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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

From support role, vet saw joys and horrors of World War II

— Bob Overton and three other members of the 217th Military Police Company settle down for the night in a hotel lounge just over the German border. Behind them: the 10-months-long trail of bloodshed that expelled Nazi power from France and the Low Countries. Suddenly, two [...]

July 9, 2015 History, Journalism/Communications

Best Everglades boat tour? The one where dolphins chase you

— The highlight of my family trip to the Everglades and Florida Keys in May had to be the Atlantic bottlenose dolphins chasing our boat in the waters around the Ten Thousand Islands. Gators, crocs and birds certainly are cool, [...]

July 7, 2015 Nature & Wildlife, Travel & Culture

Adobe Media Encoder ‘Not Currently Encoding’: How to fix Adobe Media Encoder

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June 30, 2015 Journalism/Communications, Tech

10 Essential Steps for Applying to Grad School

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June 22, 2015 Reflections

Nazi death train at Farsleben: ‘They were next to skeletons’ (WWII oral history)

Frank Towers, a 97-year-old World War II veteran and one of the main subjects in my “Christmas at War” story from last year, witnessed two major but largely untold events from the Eastern Front. The first was U.S. air forces [...]

June 7, 2015 History, Journalism/Communications