Recovering from Paris. 

After a busy Monday and the weekend in Paris, today's blog will be short.  An interesting lecture today from Hugo Blomfield about spaceship earth.  The idea that the earth is our life support system carrying us through space is not new.  Some authors believe that the earth functions as a living organism, in particular James Lovelock whose books have become increasingly gloomy about the future. 

http://www.ecolo.org/lovelock/lovebioen.htm  you can read about the different books which start with books claiming that as populations on earth increase, temperatures will rise, water will become scarce, food production will decline and chaos will ensue. 
Perhaps the lectures prompted students to travel to Place Kle'ber a large square in Strasbourg which has pubs and eateries with outdoor seating.  A group of us ate at FEC and headed over to the square with a huge package of fresh strawberries for sharing.  After that we settled at a great outdoor pub only to find some of our fellow students indulging in beer giraffe's.  See for yourself below. 

Gifaffe's seen on the left.  There is a tap on the bottom for pouring.