Be Smart

If you'll be in or near New York City in the next few weeks, please go where I went last weekend. Here's why:

At the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, the garden gnomes have re-imagined the 19th century English garden that changed the world. This particular garden led pretty directly to the 21st century genetic technology that feeds us, discovers and cures our ills, and could eventually cure this century's ills too. Some of them, anyway, like climate change and pollution.