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Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning science writer, and author of the New York Times Bestselling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. 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. The book has been featured on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, CBS Sunday Morning, The Colbert Report, and many others. To see those segments and find information, reviews, book special features, and more, visit her website. Skloot is also a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine; she's worked as a correspondent for WNYC's RadioLab, and PBS's Nova ScienceNOW. Her writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Discover and others.
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Science in Jeopardy -- Protest Proposed Funding Cuts
Category: News • Policy
Posted on: February 7, 2009 11:10 AM, by Rebecca Skloot
The new stimulus package includes serious cuts to science funding (like nixing 100% of the National Science Foundation's $$). This -- as an old family friend of mine used to say -- is in the forefront of the not good. Details here. Contact folks to voice opposition here.
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D'oh! Doncha just hate it when your proofreader forgets to check your headline?
Posted by: David C. Brayton | February 10, 2009 11:20 PM
D'oh!
Posted by: Skloot | February 12, 2009 9:15 AM