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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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Playing Chicken with Arsenic

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Jessica Alba and the Chemistry Thing

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A Chemical (Battle) Cry

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A lost girl, remembered

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Chemical-Free Chemistry

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A Dazzle in the Bones

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Life in the Undark

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The Radium Girls

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The Tom Lehrer Cure for the Blues

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The Amazing Exploding Classroom

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The Chemist as Murderer

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In Defense of Science Blogs (yes again)

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Update: The Poisoner's Giveaway

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To Our Friends in Egypt

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The Poisoner's (paperback) giveaway

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Up in Smoke

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A Chemical-Free Resolution

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At the Prohibition Bar

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Calling Dr. Kane