Patricia Ingalls
Award-winning author Percival Everett’s book, called James, retells Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of the enslaved character, Jim. The PC Reads group will meet to discuss the book on Thursday, Sept. 4, at 4 p.m. in the LLL Activity Center.
For full details and to register, go to lifelonglearningatpc.org. Later, if you find that you are unable to attend, email registrar@lifelonglearningatpc.org, so that someone from the waitlist may attend.
Everett kept intact much of Jim’s and Huckleberry Finn’s well-known mishaps along their perilous journey by raft down the Mississippi River, while showing new insights through Jim’s intelligent, compassionate, and often humorous observations.
Author Everett’s many accolades include the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards.
TED Talk Reveals Nano–Images
Bill Nee
I loved photography from an early age. I had my own darkroom for more than a decade and enjoyed taking pictures of all kinds. The first time I bought a macro lens for my Nikon system, a new perspective opened, allowing me to appreciate a micro world I had failed to see before.
This TED Talk features Gary Greenberg, a photographer, biomedical researcher, and inventor, who is intent on giving everyone a view of the microscopic wonders all around them—from the hairs on a bee’s eyes to the nano-details of sand. He takes viewers to exotic places in the larger world to explore extraordinary beauty, witnessed on a micro-photographic scale.
Greenberg uses high-definition, three-dimensional light microscopes, for which he holds 18 patents, to make the miracles of nature tangible, exposing their hidden details for all to see. When photographed under a 3D microscope, grains of sand appear like colorful pieces of candy and stamens in a flower become like fantastic spires at an amusement park.
To view this beautiful 12-minute TED Talk, go to TED.com, then in the header, click “watch,” and under the category, select “TED Talks,” then click “Search for a talk” then input the title, “The beautiful nano details of our world,” scroll a little lower, and click on the talk you selected.
You will enjoy the visual experience of a world we rarely visualize.