The hundreds of limousines and private jets that ferried environmentalists to the climate conference in Copenhagen ...more

December 18, 2009

A banyan tree and a boat ride vied for the favorite part of a recent Freedom Plaza excursion to Ft. Myers. They both had stiff competition from the other attractions: a sumptuous meal on the Seminole Gulf Coast dinner train; the delicious dessert bar at Broadway Palms Dinner theater and an excellent staging of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas." But Mother Nature's influence tipped the scales. ...more

December 24, 2008

Deshjuana Bagley, who friends call Desh, was turned on to technology as a seventh-grade student at Westbrook High School in Beaumont, Texas. ...more

November 12, 2008

The light bulb of inspiration is appearing over the heads of more and more Pasco residents who realize they can recycle burned-out compact fluorescent light bulbs and standard fluorescent bulbs. ...more

November 12, 2008

My cobalt blue carnival glass bowl has been in the family for years. I know the pattern is called Peacock by the Fountain. It is marked with an underlined "N" in a circle. It is in mint condition. What is it worth? ...more

August 14, 2008

I tried out for a professional soccer team in 1980 and made the cut before a bunch of factors steered me in other directions. Today, I'm too old to be one of the Tampa Bay Rowdies, but it looks like I might get another chance to watch. ...more

July 2, 2008

Fifty years ago, Jack Kilby, who grew up in Great Bend, Kan., took the electrical engineering knowledge he acquired as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois and a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin to Dallas, to Texas Instruments, where he helped invent the modern world as we routinely experience and manipulate it. Working with improvised equipment, he created the first electronic circuit in which all the components fit on a single piece of semiconductor material half the size of a paper clip. ...more

June 26, 2008

Thomas Edison, one of the truly great inventors, said, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." ...more

May 25, 2008

Fifty-two high school students from across the country who spent part of fall teaching youngsters life lessons converged on Tampa from May 1-5 to share their teaching methods and compete for college scholarships. ...more

May 10, 2008

Pop quiz: What comes to mind when you think about Yogi Berra, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Toni Morrison? Brilliant minds, inspiring souls, trailblazers - all are likely responses. ...more

May 4, 2008