How changing the past might show up in the future
Editing the past, the forgotten wave of the future, teacher of the year, and the narrative of history.
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The Future of Another Timeline
Annalee Newitz is author of The Future of Another Timeline, which focuses on all the ways we might edit the past – and the ways those edits might surprise us in the present day.
Former ReachNow CEO
Remember when car sharing was the wave of the future? Now it seems to be the failed venture of the past, as services like Car2Go start pulling out of cities. ReachNow ceased all operations in July; its former CEO is Steve Banfield.
Washington State Teacher of the Year 2019
This year’s Washington State Teacher of the Year is Amy Campbell. She teaches special education at Helen Baller Elementary School in southwest Washington. She says that as a special ed instructor, her selection as teacher of the year matters.
The Invention of Yesterday
We’re taught that history is a series of events. But Tamim Ansary says that actually, history is a carefully curated narrative. His new book is the story of those stories. It’s called The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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