The national conversation has turned once again to guns following a mass shooting in Florida by a 19-year-old miscreant named Nikolas Cruz.

I have taken a keen interest in the process of aging and all that it entails the older I become. One reason may be the change in attitude regarding the perception of what it means to all of us.

President Donald Trump came out with his plan to rehabilitate the nation’s infrastructure last week.

Not long ago, the prospect of living in Mom and Dad’s basement after college made students cringe.

Emery Rovenstine was a dominant figure in anesthesiology in the United States between 1935 and 1960. His extraordinary research and writings had an enormous impact on the specialty and continue to this very day.

This week, a compendium of things that just seem a little bit off to me.

Back in December, the Warsaw Community School Corporation Board of Trustees passed a resolution to extend board members’  term limits.

When it comes to the Russian collusion investigation, I can say with certainty I have never seen anything quite like this before.

Calculus was defined by humorist Dave Barry as “the branch of mathematics that is so scary it causes everybody to stop studying mathematics.”

Following are some things I think are odd.

Dogs have a scent sensitivity many thousands of times greater than humans. In fact, this ability is one of the more curious facts in nature. Humans, however, and other primates have relatively good senses of smell.

Author Michael Wolff has made quite a name for himself with his Donald Trump-bashing tell-all, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”

Last week, citizens in Iran’s second largest city – Mashhad – took to the streets for what began as protests over Iran’s economy and the rising cost of basic goods such as milk and eggs. These frustrations illuminated the reality that Iranians desire more than basic goods. They thirst for basic freedoms.

In spring 2016 my wife, Mary, and I saw “Van Gogh’s Bedrooms” at The Art Institute of Chicago.

The bitter cold we have experienced recently kept many people indoors over the Christmas holiday.

Scientists are increasingly finding new ways circadian rhythms affect us. For example, circadian rhythms can influence hormone release, eating habits, digestion, body temperature, sleep and even the sense of smell. Disruption in circadian rhythms can lead to the increased incidence of many diseases, including metabolic disease and cancer.

I am not averse to technology, but I am averse to social media.

If you hadn't noticed the amount of television time devoted to drug ads, then you may not be viewing as much as I do. It appears they consume more time than the actual program.

Gleaned from the internet and author unknown, here is a little story for Christmas.

Salt (sodium chloride) has been used for millennia and yet most people have no idea about its effect on health or its history.

Last November, the American people sent a message to Washington: Get things done. With Republican control of both chambers of Congress and the Oval Office, the time to enact pro-growth, pro-innovation policies that benefit American workers and businesses is now.

It all began in August, 2016. After a routine, annual mammography, followed by a 3-D ultrasound, a Breast Diagnostic Center (of Ft. Wayne) physician showed  me an approximate 3 millimeter area of tissue that appeared to be cancer.  It would require needle biopsy for confirmation.

According to a recent article in the Smithsonian magazine, giraffes are disappearing from Africa before scientists can even begin to understand them. Losing these magnificent animals to poachers would be a tragedy for a number of reasons in addition to the fact that people love watching them.

Decades of research confirm the deep connection between high-quality early childhood education and subsequent academic success, and yet, as a society, we put early childhood initiatives at the bottom of our budgetary priority lists.

We are approaching the season of the year when many of our thoughts will turn to Jerusalem.