All of us are born with a natural inquisitiveness. When we are children, we are all creative. We experiment with everything around us in order to learn. But early in our lives, not coincidentally around the time we head to school, we figure out that it...

Every day, I find myself thinking about the world and what we humans are doing to it. What other creature on this earth generates so much by-product from daily living? Answer: None that I can find. The thing is, it doesn’t have to be this way. We...

 In the past, the brain was thought to become static as we age. Recent research has shown that the brain has plasticity, or the ability to form new neural pathways throughout our lives.  As we age, it is important to continue to challenge our brains...

Canada is 142 years old today and it is a national holiday. At 6 am this morning, my Blackberry alarm started to bleep.  “Why is the alarm going off? It’s the weekend,” I thought.  A fog of confusion lifted and was replaced with annoyance.  ”Oh...

Not too long ago, the idea of a “bucket list” was popularized by a movie of the same name. The idea behind a bucket list is to compile all of the things you want to do before you die and then get them done. For several years now, I’ve had a list that...