I'm excited, baymate and I will be off to Radcliffe to attend a symposium entitled, The Origins of Life: The Earth, the Solar System, and Beyond.
In related news I learned from Corie that over the next year, Craig Venter will be a visiting scholar with Harvard's Origins of Life initiative.
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