
Busting Crime with Your Phone
Way back in the 1800s, some brilliant folks in Europe came up with the idea of using fingerprints to bust criminals. They realized that those

Way back in the 1800s, some brilliant folks in Europe came up with the idea of using fingerprints to bust criminals. They realized that those

Last week I ruminated on the joys of unplugging for a bit. But truth is, it didn’t take me long to reconnect. Granted, my job

Ah, vacations. A time to unplug, unwind and get away from our frazzled, workaday, always online world. Only apparently, we don’t. According to a survey

Ah, YouTube. Of all the things that the Internet has given us, few have impacted our world as much as that little post-a-vid venture. I

About a year ago, my youngest daughter came in excitedly carrying a funny little contraption that she and her boyfriend had found at a thrift

Sometimes I think that we Americans have the impression that our fascination with celebrities is a relatively new thing. Some youngsters out there may believe

Have you ever heard of a Stonefish? No? Well, it’s a fish found in the coastal region of the Indo-Pacific. And it sports one of

We’re coming up to the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death (May 3). It seemed like a good opportunity to talk about England’s most famous

My kids have probably heard me say this sentence hundreds of times: “I just need to check one more thing.” I’m talking, of course, about

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