Emboldened by the success of its mouse brain map, Seattle's Allen Institute for Brain Science announced this week that it is taking on three new, similar "mapping" projects: the human brain, the developing mouse brain, and the mouse spinal cord. Using techniques honed on the mouse brain project, the Allen Institute will catalog the activity of thousands of genes within neural tissues.
A wave of the pom-poms to Seattle Post-Intelligencer for its consistently incisive reporting on the Sonics' story, with today's analysis by Greg Johns another fine example. He notes that the votes were just not there in the Legislature (haven't been for four sessions), and that the bid by the Huskies for stadium money complicated the situation, since legislators (including Speaker Frank Chopp) would not have wanted to snub the UW while rewarding the BasketBallmers.
A delegate to the state convention talks about what he sees at the grass roots: diverse, enthusiastic, and newly active Republicans who are devoted to reviving and, as necessary, redefining the party.
It happened twice in 2007 and again this past February: A journalist asked my age for a news item. No matter that youth is irrelevant in a meritocracy. Age has emerged as one of those nervy, reflexive questions that only third graders and professional scribblers are comfortable asking.