page_title: Carolyn Hax
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caption_attribution_description: English: Washington Post's Carolyn Hax participates in the evening program, A Conversation with Carolyn Hax: Ask Me About Health, Genetics, and Dealing with Diesease at the Genome: Unlocking Life's Code Closing Symposium. Baird Auditorium National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C.
context_page_description: Carolyn Hanley Hax is an American writer and columnist for The Washington Post and author of the advice column Carolyn Hax.
  The column debuted in 1997 and is published daily and syndicated by The Washington Post Syndicate to more than 200 newspapers. Featuring cartoons by Hax's ex-husband, Nick Galifianakis, Tell Me About It originally provided advice targeted at readers under 30, but has since broadened its audience.
  Hax hosts a weekly Friday web chat, Carolyn Hax Live, at the paper's website with selected transcripts published subsequently.
context_section_description: Carolyn Hanley Hax is an American writer and columnist for The Washington Post and author of the advice column Carolyn Hax (formerly titled Tell Me About It). 
  The column debuted in 1997 and is published daily and syndicated by The Washington Post Syndicate to more than 200 newspapers. Featuring cartoons by Hax's ex-husband, Nick Galifianakis, Tell Me About It originally provided advice targeted at readers under 30, but has since broadened its audience.
  Hax hosts a weekly Friday web chat, Carolyn Hax Live, at the paper's website with selected transcripts published subsequently.
caption: Carolyn Hax in a program at the NHGRI in 2014
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