Hickey: UW Grand Opening

We’re late to the party, but in UW Today, Hannah Hickey describes the new Molecular and Engineering & Sciences building at the University of Washington, which officially opened in September with a public celebration and symposium. If you were on campus in the past...

Frischman: Snakes on a Blog

Python eggs are bigger than meatballs, and Carol Frischman shows ’em off on her blog, This Wild Life A World of Pets, Nature & Science. The pictures come with a thoroughly reported, well-referenced, thoughtful piece on what to do, if anything, about invasive...

Gibbs: Modern at Home

Drooling over the Modernist Cuisine photos and recipes, but no room for a spray-dryer, autoclave, or centrifuge? Wayt Gibbs says Modernist Cuisine at Home by Nathan Myhrvold and Maxime Bilet, is out this month. At only two volumes, this version for home cooks is...

Bauman: At the Movies

Valerie Bauman, staff writer for Puget Sound Business Journal, writes about health care, including a $12 million grant to Seattle researchers to support studies on gene replacement therapy for “bubble boy disease”. (But admit it, you want to hear the Hollywood gossip...

Apfel: Tide Power

The Northwest plugs into river energy, so why not the Puget Sound? Amelia Apfel, writing in Seattle Business Magazine, tells of an unusual—and global—collaboration involving the Snohomish County Public Utility District and the University of Washington working to...