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The End of Privacy Began in the 1960s
Choices that Congress made decades ago allowed tech giants to become as powerful as they are according to UW history professor Margaret O'Mara.
12/05/2018 | The New York Times -
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Trolls
A UW professor offers a complete history of Scandinavia's mythical beasts.
12/05/2018 | The Stranger -
5 Ways to (Legally) Blow Off Steam
Arts & Sciences students share their ideas for relieving stress.
12/03/2018 | College of Arts & Sciences -
At the UW, our sci-fi future has arrived
Science fiction has come alive in our modern world. Current projects at the UW show that some literary fantasies will soon be reality.
11/30/2018 | UW Columns -
Parents learn, babies talk: How coaching moms and dads leads to better language skills among infants
Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences study shows that parents who speak “parentese” can have a direct impact on their children’s vocabulary.
11/29/2018 | UW News -
Lessons for Washington from a carbon-tax autopsy
Op-ed by Nives Dolsak, marine and environmental affairs; Aseem Prakash and Steven Karceski, Center for Environmental Politics
11/29/2018 | Crosscut -
Which motivates independents to get politically involved: Pocketbook issues or fear that Trump is hurting democracy?
Op-ed by UW political scientist, Christopher Parker, on the 2020 elections
11/29/2018 | Washington Post -
UW-led philosophy team receives $1.5M grant to study the ethics of neurotechnology research
UW associate professor of philosophy, Sara Goering, to lead team studying how brain-computer interfaces affect whether patients feel they are in charge of their own actions.
11/29/2018 | UW News -
The ‘Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools’ found in Asia, independent of ancient African or European influence
A study by an international team of researchers, including from the UW, determines that carved stone tools were used in Asia 80,000 to 170,000 years ago.
11/27/2018 | UW News -
Whitewashing: Seattle artist calls attention to censored history in series on WWII war crimes
Miha Sarani (BFA, 2015), an art history graduate, began the project after seeing news of the white nationalist march in Virgina and the lack of condemnation of white supremacy that followed.
11/20/2018 | Seattle PI