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“We are all storytellers; we make sense out of the world by telling stories. And science is a great source of stories. Not so, you might argue. Science is an objective collection and interpretation of data.

Much has been said and written on gender disparities. For a long while, women were deliberately left out of scientific protocols because of concerns about the effect of the experiments on pregnancy and fertility.

Perhaps it is only me, but I suspect that it is true for the majority of my colleagues, scheduling our time in the operating room is a very personal matter.

We are officially in the midst of the Dog Days of Summer. Here at ACSH, we have been howling with joy due to the media coverage we have garnered in our tireless effort to promote good science. Here's where we appeared in recent days.

I just finished reading a book by David Esterly, a woodcarver.

The Internet is full of those Top Choose any number you want topic articles.

In 1967, the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of the best albums ever made. One of its hit songs was titled "Getting Better," and part of the chorus goes like this:

We are now well into the summer. Much of the country is experiencing a nasty heat wave.

We must be doing something right. ACSH has received so much media attention in the past several days, that we can barely keep up! Here's where we've appeared:

Why have we evolved such a close relationship with dogs? Scientists suggest two entangled themes. Dogs have both an uncanny skillset in communicating with humans and a social structure that echoes our own.