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Not sure why this month-old essay is back on the homepage of the NYT today, but I'm not complaining!

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Thank you @deborahb.bsky.social !

Exclusive | Bari Weiss to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources Weiss will report directly to Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison as she helps set the editorial direction at the third-place CBS News, a source close to the situation said.

This has been such a wild story arc.

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“Free speech is what we do instead of violence. Civilization started the day man first cast a word instead of a stone.”

We must not lose sight of this civilization-defining distinction.

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The Horrifying Assassination of Charlie Kirk The shooting of the conservative activist is the latest act of political violence in the United States.

From: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

"Periods of political violence do end. But often not without shocking retrenchments of people’s freedoms or catastrophic events coming first. There’s little reason to expect that this period will end differently."

Why Hasn’t Medical Science Cured Chronic Headaches? More than 1.2 billion people worldwide suffer from migraine and other debilitating conditions that are under-studied and often not taken seriously.

Migraines and other chronic headache conditions have been noted throughout human history — perhaps as far back as the Paleolithic. “The problem may be as old as our species,” Jerome Groopman writes in the @newyorker.com in a review of a new book about headaches by science journalist @tomzellerjr.com

Podcast: Should We Make Viruses More Dangerous – For Science? Kicking off Entanglements Season 2, our hosts talk to a microbiologist and a virologist about gain-of-function research.

@brookeborel.bsky.social and @annarothschild.bsky.social are such nimble stewards on these journeys into the thorniest questions facing science and society. Don't miss this inaugural episode of Season Two! undark.org/2025/08/20/p...

The role of the Psychologist in treating headache disorders | BPS Tom Zeller Jr., author of ‘The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Disorder’ (HarperCollins/Mariner, 2025).

The role of the Psychologist in treating headache disorders.

@tomzellerjr.com, author of ‘The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Disorder’ (HarperCollins/Mariner, 2025).

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"At any moment it can appear, creeping in like a shadow in some cases, ambushing like a predator in others."

"The Headache," by former KSJ Fellow and current @undark.org editor @tomzellerjr.com, gets a review in The New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Thank you!

On Hannah Murray's TRE in the Afternoon from 16.00CET - @richardhwrote.bsky.social's 'I'm Fine: A true story of trust, betrayal and exploitation', Franny Joseph-Zywicki's 'Hump Day Happenings' - celebrity gossip, and @tomzellerjr.com's 'The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction

Why Do Headaches Feel So Different From Other Kinds of Pain? Excruciating migraines and cluster attacks seem to collapse the sense of separation between body and self.

Read an excerpt from “The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction – and a Search for Relief.” buff.ly/GuLxfbq

When Headaches Are Ruining Your Life, Where Can You Turn? In “The Headache,” a science journalist documents his quest to understand his own cluster headaches.

Despite being extremely common, headaches are still something of a neurological mystery. In his new book, journalist @tomzellerjr.com shares his own experience with debilitatingly painful cluster headaches, and chronicles his journey to uncover the science behind this “most confounding affliction.”

I'm the author of the book being reviewed here, and I can safely say that you are entirely correct—or at least that's one of the biggest reasons.

Sorry to hear that you're going through it, Jessie. I hope the book, at the very least, confirms that you are very much not alone.

Why Hasn’t Medical Science Cured Chronic Headaches? More than 1.2 billion people worldwide suffer from migraine and other debilitating conditions that are under-studied and often not taken seriously.

Humbled to see "The Headache" receive such expansive and thoughtful coverage in ‪the @newyorker.com‬. Many thanks to Jerome Groopman -- a staff writer, physician, and migraineur himself -- for the deeply insightful read.

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How Medical Misogyny Impacted the Treatment of Women’s Migraines “I get ocular migraines, so they’re behind my eyes. And I can’t do anything when it’s bad. Like, even like the smallest light or the lightest noise sets me off. I wear sunglasses everywhere. It’s j…

@tomzellerjr.com explores how medical misogyny impacted the practice of neuroscience (and the treatment of migraines).

Truly an honor, @bschillace.brandyschillace.com! 🙏

It's not news that women are often taken less seriously than men in health care settings, but the data can be eye-opening — and infuriating. From "The Headache" (amzn.to/44TeSXu).

#migraine #headache

One ignores the testimony of @deborahb.bsky.social at their peril! :-)

‘The Headache’ Review: Of Migraines and Mystery Billions of people worldwide suffer from headache disorders. Medical science continues to struggle with the difficulty of diagnosing their causes—and relieving the suffering.

"It is not merely a headache, and it deserves our attention."

A truly wonderful review from @wsj.com for my new book, "The Headache."

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Thank you, friend!

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Amid Turbulence, the NIH's Jay Bhattacharya Era Begins Pandemic policies prompted his call for public health reform. But allies wonder if he can deliver it as a Trump insider.

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"Some of Jay Bhattacharya's colleagues and supporters have struggled to square the man they know — who arrived at NIH promising to champion free speech — with the policies of the administration he serves."

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