Today was a great day – busy and wonderful. Pretty typical, I’m happy to say, though a bit busier than usual but all of it great. Woke up to beautiful Spring day in East Lansing and walked 1.7 miles to work at MSU. Did the usual email stuff. Worked on getting ready for teaching for …
As we age, we lose muscle mass and along with it physical strength and vitality. The same is true of our brains and cognition. The volume of our brains decreases as we get older, and this reduction in size has been linked to reduced cognitive performance. It is not known precisely why our brains shrink …
The medieval Black Death, that struck Europe from 1347-1351 CE, has been considered one of the most devastating epidemics in human history. Europe’s populations dwindled as tens of millions of its people died. While early research claimed that the disease had no bias and killed indiscriminately, more recent studies have shown that it targeted the elderly, …