I always enjoy catching up with my nephew, a biomedical engineering student at a university not too far from our home. Our family Thanksgiving dinner this year gave me an opportunity to find out how things are going for this young engineer. One of his assignments was of particular interest …

As a freelance writer, my wife can often be overheard stressing about “art.” According to her philosophy, the graphic for a story can either make or break how the piece is perceived by readers. It’s even more important for online media today, where authors get a one-shot deal at a …

Setting up a new home office for my Vitech work in January of this year involved the cleaning out of a basement bedroom that had become a repository for long-forgotten items that surely would of course be needed some day. It was a shame I had let it get to …

Recently, my wife and I watched the multi-part television series on Albert Einstein, developed for the National Geographic Channel and directed by Ron Howard. Despite some of the criticism leveled at the effort, like compressing portions of the timeline and the screenplay’s inclusion of his first wife’s contribution to his …