The Hugo House Literary Series kicks off Friday night with "Lost in Translation," and the program features Seattlest-favorite and monologist Mike Daisey, novelist Randall Keenan and historian Lesley Hazleton. more ›

UW, Fred Hutch and Los Alamos National Laboratory have been collaborating to study the potential spread of avian flu if it were ever to mutate into a human-to-human virus. They used supercomputers to, uh, supercompute how quickly the virus would travel and its possible course as well as what mitigating factors might be successful. The study lists school closures, vaccination and antiviral drugs as possible roadblocks to the virus. more ›