Spring 2007
Welcome to Mildew Manor (And you think your house needs work.)
No one would knowingly build a house this way. But this is Mildew Manor. And building it wrong is building it right.
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Spring 2007
The longest view
The Hubble Space Telescope yields the deepest view yet of deep space.
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A week in Malawi
In a country wracked with poverty, AIDS, and overpopulation, WSU's president finds vitality and hope.
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WSU welcomes a new president
Elson S. Floyd was named the 10th president of Washington State University in December. He and his wife, Carmento, will be moving to Washington from Missouri this spring.
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Why Doubt? Skepticism as a basis for change and understanding
Skepticism can forestall a too-willing acquiescence to the-way-things-are; it can distance us from dogmatism and ward us away from zealotry; it can expose our mistakes.
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Zoology 61: Teaching eugenics at WSU
Eugenics was the dark side of our understanding of human evolution. American eugenicists were united by the idea that the human race was degenerating because inferior people were breeding more quickly than those who were "well born." Zoology 61, Genetics and Eugenics, was finally dropped from the course catalog at Washington State College in 1950.
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Tiny Motors
The Palouse Piezoelectric Power (P3) engine is three millimeters wide, three millimeters long, and 100 microns thick, making it the world’s smallest engine. Just over 6,447 engines placed side by side would cover a page of this magazine, and each engine would be no thicker than the page on which it rested. The Washington State University researchers who created it believe the P3 has the potential to one day replace the batteries that power electric devices.
To operate, the P3 needs only an external heat source, such as a burning fuel, the sun, a wood stove, waste heat from electronics, or even body heat. The … » More …
Summer 2003
Continuous History
Summer 2003
Gassing up in the Wild Blue: Cadets get a taste of their future
Spring 2007
Darwin was just the beginning: A sampler of evolutionary biology at WSU
All of modern biology and medicine is based on the theory of evolution, and every life scientist arguably is an evolutionary biologist. So where to start in exploring evolutionary biology at WSU? How about with dung beetles, African violets, and promiscuous wrens?
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