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INTERNATIONAL TIPPLE TASTING: As a Pacific Rim port, Seattle should really be more broadly acquainted with saké than it is. Enter tonight's premium sake tasting at Umi Saké House in Belltown, a Saké Nomi event designed to familiarize attendees with thirty of the world's finest (and in some cases, rarest) brands. You and your fellow fermented rice enthusiasts will be able to sample a saké whose brand hails straight from 1505 as well as an igloo-brewed variety called "Divine Droplets." Kampai!

UW physicist Wick Haxton is in a competition worthy of reality TV--if the average American actually cared about science, that is. He is competing with three other teams in various US locations to be chosen as the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant for over half a billion dollars to build and run a laboratory buried deep under Stevens Pass to study neutrinos. (The further underground, the less the sun's rays interfere with techniques used to study these mysterious little subatomic particles that many physicists believe are the key to understanding not only the Big Bang, but other elusive phenomena like supernovae and dark matter.)