The Dog Zombie

I encountered Nest making and oxytocin comparably promote wound healing in isolation reared rats [1] while reading about how stress affect...

Best science on TV: Comedy Central's Stewart, Colbert?: “‘It is a very bad thing for the country that Comedy Central is the go-to place...

This afternoon was the white coat ceremony for the class of 2011 at my vet school. I went through the first two years of didactic material w...

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with breeding purebred dogs. We breed dogs for work, for beauty, for good companionship, and...

Pluto's demotion is a great opportunity for science . Timmer concludes that scientists need to do a better job of communicating with the...

This weekend I volunteered at a TNR (trap/neuter/release) clinic. TNR is one way to deal with the feral cat population: volunteer trappers t...

Rebooting science journalism - thoughts from Timmer This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post Open Access to Scientific Publicati...