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In 1951, Henrietta Lacks died after a long battle with cervical cancer. Doctors cultured her cells without permission from her family. The story of those cells — known as HeLa cells, in Lacks’ honor — and of the medical advances that came from them, is told in Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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‘Henrietta Lacks’: A Donor’s Immortal Legacy
A lot of things happen. You don’t need to know about them all, and you don’t need to know them in detail. Here, in digest form, is the important pop culture stuff so you can do…whatever else it is you do.
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Stuff: Just Like a Rock Star, Rockstar Is In Bed With Someone Else Now
“Six Degrees of Separation,’’ which exactly captured the mood of a city and a culture in its time, has come back in an altogether different form at the Old Vic Theater.
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On the London Stage: A Defining Play for New York in the ’90s Gets a London Revival
In keeping with our stated editorial stance that “if it’s undead and bleeds, it leads” and also our desire (which I just invented) to become a hub of high-minded pop culture, we offer up the knowledge that zombie wine charms exist. For the uninitiated, wine charms are little trinkets that you hang off of the base of your wine glass if you’re at a party so you can tell your glass of wine from Bub’s glass. So these “zombie snacks” are worthwhile just because they can make the following exchange happen at your next party: “Is this your glass?” “No, my glass had lungs on it.” And isn’t that worth every penny?
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For the Sophisticated Zombie Enthusiast (Who Drinks)
” If it is truly a piece of art and made only for the journey at some point the piece should be given back to the earth-that gives us our lives….I am sure some will say no it is just craft and to that I will smile as my handy hands do craft well- that precition where things are put together to give purpose t o the idea that came first. Is not the idea art?…Is this art or craft or both or is it a journey for me to release these spirits back to the earth by an individual who fears much of a great culture has vanished -…Is this project art? Perhaps a construction with a reuniting of one’s self with the past- a joining of my ideas with a great photographer Edward Curtis and his documentation of the Native A merican….
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Pondering-What art is? Beeteeno Cei3woo Hottii