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Janice Tyler On Learning Healthier Habits

Posted by Staff | Apr 8, 2015 | Healthiest You

Janice Tyler (director of the Orange County Department on Aging by day) has been an active member of Team NCAPA in this year’s Healthiest You Challenge. She talks with Aaron Keck about how she’s changed her daily...

Susan Chesser On Inspiring Contestants To Health

Posted by Staff | Apr 8, 2015 | Healthiest You

With the Healthiest You Challenge coming to an end this week, event coordinator Susan Chesser from UNC Wellness Centers joined Ron Stutts on the radio. They talked about how she encourages participants to work hard, and how they...

Race And Basketball: A Transformative Moment

Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 7, 2015 | D.G. Martin

If you just want to read about the incredible basketball game described by Scott Ellsworth in The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph, you can skip the first 250 pages. Then you can...

Please Stop Rotating the Scrabble Board

Posted by Jeff Danner | Apr 5, 2015 | Common Science

Several years ago, I took a test at the Museum of Life and Science designed to determine whether I was better at remembering things that I hear or things that I see. The results were what I expected: my visual memory is far...

Oakes’ Outlook: Final Four ‘Breakfast Club’

Posted by Staff | Apr 4, 2015 | Columns, National

So this year, the Final Four has gone to the coaches starring in a stirring sequel to “The Breakfast Club”. I’m not complaining.

Reading “Cheated”

Posted by Staff | Apr 2, 2015 | The Commentators

I encourage everybody curious about the ongoing athletics and academic scandal at UNC to read Cheated, a new book by Jay Smith and Mary Willingham. The book combines the detailed document analysis of Professor Smith, a...

Why Is This Chapel Hill Small Business Banned From Selling You Its Product?

Posted by Staff | Apr 1, 2015 | The Commentators

Imagine you hand-crafted something. It was so special, people actually would visit you to watch you make it. But when they wanted to buy it, you weren’t allowed to sell them your hand crafted product, because the state...

Where Have All The Heroes Gone?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 31, 2015 | D.G. Martin

“Were you a part of the Army that made the Indians leave their homes?” David, my five-year-old grandson, had been learning about American Indians in his preschool. He knew that I had been in the Army many years ago. So, of...

Ken Norman On Returning To The Challenge

Posted by Staff | Mar 30, 2015 | Healthiest You

Second-year challenger Ken Norman spoke to WCHL’s Aaron Keck about what he’s learned in the Healthiest You Challenge, which has helped him to lose 70 pounds in two years!

Tom Underwood On Getting Healthy In Retirement

Posted by Staff | Mar 30, 2015 | Healthiest You

Tom Underwood of Team DOCMS talks about making the Healthiest You Challenge his first big new endeavor since retiring. He also praises the outstanding facilities and staff at UNC Wellness Centers, and talks about the support of...

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