Emily Yoffe
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Emily Yoffe is a journalist, a regular contributor to Slate magazine and the NPR radio show Day to Day.
She has regular features on Slate called "Human Guinea Pig", where she takes reader suggestions for strange activities or hobbies to try, and an advice column called "Dear Prudence". For "Human Guinea Pig", she has tried hypnosis, a vow of silence, and get-rich-quick schemes from spam. She has become a telephone psychic, a street performer, a nude model for an art class, and a contestant in the Mrs. America beauty pageant. In June 2005, Bloomsbury published Yoffe's What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner, a comic memoir of life with her neurotic beagle, and an offbeat exploration of the dog world.
In February 2006, Yoffe took over Slate's Dear Prudence advice column, after Margo Howard departed to be a columnist at Yahoo! News. She recently caused an uproar when she advised a childless couple that they ought to consider having children for the benefit of their loved ones. The couple had written for advice on how to handle people who were pressuring them to start a family.
Yoffe grew up in Newton, Massachusetts.
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