The Friends of the Public Garden is joining with Boston Park Advocates to celebrate retiring Parks Commissioner Toni Pollak on February 26, from 5 – 7 at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel. Admission is $10, and space is limited. Please rsvp by February 20 at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thank-you-to-toni-pollak-tickets-6825494237.
How do planets form, and what makes them habitable? Where might life be found beyond our solar system? Linda Elkins-Tanton, Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution and an expert in planet formation and evolution, will discuss how the violent impacts that are the “final act†of a planet’s creation may not always wipe out water and carbon from the early-growth period. Enough of these all-important elements may have existed to make many rocky planets and exoplanets habitable, increasing the likelihood that life might exist elsewhere among the Milky Way’s 17 billion Earth-sized planets. The Harvard Museum of Natural History lecture will take place Wednesday, February 26, beginning at 6 pm. Free and open to the public. Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street. Free event parking in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Image from www.sciencedaily.com. For more information visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu.
