Political slander is at all time high!
I logged onto Facebook today (can’t be many more month until that is not in my vocab anymore, See Myspace) and I was presented with a post from someone I went to elementary school and Junior High with. In the post he had posted a pic of President Obama at the Nuclear Security Summit with […]
Henrietta Lacks cells provided keys to many medical break throughs!
Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells Journalist Rebecca Skloot’s new book investigates how a poor black tobacco farmer had a groundbreaking impact on modern medicine Medical researchers use laboratory-grown human cells to learn the intricacies of how cells work and test theories about the causes and treatment of diseases. The cell lines they need are “immortal”—they can […]
R.I.P. Bernie Mac 1958 – 2008
Bernie Mac was born Bernard Jeffery McCullough in Chicago, IL, on October 5, 1958. Becoming a professional comedian when he was 19, Mac performed in area clubs under his original name. He had small roles in a few movies, when, in 1995, he won a part in Ice Cube’s comedy Friday, and got his own […]