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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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Category: Animals
Because of the flood of responses I got to yesterday's post on The Insanity of the FDA Approved Obesity Drug for Dogs, I thought I'd start a series of follow up posts to answer the many questions I got by email and in the comments here.
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Category: Animals
Slentrol, the FDA-approved obesity drug for dogs, really makes me cringe. Why? Because dogs don't have eating disorders -- their owners have feeding disorders.
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Category: Animals
Today was a big day for non-canine service animal news: Service ferret kicked out of mall; agoraphobia monkey suit rejected by courts. Follow on my New York Times Magazine article, Creature Comforts.
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Category: Animals
Good Morning America's segment today on non-canine service animals was a classic oversimplification of a complex story that makes one of the most common media mistakes: it focuses on the quirk without getting into any of the serious issues involved.
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Category: Animals
There are many well known ethical problems with companies selling clones of people's pets, now here's a new one: Surrogate mother abuse.
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Category: Animals
A documentary film is being planned based on my recent NYTimes Magazine story on the use of non-canine service animals. It's producers are looking for subjects to interview.
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Category: Animals
After a long amazing life that inspired millions and forced legal change on New York City, my dog Bonny passed away peacefully at home this weekend.
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Category: Animals
In a fairly hilarious slip, yesterday a USA Today said researchers had found a 2500 foot snake fossil in Colombia. Uh, make that a 2500 pound snake (it was about 40 feet long). But still: BIG SNAKE!! And it was 65...
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Category: Animals
The Department of Justice has withdrawn its proposed ADA regulations that would have banned the use of assistance monkeys, birds, miniature horses, etc.
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Category: Animals
Fun with veterinary x-rays: dogs filled with knives and fish hooks, and an alien inside a duck.
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