Author Ferris Jabr and scientist Brad Story will compare notes about the wonderful complexities that led to life on earth, including the biological creativity behind plants and the confluence of rock, water and air coming together to form our planet. (Unfortunately, Zoƫ Schlanger will no longer be able to participate in this session as originally planned.)
Ferris Jabr is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of "Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life," which reviewers have described as an “electrifying” and “infectiously poetic” “masterwork of journalism” that “earns its place alongside the best of today’s essential popular science books, as well as acknowledged classics....