“The Impossible Man,” by Patchen Barss, depicts the British mathematical physicist and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his iconoclastic complexity. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

Falling coconuts, a prop in innumerable comic routines, have finally garnered a little respect, although perhaps not the type a Canadian physician expected. Dr. Peter Barss' paper, “Injuries Due to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new postmark includes a depiction of the Barss Corner post office and the farming community around it. (Michelle Greek - image ...

Joseph Ernest Barss was a physician, met Prince Edward on a battlefield, was the founder of the University of Michigan's varsity hockey program and was a bit like the character Forest Gump, said his ...

This story originally aired on Dec. 8, 2017. This week it appears again as part of our episode on "Assists." In 1911, the U.S. Speaker of the House, a guy named Champ Clark, took the floor and said: ...