Natural selection has resulted in a body form that should be fantastically robust, strong, resilient, clever and mostly successful in the great rat race of life. But it is not perfect.

A recent issue of The Economist contained some startling information on the aging population.

Roseanne Barr tried hard to apologize for tweeting some really vile stuff, but alas, it just wasn’t good enough. For those who missed it, during a discussion on Twitter about former Obama aid Valerie Jarrett, Barr tweeted, “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”

My life changed on April 29, 1975. I was a senior in high school at Marshalltown, Iowa, and we anxiously listened to the news coming from Vietnam.

My life changed on April 29, 1975. I was a senior in high school at Marshalltown, Iowa, and we anxiously listened to the news coming from Vietnam.

Those of us interested in science and medical writing should be aware of a contemporary author, Natalie Angier.

I have written about a number of outstanding doctors and research scientists, including James Parkinson, David Nachmansohn, Emory Rovenstine, John Sulston and others, but Otto Warburg may be the most important of them all.

After the Parkland, Fla., shooting I wrote this:

A group of homeowners has filed a complaint against the Kosciusko County Fairgrounds in an attempt to stop motorized racing.

A number of simple organisms are used as models for biological research, but perhaps the most unusual and likely the most important is the roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans. 

News spread around Warsaw in April 1999 that the Ku Klux Klan was going to have a rally at the Kosciusko County Courthouse on Saturday, May 8. A few leaders gathered to discuss how the city should respond.

Most everyone knows that fruit flies gravitate toward bananas and most overripe fruit and almost magically appear in kitchens around the world. Less well known is that this insect species has been used by thousands of scientists around the world for more than 100 years to study genetics and developmental biology.

Joy Reid is a liberal MSNBC host (I know, redundant) who hates Donald Trump.

While leprosy is classified as rare, it still strikes some 200,000 people a year, including 200 in the United States.

Dr. Otis R. Bowen was born Feb. 26, 1918, in Rochester.

Nerve gases paralyze the nervous system and are the deadliest weapons used in chemical warfare. They are odorless, stable, easily dispersed and invisible, and have rapid effects when absorbed through the skin, swallowed or inhaled.

As the “go to site” for city information, our newly redesigned City of Warsaw website (www.warsaw.in.gov) has added another critically important public service feature.

Facebook is being criticized these days for the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary began 50 years ago.

I always thought that “Good Friday” was an interesting concept. How could anything be good about a day over 2,000 years ago when an innocent man was crucified on a cross?

The symmetrical heart symbol is a far cry from the actual fist-sized mass of tissue we all carry inside of us.

This past week youths all across America walked out of class in schools in an effort to prod adults all across America to do something about gun violence. I think it’s a good thing to exercise your right to free speech and assembly.

Robert Frost, one of America's great poets, wrote: "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

For those of us who travel frequently, there is another major hazard to consider — bed bugs! Once nearly eradicated, these blood suckers have made a rapid comeback in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia.

While I was not witness to the demise of passenger pigeons, my mother was, and so was anyone else alive in 1914.