Politics Was Newton wrong about gravity? Researchers Riley Newman, Eric Berg and Paul Boynton with the top half of a 10-foot-tall thermos chamber in their Hanford lab by John Stang / August 2, 2011
Politics Jet fuel from timber scraps? Sounds like the perfect Northwest marriage Camelina crops are a potential source of biofuel for jets. Timber scraps could be next. by John Stang / May 2, 2011
Politics Can the state meet its mandate to find alternative energy sources? The first target is a year away, and no one is clear how to meet it, or even to measure progress. The legislature could tweak the 2006 law that created the requirement, but previous attempts have hit... by John Stang / December 27, 2010
Politics R-52: The pros and cons on school remodeling plan Under R-52, there would be more school construction, like a Chief Sealth High project that included more natural light. by John Stang / October 22, 2010
Tech Power underwear It's been too long since we've had a breakthrough in underwear design. Here it is. by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett / August 16, 2010
Keep your eye on that dog The Churchillian look of the English bulldog by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett / January 4, 2010
Culture Old airwaves On the day NBC sells out to Comcast, the daughter of a self-styled TV visionary muses on broadcasting's Nordstrom effect. by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett / December 3, 2009
Culture Storing up treasure Some kind words for the late Reverend Ike, who raised up his radio listeners by speeding up the arrival of the Promised Land by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett / August 5, 2009
Tech A brief infatuation with Kindle When Amazon whisked away Orwell's 1984, something made this writer want to hang onto those things with paper pages and covers by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett / July 18, 2009
Nice book you're reading Among the pleasures of reading books is the way they can become social objects, conversational ice-breakers by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett / July 15, 2009
