Brain Injury Research in North Carolina, The Research Project, Week Thirty Three

Since I suffered a pretty substantial knee injury playing football in High School I still cringe when I’m watching a sporting event and a player hurts their knee. If they show a replay of the injury I turn my head away. It’s too hard to watch. Head injuries are probably second on my list of cringe-worthy injuries and…

The Research Project, Week Thirty Two, New York

One of the most memorable Thanksgiving sermons that I have ever written was entitled, “I’m Thankful For the Things I Don’t Know.” In the sermon I talked about how sometimes not knowing is better than knowing. For example, I am pretty sure that I would actually feel sicker just knowing about all the germs and…

The Research Project, Week Thirty One, New Mexico

This week I am reporting on the results of some interesting sleep research funded by the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. I think most of us would assume that people who live in hunter-gatherer, pre-industrial societies would get more sleep on average than those of us who live in the fast-paced world. This research…