Good news for brains of a certain age

 It was very encouraging to read about the resiliency and the trainability of the middle-to-old aged brain in this article by New York Times health editor Barbara Strauch, entitled How to Train the Aging Brain. Strauch writes,

"Many longheld views, including the one that 40 percent of brain cells are lost, have been overturned. What is stuffed into your head may not have vanished but has simply been squirreled away in the folds of your neurons."

Admittedly, this is a little off the core topic of Running Through the Middle Ages, but hey, as time marches on, my brain might carry me farther than my legs . . .