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The speaker calls it quits after five years of trying to get Tea Party leaders to stop squabbling and play nice. The road ahead looks rocky for the GOP.
Changing the design of a classroom can get more girls interested in computer science. Here’s how.
NGO journalists can cover issues that go underreported by cash-strapped newsrooms. But are they more likely to violate journalistic principles?
In 1964, the John Birch Society pushed Barry Goldwater to victory in the Republican primary. The same could happen with the Tea Party and Trump this election cycle.
One year on from Ferguson, the message of Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail could not be more relevant.
On July 6, the South Carolina Senate voted to remove the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds. In the past white-on-black violence has led to real change - but under specific conditions.
Alexander Hamilton’s story is our story. It would be a mistake to remove him from the $10 bill.
Using DNA testing, researchers find that most elephant poaching is happening in two spots – crucial information to stopping the flow of ivory out of Africa.
Why are atheists deemed as untrustworthy as rapists?
The “warm blob” of remarkably warm water in the Pacific is changing weather patterns and impacting marine life, providing clues to how ecosystems may change in a warmer future.
If the biblical flood occurred just a few thousand years ago, that doesn’t leave enough time for the geologic history we see in rocks and fossils.
A new study has found that second-generation immigrant kids have a unique advantage over first-generation or even third-generation immigrants.
The ranks of labor unions have been decimated over the last half century by outsourcing and anti-union campaigns. The result has been rising inequality.
Monica Lewinsky has given a name to her harassment 17 years ago: cyberbullying. New research shows just how widespread it is.
Unbalanced rhythms and sudden key changes in some pieces of music may be evidence that Beethoven had an arrhythmia.
China may not be poised for world domination in wine, but it’s industry has grown wildly in recent years, and it’s now producing some well-regarded vintages.
The United States has always been known as a nation of immigrants and a top destination for scientists and other highly skilled professionals. That ability to attract the world’s most educated and innovative…
An ever-increasing number of our consumer electronics is internet-connected. We’re living at the dawn of the age of the Internet of Things. Appliances ranging from light switches and door locks, to cars…
Oil prices have fallen dramatically since August – and, rather counter-intuitively, this could be a bad thing. As of late October, the price of oil has fallen from US$110 per barrel (bbl) to below US$85…
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Ph.D. Candidate in Health Services, University of Washington
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Professor and Chair of Biology at Seattle Pacific University and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington
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Professor of Information Science, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Science, University of Washington
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
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Professor of Political Science and Co-founder of the Political Economy Forum, University of Washington
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Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
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PhD Candidate in 19th Century British Literature, University of Washington
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Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
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Professor of Political Science, Co-founder of the Political Economy Forum, University of Washington
