College of Science and Engineering
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| Pebble’s Original Smartwatch Gets a Technicolor Makeover | Pebble helped kicked off the current smartwatch craze. Now, the company is offering a limited run of splashy new colors, including a fluorescent pink, green, and blue version of its original watch. With the early adopter and nerd bro market well-tapped, perhaps Pebble is going after trendsetting… |
2014-08-06 | |
| If California's Drought Wasn't Scary Enough, Now It May Trigger Earthquakes | California’s drought has reached epic proportions. Nearly 60 percent of the state is in exceptional drought—the most severe category—and farmers are depleting groundwater reserves at record rates as wildfires break out north and south. Now there’s something else to worry about:… |
2014-08-04 | |
| From giant fleas to railway crashes to 'Blanket Bill,' enjoy summer reading with ties to Whatcom County | If you're looking for some quick summer reading, several new articles with ties to Whatcom County just came out. |
2014-08-04 | |
| A bird’s eye-view on dwindling numbers | The bird-counters stood in the windy bow chattering into headsets and scanning the Strait of Juan de Fuca with binoculars. “Scoters,” Sherman Anderson said. “Three of them. At 11 o’clock. Look like surfs.” “Marbled murrelets,” he added seconds later. “I see two.” Inside the boat’s… |
2014-07-31 | |
| Was Six-Million-Year-Old Turd Auctioned for $10,000 a Faux Poo? | This past Saturday, a private collector paid $10,370 at auction for what was touted as a six-million-year-old turd. Billed in the auction house catalog as fossil feces measuring "an eye-watering 40 inches in length" and believed to be "possibly the longest example of coprolite… |
2014-07-30 | |
| The Great Giant Flea Hunt | In the Pacific Northwest, we live among behemoths — snowcapped volcanoes, towering trees, great splashing salmon and lattes as big as a child’s head. Yet one of the region’s undeniably superlative titans has slipped beneath everyone’s radar. |
2014-07-29 | |
| The Great Giant Flea Hunt | In the Pacific north-west, we live among behemoths - snowcapped volcanoes, towering trees, great splashing salmon and lattes as big as a child's head. Yet one of the region's undeniably superlative titans has slipped beneath everyone's radar. The land of Bigfoot and… |
2014-07-29 | |
| Bellingham's Alley District gets an artful addition | A photographer tucked behind his accordion-like bellows camera is the latest mural to liven buildings that run along North State Street. |
2014-07-24 | |
| Scientists Look for Causes of Baffling Die-Off of Sea Stars | Ben Miner picks his way over slick cobble on the shore of Bellingham Bay, in northwestern Washington. He has brought me to his study site here to show me something that has become increasingly rare on the west coast of North America: a healthy community of sea stars. He stops now and… |
2014-07-17 | |
| California Expected to Set Water Restrictions | In an attempt to help curb the impact of a three-year drought, California is likely to soon issue a first-time mandatory water restriction. |
2014-07-16 |