by Ann Beach | Jan 9, 2026 | Medicine
If you’ve ever tried to hold a flashlight for someone while they work under the hood of a car, you understand the importance of good lighting. The inside of a human body is a dark place, and surgeons need a lot of light to see what they are doing. Ever wonder how...
by Ann Beach | Dec 31, 2025 | Medicine
A Christmas Carol, a novella of 30,000 words, was written by Charles Dickens in six weeks in 1843. It has never gone out of print. The book’s sustained success has contributed to how Christmas is celebrated and introduced the phrases “Merry Christmas” and “Bah!...
by Ann Beach | Nov 14, 2025 | Medicine
We’ve always heard that dogs have a much better sense of smell than us humans do. After all, there are convict-sniffing bloodhounds, bomb-sniffing dogs, drug-sniffing dogs, even cancer-sniffing dogs. Scientists have trained canines to sniff out lung, breast, ovarian,...
by Ann Beach | Nov 1, 2025 | Medicine
You’re getting one last Halloween post, because, of course, we haven’t talked about bats! Bats are the second largest order of mammals after rodents, and the only mammal capable of true flight. There are 1,500 species of bats, and they range in size from a 5-inch...
by Ann Beach | Oct 31, 2025 | Medicine
Happy Halloween. It’s one of my favorite holidays (skeletons, blood, walking dead- what’s not to like?). I’ve been thinking a lot about vampires, and how the vampire myth originated. As a refresher, vampires are creatures that prey on humans and drink their blood....
