While leisurely biking in Paris the previous (grey) weekend, my wife and I stopped by the entrance to the Jardin des Plantes, in front of a (grey) renovated building of l’Institut de physique du globe, where we both attended (maths) lectures in the 1980’s. I had noticed the renovation years ago and in particular the red neon fractured line going over the faces of the building, but never considered it had a specific meaning.
In fact, the apparent random walk has nothing random as it reproduces the Ring of Fire, a Fuller projection of the continuum of volcanoes that ring the Pacific Ocean. (This sculpture was created by Angela Detanico et Rafael Lain.)
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ring of fire [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, University life with tags biking, Institut de Physique du Globe, Jardin des Plantes, jatp, Jussieu, neon, Pacific Rim, Paris, Ring of Fire, sculpture, Université de Paris, volcanoes on September 4, 2021 by xi'anlight show in Jardin des Plantes [jatp]
Posted in Statistics with tags 1870 war, Bärengraben, Bern, chateau de Versailles, espèces en voie d'apparition, Jardin des Plantes, jatp, Ménagerie, Napoléon Bonaparte, Paris, Siege of Paris, zoo on January 19, 2019 by xi'an
an afternoon at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags apes, France, Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Jardin des Plantes, Jussieu, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris on November 15, 2015 by xi'an
A sunny Sunday afternoon last week at the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution, with a special exhibit on great apes. We had not been back there for ages, since the kids were kids enough!, and it was a most pleasant afternoon, as was strolling in the vicinity afterwards. Made all the more pleasant in retrospect after the bloodbath last night in the streets of Paris. May we endure against barbarity.
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