Everyone is jumping on the reunion tour bandwagon these days, and the paleontologists greedy museum directors of the world are not to be left out of the mix. Lucy, the famous (if you prefer science over Hollywood) 3.2-million-year-old fossil, is going on tour too. She's got some contentious bones. The original set of fossils--representing the oldest, most intact human ancestor--has been swept out of Ethiopia, where she was supposed to stay in perpetuity, and is......

As with any other Winter Olympiad, perennial favorites took most of the focus. Figure skating (at least the falls were funny), speed skating (had its moments), and the skiing events (*yawn*) received the bulk of NBC's melodramatic coverage, but this year could prove to be the breakout year for Seattlest obsession curling, just added to the Olympic roster in 1998. With the help of some nudity (and some unprecedented US success), the sport managed to......

Geological change continues coming fast and furious (as these things go) to the south where Moung St. Helens is stewing. Another earthquake overnight collapsed a section of the lava dome that's recently sprouted on the mountain. Amateurs probably already know that local news outlets abound with special Mount St. Helens sections such as this one at The Oregonian, but true volcanophiles need to head directly to The US Geological Survey website. From that website: Current......

We go on and on about how great it is that Seattle has two strong alternative weekly papers. Ok, maybe not "on and on", but we've said it at least a few times. Once for sure. We're saying it now: It's great that Seattle has two strong alternative weekly papers. What we have probably been a little quieter about is that fact that our city is also served by two strong daily papers and, truth......