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Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning science writer, and a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine; she's worked as a correspondent for the NPR show RadioLab, and PBS Nova ScienceNOW. Her writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Discover and others. She teaches in the University of Memphis's creative writing program. Her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is forthcoming from Crown on February 2, 2010. It tells the story of HeLa -- the first immortal human cell line ever grown in culture (pictured in the blog's banner) -- the woman those cells came from, and the family she left behind. Click Welcome to Culture Dish for an introduction to this blog and its author.

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January 23, 2009

Testosterone Research and My Latest Washington Post Book Review

Category: Neurology

In this Sunday's Washington Post, I reviewed Hannah Holmes's book The Well-Dressed Ape.  Overall it was a pretty positive review, but I criticized her for the way she linked testosterone (via left-handedness and ring-finger length) with various traits, including violence,...

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January 22, 2009

Covert DNA Testing Raises Privacy Concerns

Category: Bioethics

DNA from thousands of people being tested without their knowledge. Suspicious spouses are sneaking DNA samples from their partner's underwear; men and women are covertly testing their children to find out if they're really biologically related, and several companies have cropped up to help them.

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January 20, 2009

ADA Changes Not Approved Before Obama Innaguration

Category: Animals

Because the sweeping DOJ changes to the Americans With Disabilities Act were the only Bush Administration regulations under review that weren't approved before Obama was inaugurated as president today, monkeys, miniature horses, parrots, ducks and everything else can legally qualify as service animals (for now)

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January 17, 2009

DOJ's Proposed Ban of Non-canine Service Animals Is Bad News for Disabled Muslims

Category: Animals

The question of service animal species also turns out to be a question of religious freedom

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Documents for my ScienceOnline 09 Getting Published Talk

Category: Science Writing

Skloot's tips for breaking into publication and getting paid to write

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Halucinate Without Drugs - AKA Fun With Neuroscience

Category: Neurology

Wouldn't it be fun to hallucinate on your lunch break without all those pesky drugs? Here's how.

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January 15, 2009

Famous Six Degrees of Separation Study a Fraud?

Category: From the Archives

The famous Six Degrees of Separation Study was actually based on bogus statistics.

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January 14, 2009

Study Finds Egg In The Face Can Be Dangerous

Category: From the Archives

Researchers in Liverpool have announced that "being pelted by a raw egg may result in eye injury."

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Culture Dish on the Road

Category: Book Related

Yesterday was the first day I was able to post since the ScienceBlogs upgrade because of glitches in the system.  Now I'm headed off to Durham, NC, until Sunday.  More below the jump:...

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January 13, 2009

Why New Year's Resolutions Don't Work -- The Neurology of Change

Category: Personal

Why do so many New Year's resolutions fail? Because of this basic neurology ...

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