It's been nearly 160 years since the publication of Charles Darwin's the origin of species with its dazzling description of a model for the evolution of life inspired by those lovely whimsical...
Fearsome to Friendly:
Our History with the Orca
Many in the Northwest consider the orca to be our region’s unofficial mascot. But how did we come to love orcas so much in the first place? Environmental and International History...
Joshua Roman’s Previews His Newest Piece “Tornado” with JACK Quartet
You just a heard a selection from the first part of Tornado, a new piece composed by Town Music...
Urban Climate Change and Our Role as City-Dwellers
Increasingly, activists who work on climate change frame their movement around the idea of environmental justice, an interweaving of social, racial and economic justice with the fight to mitigate...
The Overlooked Power of Nature’s Invisible Giants
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American...
Lucy Cooke: Re-Branding the Animal Kingdom
Humans often look at the animal kingdom through our own lens, and many times we tend to project our own values and emotions onto the animals. Here to set the record straight is National Geographic...
The Precariat Class: We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now
Over the past five years, Seattle has seen a tremendous expansion of worker protections, driven largely by the organizing of low wage workers themselves. According to Annelise Orleck, a labor...
The Space Barons — A Privately-Financed Commercial Space Age
In 2017, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elon Musk’s company SpaceX successfully landed a reusable rocket booster. Later this year, Virgin Galactic—the spacefaring spinoff of Richard Branson’s Virgin...
Impossible Monuments to a 100 Year Migration Crisis
Mary Ann Peters is an artist whose combined studio work, installations, public art projects and arts activism have made noted contributions to the Northwest and nationally for over 30 years. Most recently her work has focused on the overlap of contemporary events with splintered histories of the Middle East.