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Add some colour to your computer with the Moneual Inovy range

I'm all in favour of jazzing up that dull desktop with some shiny skins and a bevy of new features, but it does seem that the designers here have just taken the design of an iPod nano and magnified...

Television - Science, Magic and Memory

It's funny how your memory plays tricks on you over a long period of time; often, it seems that once important events turn into mere personal trivia. Conversely, sometimes this smallest details...

Antenatal SSRI antidepressant exposure poses only small risk to babies

The risk of birth defects following antenatal exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants is controversial. Early studies indicated that SSRIs didn't increase the risks...

The Phillies outfield

This is something I'm sure everyone is thinking about, not only right now, but for next season. I like Pat Burrell, I've defended him for a while and will continue to do so, but I've started to have...

DVD Review: Dreamgirls (Two-Disc Showstopper Edition)

Bringing very successful Broadway musicals to the big screen is notoriously difficult. It is often easy to lose the power and intimacy created on a stage when a story is magnified to fit the bigger...

Let the whining begin: Talk radio and the Fairness Doctrine

Well the study has been published and the unsurprising findings are in about the state of talk radio in the US: – In the spring of 2007, of the 257 news/talk stations owned by the top five...

Flubbing the FCAT reality check

Only months after Governor Jeb Bush left office, the facade of accurate test scores has fallen away from Florida's high-stakes accountability system. After a drop in third-grade scores from 2006...

It May Cost an Arm and a Leg...

...but one more arm in the Rays' rotation next season could be beneficial. And it wouldn't hurt to look outside the organization for this one.New life has been breathed into the Rays' rotation...

Diagnosing Skin Cancers with Light, Not Scalpels

Old Way: Patient asks "Doc is this mole on my face cancerous?" Doc says "Let me cut a chunk out and send it to the lab. We'll know if its cancerous in a few days." New Way: Patient asks "Doc is this...

In Memoriam: The First Anniversary of My Mother's Passing

“Mother died today. Or was it yesterday? I can’t be sure.” These are the words of Meursault, the protagonist in Albert Camus’s famous novel The Stranger. This first sentence...