. He called his system natural and strived to let nature be his guide. Today, many plant families can be attributed to Jussieu. Today, there's a metro station near the Paris botanical garden named in honor of the Jussieu family - which boasted five notable botanists in the family over several generations.   November 6, 1868  Today is the birthday of the botanist and garden writer Alice Lounsberry. (Note: Online databases report the date of birth as 1873 - which is incorrect as Alice was already two years old on an 1870 census with her brother and parents.) Alice was a New Yorker, and she developed a love for botany as a young girl. In her mid-twenties, she was already serving as a board member for the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). But Alice is best known for her botanical books written with her dear friend and collaborator - the Australian botanical illustrator Ellis Rowan. So we have Alice and Ellis - and here's the fabulous story of how they met. In the late 1890s, Ellis decided to travel to New York. She caused a bit of a sensation during her first trip to the States a few years earlier. This trip was no different - except that Ellis contracted influenza after her arrival, and she needed to be hospitalized. Like Alice, New Yorkers read about Ellis's illness, and they sent cards and flowers to her hospital room to cheer her. Now Alice had an enormous sense of admiration for Ellis, and she felt she needed to do something more personal for her. So, Alice decided to hand-deliver a box of fresh wildflowers she had handpicked to the hospital and gave them to Ellis's nurse. Ellis was thoroughly charmed by the bouquet and the card which read, "From one flower seeker to another - and an admirer of your work." The following day, Alice visited Ellis. Even though Alice was twenty years younger than Ellis, the two hit it off. They spent an entire afternoon discussing botany and their work. When Alice offered to show Ellis where she liked to botanize for wildflowers, it was the incentive Ellis needed to get her health back on track. When Alice invited her to illustrate a book on Wildflowers she had been asked to write, their fates as writer and painter were jointly sealed. Together, they produced three books: A Guide to the Wild Flowers (1899) describing around 500 wildflowers. A Guide to the Trees (1900) describing nearly 200 trees & shrubs. And, Southern Wild Flowers & Trees (1901) where Alice wrote in the preface:   "To learn something of the history, the folklore and the uses of southern plants and to see rare ones growing in their natural surroundings, Mrs. Rowan and I traveled in many parts of the south, always exercising our best blandishments to get the people of the section to talk with us. Through the mountainous region, we drove from cabin to cabin, and nowhere could we have met with greater kindness and hospitality."   While they were working on their book on Southern Wildflowers, Alice and Ellis's time together was marred by tragedy. They were surrounded by the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains when a telegram came for Ellis. Her only son, Eric, had died in South Africa. He was 22 years old. After finishing these books, the two women went their separate ways. Alice continued to write after working with Ellis - but without Ellis's artwork, her books failed to attract the same level of popularity. In 1910, Alice wrote a book called Gardens Near the Sea. In this book, Alice shared her thoughts on the garden:   “For the garden is not only a place in which to make things grow and to display the beautiful flowers of the earth but a place that should accord with the various moods of its admirers. It should be a place in which to hold light banter, a place in which to laugh, and, besides, should have a hidden corner in which to weep. But above all, perhaps, it should be a place of sweet scent and sentiment.”   After suffering a stroke, Alice Lounsberry died at the age of 81 on November 20, 1949.   Unearthed Words A garden that you make yourself becomes associated with your personal history and that of your friends, interwoven with your tastes, preferences, and character, and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest, autobiography. Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like. – Alfred Austin, British poet laureate, The Garden That I Love, 1894   Grow That Garden Library American Gardens by Monty Don and Derry Moore This book came out just last week, and the subtitle is 100 Contemporary Designs. In this book, the beloved British horticulturist Monty Don and world-class photographer Derry Moore take us on a diverse and mesmerizing tour of American Gardens. Monty and Derry take us on a garden adventure: from Jefferson's Monticello ("MontiCHELLo”) to Longwood Gardens in Delaware to Middleton Place in South Carolina, to Central Park in New York, Bob Hope's Palm Springs garden, Frank Lloyd Wright’s garden, and the Seattle Spheres, and many many more. This book will leave you with a richer understanding of some of America's top gardens with beautiful photography and fascinating garden stories. This book is 224 pages of gorgeous American Gardens, and I think it would make a wonderful gift for the holidays. You can get a copy of American Gardens by Monty Don and Derry Moore and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $38   Today’s Botanic Spark November 6, 1885   Today is the birthday of the British plant collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward. During the beginning of the twentieth century, Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four Indiana-Jones-like expeditions throughout Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia to search for rare and elusive species of plants. Among his many accomplishments, Frank found the legendary Tibetan blue poppy. Frank’s accounts of his adventures are captivating. In 1942, he arrived in New Delhi after a 500 hundred mile walk over mountains and through jungles. The newspaper account said:   "A thin, wiry little man in his 50s, Captain Kingdon-Ward...decided that the Japanese were getting too close for comfort, so he loaded two 60-pound bags of rice on two mules... But instead of taking the short road through the Chaukan pass, [he] decided to travel the 500-mile mule trail through Tibet... [Frank tramped] knee-deep in the snow [and] crossed the Himalayas at the 14,500-foot pass... [Frank said] "It was a pleasant walk and [my] reward is in the finding of dazzling flowers never seen before. You know they may always blush unseen — unless you manage to take them back and make them grow where others can admire them. They are a little bit of the enchantment of Asia transplanted into England or America. It is satisfying enough, if you can feel in an industrial age like the present, that you have brought home a little beauty for others to enjoy."

Today we remember the busiest man in London. We'll also learn about the man honored by the Baobab tree. We salute a daughter of Winterthur, We also recognize a life cut short in the world of tropical botany. And we'll look back on a letter from one garden writer to another written on this day in 1961. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that puts your focus on the grill for preparing your garden harvest. And then we'll wrap things up with a story about Gallant Soldiers. But first, let's catch up on some Greetings from Gardeners around the world and today's curated news.   Subscribe Apple|Google|Spotify|Stitcher|iHeart   Gardener Greetings To participate in the Gardener Greetings segment, send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org And, to listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to play The Daily Gardener Podcast. It's that easy.   Curated News 7 Best Tips for Growing Dahlias | Melissa J. Will Here's an excerpt: Melissa gathered these tips for growing dahlias from numerous sources, including books, research papers, my own experience, and advice from professional growers whose livelihood depends on their success. Melissa provides seven top tips and answered Frequently Asked Questions for an excellent overview of everything needed to grow dahlias. Dahlias take 90 to 120 days to flower after planting, depending on the variety you are growing. Generally, the larger the plant and flowers, the longer it takes. If you want flowers before late summer, consider starting your dahlia tubers indoors in pots 4 to 6 weeks before the last frost. Pinching back (the same as cutting off), the main stem encourages the plant to become bushier. Every enthusiastic dahlia grower will tell you their storage method works like a charm. And—they are right—for their specific conditions. The point is, it's the health of the tuber and the overall environment that counts. The optimum storage temperature is 40-45°F (4-7°C). We run into problems when the heating systems in our homes make the humidity level too low for the tubers. Consider using the plastic food wrap method where each tuber is wrapped individually to keep moisture in. Growers who use this method report a higher number of viable tubers each spring. Exposure to some cold is necessary for their development each year, so we wait until early frosts have blackened the foliage before digging up the tubers and storing them for the winter. Come spring, a handy rule is, if it's the right time to plant tomatoes, it's the right time to plant dahlias. On a brighter note, while not entirely deer-proof, dahlias are not their first food choice when other plants are available.   Alright, that's it for today's gardening news. Now, if you'd like to check out my curated news articles and blog posts for yourself, you're in luck, because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There's no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events 1803  Today is the birthday of the English gardener, architect, and Member of Parliament, Joseph Paxton. Joseph Paxton was brilliant. It was Charles Dickens who dubbed him, "The Busiest Man in England." Joseph designed the Crystal Palace, aka the People's Palace, for the first World's Fair. The Crystal Place was a large exhibition hall. It was an extraordinary and revolutionary building. Joseph was the head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire in Chatsworth. Now, you might be wondering how Joseph's job as the head gardener had given him the experience he needed to create the Crystal Palace. Well, the answer is simple: he had built four massive greenhouses for the Duke over fifteen years from 1833 to 1848, and that made Joseph one of the top greenhouse experts in the world. And, English royalty knew it. Don't forget that the beautiful Crystal Palace was essentially a large greenhouse. Gardeners will appreciate that Joseph's iron and glass architectural plans were inspired by the "transverse girders & supports" of the giant water lily - which itself is an architectural wonder. Now Instead of creating a large empty building for exhibits, Joseph decided to build his greenhouse around and over the existing Hyde Park. The high central arch - the grand barrel vault you see in all the old postcards and images of the Crystal Palace - actually accommodated full-sized trees that were already in the park when Joseph began to build around them. Joseph's Crystal Palace was built in a very short amount of time, and this was due again to Joseph's expertise and connections. He had built relationships with various iron and glass companies in building greenhouses for the Duke, and he had even designed many of the components needed to create a greenhouse. For instance, the large beautiful columns also served a purpose: drainage. The Joseph Paxton biographer Kate Colquhoun wrote about the immensity of the Palace: "[Paxton's] design, initially doodled on a piece of blotting paper, was the architectural triumph of its time. Two thousand men worked for eight months to complete it. It was six times the size of St Paul's Cathedral, enclosed a space of 18 acres, and entertained six million visitors." The Crystal Palace was an enormous success and was open every day except Sundays all during the summer of 1851. Queen Victoria and Albert were there on the day it opened - May 1st. And by the closing day on October 11th, six million people had walked past the international exhibits at the Crystal Palace. For his work with the Crystal Palace, Joseph Paxton was knighted. Still, if I could knight Joseph Paxton, I would honor him for cultivating my favorite breakfast item: the Cavendish banana - the most consumed banana in the Western world. Naturally, Joseph cultivated the banana in the greenhouses he built for the 6th Duke of Devonshire - William Cavendish - who is honored with the name of the banana. Even with the perfect growing conditions, it took Joseph five years to get a banana harvest. But, in November 1835, Joseph's banana plant finally flowered. By the following May, the tree was loaded with more than 100 bananas - one of which won a medal at the Horticultural Society show in London. Today, bananas still grow on the Devonshire estate, and the Cavendish banana is the most-consumed banana in the western world. It replaced a tastier variety, which was wiped out by a fungal disease in the 1950s. Today, work is underway to create a Cavendish banana replacement. Without attention to this matter, we will someday see the extinction of the Cavendish banana. Now, if you'd like to read about Joseph Paxton - he's such a fascinating person - you should really check out the biographies written by Kate Colquhoun. Her first Joseph Paxton biography is called A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton (2003), and her second book is called The Busiest Man in England: The Life of Joseph Paxton, Gardener, Architect, and Victorian Visionary (2006). You can get a used copy of either of these books and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $10.   1806  Today is the anniversary of the death of the 18th-century Scottish-French botanist and naturalist Michel Adanson. Michel created the first natural classification of flowering plants. In fact, Jussieu ("Juice You") adopted Michel's methodology to create his masterpiece that defined plant groups called Genera Plantarum (1789). Although today we think mainly of Darwin and Linnaeus, they stood the shoulders of people like Michel Adanson. Michel was the first person to question the stability of species. When he saw breaks or deviations in nature, he came up with a word for it - and one we still use today - mutation. One of the most profound experiences in Michel's life was the five year period he spent living in Senegal, where he collected and described many new plants and animals. That experience provided the foundation for his most famous work - the two-part Familles des Plantes (1763). In the book, Michel classified plants by evaluating a variety of plant characteristics in contrast to Linnaeus' more straightforward sexual system. Again, Michel's perspective on this was revolutionary and was embraced by Jussieu and other botanists. Today, it is called the natural system of classification. Linnaeus recognized Michel's contribution by naming the genus Adansonia, which features the spectacularly unique Baobab ("BOW-bab") trees of Africa, Australia, and Madagascar. The Baobab tree is remarkable and memorable - it has a Seussical quality - and it is one of the most massive trees in the world. In Africa, they are called "The Queens of the Forest" or "The Roots of the Sky." The last name refers to a legend that tells how long ago, in a fit of anger, the devil pulled the Baobab tree out of the ground, only to shove it back into the earth upside down - leaving its roots shooting up into the air. Although they seldom grow taller than forty feet and they are generally sparsely branched, the trunks have astounding girth - and they can be almost thirty feet wide. In fact, some large Baobab cavities have served as jails, post offices, and even pubs. And there is a massive Baobab tree in Gonarezhou, Zimbabwe, that is called Shadreck's Office by the locals and was used as a safe by a famous poacher for keeping his ivory and rhinoceros horns. And inside those enormous trunks, they can store up to 32,000 gallons of water. The outer bark is about 6 inches thick, but inside, the cavity is spongy and vascular. This is why animals, like elephants, chew the bark during the dry seasons. The Baobab can grow to enormous sizes, and carbon dating indicates that they may live to be 3,000 years old. They go by many names, including boab, boa boa, Tebaldi, bottle tree, upside-down tree, monkey bread tree, and the dead-rat tree (referring to the appearance of the fruit). Finally, the flowers of the Baobab bloom at night, and they are bat-pollinated. The fruit of the Baobab looks like an oblong coconut with a brown velvety hard outer shell. But inside, the flesh is sweet and tastes a bit like yogurt. The Baobab fruit contains more vitamin C than oranges, more calcium than milk, more antioxidants than blueberries or cranberries, and more iron than steak. And here's a fun fact: the cooking ingredient Cream of Tartar was initially made from Baobab seed pulp. Today, it is mostly sourced as a by-product of making wine. In 1774, Michel Adanson wrote another masterpiece - an encyclopedic work covering all of the known plant families. Sadly, it was never published. But, that work was clearly meaningful to Michel, who requested that a garland for his Paris grave made up of flowers from each of the 58 plant families featured in his book. And Michel's work - his papers and herbarium - were clearly treasured by his surviving family. They privately held his entire collection for over a century before transferring everything to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, in the early 1960s. The Hunt Institute was so energized and grateful for the gift that they republished Michel's Familles des Plantes in two volumes in 1963 and 1964.   1877  Today is the birthday of Louise du Pont Crowninshield, who was born on this day @WinterthurMuse. Louise spent her life working on projects related to ecological preservation, charity, and horticulture. Aside from her philanthropic efforts, Louise is remembered as the last du Pont to live in the residence at Winterthur ("Winner-TOUR") before it became a museum and library. The Winterthur estate covers 1,000 acres of rolling hills, streams, meadows, and forests. A love-long lover of nature and a natural designer, Henry Francis du Pont got his bachelor's in horticulture from Harvard. Henry thoughtfully developed Winterthur, and he planned for the gardens to be a showpiece. When it came to sourcing plants, du Pont spared no expense to source top plants from around the world. Today, you can visit Winterthur Garden and see for yourself the Quarry, Peony, and Sundial gardens as well as the Azalea Woods and the Enchanted Woods. You can get a lovely used copy of a book called Henry F. du Pont and Winterthur: A Daughter's Portrait and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for under $2.   1945  Today is the anniversary of the death of the American botanist Alwyn Howard Gentry. It's been 75 years since Alwyn's life was tragically cut short when his plane crashed in fog into a forested mountain during a treetop survey in Ecuador. At the time, Alwyn was just 48 years old, and he was at the peak of his career. Alwyn was regarded as a towering figure in tropical biology and ranked among the world's leading field biologists. He also was the senior curator at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Theodore Parker III was also on the plane with Alwyn. Parker was a world expert ornithologist. Parker's fiance survived the crash, and she told a reporter that both Alwyn and Parker had survived the crash as well. But sadly, they were both trapped in the wreckage of the plane, and without immediate medical attention, they passed away together the following morning. The only consolation for the many who knew and loved them was that Alwyn and Parker both died doing what they loved. Throughout his professional life, Alwyn had been in awe of the powerful pull of the rainforest, writing: "The Amazon is a world of lush green vegetation, and abundant waters has inspired naturalists, fortune hunters, dreamers, explorers, and exploiters." According to Conservation International, Alwyn had collected more specimens than any other living botanist of his time - a staggering 70,000 plants. To this day, botanists rely on Gentry's Guide to the Woody Plants of Peru for understanding and direction when it comes to neotropical and tropical plants.   1961 Today Katharine Stuart wrote to Elizabeth Lawrence. My dear Elizabeth, By now, you will have given me up entirely as a friend. It is shocking that I have not written to you in so long, and especially that I have never answered your letter offering me some of Mr. Krippendorf's hellebores.  Perhaps you can forgive me, though, when you hear all the things that have been happening to me since May 24th, the date of your letter. [Turns out, Katharine had an appendectomy.] I enclose some of Andy's snapshots of the garden in early spring. As you can see, it isn't a garden — no plan, no style, no proper arrangement of colors — but at least the pictures give you the feel of the land in a cold, late Maine spring.  Everything is very different now. The picket fence hardly shows for the flowers; the grey windbreak is covered with the blossoms of Mme. Baron Veillard, Jackmarie, and Mrs. Cholmondley, and on the little terrace, the hybrid roses are full of bloom.  We lost one of our big Balm of Gilead trees in a fierce wind and rain storm, and Andy has made a most ingenious birdbath from a section of its big trunk, into which he poured cement… yesterday, we could watch two song sparrows, and a yellow warbler take their baths [in it] under the pear tree.  Even if I can't garden, I can enjoy the flowers in a maddeningly remote way. My first water lily is in blossom in the pasture pond... Today, my first-ever hardy cyclamen is in bloom under the Persian lilac. It is enchanting and a triumph, as I have failed so often with them. I finally raised this one indoors last winter and set it out this spring. I don't even know the variety, for the tag is lost. It has pink blossoms and variegated leaves. Everything else is at sixes and sevens—iris needs separating; one long perennial bed is too crowded; one is too skimpy thanks to winter losses. It has been a year of frustration. Andy finally sold our beautiful Herefords, and there goes my source of manure. Oh, dear, we are crumbling badly! But just writing you gives me hope, and I am determined that I shall get back to normal again. We really feel encouraged.  Ever affectionately, Katharine    Unearthed Words Today is National Watermelon Day. Here are some words about Watermelon.   Go along, Mister Winter- Crawl into your frosty bed.  I'm longing like a lover For the watermelon red. — Frank Lebby Stanton, American lyricist   And the windows opened that night, A ceiling dripped the sweat Of a tin god,  And I sat eating a watermelon All false red, Water like slow running  Tears, And I spit out seeds And swallowed seeds, And I kept thinking I'm a fool I'm a fool To eat this Watermelon, But I kept eating  Anyhow. — Charles Bukowski, American-German poet and novelist, Watermelon   Green Buddhas On the fruit stand We eat the smile And spit out the teeth. — Charles Simic, American-Serbian Poet, Watermelons   Up from the South, by boat and train.  Now comes the King of Fruits again;  Lucious feast for judge or felon,  Glorious, sun-kissed Watermelon;  Green as emerald in its rind, But cutting through it thou shalt find  Sweetest mass of crimson beauty Tempting angels from their duty. — Ode to Watermelon, anonymous   It is pure water, distilled, and put up by nature herself,  who needs no government label  to certify to the cleanliness of her methods  and the innocence of her sun-kissed chemistry.  It is the tiniest trace of earth salts.  It has a delicate aroma.  It is slightly a food, generously a drink, and altogether poetry. Not altogether is it poetry.  Not in respect of price.  Not even the most hard-working of the poets  can afford to buy the early Watermelon.  — The Citizen-Republican, Scotland, South Dakota, Watermelon   On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of Watermelon. That night he had a stomach ache. — Eric Carle, American designer, illustrator, and writer of children's books, The Very Hungry Caterpillar   Grow That Garden Library From Garden to Grill by Elizabeth Orsini This book came out in 2017, and the subtitle is Over 250 Vegetable-based Recipes for Every Grill Master. From kebabs and salads to made-from-scratch sauces and seasonings, bring your garden to your grill with more than 250 mouthwatering vegetarian grilling recipes! Bring your garden harvest to the grill! Backyard barbecues aren't just for burgers and hotdogs. Delicious vegetables can be part of every diet with From Garden to Grill--featuring more than 250 mouthwatering, vegetable-based grilling recipes, variations to add meat, tips to make meals paleo, and changes to go gluten-free or vegan! With everything from sauces and salads to small plates and main courses, this book shows grill masters how to incorporate fresh produce into healthy and hearty meals: *Grilled Zucchini Salsa *Kale and Feta Pita Pizza *Caramelized Corn *Eggplant Ratatouille *Foil Pack Vegetables *Quinoa Veggie Wraps *Grilled Romaine Salad *Grilled Veggie Paninis *Butternut Squash Kebabs *Artichoke Pizza *Portobello Mozzarella Caps Whether you are dedicated to a lifetime of healthy living or just love bringing that freshly grilled char to seasonal veggies, this is the cookbook for you. This book is 320 pages of grilled garden goodness. You can get a copy of From Garden to Grill by Elizabeth Orsini and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $13   Today's Botanic Spark 1948 On this day, The Guardian posted a brief snippet about the Gallant Soldiers plant. Now before I read the post, here's a primer. Gallant Soldiers is loosely derived from its Latin name: Galinsoga parviflora (gal-in-SOH-guh), and it's also known as Quickweed. Gallant Soldiers is a herbaceous plant in the Asteraceae or Daisy family. Over a single summer, a single specimen of Gallant Soldiers can produce over 7,000 seeds - so they'll be marching on. Galinsoga was named for Mariano Galinsoga, who was a botanist and a Spanish doctor for royalty during the 1700s, and he famously observed that women who wore corsets had more health problems than peasant women who did not wear them. Now, Galinsoga is a trooper when it comes to medicinal uses. Galinsoga is a super coagulator, antibiotic agent, and a healer. And the next time you run into stinging nettle, grab some Galinsoga, and you'll be all smiles. Rich in iron, Galinsoga is also edible. In fact, every part of the plant, except the root, can be eaten. In the United States, foragers are beginning to add Galinsoga to their list, but in China and South America, Galinsoga is already regularly added to soups, stews, and salads. On the Forager Chef website, it says "Galinsoga can be used raw or cooked. Got a call from a farmer that the spinach was killed by hail?  Don't worry, just toss some Galinsoga in that pasta.  While you're at it, put it in the salad mix and on the fish entree, then throw the purchased microgreens in the compost where they belong, as fodder to grow interesting, edible weeds. Like so many other greens sans watercress, It's shelf life shames conventionally harvested salad greens.  I would regularly get two weeks of shelf life from what I picked or more... Galinsoga tastes mild and fades into the background; there's not even a hint of bitterness.  It's a blank canvas for whatever you like.  This also means from a health/diet perspective, you can consume mass quantities cooked, unlike other aggressive growers like garlic mustard, whose bitterness I tend to blend with other plants."   Great information there.   Now let's hear that post from The Guardian on Galinsoga from 1948: "In some gardens, near Kew and Richmond, there flourishes an unusual weed which nine out of ten people will call "Gallant Soldiers." It has escaped from Kew, where it was introduced some years ago from Peru under the name of Galinsoga parviflora. Local gardeners made the name easier to pronounce, but the corruption did not stop there. Sir Edward Salisbury, the director of Kew Gardens, tells how he found a gardener one day pulling out Galinsoga from his borders. He asked its name. The gardener replied, "I don't rightly know, but I have heard it called Soldiers of the Queen."

Le professeur Frédéric Adnet est un passionné de la médecine d’urgence. Il aime le paramètre temps, inhérent à sa discipline, qui contraint à l’efficacité du soin. Directeur du service des urgences et du SAMU en Seine-Saint-Denis, c’est à lui que la direction de l’hôpital Avicenne a confié les clés pour organiser la riposte à la crise du coronavirus. Frédéric Adnet, passionné de médecine, a d’abord étudié la physique fondamentale : « Ma mère voulait que je fasse médecine, mais comme j’avais fait maths-sup je voulais continuer la physique ». Celui qui est aujourd’hui professeur de médecine d’urgence à l’université Paris-13 et directeur des urgences de l’hôpital Avicenne et du SAMU de Seine-Saint-Denis, a donc commencé maître de conférence en physique nucléaire au CNRS, dans un laboratoire de biophysique. Mais le physicien est un travailleur solitaire et « progressivement, les patients me manquaient, le soin me manquait, le contact… » Alors, Frédéric Adnet est allé voir le doyen de la faculté de médecine : « Il m’a dit, si vous développez la recherche dans le département urgence et anesthésie, je vous embauche, c’est comme ça que j’ai développé la médecine d’urgence. » Une passion aiguë La médecine d’urgence ne ressemble pas à la médecine de suivi général. C’est une médecine de l’aigu et c’est ce qui passionne Frédéric Adnet : « j’ai toujours aimé soigner pour avoir un résultat immédiat ». En médecine d’urgence, les patients arrivent avec des pathologies aiguës, pour lesquelles on fait un diagnostic rapide et sur lesquelles on agit tout de suite. Frédéric Adnet explique qu’il y a des points communs à toutes décompensations – le moment où une maladie devient brutalement aiguë – c’est donc « une vraie spécificité qui nécessite une médecine de haut niveau très spécialisée. » La médecine de catastrophe ou d’assistance de crise, que l’on pratique quand les structures débordées, est une autre de ses spécialités : « c’est ce qui me plaît, cette contrainte de temps : il faut aller vite sinon le patient meurt. » À l’horizon, la crise sanitaire Avant que le virus n’arrive sur le territoire, Frédéric Adnet suivait les nouvelles de la Chine : « j’étais inquiété par les mesures que prenaient les Chinois qui ne correspondaient pas au bilan ; seulement 3000 morts pour une région de 51 millions habitants, alors qu’ils montaient des hôpitaux de 1000 lits en 8 jours, il y avait une contradiction entre les mesures prises et les bilans reçus ». Les précédentes alertes sanitaires pour le MERS – Syndrome respiratoire aigu du Moyen-Orient –, le SARS – Syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère – et Ebola n’étaient pas arrivées jusqu’en France, Frédéric Adnet ne s’est donc pas inquiété tout de suite ; mais la crise arrivant en Italie et voyant ses collègues italiens débordés, l’alerte a été donnée et il a été nommé directeur médical de la cellule de crise à l’hôpital Avicennes, à Bobigny. Urgence en Seine-st-Denis La Seine-Saint-Denis, où œuvre le docteur Adnet, a été le département d’Île-de-France plus touché par la crise du coronavirus. Les appels au SAMU ont été multipliés par 7, et 90% concernaient le Covid. Pourtant, les urgences ont tenu le choc : « Au sommet de la crise, tous nos lits étaient pleins, au lieu de 2 ambulances de nuit on est passé à 15, on aurait eu encore deux jours avec cette montée, on aurait atteint le niveau de rupture, mais on ne l’a pas atteint, on a réussi à faire face et… pouf ! Ça a commencé à décroître. » La grande peur du docteur Adnet, c’était de devoir « choisir » les patients à réanimer, comme les médecins italiens, qui ont été contraints de faire le choix de ne pas réanimer des patients qui auraient pu l’être s’ils en avaient eu les moyens. Mais non, cela ne s’est pas passé à l’hôpital Avicenne : « Dès lors qu’on a dit qu’un patient avait besoin de réanimation, il l’a eue. » Les clés de l’hôpital Pendant la crise du coronavirus, l’administration et la direction de l’hôpital Avicenne se sont mises au service des médecins : « Ils nous ont donné les clés de la boutique, ils nous ont dit : faites ce que vous voulez », relate Frédéric Adnet. Les rapports de force se sont inversés et les décisions se sont alors fondées sur les problématiques médicales et de soin, et non plus sur des restrictions et l’optimisation des dépenses. L’hôpital s’est transformé pour s’adapter aux besoins sanitaires réels « avec une politique d’open-bar, on avait ce qu’on voulait ce qui n’est pas le cas d’habitude ». Beaucoup de personnel est tombé malade, « il a fallu une réorganisation complète qui s’affranchissait des règles d’avant crise… et j’ai vu un hôpital bien fonctionner. » Prises de position en public Pendant la crise, on a pu voir Frédéric Adnet intervenir dans le débat public. Après réflexion, nombreuses rumeurs et fake news qui entraînaient la population sur de mauvaises pistes l’ont conduit à intervenir : « J’ai pensé qu’il était important que les médecins qui sont au cœur du problème apportent leur témoignage, pour éviter qu’on dérive vers des infos farfelues, hyper alarmistes ou au contraire trop rassurantes (…) L’angoisse est la porte d’entrée à des théories complotistes, j’ai eu à batailler même au sein de mon hôpital. » Son exemple a été suivi par beaucoup de confrères qui ont apporté un message plus factuel que des discours. Un homme de plusieurs passions Frédéric Adnet n’a pas qu’une seule passion. Au regard du nombre de livres qu’il a publié sur la médecine d’urgence, on comprend que le soin ne suffit pas : « Soigner, oui, mais j’ai toujours eu envie de transmettre le savoir, c’est ce qui a de plus noble dans notre métier. » Alors qu’il était encore étudiant, son modèle était le professeur tout en bas de l’amphithéâtre, à la faculté de Jussieu, à Paris ; alors il est devenu professeur à son tour, pour participer à la transmission des connaissances. Mais s’il n’avait pas choisi d’être physicien, puis médecin et enseignant chercheur, Frédéric Adnet serait probablement pilote de ligne, car il le dit lui-même : « Ok, ce n’est pas très écolo, mais j’ai toujours été hypnotisé par les avions ! »

Pendant cet épisode, on s’égare dans la ligne 10 entre les stations Duroc et Jussieu pour apprécier la mélodie caressante de The Marías et la pop rêveuse de Still Woozy. On en profite aussi pour écouter la candeur du brillant trio canadien Men I Trust ou les délicats tourments mélancoliques de Foals. Un tendre début de semaine en perspective.

Pendant cet épisode, on s'égare dans la ligne 10 entre les stations Duroc et Jussieu pour apprécier la mélodie caressante de The Marías et la pop rêveuse de Still Woozy. On en profite aussi pour écouter la candeur du brillant trio canadien Men I Trust ou les délicats tourments mélancoliques de Foals. Un tendre début de semaine en perspective.

Cinq pays africains sont désormais touchés par le coronavirus. Il s'agit de l'Egypte, de l'Algérie, de la Tunisie, du Nigeria et du Sénégal. Dans cette édition consacrée à l'épidémie, nous nous appesantirons sur les deux premiers pays d'Afrique sub-saharienne où la maladie a été identifiée et essaierons de comprendre la dynamique sociale et les réactions dans chaque pays. Santé, Science et Développement donne également la parole aux Dakarois, après une proposition d’un éminent chercheur qui invitait, la veille de la détection du virus chez un ressoirtissant français, ses compatriotes à éviter de se serrer la main à tout-va. La proposition a eu du mal à passer, mais elle a alimenté pendant 48 heures les débats dans les bureaux et dans les rues de Dakar. Vous suivrez également dans cette émission les explications du Professeur Codjo Hountondji, de l’Université de Sorbonne - Campus de Jussieu - sur la plus petite particule de la matière. S’agit-il de l’électron, de l’atome, du virus ou des parasites ? Réponse dans la rubrique Késaco. Suivez Santé, Science et Développement, avec Sylvie Akoussan.

Today we celebrate a man who wrote one of the most influential herbals in history and the French botanist who created the modern strawberry. We'll learn about the Father of Paleobotany and the sweet little Orchid known as the moccasin flower. Today's Unearthed Words feature words about winter. We Grow That Garden Library™ with the diary of a fabulous nurserywoman and garden designer. I'll talk about a garden item to get hung up on... and then we'll wrap things up with the fascinating birth flowers for the month of February. But first, let's catch up on a few recent events.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Curated Articles Plant of the Month: The Sensitive Plant | JSTOR Daily JSTOR is a digital library for scholars, researchers, and students. Aw... it's The Sensitive Plant! Whenever you touch it, the leaves fold up like a fan along its stem. "At first glance, Mimosa pudica ("poo-DEE-cah") is a plant that most people would consider a weed. It grows close to the ground, with countless delicate leaflets, puffy pinkish balls of flowers, and small bunches of legumes. So it makes sense that Mimosa pudica would be known as the "Humble Plant," but what about its association with other names, like "Herb of Love" and "Sensitive Plant"?   When Linnaeus considered what separated living from non-living things he wrote, "Stones grow; plants grow and live; animals grow, live, and feel." With the Mimosa's apparent ability to feel, many people felt that the Sensitive Plant took on animal characteristics with its strong reaction to touch. The Sensitive Plant fascinated 18th-century botanists, scientists, and poets who often compared the plant to animals because of the reaction of the plant; contracting after being touched. In 1791, Erasmus Darwin wrote about the Sensitive Plant in a poem called The Botanic Garden. Weak with nice sense, this chaste Mimosa stands From each rude touch withdraws her timid hands; Oft as light clouds o’er-pass the Summer-glade, And feels, alive through all her tender form, The whisper’d murmurs of the gathering storm; Shuts her sweet eye-lids to approaching night, And hails with freshen’d charms the rising light.   Honey Plant Growth Stimulator - Using Honey To Root Cuttings This post is from Gardening Know How. "Many people have found success with using honey to root cuttings. It is, after all, a natural antiseptic and contains anti-fungal properties — allowing the little cuttings to remain healthy and strong. Some people have even added honey to willow water to aid in rooting."   Now, if you'd like to check out these curated articles for yourself, you're in luck, because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There's no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events 1515  Today is the birthday of Valerius Cordus. Cordus was the author of one of the most influential herbals in history. In fact, centuries later, the botanist Thomas Archibald Sprague re-published "The Herbal of Valerius Cordus" with his older sister, who he considered to be the best botanist in his botanist family. After the book was published, Sprague gifted her with a personal and gorgeous bound copy. He had the book dedicated to her in Latin: "M. S. Sprague praeceptrici olim hodie collaboratrici d.d. T. A. Sprague" - basically, thanking her for all that she had taught him and collaborated with him. Valerius Cordus died young, at the age of 29. He had contracted malaria. In 1544, Valerius had spent the summer botanizing in Italy with two French naturalists. At some point, he had waded into marshes in search of new plants. When he became sick a short time later, his friends brought him to Rome, and then, they continued on to Naples. When they returned for him, they found their friend, Valerius, had died. We owe a debt of gratitude to the Swiss botanist Konrad Gesner who had the sense to collect Cordus' prolific writings and preserve and publish them. One expert once said, "There was Theophrastus; there was nothing for 1,800 years; then there was Cordus." The genus Cordia is named in honor of Valerius Cordus. Cordia's are in the borage family, and many cordias have fragrant, showy flowers. Some cordias also produce edible fruits with strange and fascinating names like clammy cherries, glue berries, sebesten, or snotty gobbles.   1827  Today is the anniversary of the death of the French botanist, gardener, and professor at Versailles, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ("do-Shane"). A specialist in strawberries and gourds, Duchesne was a student of Bernard de Jussieu at the Royal Garden in Paris. A plant pioneer, Duchesne recognized that mutation was a natural occurrence and that plants could be altered through mutation at any time. As a young botanist, Duchesne began experimenting with strawberries. Ever since the 1300s, wild strawberries had been incorporated into gardens. But, on July 6, 1764, Duchesne created the modern strawberry - the strawberry we know and love today. Strawberries are members of the rose family, and their seeds are on the outside of the fruit. Just how many seeds are on a single strawberry? Well, the average strawberry has around 200 seeds. Now, to get your strawberry plants to produce more fruit, plant them in full sun, in well-drained soil, and trim the runners.   1873  Today is the anniversary of the death of the French botanist and the Father of Paleobotany; Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart ("Bron-yahr"). Adolphe-Théodore and his wife had two sons, and when Adolphe-Théodore died, he died in the arms of his eldest son. As one of the most prominent botanists of the 19th century, Adolphe-Théodore worked to classify fossil plant forms, and he did so even before Charles Darwin. Adolphe-Théodore's work provided content for his book on the history of plant fossils in 1828. Adolphe-Théodore published his masterpiece when he was just 27 years old. Adolphe-Théodore's writing brought him notoriety and gave him the moniker "Father of Paleobotany." He was also called the "Linnaeus of Fossil Plants." A paleobotanist is someone who works with fossil plants. Plants have been living on the planet for over 400 million years. So, there are plenty of fossil plants to study and catalog. Adolphe-Théodore was not so much a fossil plant discoverer as he was a fossil plant organizer. He put fossil plants in order and applied principles for distinguishing them. In 1841, at the age of 40, Adolphe-Théodore received the Wollaston Medal for his work with fossil plants. It is the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London. The honor would have made his geologist father, Alexander, very proud. Adolphe-Théodore was a professor at the Paris Museum of Natural History. He was the backfill for Andre Michaux, who had left to explore the flora of North America.   1902  Today the Showy Lady's-Slipper became the State Flower of Minnesota. The Lady' s-Slipper Orchid was discovered in 1789 by the botanist William Aiton. The common name Lady' s-Slipper is from the unusual form of the third petal that makes that part of the bloom look like a little shoe. During his lifetime, Darwin repeatedly tried to propagate the Lady' s-Slipper Orchid. He never succeeded. Now, the growing conditions of the Lady' s-Slipper are quite particular - which is why they are almost impossible to keep in a traditional garden. It's also illegal to pick, uproot or unearth the flowers - which was a problem in the 1800s when people collected them almost to extinction. Since 1925, the Lady' s-Slipper has been protected by Minnesota state law. In the wild, Lady' s-Slippers grow in swamps, bogs, and damp woods. They take forever to grow, and they can grow for almost a decade before producing their first flower, which can last for two months in cooler weather. As long-lived plants, Lady' s-Slippers can grow as old as 100 years and grow up to 4 feet tall. To Native Americans, the Lady' s-Slipper was known as the moccasin flower. An old Ojibwe legend told of a plague that had occurred during a harsh winter. Many people died - including the tribal healer. Desperate for help, a young girl was sent to find medicine. But, the snow was deep, and in her haste, she lost her boots and left a trail of bloody footprints in the snow. Every spring, the legend was that her footprints were marked with the beautiful moccasin flower. One summer, when Henry David Thoreau came upon a red variety of Lady' s-Slipper in the woods, he wrote about it, saying: "Everywhere now in dry pitch pine woods stand the red Lady's-Slipper over the red pine leaves on the forest floor rejoicing in June. Behold their rich striped red, their drooping sack."   Unearthed Words Here are some words about this time of year.   The day is ending,  The night is descending;  The marsh is frozen,  The river is dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, An Afternoon in February   A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter. — Patricia Briggs, American Fantasy Writer, Dragon's Blood   Pleasures newly found are sweet  When they lie about our feet:  February last, my heart  First at sight of thee was glad;  All unheard of as thou art,  Thou must needs, I think, have had,  Celandine ("seh·luhn·dine")!  And long ago.  Praise of which I nothing know. — William Wordsworth, English Romantic poet, To the Same Flower (In medieval lore, it was believed that mother birds dropped the juice of the celandineinto the eyes of their blind fledglings.)   I was just thinking if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. — Will Rogers, American actor & cowboy   The twelve months… Snowy, Flowy, Blowy, Showery, Flowery, Bowery, Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy, Breezy, Sneezy, Freezy. — George Ellis, Jamaican-born English satirical poet    Grow That Garden Library Beth Chatto's Garden Notebook Beth's book was a monthly record of everything she did in her garden. Her chapters covered the garden, but also bits of her life. From a personal standpoint, Beth shared her successes as well as her failures. She was a business owner and ran a garden center, and she also showed a garden at Chelsea, which was a tremendous thrill but also an incredible amount of work. Beth gardened for over four decades, and she appreciated the time-factor of gardening and the patience required to grow a garden and grow into a good gardener. She wrote: "As certain of our plants take many years to mature, so it takes a long time to grow a genuine plantsman. Those of us who have been at it longest know that one lifetime is not half enough, once you become aware of the limitless art of gardening." Here's an excerpt from her chapter on January. Beth's talking about a mass planting of shrubs that appeared less-than-enticing in the winter landscape: "I remember several years ago… suddenly feeling very dissatisfied with a group of shrubs which had not faulted when they were full of leaf (and, for a few weeks, blossom) during the summer. But now, leafless and with nothing distinguished about their habit of growth, the whole patch looked muddled, formless and lifeless. By removing some of it, planting a holly and Mahonia among the rest together with vigorous sheaves of the evergreen Iris foetidissima ("FOY-ta-dis-EMMA")'Citrina' nearby and patches of small-leafed ivies as ground cover, the picture became much more interesting in winter and now forms a better background to the summer carnival which passes before it." In her book, Beth writes in conversation with the reader. In January, she asks: "If you look out of your favorite window now, are you satisfied with the view? Does it lack design? Would a small-leafed, narrowly pyramidal Holly do anything for it, and how many plants can you see which remain green -or grey, or bronze -throughout the winter, furnishing the bare soil at ground level?" Finally, Beth begins her chapter on February with a word about how, for many nursery owners and landscapers, this time of year can feel overwhelming as the full weight of the season's work is anticipated. Beth also acknowledged how difficult it was for her to write during the garden season. This is a common challenge for garden writers who are too busy gardening in the summer to write but then can find less inspiration to write in the winter without their gardens. "This morning, I awoke to hear the grandfather clock striking 4 a.m. and was immediately alert, all my present commitments feverishly chasing themselves through my head. Apart from a garden I have foolishly agreed to plan, there is the Chelsea Flower Show nudging more and more insistently as the weeks rush towards May. Usually, I have a nucleus of large plants and shrubs in containers that provide an established looking background. [But] the sudden severe weather in January has killed off several of my old plants. I have no frost-free place large enough to protect them all; in normal winters, a plastic-covered tunnel has been sufficient. Another commitment is this notebook, which has been fermenting in my mind for several months. I would like to write it, to record some of the ups and downs of a nursery garden, but my one fear is not finding time to write decently. Even keeping up a scrappy diary becomes difficult as the sap rises." You can get a used copy of Beth Chatto's Garden Notebook and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for under $9.   Great Gifts for Gardeners AOMGD 3 Pack Macrame Plant Hanger and 3 PCS Hooks Indoor Outdoor Hanging Plant Holder Hanging Planter Stand Flower Pots for Decorations - Cotton Rope, 4 Leg-Strings, 3 Sizes $9.89 HANDMADE WEAVE: Show your plants some love with this elegant, vintage-inspired macrame plant hanger. Simple, yet meticulously handcrafted, this beauty would add a touch of elegance and beauty to your home, balcony, or your patio. PACKAGE INCLUDE: 3 PCS hooks and 3 PCS different sizes plant hanger, approximate length:46"/41"/34", and diameter: 2cm.Fit multiple pot size and shape, ideal pot size is 3-10". (No pot or plant included).Color: off-white Create Nice Home: Hanging plant holders can be used for indoor, outdoor, living room, kitchen, deck, patio, high, and low ceiling. This hanging plant stand has a strong, flexible woven design that can accommodate various shapes and sizes of planters (pots not included). The maximum load is about 12 pounds. EASY INSTALLATION: the hangers are suitable for indoor and outdoor use; Just expand the four leg-strings, put the plant pot in the middle of the conjunction. The perfect solution for pet owners if the pet has a tendency to destroy your plants, then this one will save you from lots of struggle! Nice Gift: Ideal to decorate pathways and indoor. It will be a great and practical gift for a plant lover. They'll love the freedom to display their plants wherever they want. It's perfect for birthdays, Christmas, and more!   Today's Botanic Spark Even though roses are often associated with February (thanks to Valentine's Day), February's birth flower is not the rose. Instead, February has two birth flowers. In England, February's birth flower is the Violet, and in the United States, February is honored with the Primrose. With regard to the Violet, the plantsman Derek Jarman once wrote: "Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraViolet. 'Roses are Red; Violets are Blue.' Poor Violet — violated for a rhyme." The adorable little Violet signifies many virtues; truth and loyalty; watchfulness and faithfulness. Gifting a Violet lets the recipient know you'll always be true. Like the theme song from Friends promises, you'll always be there for them. The ancient Greeks placed a high value on the Violet. When it came time to pick a blossom as a symbol for Athens, it was the Violet that made the cut. The Greeks used Violet to make medicine. They also used Violets in the kitchen to make wine and to eat the edible blossoms. Today, Violets are used to decorate salads, and they can even be gently sprinkled over fish or poultry. Violets are beautiful when candied in sugar or used to decorate pastries. Violets can even be distilled into a syrup for a memorable Violet liqueur. Finally, Violets were Napoleon Bonaparte's signature flower. When his wife, Josephine, died in 1814, Napoleon covered her grave with Violets. His friends even referred to Napoleon as Corporal Violet. After he was exiled to Elba, Napoleon vowed to return before the Violet season. Napoleon's followers used Violet to weed out his detractors. They would ask strangers if they liked Violets; a positive response was the sign of a loyal Napoleon supporter. The other official February flower is the Primrose, which originated from the Latin word "primus," meaning "first" or "early." The name refers to the Primrose as one of the first plants that bloom in the spring. As with the Violet, the leaves and flowers of Primrose are edible and often tossed into a salad. The leaves are said to taste like lettuce. Gifting a Primrose has a more urgent - stalkerish- meaning than the Violet; a Primrose tells a person that you can't live without them. In Germany, people believed that the first girl to find a Primrose on Easter would marry that same year. And, the saying about leading someone down the Primrose path, refers to enticing someone with to do something bad by laying out pleasurable traps. The phrase originated in William Shakespeare's Hamlet as Ophelia begs her brother: Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; While like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself, the Primrose path of dalliance treads. And, the man known as "The Daffodil King, Peter Barr, who bred over 2 million daffodils at his home in Surry and he's credited with popularizing the daffodil. Yet, when Barr retired, he went to Scotland and grew - not daffodils, but Primroses. Two years before he died, Peter Barr, the Daffodil King, mused, "I wonder who will plant my grave with Primroses?"

Today we celebrate the Versailles botanist who started organizing plants in a new way but kept his method a secret. We'll learn about the young New Yorker and garden writer who met the perfect botanical illustrator for her garden books in the hospital as she was battling influenza. We'll hear some glorious thoughts on November from the author of “Butternut Wisdom.” We Grow That Garden Library with a book that helps us grow more by going vertical in our gardens. I'll talk about burying your cold-hardy succulents, and then we'll wrap things up with the intrepid botanist who discovered a plant that's still almost too good to be true - the blue poppy.   But first, let's catch up on a few recent events.   Modern Monochromatic Wedding at Baltimore’s Sagamore Pendry Hotel @ruffledblog shared this gorgeous @lemonlime_event Modern Monochromatic Wedding at Baltimore’s Sagamore Pendry Hotel. Gardeners will love the green/white floral arrangements. And you MUST check out the bride's bouquet. That air plant!! https://buff.ly/2oFnKjj     What is a Vegan Garden? I must confess I didn't fully appreciate all that it entails - so hats off to Garden Teacher Plews Garden Design @plewgd for a thorough and thoughtful explanation.         Great article in @PsychToday by @peterbongi called Saffron for Emotional Health. Studies show the stigma & the petal of Saffron (Crocus sativus) are helpful for calming, mood support & more. And, love the Charlemange quote about herbs at the beginning... https://buff.ly/2WBvKyp       Garden Betty share a really lovely post called  A Guide to Saving and Storing Seeds As your end-of-season crops start to fade, now's the time to save the seeds from your favorite plants so you can grow them again next year! Here's a foolproof guide to show you how from @gardenbetty #gardenchat #gardening #growyourown https://buff.ly/2RzMpiN   Now, if you'd like to check out these curated articles for yourself, you're in luck - because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So there’s no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, just search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group. Brevities #OTD Today is the anniversary of the death of the French naturalist and botanist Bernard de Jussieu who died on this day in 1777. Jussieuwas a French botanist who developed the first natural classification of flowering plants. Today, there's a metro station near the botanical garden in Paris that is named in honor of the Jussieu family - which boasted five members over several generations as notable botanists.   Bernard and his brother Antoine were both botany professors in Paris. Bernard was the stronger botanist, and there's a famous story about his incredible dedication to botany:   One time, after botanizing in Lebanon, Bernard was sailing back to France. Of course, drinkable water onboard a long voyage home would have been a precious commodity. Yet, Bernard Jussieu purportedly shared his precious water with a little Lebanon Cedar seedling he was bringing home. He wanted to plant in the Royal Garden, and he was determined to bring the little tree back alive to Paris. The French say the seedling lived to be over 200 years old and eighty feet high.   As for Bernard Jussieu, in 1759, he was brought to Versailles to develop the Royal Botanical Garden at the Petit Trianon. Unassuming and laid back, Bernard quietly began arranging the plants in the garden in a new way. Jussieu's system of organizing plants into a more natural order was revolutionary at the time and also something he wouldn't disclose to others. However, Bernard did put together a catalog of the plants in his garden.   Bernard recognized a kindred spirit in his nephew, Antoine-Laurent. Bernard trained him for four years, and when he came of age, Bernard confided his methods of plant classification. As a result, Antoine-Laurent's work was an extension of his Uncle Bernard's ideas around grouping plants.   It took Antoine-Laurent Jussieu almost twenty years of refinement and perfecting of his Uncle's work, but he finally published his work on natural classification as the Bastille was falling in 1789. In Genera Plantarum, Antoine-Laurent Jussieu kept Linnaeus' binomial nomenclature, but he grouped plants by genera and then into families. He called his system natural and strived to let nature be his guide. Today, many plant families can be attributed to Jussieu.       #OTD   Today is the birthday of the botanist and garden writer Alice Lounsberry who was born on this day in 1868. (Note: Online accounts, based on a Who's Who biography have the date of her year of birth as 1873 - which is incorrect as she was already two years old on an 1870 census with her brother and parents.) Lounsberry was a New Yorker, and she developed a love for botany as a young girl. In her mid-twenties, she was already serving as a board member for the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). Lounsberry is forever linked to her friend and collaborator - the Australian botanical illustrator, Ellis Rowan. In the late 1890s, Rowan (b. 1848) decided to travel to New York. She caused a bit of a sensation during her first trip to the States a few years earlier. This trip was no different - except that after her arrival, Rowan contracted influenza, and she needed to be hospitalized.  New Yorkers, like Lounsberry, read about Rowan's illness, and they sent cards and flowers to her hospital room to cheer her. But Lounsberry had an enormous sense of admiration for Rowan, and she felt she needed to do something more personal. So, Alice personally brought a box of fresh-picked wildflowers to the hospital and gave them to Rowan's nurse. Rowan  was thoroughly charmed by the bouquet and the card which read, "From one flower seeker to another - and an admirer of your work." The following day, Alice visited Rowan. Even though Alice was twenty years younger than Rowan, the two hit it off. They spent an entire afternoon discussing botany and their work. When Alice offered to show Rowan where she liked to botanize for wildflowers, it was the incentive Rowan needed to get her health back on track. When Alice invited her to illustrate a book on Wildflowers she had been asked to write, their fates as writer and painter were jointly sealed. Together, they produced three books: "A Guide to the Wild Flowers" (1899) describing around 500 wildflowers. "A Guide to the Trees" (1900) describing nearly 200 trees & shrubs. And, "Southern Wild Flowers & Trees" (1901) where Alice wrote in the preface: "To learn something of the history, the folklore and the uses of southern plants and to see rare ones growing in their natural surroundings, Mrs. Rowan and I traveled in many parts of the south, exercising always our best blandishments to get the people of the section to talk with us. Through the mountainous region we drove from cabin to cabin, and nowhere could we have met with greater kindness and hospitality." While they were working on their book on Southern Wildflowers, Alice and Rowan's time together was marred by tragedy. They were surrounded by the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains when a telegram came for Rowan. Her only son, Eric, had died in South Africa. He was 22 years old.  After finishing these books, the two went their separate ways.  After working with Rowan, Alice continued to write - but without Rowan's artwork, her books failed to attract the same level of popularity.  After suffering a stroke, Alice Lounsberry died at the age of 81 on November 20, 1949.         Unearthed Words Walking down the country road this morning, I noticed the swamp in late fall has lovely colors. The chalky purple of the wild blackberry canes, the cinnabar of frosted weeds, and the garnet of oak seedlings seem like music. Farther on, the cutover fields have variations on the theme of brown, from tawny to copper. Squirrels go a-marketing under the hazel bushes, for, under the burs, the satiny brown nuts begin to show. A fawn-colored rabbit hops ahead along the grey stone wall, and a pheasant leads three females toward the thicket.      As I pass the neighbor's old red barn, the smell of dried hay is as sweet as honey. Pumpkins and cabbages and smoky hubbard squash lie in the garden. Blue smoke rises from a pile of burning cornstalks. "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness," Keats called it, and also, "Think not of spring, thou has thy beauty too." -Gladys Taber, The Best of Still Meadow         Today's Grow That Garden Library book recommendation: Vertical Vegetables by Amy Andrychowicz The subtitle to this book is Simple Projects that Deliver More Yield in Less Space. Going vertical is something I love to do indoors in small spaces - but as Amy shows us in this book, it's a strategy that works brilliantly in our gardens as well. Amy points out that when you grow upward rather than outward, you will double or triple the yield from your small-space garden. Not only does growing vertically not only potentially increase your yield, but also it also gets your plants off the ground - increasing airflow, reducing the risk from soil-borne disease, and making a crouch-free harvest. Vertical Vegetables is packed with valuable information. Amy includes lists of plants that are best suited for vertical growing. The book is packed full of beautiful DIY garden projects anyone can do thanks to step-by-step instructions. Beyond the trellis, Amy shares what you can grow vertically using cages, stakes, tee-pees, a classic obelisk, or pergolas in addition to providing creative plans for even more functional structures.       Today's Garden Chore It's time to have a funeral: Bury your pots with hardy succulents like Hens and Chicks and Sedums. In a Northern garden, you cannot leave your cute little pots with these cold-hardy succulents sitting out in the garden. They won't make it - or should say - they won't make it above ground in a pot. To avoid the heartbreak of having to re-buy them and the hassle of repotting them, I simply gather up all my pots - terra cotta, iron, strawberry pots, etc. - collecting them in a cleared area by the water feature. I'll add in my succulent wreath form as well. Then I bury them under a couple of bags of wood mulch. Sheltered under the mulch, the plants continue to grow until the first hard freeze. In the spring, I dig out my pots and then return them to their homes throughout the garden.         Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart #OTD   Today is the birthday of the British plant collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward who was born on this day in 1885. During the beginning of the twentieth century,  Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four Indiana-Jones-like expeditions throughout Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia, in search of rare and elusive species of plants. Among his many accomplishments, Ward found the legendary Tibetan blue poppy. Ward’s accounts of his adventures are captivating. In 1942, he arrived inNew Delhi after a 500 hundred mile walk over mountains and through jungles. The newspaper account said: "A thin, wiry little man in his 50s, Captain Kingdon-Ward...decided that the Japanese were getting too close for comfort so he loaded two 60-pound bags of rice on two mules... But instead of taking the short road through the Chaukan pass, [he] decided to travel the 500 mile mule trail through Tibet...  [Kingdon-Ward tramped] knee-deep in snow [and] crossed the Himalayas at the 14,500-foot pass.... [He said] "It was a pleasant walk and [my] reward is in the finding of dazzling flowers never seen before. You know they may always blush unseen unless you manage to take them back and make them grow where others can admire them. They are a little bit of the enchantment of Asia transplanted into England or America. It is satisfaction enough if you can feel in an industrial age like the present that you have brought home a little beauty for others to enjoy."       Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

There's are some lines from a TS Eliot poem that go like this : Oh, Do not ask, "What is it?" Let us go and make our visit." If you've never visited your local botanic garden this time of year, you really should go. I have a friend who recently did this, and she posted amazing pictures from her visit to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. She said this: "This is my PSA : Get yourself to the Arb ....now . Don’t wait to go just to see the change in color of the trees (like everyone else ) Go now ! The colors of the flowers are crazy ! This is just a couple quick snaps with my phone ( which doesn’t do justice) no filters, editing or enhancing. The colors are just THAT bright and bold . I’ve never gone this time of year . I go in the spring, a few times mid summer then I wait like everyone else for the leaves to change and go again. I’ve even gone in the winter but never late late summer /early fall . For some reason I thought there wouldn’t be anything to look at. I thought the flowers would be half dead ( like my potted plants at home

Au sein de Sorbonne Université, Camille et Yanis nous présentent toutes leurs initiatives pour la protection de l’environnement et la transition écologique… Un vrai travail de fond !LUPA – Les Universitaires Planteurs d’Alternatives - est une association loi 1901 créée à l’été 2016 en vue d’agir pour la protection de l’environnement et la transition écologique au sein de Sorbonne Université (anciennes universités Pierre et Marie Curie et Paris-Sorbonne) avec tous les membres de l’université (étudiant·te·s et enseignante·s, chercheur·euse·s, travailleur·euse·s), à travers trois axes :Informer et sensibiliser les usagers de l’université et promouvoir un mode de vie plus durableRendre notre université plus respectueuse de l’environnementPromouvoir un mode de vie plus durableJe suis allée rencontrer Camille et Yanis sur le campus de Jussieu pour en savoir plus…! Nous parlons donc dans ce podcast de l’anecdote qui a été fondatrice de cette grande aventure, de tout ce qu’ils ont déjà mis en place, de leurs analyses et réflexions pour faire bouger toute l’université en profondeur, de leurs actions pour sensibiliser tous ceux qui étudient mais aussi ceux qui cherchent et travaillent à l’université, de leur festival, des Lupapéros, des paniers bio, des projections-débats, de leurs "week-ends d’intégration" alternatifs et solidaires, de leurs actions pour sensibiliser leurs parents (Yanis a décidé de ne plus prendre l’avion pour aller en vacances en Grèce avec sa famille, il a donc mis trois jours… mais il ne voulait plus se "téléporter" et il est ravi du voyage !), ils nous racontent aussi ce que cet engagement a changé dans leur vie, ce que ça leur apporte… et ça fait du bien ! Bonne écoute !Plus d'informations sur la page du podcast avec LUPA - Camille et Yanis - sur So Sweet PlanetUne interview réalisée par Anne Greffe See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Les perturbateurs endocriniens représentent aujourd’hui un danger pour l’homme mais également pour l’environnement. Nous sommes allés rencontrer la chercheuse Sakina Mhaouty-Kodja dans son laboratoire de neuroplasticité des comportements de reproduction à Jussieu. La recommandation culturelle de l’invitée : le livre “Le voyage de Darwin” ainsi que la Cité de la Sciences à Paris qui proposent...

La faculté de l'amiante

SUR LES PLACES - Manif à Jussieu... et début de mouvement social ? Ils et elles étaient près de 2500 au départ de Jussieu hier. Un cortège hétéroclite, entre syndicats, autonomes et lycéens. Quelques parents d'élèves avaient aussi fait le déplacement, autant contre la réforme du bac que contre Parcoursup, le nouveau mode de répartition des bacheliers. Sous le soleil parisien, les regards s’interrogent : est-ce le début d’un mouvement social ? Youri Krassoulia a posé la question à celles et ceux qui battaient le pavé jeudi 1er février ?

Je vous imagine, comme c'est le printemps et qu'il commence à faire beau, vous vous êtes dit ce matin en partant à votre bureau que vous pourriez aller manger dehors au bord du canal, pendant la pause.Alors vous avez sorti une vieille boîte à bento que vous avez retrouvé dans un placard et vous êtes préparé une petite salade avec des haricots verts et du riz.Là c'est midi vous avez pris l'ascenseur pour descendre vous avez trouvé une place confortable dans l'herbe au bord du canal, vous commencez votre dégustation après avoir enlevé vos chaussures pour permettre à vos orteils de profiter du soleil. La semaine dernière je n'étais pas là parce que j'étais à Paris.D'ailleurs, j'y retourne à Paris... à Jussieu: le 10 juin de 10 à 18h pour un regroupement de créatrices et créateurs de fiction sonore et de podcast amateur.la manifestation s'appelle MP3@Paris c'est la deuxième édition et j'espère vous y retrouver.Surtout que je serai très bien accompagné !Cette semaine, je vous invite car je suis allé visiter un site. J'avais rendez-vous, pas trop loin, pour le boulot et comme je suis arrivée en avance, j'ai décidé d'aller traîner dans cet endroit dont la réputation ne paye pas de mine.

 Forbes dévoile, comme chaque année, son classement des jeunes de moins de trente ans considérés comme futurs leaders européens. Parmi ces lauréats, Régis Pradal. À 28 ans, il est le co-fondateur d'InternsGoPro, une entreprise dont le principal objectif est de combattre la précarité des stagiaires en Europe et favoriser l'insertion des jeunes. "Pour nous, un stage de qualité c'est un stage rémunéré qui permet à la fois au stagiaire d'apprendre et d'apporter, ce n'est pas une expérience à sens unique"Ce site permet, d'une part, aux stagiaires d'évaluer anonymement leurs entreprises et, d'autre part, aux entreprises de certifier leurs engagements pour un stage de qualité à travers l'obtention d'un label européen. Selon son co-fondateur, InternsGoPro est donc d'intérêt général puisqu'il renseigne à la fois les stagiaires et les entreprises. Régis Pradal évoque également les nombreuses inégalités dans l'accès ou encore la rémunération aux stages. Selon lui, il s'agit d' un problème qui concerne toute l'Europe et qui doit donc être traiter à cette échelle.  L'un des autres objectifs du projet c'est donc le développement de la mobilité des jeunes en Europe.En seconde partie d'émission, l'auteure Pauline Aubry est notre invitée. Elle publie, le 22 Février 2016, un roman graphique intitulé Les mutants. Sous titré "un peuple incompris", cet ouvrage s'attarde sur le mal-être à l'adolescence. Puisant de sa propre expérience de jeunesse , la graphiste de formation aborde avec douceur et finesse l'odyssée adolescente vers l'âge adulte."La problématique du livre c'est de comprendre le processus de construction individuel"Sélectionnée au concours Jeunes Talents d'Angoulême en 2014, la jeune auteure évoque les rencontres qui ont conduit à l'élaboration du projet.  Elle revient également sur son parcours, entre déceptions et reconnaissance. Pauline Aubry nous parle pour finir de sa relation à l'adolescence en tant qu'adulte, et revient sur les ressentis des jeunes quant à son travail.Côté reportage, Erwan poursuit la série “Manger à Paris ”​. Il est allez dans un restaurant au concept bien particulier : des plats dont le contenu et le contenant sont tous les deux comestibles...Pour finir, Michael revient sur l'actualité de la vie étudiante de la semaine. En commençant par BESIDE LABEL qui met en place un tremplin musical avec comme prix à gagner entre autre une dotation de 500€, une résidence d'une journée et un accompagnement par l'équipe du Beside Label pour l'année à venir.Ensuite, place à la Ludi-IDF, la ligue universitaire d'improvisation théâtrale d'Île-de-France, qui vous propose d'assister à deux rencontres d'improvisation théâtre jeudi 4 mars et samedi 12 mars. Puis, la MIE organise au Labo 6 une soirée de formation "Comment dompter google ?" le mardi 1er mars. Enfin, vous avez jusqu'au 18 mars pour aller voir l'exposition "By the Silent Line" de Pierre Folk à Jussieu. Présentation : Alban Barthelemy / Réalisation : Nedjim Danimon Ngaba / Co-interview : Anna  Péan et Erwan Duchateau / Chroniques: Michael Kalfon / Reportage : Erwan Duchateau / Coordination : Elsa Landard et Camille Regache / Web : Jules Brussel

Podcast : conférence de Jean-Gabriel Ganascia à l'IFM (6 janvier 2016) sur l'intelligence artificielle, les relations homme-machine et le transhumanisme. Jean-Gabriel Ganascia est professeur à l'Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (UPMC)/Paris 6/Jussieu. Expert en intelligence artificielle, apprentissage machine, sciences cognitives, philosophie computationnelle, éthique des nouvelles technologies, il a écrit de nombreux ouvrages parmi lesquels « L’âme machine » aux éditions du Seuil (1990), « L’intelligence artificielle » (1993, Flammarion, coll. Domino), « Les sciences cognitives » (1996, Flammarion, coll. Domino), « 2001, l’odyssée de l’esprit » (1999, Flammarion, coll. Essai)... Résumé de son intervention : "si la machine est intelligente, c’est que nous la concevons comme intelligente".

Aprenda francês com Nabil, um jovem marroquino que está em Paris há um ano e meio. Em seu país, ele vivia na beira do mar. Então, em Paris, ele gosta de passear na beira do Sena, porque ali ele encontra um ambiente parecido com sua casa. Nabil quer conhecer as diferentes atividades que podem ser encontradas nas margens do Sena, os “quais”. Axelle Carlier, nossa guia que tem um blog sobre Paris chamado “Paris Zigzag”, vai leva-lo ao quai Saint-Bernard, no jardim Tino-Rossi. As duas ilhas de Paris  L’île de la CitéL’île Saint-LouisSuperficieLa plus grande (22,5 ha)La plus petite (11 ha)HistoriqueBerceau de la capitale, habitée depuis 250 av. J.C.Urbanisée à partir de 1614ParticularitéClassée au patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO, siège du pouvoir royal et épiscopalRésidence des bourgeoisMonuments la Conciergerie, le Palais de justice, la préfecture de police, l’Hôtel-DieuLes hôtels particuliers : Lambert, de Lauzun, de Chenizot…Les boutiquesLes édifices religieuxLa cathédrale Notre-Dame, la Sainte-Chapelle (concerts)L’église St-Louis en l’Île (concerts)Les pontsD’une rive à l’autre : le Pont-NeufDe l’île vers la rive droite : le pont au change, le pont Notre-Dame, le pont d’ArcoleDe l’île vers la rive gauche : le pont Saint-Michel, le Petit-Pont, le pont au Double, le pont de l’Archevêché D’une rive à l’autre : le pont de SullyDe l’île vers la rive droite : le pont Louis-Philippe, le pont MarieDe l’île vers la rive gauche : le pont de la TournelleRelie l’île Saint-Louis à l’île de la Cité : le pont Saint-Louis   Sainte Geneviève, a santa padroeira de Paris Sur le pont de la Tournelle, une statue moderne représente Sainte Geneviève, la sainte patronne de Paris. Elle protège symboliquement la ville contre les envahisseurs venant de l’Est. Histoire de Sainte Geneviève :- Née à Nanterre vers 420- Quand en 451 les Huns de Attila menacent la ville, elle persuade les Parisiens de ne pas s’affoler et de rester. Elle acquiert ainsi un grand prestige.- En 475, le chef franc, Childéric, assiège Paris et veut affamer ses habitants. Elle se rend en Champagne pour rapporter des vivres en bateau sur la Seine.- Après sa mort vers 500, sainte Geneviève continue de protéger Paris. A plusieurs reprises, la procession de ses reliques à travers la ville écarte l’ennemi.- Elle a donné son nom à la montagne Sainte-Geneviève, la colline où se trouve le Panthéon (qui était à l’origine l’église Sainte-Geneviève), et la bibliothèque universitaire Sainte-Geneviève.Atividades nas margens do Sena• Quai Saint-Bernard : jardin Tino-Rossi (musée d’art contemporain en plein air), les soirs d’été, danse (salsa, rock, tango…), pique-nique• Concorde : clubs, péniches luxueuses• Jussieu, quai de l’Arsenal, pointe de l’île Saint-Louis : pique-nique, boire des verres entre amis• Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand : jeune, branché, bars à cocktail, musique électronique• Paris Plages : l’été sur la rive droite, jeux de sable, piscine, pétanque, concerts… Trecho sonoro Axelle : Alors les Parisiens, donc, viennent sur les bords de Seine depuis très longtemps. Déjà en 1900, ils venaient se baigner. Les Parisiens péchaient, lavaient leurs chevaux, faisaient leur linge ici sur les quais. Donc les quais ont toujours été très fréquentés pour la détente, le loisir, la maison, mais vraiment les clubs et les bars, ça c’est très moderne.Nabil : Et on peut nager toujours ici dans la Seine ou… ?Axelle : Alors non, maintenant elle est très polluée à cause surtout des bateaux, des péniches, des Bateaux-Mouches, donc on ne peut plus du tout se baigner dans la Seine ! C’est très dangereux, je le déconseille ! Links Le blog « Paris Zigzag »Les nouveaux aménagements sur les quais rive gaucheParis Plages 

Invités : Tanguy Bertrand, Doctorant à l'université Pierre et Marie Curie à Jussieu, et Olivier de Goursac (par téléphone), Membre de la Planetary Society France

C'est ce que m'a révélé le juge Bertella-Geffroy, longtemps coordonnatrice au pôle santé instruction de Paris. Les scandales sanitaires, elle connaît car elle a instruit la récente affaire du sang contaminé.... de l'amiante de Jussieu, de l'hormone de croissance et celle de la vache folle... Ou encore sur le vaccin de l'hépatite B susceptible de donner la sclérose en plaque.. du nuage de Tchernobyl. Elle co-signe un livre écrit avec Serge Rader, un ancien pharmacien et Michèle Rivasi euro députée EELV tout juste sorti des presses... Le racket des laboratoires pharmaceutiques : Et comment en sortir Elle explique à Fréquence Terre que ces milliards engloutis par la sécu... Ces milliards qui creusent ce trou de plus en plus abyssal viennent principalement du lobbying des laboratoires pharmaceutiques qui influencent les hommes politiques qui n'y connaissent souvent rien et signent des chèques en blanc. .. Et autorisent ainsi la vente de médicaments à des prix dictés par les labos... "En France -dit-elle - nous sommes le seul pays en Europe à ne pas avoir de loi qui encadre le statut du lobby... Même chose pour le statut des experts".. Elle dénonce la condescendance, voire la  complicité du politique... (voir l'épisode du vaccin contre le H5N1)... "On retrouve dans les projets de loi, les fautes d'orthographes des textes rédigés par les labos !" Marie-Odile Bertella-Geffroy  dénonce aussi après toutes ces années d'activité au pôle instruction santé, le peu d'indépendance de la justice... "on pourrait en parler longtemps" m'a-t-elle avoué... Pour terminer, je lui ai aussi demandé - face aux problèmes actuels de pollution - si nous aurions des chances d'avoir un jour un procès pour pollution atmosphérique.. "le procès du diesel" ... Sa réponse est frappante... "Une plainte a déjà eu lieu". Elle a été rejetée au motif que le dossier était trop complexe "alors que nous venons de donner des moyens à la justice pôle santé" .... et d'ajouter de toute façon, on nage en pleine contradiction "la France préfère payer de lourdes pénalités à l'Europe" sans se mettre en conformité (sur ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre) ... "Le pire - ajoute-t-elle  - c'est que l'on cache aux Français que ces pénalités sont payées par leurs impôts !" Intégralité de l'interview à écouter en podcast ci-dessous.   [youtube width="740" height="344"]https://youtu.be/CTi_9GkG_ZM[/youtube]

Mardi 23 Novembre 2010

Mardi 23 Novembre 2010

Pour en savoir plus sur Qualair, un « outil scientifique » original en milieu urbain, découvrir les différentes espèces de polluants dans le ciel francilien, mais aussi rencontrer un physicien de l’atmosphère à la croisée des disciplines, nous vous invitons à venir écouter le professeur François Ravetta lors d’une conférence citoyenne

SAFIR (Système d’Analyse par Faisceaux d’Ions Rapides) Nanosciences with the world's most stable Van de Graff accelerator in the basement of Jussieu. november 2008

SAFIR (Système d’Analyse par Faisceaux d’Ions Rapides) Nanosciences with the world's most stable Van de Graff accelerator in the basement of Jussieu. november 2008

L'université Pierre et Marie Curie a honoré ses médaillés d'or et finaliste aux Jeux Olympiques d'Athènes 2004, Brice Guyart, Gaël Touya, Jean-David Bernard le 30 septembre au centre sportif Jean Talbot sur le campus Jussieu.

L'Open Access est un mode d'édition électronique basé sur l'accès gratuit à des documents numérisés, indexés dans des systèmes ouverts et interopérables. Pour l'étudiant, comme pour le chercheur, l'Open Access est l'accès libre et immédiat à une véritable information, dont le contenu scientifique a été validé. Mais c'est surtout, pour les auteurs, les éditeurs électroniques qui pratiquent des politiques tarifaires déraisonnables ou encore les bibliothèques et organismes de recherche qui font les frais de ces politiques, un défi à relever. Quels sont les fonctionnements et les buts de l'Open Access ? Quelles communautés scientifiques et quelles institutions se sont associées à ce domaine et pour quelles initiatives ? Réponse lors d'un débat organisé par la Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire Scientifique de Jussieu, qui s'adresse tant au grand public qu'aux spécialistes. Animé par : Raymond Bérard, conservateur des bibliothèques, membre de la Scholarly Publishing And Ressources Coalition - SPARC - Europe Marco Picco, Physicien, directeur-adjoint du Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe Denise Pumain, géographe, responsable scientifique de la revue Open Access Cybergéo François Strauss, biologiste moléculaire, Institut Jacques Monod Hélène Bosc, bibliothécaire, INRA Tours Gloria Orrigi, philosophe, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Communications - ENST Brigitte Bénichoux, Chargée de formation à l'Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique

L'Open Access est un mode d'édition électronique basé sur l'accès gratuit à des documents numérisés, indexés dans des systèmes ouverts et interopérables. Pour l'étudiant, comme pour le chercheur, l'Open Access est l'accès libre et immédiat à une véritable information, dont le contenu scientifique a été validé. Mais c'est surtout, pour les auteurs, les éditeurs électroniques qui pratiquent des politiques tarifaires déraisonnables ou encore les bibliothèques et organismes de recherche qui font les frais de ces politiques, un défi à relever. Quels sont les fonctionnements et les buts de l'Open Access ? Quelles communautés scientifiques et quelles institutions se sont associées à ce domaine et pour quelles initiatives ? Réponse lors d'un débat organisé par la Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire Scientifique de Jussieu, qui s'adresse tant au grand public qu'aux spécialistes. Animé par Raymond Bérard, conservateur des bibliothèques, membre de la Scholarly Publishing And Ressources Coalition - SPARC - Europe, Marco Picco, Physicien, directeur-adjoint du Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe, Denise Pumain, géographe, responsable scientifique de la revue Open Access Cybergéo, François Strauss, biologiste moléculaire, Institut Jacques Monod, Hélène Bosc, bibliothécaire, INRA Tours, Gloria Orrigi, philosophe, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Communications - ENST, Brigitte Bénichoux, Chargée de formation à l'Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique,