Newsweek Champions Anita Hill 'Surviving Clarence' | NewsBusters.org

Twenty years after her testimony in the Clarence Thomas confirmation mesmerized the nation, Hill shifts her focus from the public forum to the private. As today’s families are being devastated by the subprime mortgage crisis, Hill speaks out for a new understanding about the importance of home and its place in the American Dream.

Newsweek Champions Anita Hill 'Surviving Clarence' NewsBusters.org

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Anita Hill is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University, where she teaches courses on race and the law, and gender equality. After graduating from law school she worked as the attorney-advisor to Clarence Thomas at the U.S. Department of Education. In 1991, she testified at the Senate confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas. She is the author of Speaking Truth to Power, in which she wrote about her experience as a witness in the Thomas hearings. Hill has written widely on issues of race and gender in publications such as the New York Times, Newsweek, the Boston Globe, Critical Race Feminism, and others.

For my Southern Cal family~ This Free event is now full, but everyone everywhere can access the program later from this link~ http://lfla.org/aloud/past.php

Check the list of previous speakers, as you may find others you'd like to hear. Also a good notification list to be on for future speakers.

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[ALOUD] at Central Library
Thursday, October 27, 2011 7:00 PM

ANITA HILL
In conversation with Patt Morrison, L.A. Times columnist & radio host, KPCC, 89.3 FM
Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home

Directions/Parking: Unless otherwise indicated, ALOUD programs take place at the Los Angeles Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071.

You'll never guess who painted this....

Van Gogh, Picasso, Pollock, and ... Serratia marcescens?

- October 20, 2011

Although they can't pick up a brush, bacteria have created their own painting for the first time.
Simon Park, a microbiologist at the University of Surrey, notes that many people – including Alexander Fleming – have painted with bacteria. But now, in collaboration with watercolourist Sarah Roberts, he says the bacteria themselves have been turned into painters.

“We prepared a standard agar plate, about 20cm by 20cm,” he explains. “Sarah chose some pigments – some of which she thought might be toxic, some of which she thought the bacteria might like and painted circles on the agar. Then we inoculated the agar with a red pigmented bacteria and incubated it overnight.”

The result was the image you see above. As the Serratia marcescens bacteria (the red colour) grew, they moved over the surface and “picked up the paint [the other colours] and moved it around according to their own ‘desires or whims’”, says Park.

The result makes visible some of the results of the bacteria’s movement, swarming, communication and even coordinated behaviour.

Park says he hopes this – and other outreach work – will help the public understanding of bacteria.

“I sit in a laboratory and work with what I think are some of the most wonderful things out there, but the public all they ever see of bacteria are the horror stories when people are selling bleach. They very rarely look at the good side,” he told Nature.

Image: Park / Roberts / S. marcescens