The right anterior cerebral hemisphere, probably thinking about foie gras or something else delicious. Unless you're a neurosurgeon, chances are you don't mention the right anterior cerebral hemisphere very much in daily conversation. Yet, if you love food, especially fine food, that part of the brain holds the key. This according to two scientists from a university hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, who completed a paper showing people who suffer lesions in this part of the brain become obse
I don't want to sound jaded on java, bu am I the only one who rolls his eyes at the latest "news" on the health benefits of coffee?
My mother -- who was a big coffee drinker -- would have been interested in reading the story in yesterday's New York Times about the newest research on coffee: that a team of Swedish and Danish researchers have discovered a link between coffee and its effect on the development of dementia and Alzheimers disease.
According to the story, subjects who drank three to fi
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of one godawful-bad night for musician and artist Jeff "Git" Hagan. On March 5, 2008, Hagan was hanging out with a friend at the News Room on Broadway. Hagan ended the night being beaten within an inch of his life by two men at the bar. I posted the police report at the time. Hagan spent the next two months in a coma, followed by months of therapy, relearning how to walk, how to talk and how to make art and music.
"I had buddha guide me through it,
When Shirley Rose established the American Stroke Foundation in an Overland Park neighborhood neighbors resisted. Now they believe the city gave Rose what she wanted because she is who she is.
Since I've been a little kid I've heard it preached as gospel that coffee is bad for you -- or at least doesn't help you in any way other than making you jittery. After his heart attack, my great-grandfather seemed more upset that the doctors told him no more coffee than he'd been about the heart attack itself. But I could never understand what, exactly, about it is bad for you. How can something with no calories raise blood pressure and cause a whole host of other problems?Turns out it doesn't.
1. Party with us. Crossroads KC at Grinders is the site of tonight's Pitch Block Party, with rockabilly from the Rumblejetts and Rev. Horton Heat.
2. Head out to the K. The Royals take on the Texas Rangers tonight at 7:10 p.m.
3. Frolic around Waldo. Saturday's Frickin' Frolic Pub Crawl visits various bars and raises money for Allyson Frick Dobson, who suffered a massive stroke last year.
4. Take in a little disc golf. The PDGA Disc Golf World Championships are happening at courses aro
