Tag: Old

Barring a considerable shift in the political winds, the next US president will be either 82 or 78 years old on Inauguration Day. Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who twice froze in front of cameras and was unable to speak for several agonizing moments, is 81. His Democratic counte...

Sanskrit is the oldest language that is still spoken. About 25,000 people in India consider it to be their first language. As of 2011, the country had another two million Sanskrit speakers. The United States has the most higher education institutes that offer Sanskrit courses (36), followed by India...

Fossil footprints are invaluable relics of the past, providing information about an individual’s locomotion, biology and behaviour. Hominin footprints are relatively rare across both time and space. Some examples are known, such as the oldest hominin footprints ever discovered in Laetoli, Tanz...

Most white immigrants to the “New World” didn’t heal from their trauma. Instead, beginning a little over three centuries ago, the elite among them created the concepts of whiteness, of blackness (and redness and yellowness), and of white-body supremacy which sprung from the seedlin...

During the Middle Ages in Europe, torture, mutilation, and other forms of savagery particularly on women were seen as normal aspects of life. Public executions were literally a spectator sport. As a result, when European “settlers”first came to this country centuries ago, they brought...

I’m walking my Chihuahua ‘Chia’ and my friend’s Schnauzer ‘Simón’ on a chilly, overcast Monday afternoon in my neighborhood — El Centro Histórico in Mexico City. Simón likes to stop in every public flower bed, the only “green&rdquo...

I’ve already canvassed some of the signs of aging in “Signs You May Be Getting Old.” But that piece just scratched the surface. Here are a few more telltale hints: You haven’t bought new shoes this millennium. You’ve acquired partial credit toward a medi...

The world’s a mess. Wars are raging, our planet is burning, and a tornado ripped through Nashville and killed six and injured two dozen people. In what universe is every day a good day? You might ask. Not in Nashville, you say, or not in Israel or Palestine, or anywhere people are suff...