I attended an international conference on mountain forest ecology last week (Mountain Forests in a Changing World, BOKU, Vienna, see abstracts here and my contribution on Nature Precedings). With many contributors from such exotic countries as Bhutan and Armenia, this congress opened a whole new part of the world for me, that is closer to Belgium than most tropical countries where I’ve worked before. During a free afternoon, I walked through Vienna with colleague Jonathan Lenoir from France. We passed, among others, the Naschmarket, where we met the esteemed dr. Falafel (pictured below). I haven’t looked at his most recent publications yet, but I’m sure the editors at Nature may expect something fascinating soon (word has it’s going to be something about chickpeas).
(From Flickr)
I love that. Maybe a paper on the contribution of tahini to global warming?
Haha, I suspect he may not be a real doctor. And what a coincidence that both his name and his job involve falafel. Nominative determinism as New Scientist used to call it. ;-)
John mailed me he would be interested in his latest publication in Falafel Chemistry.