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  • Funny Mess-Ups: ‘Pitons,’ ‘The Font Line,’ Davis Doubled

    We all make writing and other content mistakes, and sometimes funnily so. Certainly more fun, though, is catching others’ mistakes. Below is my running list of screenshots and photos of errors I catch — created

  • 5 Great Grateful Dead Covers

    Last year, I posted 10 incredible live recordings for the Grammys. This year, ahead of the music awards, which are scheduled for Sunday, I thought it would be fun to do another music-focused post. The

  • 10 Incredible Live Recordings: ‘The Weight,’ ‘Deal,’ ‘All Apologies’

    I know I’ve just missed the Grammy Awards, but I’m still going to use them as an opportunity to do a personal listicle: 10 of my favorite live recordings. Included are my top group, what

  • In Photos: Crazier COVID Times

    While going through my older iPhone photos, I realized quite a few were of our strange surroundings and circumstances from the strictest COVID times during 2020. May they not return. Bare shelves at a Publix

Sailor Helped Carry Lost Sullivan Brothers’ Memory Through World War II

On a pleasant weekday afternoon in his humble, charming Gainesville home, Robert McAlpine flips through a portfolio of drawings finished some 70 years ago. They bring a touch of horror to this peaceful day: helmeted men stationed at hulking guns, [...]

October 11, 2015 History

ZocDoc’s Patient-First Philosophy Clicks with Users and Their Physicians

  ZocDoc.com — When Randye Karmin, MD, opened a new ob-gyn office in Miami in 2010, the patient load wasn’t exactly a problem, but she did want to find a way to invite in at least a little more business. [...]

October 9, 2015 Business, Health, Tech

Developing an Eye for Detail with Art and Science

On the first day of class, Paula Trepman is skeptical. Before her is Thomas E. Hill’s 1878 painting Palo Alto Spring, depicting a get-together of the affluent Stanford family on its farm, the future site of the university bearing the family’s [...]

October 8, 2015 Health, Music & Arts

All in your head: BME alum carries brain work to presidential level

  When Justin Sanchez completed his doctoral work in 2004 from the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, he was only the second Ph.D. student to graduate from the young department, formalized just two years before. Carrying the [...]

August 13, 2015 Health, Journalism/Communications, Tech

BME seniors partner with Tampa biotech company to evaluate cancer-cell-separation technology

  Julian Rey admits that he was a tad intimidated last fall when he started the College of Engineering’s Integrated Product and Program Design (IPPD) program. The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering senior considers it the closest [...]

August 7, 2015 Health, Journalism/Communications, Tech

Computing a healthier future: Biomedical informatics rising at UF

  A Star Trek-like device that can monitor and diagnose your health while you’re on the go. A prescription that truly factors in “you” (your medical records, genetics, behavior, and community) when choosing the right medicine and dosage. A supercomputer, [...]

August 6, 2015 Health, Journalism/Communications, Tech