BOOKS | Red Moon

Benjamin Percy writes about werewolves, and much more

Why in the hell is Benjamin Percy writing about werewolves, you might ask? Everyone is writing about werewolves. Why would one of America’s promising young writers do the same? Perhaps because w

For Your Consideration | May 16, 2013

BOOK Too many people know Vladimir Nabokov for Lolita, a tale about lies, pedophiles, and child molestation. Not enough people know Nabokov for his bajillions of other works€¦ that incidental

The Time Traveler

My great-grandfather relives a lifetime of memories with Alzheimer's

My great-grandfather is forever lost on Monumental Mountain. The cowboy, Eagle Scout and war veteran left his family more than five years ago to pick huckleberries outside of Colville, Wash., an

We Can Turn DNA into Music

An Eastern Washington University professor creates audio interpretations of living things

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Yes. In fact, Eastern Washington University’s Jonathan Middleton used data and computer science to compose a fu

There's Not Enough Poverty In Kids' Books

A Whitworth researcher studies how picture books reflect the reality of American poverty

Mama can’t find a steady job. So Zettie goes to bed every night in a cold, cramped car and wakes up every morning to the peal of police sirens. Daddy forged a check, got caught, and thrown

We Can Make a New Wonder Material From What's in Your Pantry

A University of Idaho professor stumbles onto a new graphene-like material

Hailed as a “wonder material” that could replace plastics, silicon and synthetic diamonds, the scientific community has gone bonkers for graphene, an incredibly light and strong carbon-bas

Hydrogen Can Weaken Steel

And that's a problem for our sustainable future

In the cars and homes of the future, the substance flowing through our pipes and to our engines, powering our lights and cars, could be hydrogen. Clean and easy to produce, it’s a source many sc

Earth, Water, Food

Riverfront Park gets a summer eating spot with the Fountain Cafe

Just a few dozen feet from the Rotary Fountain in Riverfront Park, where you can’t tell if the sound of squealing is coming from the children prancing through the spouts or the seagulls swarming

The Future is Now

Jason Bateman can't make Disconnect feel current

Disconnect updates the timeworn theme of technophobia for the Aughts, a decade that ended three years ago. Granted, mocking a movie for being passé is a lazy form of criticism, but this mo

Echoes of the Past

If rootsy Americana is your thing, Pokey LaFarge’s is making your new favorite songs

In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been in the middle of a “roots” revival lately. These days, kids are more apt to strap on a banjo and a bow tie than any time since the Great