Our Nov. 6 show features: WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota's Community Radio Station News and Public Affairs welcomes
James Schwartz ("In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA") and Mark Bromley (Chair, Council on Global Equality) as our guest. Plus Surreal News, TannenWeekly, Media Matters Minute with Larry and Steve.

The mystery of inheritance has captivated thinkers since antiquity, and the unlocking of this mystery—the development of classical genetics—is one of humanity’s greatest achievements. This great scientific and human drama is the story told fully and for the first time in this book.

In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA
Acclaimed science writer James Schwartz presents the history of genetics through the eyes of a dozen or so central players, beginning with Charles Darwin and ending with Nobel laureate Hermann J. Muller. In tracing the emerging idea of the gene, Schwartz deconstructs many often-told stories that were meant to reflect glory on the participants and finds that the “official” version of discovery often hides a far more complex and illuminating narrative. The discovery of the structure of DNA and the more recent advances in genome science represent the culmination of one hundred years of concentrated inquiry into the nature of the gene. Schwartz’s multifaceted training as a mathematician, geneticist, and writer enables him to provide a remarkably lucid account of the development of the central ideas about heredity, and at the same time bring to life the brilliant and often eccentric individuals who shaped these ideas.

On Obama Lifts HIV/AIDS Bar of Entry Ban

Mark Bromley (DC): Chair, Council on Global Equality; formerly with Global Rights, where he launched Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Initiative; Former Foreign Policy Fellow in the office of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold; international LBGT human rights issues

Background: Mark Bromley, Chair of Council for Global Equality, helped launch the Council to encourage a clearer and stronger American voice on international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights concerns http://www.globalequality.org/. Prior to that he worked at Global Rights, where his more than eleven years of service included managing programs, coordinating donor relations and helping open field offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Morocco, Nigeria and India. In 2005, he launched an organization-wide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Initiative. Mr. Bromley has also regularly monitored developments within the U.N. human rights system, conducted research on sexual violence in support of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and for the former Yugoslavia, and reviewed international law standards in legal briefs filed by Global Rights, as amicus curiae, in human rights cases before U.S. and international courts. From 2001-02, he served as a Foreign Policy Fellow in the office of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold staffing the Senator's work on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including the Senator's Chairmanship of the Africa Subcommittee. Mr. Bromley holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and a BSFS from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has published on human rights and international law issues, and has served as an adjunct professor for the human rights clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law. He lives in Washington with his husband, David Salie. He can discuss human rights abuses to the global LGBT community, significance of President Obama lifting the HIV/AIDS immigration ban and extending hate-crime legislation to outlaw attacks based on sexual orientation.