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Program on sea star wasting disease kicks off series

A marine invertebrate expert will kick off the 2014-15 Discovery Speaker Series with a program Thursday on sea star wasting disease.

Presented by the South Sound Estuary Association, the free six-part series brings experts to the South Sound to talk about issues…

2014-09-17
Eidolon Asks Us to Imagine a World Without Us

When you boot up Eidolon, you are plopped directly into a vast polygonal forest, somewhere between Bellevue and Olympia, with zero explanation. There’s no stage-setting, no tutorial, nothing. It’s just you and the “post-human” wilderness expanding in all directions around you. Your only clear…

2014-08-28
63 trillion gallons of groundwater lost in drought, study finds

The U.S. Drought Monitor has declared much of California to be in a state of "exceptional drought."

According to the Western Regional Climate Center in Reno, Nev., 2013 was California's driest in 119 years of records, and Los Angeles and other cities around the state…

2014-08-25
PISCES Rover tackles first test

University of Hawaii at Hilo Robotics Technicians Max Kerr and Casey Pearring, along with Akamai intern Nasre Manasrah of UH Maui College (UHMC), and summer volunteer Matt Takemoto of Western Washington University, all contributed to the successful mountainside traverse that tested the rover’s…

2014-08-21
New biographical documentary captures the spirit of industrial design in America

Ambitions are often simple dreams, born in shallow pocketbooks, that yearn for accoutrements larger than whatever the Joneses own. Some dreams deviate. They're more elemental, more profound. Consider Walter Dorwin Teague's ambition:

"I will strive to make the name I bear a…

2014-08-18
Students nab awards for innovative plywood designs 2014-08-18
Finding the next 'Carl Sagan of chemistry'

Graduate student Jennifer Novotney won the Chemistry Champions competition at the American Chemical Society's (ACS) national meeting in San Francisco, Aug. 10.

A student in the lab of William Dichtel, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology, Novotney was voted the 2014…

2014-08-15
VIDEO: Morris to debut doc on designer Walter Teague 2014-08-13
Peninsula College helps Sequim veteran get a fresh start

Sequim resident Justin VanBuskirk, who graduated from Peninsula College this June, has some words of advice for others: “Don’t give up because of your position in life!”

He didn’t and now he is well on his way to finding the life and career he wants, which includes pursuing an engineering…

2014-08-13
Rust villages of the deep: In Pele's shadow, iron oxide, or rust, comes to life

Pele. Her name brings visions of fire, lightning, wind--and volcanoes. Of the ancient Hawaiian goddesses, Pele, the "lady in the red dress," is the best known.

Locals believe that her powers formed Hawaii's chain of volcanic islands. The word pele…

2014-08-08
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