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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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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