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Thank you. For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Felton. Headaches are incredibly common, but they've gotten surprisingly little attention from scientists.

Here to walk us through what we know and don't know about headache science is Tom Zellard Jr.

He's a former New York Times reporter

and editor and the current editor-in-chief of Undark. He's also the author of a new book called The

Headache. Thanks so much for coming on to chat with us today. Oh, it's great to be here. Thanks for

having me. So I would love to start with a little bit about what inspired you to write a book about headaches.

Sure.

Well, you probably could guess that I have headaches myself and not just the ordinary

sort of headaches that we all get, but I have something called cluster headache, which is one

of the three primary headache disorders.

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