Runaway robots
Do we still have control of our technology? A new initiative attempts to take greater control of our health. How will Jay Inslee’s proposal for mental health services help those in need? What can New York learn about Amazon from us? And in a week and a half, EMTs might go on strike.
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Timothy Egan
Humans make mistakes. New York Times columnist Tim Egan suggests that one of those mistakes might have been letting our technology run away with us. His concerns run the gamut from facial recognition to Facebook.
Allen Institute for Immunology
Paul Allen died this year of complications from non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Today, a new non-profit research undertaking was announced: the Allen Institute for Immunology. Tom Bumol is the institute’s new executive director.
Inslee's mental health proposal
Jay Inslee’s mental health proposal would implement a “forensic hospital of excellence,” says KUOW’s Olympia correspondent Austin Jenkins. He explains who Western State Hospital serves now, and how that might change.
What can NYC learn from our mistakes?
What can New York learn from Seattle’s Amazon experience? A city council meeting pushed for those answers today, which Geekwire’s Monica Nickelsburg was following.
EMT strike in the wings
Here’s a phrase you probably don’t want to hear: EMTs on strike. Employees of AMR in Seattle say they’ll strike if they don’t have a contract by December 21st. Seattle Times reporter Heidi Groover is covering the story.
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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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