Gardening is good exercise
New research has found that gardening is an effective way to exercise. Researchers at Kansas State University determined that gardening is...

Will Big Coal get its ash kicked?
One tradition of News Years Day in the US is the college football bowl game. When I was young I always watched the Rose Bowl (my state unive...

Jay Cutler Tests Up to Six Times a Game to Keep His Diabetes in Check
I m always interested in athletes with diabetes, aren t you? It seems that much more difficult to manage diabetes when you are always p...

On Young Women, Heart Attacks and Denial
I read this article that appears in the Chicago Tribune today about a 27 year-old woman who reportedly had a heart attack. I'm not sure w...

5 Tips to Make Your Resolutions Stick
I know what you re thinking: another cheesy, goody-two-shoes article on how I can keep all those goals I ve set going into 2009. If you ...

The Overflowing Brain: Most Important Book of 2008
We have tracked for several years the scientific studies published by Torkel Klingberg and colleagues, often wondering aloud, when will edu...

On a Sports Minded Note
Charlie playing flag football?In Pennsylvania, Bob Wargo runs a flag football program for special needs kids, each of whom is paired with a ...

Happy Almost New Year!
It s the day after Christmas and I ve got lots of giveaways going on at the various b5 blogs I m writing. There are so many great pri...

Cognitive News November-December 2008
Here you have several recent articles and developments worthy of attention:1) Boom times for brain training games (CNN)2) Navigating the bra...