Amber Cortes
Stories
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Breaking The Taboo Against Talking About Death
How do you want to die? Seattle food provocateur and entrepreneur Michael Hebb wants you to talk about it -- over dinner.Hebb says how we want to die
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Overheard In The Green Room: Monica Guzman
Monica Guzman is a columnist for The Seattle Times and Northwest tech news site GeekWire. I caught up with her in the KUOW green room before her interview
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Overheard In The Green Room: Ken Jenning's Kryptonite
In 2011, you were chosen as one of the two humans to be play against IBM's Watson supercomputer. What was it like playing against a robot? It was a little
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Technology You Can Wear
There’s been a lot of buzz about wearable technology — computing capabilities you can wear — for at least a decade. Digital wrist bands that monitor
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Bullitt Center: A Building That Functions Like An Organism
This Thursday the Bullitt Foundation moves into their new offices on Capitol Hill — a brand new building they’re touting as the greenest in the world. The
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What Would Your 6-Year-Old Self Think Of You?
In 1964 documentary filmmaker Michael Apted started interviewing 14 children from a range of backgrounds in England. Every seven years the “Up” series
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The Science Of Songs You Can't Escape
It sounds shocking, but earworms are an epidemic that affect at least 90 percent of people as often as once a week. That’s according to a Goldsmiths
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Are Traditional Libraries In Jeopardy?
Thousands of librarians are gathering in Seattle for the annual ALA Midwinter Meeting, and they've got a lot to talk about. Ross Reynolds spoke with ALA
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Slideshow: Tacoma's Tower Records
KUOW listeners Whitney Keyes and Chris Porter share their memories of Tacoma Tower Records with us. Whitney Keyes “I grew up in Tacoma, Washington, and my
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Slideshow: Fallout Records
Tim Hayes and Rob Fletcher share their memories of Fallout Records. Tim Hayes, Owner, 1999-2003 "Fallout Records was a fiercely independent record