If your New Year’s resolutions include exercising more, an Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist has three words of advice. “Give yourself grace,” said Zach Hettinger, Ph.D., a muscle biologist in OMRF’s Aging and Metabolism Research Program.

• OMRF scientists might know why Whether you feel a bit like Ebenezer Scrooge this holiday season or you crave the good feelings that accompany generosity, the cause may stem, at least in part, from your hormones and the chemicals in your brain. That’s the assessment of a pair of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientists.

Greetings! It’s basketball season again. I struggled with finding an appropriate title, but we will see where this one takes us. I’d like to wish my best to both retired and active basketball coaches who read this, as well as parents and fans.

The Choctaw Cultural Center will kick off 2026 with a stickball exhibition on the first weekend of the New Year. Come celebrate the season with a game full of energy and tradition.

Dr. Glenn Mollette Seems like yesterday that we were making New Year’s resolutions.

• On anniversary of Boston Tea Party, citing closed primaries as modern-day “Taxation Without Representation” On the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, a new civic community called Oklahoma Independents officially launched, calling attention to what organizers describe as voter suppression facing hundreds of thousands of Oklahoma voters who are not affiliated with either major political party. Oklahoma Independents bills itself as “a political home for the rest of us” –– a community for voters who prefer not to formally affiliate with a political party and who increasingly feel excluded from meaningful participation in the state’s political process.

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