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Marcos Breton Marcos Breton joins us at the start of each
month; his columns appear each Wednesday and Sunday in the
Sacramento Bee's Our Region section. Today he'll talk about
some of the current topics he's been writing about.
The Microbial Cloud Microbiologist Jonathan Eisen of the UC
Davis Genome Center was invited to speak at the recent TEDMED meeting in Washington D.C. He
spoke about the beneficial impact of what he calls the
"Microbial Cloud" of bacteriia which surrounds our bodies.
While much of medicine has obsessed over cleanliness and
removing bacteria from our environment, "We are covered in a cloud
of microbes that mostly do us good," Eisen says. "We are a teeming
ecosystem of microorganisms." Eisen uses genome sequencing technology to study this
microbial cloud. Too few or difficult to grow by conventional
means, the signatures of microbes can be captured from their DNA.
Olympics 2012 Preview "Gabe" Gabriel
"Gabe" Bryan Gardner (born March 18, 1976, in San Diego, California) is an American professional volleyball player. He is a two time Olympian, having played at the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2008 Beijing Olympics with the U.S. national
team. Gabe graduated from San
Clemente High School, where he went on to the University of Southern
California, playing for the USC Trojans volleyball team in
1996-97. He then transferred to Stanford University, where due to
NCAA transfer rules he sat out the 1998 season before playing for
the Cardinal in 1999. Gardner also played water polo as a goalie in addition to being
an accomplished volleyball player for the high school level.
We'll talk to Gabe about his olympic journey.
The Little Mermaid Disney's Classic "The Little Mermaid" makes its Music
Circus début July 10-22. Based on Hans Christian
Anderson's original fairy tale, the musical fantasy is back in
a re-imagined production featuring new songs not in the original
Broadway production. Unsatisfied with her life in the sea,
young mermaid Ariel longs to experience the human world above,
embarking on a fascinating journey to discover her true self.
The West Coast premiere of this beautiful Disney classic
features the songs "Under the Sea," "Part of Your World", "Kiss the
Girl, and "Poor Unfortunate Souls."
