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Deborah Blum

Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer-Prize winning science writer and the author of five books, most recently the best-seller, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. She writes for a range of publications including The New York Times, Scientific American, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times (and even the literary journal, Tin House). She is currently working on a sixth book about poisonous food.

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Book Break

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Lessons From Snow White

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Poisoning Our Pets

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Dead Tourists and a Dangerous Pesticide

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Chocolate as Poison

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About That Tainted Seafood In Texas

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Our Toxicity Experiment in West Virginia

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An Asbestos Map of the United States

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Chemical Guesswork in West Virginia

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10 Poisonous Lessons From 2013