A pharmacy run out of this storefront near Miami billed a federal agency for
$776,298--in just nine days. There were no real employees. There were no real patients. There were no real prescriptions. How medical fraud has become an untreated epidemic.READ»
Florida panthers (not the football team) are back, which brings inevitable interaction with humans. But unlike in Yellowstone, where new wolves caused an outcry, Florida's smooth reintroduction might become a model for other predator populations.READ»
The trial of the 25-year-old just cleared of murder charges was this generation's OJ drama. Only this time, the regular market of questionably tasteless T-shirts and tchotchkes was flooded with apps, tweets, streams, and SMS alert services. READ»
Crumbling infrastructure, two hour commutes, sprawl, economic stagnation, and obesity! These are just some of the problems facing the many increasingly unlivable American cities today.
Cities like Portland, Oregon, hog urban ...READ»
Just as the Internet replaced telephone operators and the nightly news anchor as the default source of information, teachers may be next on the chopping block. Automated learning is a cheap solution to recession-swelling class sizes and renewed calls to make technological innovation a centerpiece of education.READ»
Can we save the oceans with strategic dieting? Conservationists in Palm Beach think so -- they're encouraging locals to chomp down on an invasive species of lionfish.READ»
The BP oil disaster has finally caught up with Florida, as evidenced by this video of a child with tarballs stuck to her feet on Destin Beach. Florida has already begun to close dangerous areas--Pensacola Beach reportedly became the ...READ»
Want to bravely defy the BP oil disaster and spend a sunny day on the beach? Think again--at least if you're in Destin, Florida, where thousands of tar balls washed up on the beach this week. As recently as Monday, local beaches ...READ»
Over the past few months, the BP oil disaster has littered Gulf Coast beaches with both dead wildlife and tar balls. Now, in a Lost-like turn of events, a piece of an oil storage tank from the Deepwater Horizon rig may have washed up on Florida's Panama City Beach.READ»
Oystermen, fishermen, and shrimpers around Apalachicola Bay--where seafood is an $80 million a year business--share thoughts about their drastically altered lives, the reason for their overfishing, and the Faustian bargain that's been struck with BP.READ»
Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi shores have already been hit with oil from the BP disaster, and now Florida residents are gearing up for the inevitable arrival of the slick stuff on the beaches of Pensacola sometime this week. ...READ»
Our site of the moment:
Learn more about HVAC.
In this site, Trane simply and concisely explains the elements of
HVAC ( Heating, Ventilating, and Cooling) systems to the layman who may
not know much about this subject. If ...READ»
In one of the craziest proclamations I've ever read, the Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee has banned judges from "friending" lawyers on social-networking sites. The reason?READ»
When FiveThirtyEight's political minesweeper Nate Silver analyzes the data from Google Flu Trends, there are bound to be some notable results.
We're previously written about how Google Flu Trends uses flu-related search data to ...READ»
