Before moving to Portland we lived in Indiana in this great downtown neighborhood called Fountain Square. It’s one of those neighborhoods that was cut off from the city center when the freeway came to town but has bounced back all these years later. This sunday as I think of what ...

In a world where your phone’s camera is possibly better than the camera camera you owned a few years ago, film is a hard sell. But for many people Polaroid cameras are a special exception—so much so that when Polaroid decided to discontinue its film, a bunch of Polaroid employees ...

The ’80’s and early ’90’s were a magical decade for gadgets for kids. Computing power and display technology were evolving and cost effective enough to penetrate the toy market in a big way. Purely mechanical toys evolved into electromechanical toys and gave birth to the digital toy revolution. For example, ...

UN Says Mother-Child HIV Can Be Eliminated By 2015 “It estimates that between $13-20 billion are needed for the period 2011-2013.” (AP) Kids Born Via IVF Mostly Faring Well Into Adulthood “Because those earliest stages are different for children conceived through IVF, that could, in theory, result in differences in disease ...

If you watched cartoons growing up, and possibly even if you didn’t, you probably know the theme to the old Spider-Man TV show: “Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can.” But did you know there were also shows built around Captain America, the Hulk, Iron Man, Thor and Sub-Mariner? Even ...

Yeah, it's been a while since the first installment. Thought this might be a good time to pick it back up again. When we last left our hero, he was leaving home. With that all wrapped up, we now find him at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Home of the Artillery, K...