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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: Bioethics
As part of an ongoing series answering FAQs about her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot dishes on the fact that yes, it's true, she flunked high school.
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Category: Bioethics
As part of an ongoing series answering FAQs about her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot talks about how she first learned about the cells at 16 and why they grabbed her enough to spend decades writing a book about them.
Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 2:22 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bioethics
Are you in New York? Anywhere near New York? If so ... mark your calendars and come join us for the PUBLIC BOOK LAUNCH EVENT we've all been waiting for (well, at least we here at Culture Dish have been waiting for it ... plus a few other folks)
Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 6:10 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bioethics
Calling all academics: If you'd like a free advanced copy of my book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, to consider it for course adoption, get thee to Random House's academic blog and request a copy quick, while supplies last (which probably won't be long at the rate things are going).
Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 9:15 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Appearances
Yes folks, it's that time again: Registration is now open for the great ScienceOnline2010 meeting ...
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Category: Bioethics
In a starred pre-publication review, Publishers Weekly calls The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (about HeLa, by yours truly), "a remarkable debut ... a rich, resonant tale of modern science, the wonders it can perform and how easily it can exploit society's most vulnerable people." See post for full review, and the book's shiny new cover!
Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 9:05 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: News
The media is obsessed with Jade Goody, who is dying on television at the age of 27 from stage 4 cervical cancer. But most coverage misses the real story, and an opportunity to educate women.
Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 4:46 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neurology
In this Sunday's Washington Post, I reviewed Hannah Holmes's book The Well-Dressed Ape. Overall it was a pretty positive review, but I criticized her for the way she linked testosterone (via left-handedness and ring-finger length) with various traits, including violence,...
Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 12:51 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science Writing
Skloot's tips for breaking into publication and getting paid to write
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