Einstein claimed he was no smarter than others – simply more curious than most. How curious are you? Here are top two-footed questions to help you stand with one foot rooted in the potential of the aging brain, and the other foot rooted in potential from your life.

1. How does protein help your brain to clean house? Because free radical build-up diminishes the brains those who suffer Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s chorea, and Lou Gehrig’s disease, researchers are keenly interested in new ways to stimulate PGC-1a production to protect people against these damaging conditions.

2. How many baby boomers died in the last 24 hours, and how does that affect your brainpower today? Watch a counter and see where you fit or where your friends fit into the percentage who are no longer with us.

3. What’s new that will boost social security benefits for 53 million Americans in 2007? At first glance it looks like a good idea to give a 3.3 percent increase to Social Security benefits… but read on. That also means that 163 million workers will pay higher taxes because of the increase.

4. How can I put down my fork before it takes me down? Watch a video here to see where your stopping point is. Learn how we tend to eat faster than our brain can process the external cues to create better eating habits.

5. What’s scaring the retailers and economists and how can the boomer market benefit from financial changes? It seems that retailers who want to stay in business will have to relate far closer to the needs and directions that boomers give them. For instance, “Nicholas, a principal with Global Insight, said a company like Starbucks has perfectly tapped into the Boomer generation, as has Staples and several others.”

6. What’s the most recent truth behind differences in female and male brains? You may have thought that brains come as blank slates, but new research show very different brain circuitry and hormonal influences – with more insights to come in the secrets behind your chemical and electrical engines.

7. When can guilt become a good thing to the human brain? While we tend to see and run from some of the negative aspects of guilt, we can also benefit from guilt that reboots the brain to help us change directions and act more responsibly in some area we slip off the tracks.

8. How are black boomers using their celebrity status to inspire the rest of us to build a better world? Check out talk show host, Oprah Winfrey, and humanitarian rocker Bono who went on a shopping spree in Chicago to promote a new line of clothing, accessories and gadgets, including a special-edition iPod, as a way to raise money and fight AIDS in Africa.

9. How are offshore jobs to India creating more discord than dividends in Australia and what can be done for the sake of profit with harmony? After hearing they’d lose their jobs that were shipped to India, IT workers at the St George Bank in Australia refused to train new Indian replacements. Employees of the bank were warned in September that they would lose their jobs and were told last Tuesday they would assist training new staff through a “buddy system”, Friday. It seemed 80 of its workers discovered their jobs are being moved to India.

10. How did Wangari Maathai use her naturalistic intelligence to plant 30 million trees across Kenya? Check out the faith with feet, and sheer belief in humanity, that sparked one women to mobilize 100,000 other women to reboot the environment across her country.

What’s your top two-footed question to inspire an aging brain?