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Researchers find the brains of 'SuperAgers' as strong as those who are much younger

Comment: Driving with the über-cop

18th Annual Victoria Dragon Boat Festival, today and Sunday in the Inner Harbour. Races 8: 30 a.m. -4: 30 p.m. today, entertainment continues to 10 p.m. On Sunday, races 8: 30 a.m.-4 p.m., entertainment goes til 6 p.m.

Experts look at what we're doing wrong

Canuck hones blues skills in Chicago >D5

Last week, we heard from a mother concerned about controlling behaviour in her daughter. "My nine-year-old is an extremely organized child who has always done well in situations as long as she is prepared in advance about what to expect," she wrote.

Measuring human intelligence may be controversial and oh-so-verytricky to do. A new study, however, demonstrates that connectedness among the brain's disparate regions is a key factor that separates the plodding from the penetrating.

Celebrity pooch Uggie uses one to stay in shape without being hounded by paparazzi

In 2007, the Guinness Book of Records declared the bhut jolokia, a chili pepper grown in the Indian state of Assam, to be the hottest pepper in the world. I was naturally curious. I wondered just how hot the "world's hottest pepper" might be.

80 per cent of participants cured: study