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Joseph Foster: Tukwila Founder
The history of Joseph Foster, one of the first non-Native settlers in Tukwila, Washington, who homesteaded on the Duwamish River in 1852.
Red Town Trail Coal Creek Then and Now
Tracing the history of a popular Bellevue hiking trail
Upcoming talk: Your Microbiome, Your Health
If you’re in the Seattle area on April 29th, I hope you’ll come to a talk I’ll be giving for The STEAM Vent , a local science event…
Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room
It’s as impressive as you’d expect: full-blown Probat roaster right out in the open, a long line of Clovers at the main bar, As a tourist attraction it…
Andy Raskin’s book tour at Queen Anne Bookshop
Andy Raskin and I first met in graduate school, where both of us were interested in Japan, and over the years we somehow keep bumping into each other,…
Do It Yourself Biology in Seattle
I finally was able to attend one of the DIYBio meetings this weekend, and now my mind is reeling from all the interesting possibilities I heard. DIYBio is…
Konga at Trabant Coffee
Mike at Trabant Coffee and Chai saw that I was looking for more Ethiopia Yergcheffe Konga coffee (it’s sooo good!), and let me know that a new batch…
The Battles of Tim Eyman
Although I first heard about this documentary film back in February, when the director Paul Fraser came to a Global Warming lecture at the Mercer Island library, I…
My Vitamin D shortage
We don't get nearly enough sun in the Northwest, but we continue to read and believe advice from the rest of the country about the dangers of too…
One good reason to keep your bottled water
Today's Seattle Times describes bottled water and mentions that many of the the nation's mayors are suggesting we use tap water instead. But missing from the discussion is…
Seattle Cheese Festival
We love cheese as much as we like good tofu , so of course we also dropped in on the Seattle Cheese Festival , held this weekend at…
Seattle's Best Tofu
Most of my friends don't like tofu, and I don't blame them. The stuff you buy at the grocery store is so dull it tastes rancid. But I…
Edible Magazine
Image no longer available "I want farmers to be as famous as rock stars", says Jill Lightner, the editor of the new foodie quarterly, Edible Seattle . As…
Theo Chocolate Factory Tour
This month is my turn to host our local Y-Guide boy's club, so I arranged for everyone to visit the Theo Chocolate Factory in the Fremont Area of…
Realtime 911 dispatches
The City of Seattle has a web site where you can see constantly-updated reports emergency 911 dispatches . The site Public911 also mashes that same data onto a…
How safe is that bridge?
Neal pointed me Bridge Tracker, a site that uses Virtual Earth to let you know the level of safety (or danger) for public bridges near you. Here's what…
520 Bridge falling apart
I live on an island, and I don't own a boat, so I'm completely dependent on the bridges that get me from home to everywhere else. What happens…
Northwest Food and Wine
Celebrating Food and Wine in the Northwest is a short (9-min) podcast from NPR last week worth listening to if you like food. From the description: Weekend Edition…
Tea and Taiko at Sponge
Want to expose your kids to a foreign language while they're very young -- the best time for their young brains to soak up the sounds and grammar…
Clover Factory
A big treat today: while visiting Seattle I stopped by the world headquarters of the Coffee Equipment Company where Zander Nosler gave me a personal tour of their…
Goodbye Anita
Very sad news in my inbox this morning. Anita Rowland, a blogger friend, passed away yesterday after a long bout with cancer. Her death is especially sad because,…
How to Improve Schools
The (always interesting) Seattle Public Schools blog points to an Economist article from last year about a large McKinsey world-wide study, " How the world's best-performing schools come…
Insect invasion
Eric LaGasa, State Entomologist for the Washington State Department of Agriculture was the speaker at last night's Scarab meeting . Boy does this guy know his bugs! He…
Clover Coffee
After reading the writeup in this week's Economist , I just had to try coffee made on one of those high powered Clover machines . Made by a…
Bug Jam
Last night we went to the Bug Jam , sponsored by the Scarab Society and hosted at the University of Washington Burke Museum I was surprised at the…