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Nicolás Rivero

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Rony Abovitz's Magic Leap May Reshape Your Reality

By Nicolás Rivero
Sep 27, 2016

In a small, cheery, wood-paneled office in the back of the Design Center of the Americas in Dania Beach, the young, wavy-haired receptionist was polite but firm. "Mr. Abovitz isn't available right now." A green cartoon dragon grinned from the wall to her right, next to a glass-walled conference room...
Enigma Haunt, Florida's Best Haunted House, Opens in Boca Raton Again This October

By Nicolás Rivero
Sep 5, 2016

Billy Groeneveld still remembers his first haunted house. It was 1972 and he was dressed like a pirate. When he stepped into a neighbor’s garage, he was directed to shove his 7-year-old hands into a bowl of cold spaghetti and feel the “brains.” Then he groped around a bowl of...
Florida Barely Teaches Computer Science, but Broward Is Best

By Nicolás Rivero
Aug 24, 2016

We’ve stepped into a brave new world in which cars drive themselves, Pokemon is real, and you can order everything from a Pub Sub to a helicopter on your phone. As we venture further into the future, human progress – and our kids’ ability to move out of the house...
Underpaid South Florida Teachers Pay Millions From Their Own Pockets for Students

By Nicolás Rivero
Aug 23, 2016

Not every child who walks into Maria Sanabria's first-grade classroom at Orange Brook Elementary in Hollywood can read well. The kids are mostly from poor families, and roughly half of Orange Brook's students don't pass state standardized tests. Even at age 6, many have fallen behind. So Sanabria was excited...
Barbara Crown Wants South Florida Women to Give Hunting a Try

By Nicolás Rivero
Aug 16, 2016

Barbara Crown was standing in a hammock in the middle of the Everglades, bow and arrow in hand, listening for the sound of feral hogs. It was her first-ever hunt. As day broke, she heard the rustle of passing pigs, saw the undergrowth shake and sway, and felt a tug...

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