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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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The Insanity of the FDA Approved Obesity Drug for Dogs

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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Massive Prehistoric Snake Ate Crocodiles; Today's Snakes Eat Alligators Then Explode

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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