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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: Politics
The DOJ's newly proposed definition of service animal includes psychiatric service animals but excludes non-canine species.
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Category: Politics
Leaked DOJ documents reveal details of its proposed ban on all non-canine service animals.
Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 10:26 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Leaked DOJ documents reveal pending ban of all non-canine service animals - here's how to protest if interested
Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 1:44 PM • 46 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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