by Alfred Poor | April 1, 2016 | General News, Medical
Why is the ocean blue? And what does that have to do with premature babies? The ocean is blue because water acts like a color filter, absorbing the red portion of the spectrum, and reflecting back shades of blue. The fact that different substances absorb different...
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by Bruce Brown | February 26, 2016 | General News, Health
It’s disconcerting — to say the least — when one of your children is sick. As I’m typing this, one of our kids is home sick and we’re all concerned about her, even though she’s an adult and lives 750 miles away. I remember when our...
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by Alfred Poor | February 11, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
Your child has a cough. Is it serious, or will it just get better on its own? Is it a simple cough from a cold, or is it asthma or pneumonia or some other condition that needs professional medical attention? If you’re a parent, you’ve probably been through...
by Alfred Poor | January 14, 2016 | General News, Health
Baby monitors are so 20th Century! Why settle for a single wireless camera when you can use the Internet of Things to create a connected nursery that ties a variety of electronic devices into an integrated system designed to give parents peace of mind? That’s...
by Alfred Poor | January 5, 2016 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, General News, Health, Medical
Full Disclosure: I did not write this today, or even yesterday. I wrote this last weekend because yesterday I spent the day traveling and today I started drinking from a fire hose for the rest of this week. I’m at CES 2016, the largest consumer electronics...
