NOTE: I put the wrong date of this event earlier this morning. It is on Sunday, the 20th. Not tomorrow. DIYbio NYC is having this great event Sunday in Thompson Square park near the overflowing popular farmers’ market. I am pretty excited this sort of thing is happening, because lateral science is a good thing. top down science, bad thing:

Explore the blueprints that underlie life in NYC’s urban public spaces. Join DIYBio at the greenmarket in Tompkins Square Park to extract DNA from locally grown produce!

Imagine going to a Tompkins Square Greenmarket, but instead of seeing people doing their daily fruit and vegetable shopping, you saw a schematic for the fruit, the plant that grew them, the lineage of plants before it, even the pathogens it fought along the way. You’d be seeing the world through DNA!

This is also an event linked to the Conflux:

Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. At Conflux, visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public gather for four days to explore their urban environment.

Thank you for bookhling on twitter for sending me this info.