American President Joe Biden is now 80 years old, and in the next presidential election in November 2024, he will be nearly 82. Four years later, near the end of what could be

Ischemic strokes, those caused by an obstruction in a feeding artery, are more common than hemorrhagic strokes. Small ones, the result of obstructions in small arteries or arterioles, are common enough and most

Forgetting the names of people, where you placed the car keys and the occasional appointment are common much beyond the age of 80. We’re all guilty as charged and most of the time,

The story of the Big Bang we’re familiar with runs something like this: For reasons unknown, and as yet enigmatic, incredibly tiny, dense, quantal energy field inflated in a trillionth, of a trillionth,

Leftovers of last year’s weeds reminded me how much work it takes to control them. So also it is with our minds – too many weedy distractions threaten to distract us, whether emails,

In the late 1940s and early ’50s, where I grew up, baseball was our favourite game, not so much at school but in makeup games on diamonds in nearby Gibbons Park or a

On a recent Sunday following the 8:30 a.m. service at St. Mark’s, I visited my wife Jan at Pleasant Manor Radiant Care in Virgil. After the usual COVID test, I passed Jan’s room

When I was a boy growing up in London, Ont., life was framed by the few blocks surrounding my home on Oxford Street, the nearby Thames River, and the adjacent bushy forested areas

The nature of the consciousness and awareness remain what Winston Churchill so aptly described in a very different context, a “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” But as mysterious as both

One of the most common benign brain tumours involves the vestibular nerve. During my training and early practice years, these were major challenges for neurosurgeons because there were no CT and MRI scans,

I am fascinated by footprints left behind by our prehuman and modern ancestors. Those tracks stir the imagination in ways that bones, including the skull, do not — at least for me. One

Neanderthals lived between 30,000 and 400,000 years ago and then, throughout their wide Eurasian range, disappeared for mysterious reasons. Genetic studies suggest they probably lived in small, widely scattered groups. That mode of

Science, art and religion may be part of the human landscape but in the present day they tend to be separate despite common, deep evolutionary roots. For most modern humans, visual art is

Entanglement at a distance might apply to two lovers or different countries aligned by common interests, but to physicists it applies to two or more identical particles, say two photons of light or

You may have heard of gene editing and CRISPR. But what about minibrains, embryos without fathers, mothers and placentas, and brain implants? The pace in biological research has been astounding in the last

For much of the 20th century and the first quarter of the 21st century physics was divided between the universe of the large (galaxies, stars and other stellar bodies) and the universe of

Brain injuries affected thousands of military personnel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most involved blast injuries and concussions and left those affected with cognitive and behavioural deficits, and significant impairments in short-