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  • Weird reverse-causality study takes a new twist

    A UW physicist who has been looking for evidence that causality can go backward in time says he's making progress on nailing down the theoretical foundations for such quantum weirdness.
    01/06/2014 | NBC News
  • The (very) long view on the state of football

    NPR profiles Sarah Stroup's class called War Games: Greek Athletes, Roman Gladiators, the Modern Olympics and College Football.
    01/01/2014 | NPR
  • Genetically identical bacteria can behave in radically different ways

    Although a population of bacteria may be genetically identical, individual bacteria within that population can act in radically different ways.
    12/31/2013 | UW Today
  • One New Year's idea: Have dinner and talk about death

    A new project encourages hosts around the country to gather friends and families to talk about what matters in death and in life. Creator Michael Hebb said he came up with the idea during a class he co-taught in the UW communications department.
    12/28/2013 | USA Today
  • Race project | Answering question on race is harder than you think

    In an article that looks at the changing face of race around our region,Charles Hirschman, sociology professor at the UW thinks making the question about race and ethnicity on census forms open-ended might confuse people filling out the forms.
    12/26/2013 | Seattle Times
  • Burke asks hunters for hybrid duck specimens

    Researchers hope to recruit duck hunters to provide hybrid duck specimens for a study at the University of Washington's Burke Museum, to determine if hybrids are the result of forced copulation.
    12/21/2013 | Columbia Basin Herald
  • Sinuous skeletons leap from lab to art world

    A scalyhead sculpin is a nondescript fish but "stripped" to its skeleton and stained, it becomes striking enough to be among the 14 photos by Adam Summers, professor of biology, on display at the Seattle Aquarium.
    12/19/2013 | UW Today
  • Office parties are bad for business

    Cheryl Kaiser, a psychology researcher at the University of Washington, explained that there are many subtle ways holiday parties can be less enjoyable for members of minority groups.
    12/19/2013 | The Daily Beast
  • Big Pharma's Marketing Strategies

    David Hyde talks with Natalie Mizik, University of Washington marketing professor, about how successful big pharmaceuticals are at marketing their products.
    12/18/2013 | KUOW
  • 10 ideas to change the world: Mind control over the internet

    CNN is honoring 10 emerging ideas in technology and related fields. Number six on the list is a UW team that managed to connect two brains using non-invasive technology.
    12/18/2013 | CNN