Rebecca skloot

2000 years. 2000 years I searched for my murderer. Dresden, today. In the arenas of Rome he stabbed me. Unknowing of my immortality... unknowing of his own. We are the last of our kind. Neither fiery...

What is education? And what is its purpose? Lucy Wheelock knew what education, if it is real education, is all about. It's about liberation and the individual uplift of the entire community....

'12 Years a Slave' swept the Spirit Awards, and also won "Best Picture" at the Oscars, but it's just now receiving the recognition it deserves from The New...

♪ music playing throughout ♪ ♪ A university is a learning community, so we get together and we exchange ideas and we have discussions. So, when you come and you participate in EIU Reads,...

Hey Uma, read any good books lately? Awh, yeaa, Ive been reading the immortal life of henrietta lacks son! Really, what's it about? Oh its about this girl, oh i got this Yo Crazy Ro',...

Early in 1951, while pregnant with her fifth child, Henrietta Lacks knew something wasn't right. She felt a knot in her belly that she hadn't felt with her earlier pregnancies. After...

Provision of health care is therefore a social function and a social process. Linking it directly to Wheelock College's goal. Skloot weaves a fantastic scientific tale of immortality and...

>> DR. JEREMY HAEFNER: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. IT'S A THRILL TO SEE THE INGEL AUDITORIUM SO FULL WITH LIVELY CONVERSATION AND I HATE TO INTERRUPT IT BUT WE HAVE A WONDERFUL...

My name is Norman Rice and I’m President and CEO of the Seattle Foundation. I used to be the Mayor of Seattle ah, for two terms, eight years. Both jobs, being President and CEO of the Foundation and...

Since 1981, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has killed an estimated 25 million people worldwide. Although mortality rates have declined since the 1980s, especially in developed countries, the disease still...