College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Weekend Edition Sunday guest host Linda Wertheimer talks with Ira Hyman, a professor of psychology at Western Washington University, about his new study. He investigated "earworms," songs that get stuck in your head, and why they lodge themselves in our brains.

Robert L. “Bob” Taylor, former longtime sports editor of The Issaquah Press, died Christmas Eve morning, Dec. 24, 2012, at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. He was 63.

Taylor, of Renton, was diagnosed with cancer in 2006, and was battling that…

Almost all of us have complaints about the government, which probably range from high taxes to too much bureaucracy. Periodically, we get to take our frustrations out at the voting booth. But no matter how unhappy you may be, you probably never thought, "I'm going get out of here and…

Simon Blackwell, vice president of technology and digital gaming at Wizards of the Coast LLC and an alumnus of Western Washington University, will address graduates and their families at the university’s fall commencement at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 15, in WWU’s Carver Gym.
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Washington breaks ground on two historic fronts this week when it becomes legal in this state for same-sex couples to marry and adults to smoke marijuana in their homes.

When voters passed Initiative 502, they opened the door for legal possession of small amounts…

It has become a truism of West Coast politics, from California to Washington, that the Pacific oceanfront is a kind of Democratopolis, with a culturally linked strip of liberal cities from San Francisco through Portland and Seattle that tilts left, votes left and takes surrounding states along…

In a world crowded with innumerable distractions and incalculable nuggets of new information, it’s often difficult for even the most productive writers and artists to find the time and space for quiet musing and the quality moments that so often lead to new creations.

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