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Apparent Stability in Self-Gravitating Turbulence and the Evolution of Molecular Clouds
Conflicts of Interest The author declares no conflicts of interest. Data Availability Statement Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study. References , , and . 2025. “Thermodynamics of Fluid Elements in the Context of Turbulent Isothermal Self-Gravitating Molecular Clouds.” Universe 11, no. 6: 184. 1993. “Star Formation at Compressed Interfaces in Turbulent Self-Gravitating Clouds.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 419: L29. 2000.
Meet the guy who runs Ballard’s boat elevator
THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Ballard THE PERSON: Larry Meyer, lockmaster of the Ballard Locks THE STORY: What do you get when you combine a fish ladder, a botanical garden, and a bunch of boats? The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks – also known as the Ballard Locks. And you can find one person at the center of it all. As it turns out, he’s got a pretty neat view (and job title).
Becoming a Ballardite in three steps
THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Ballard THE PERSON: It’s true that Ballard has changed a lot over the years, but there’s one person who has probably seen the neighborhood transform more than anyone. Louis Larsen was born in 1924 and grew up five blocks from downtown Ballard. You may remember that the neighborhood was its own city before 1907. We asked Larsen what it means to be a Ballardite today. And what better place to conduct the interview than at Ballard’s own Sloop Tavern?
Broadcasting live from Ballard's Mox Boarding House
THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Ballard THE PLACE: Mox Boarding House is a board game store and cafe founded in 2011 by two brothers. They have locations in Bellevue, Ballard and plan to open in Portland soon. Mox offers more than 600 games for people to play in the store. THE STORY: When you meet Michael Tessier, the first thing you notice is his great voice. In fact, in his free time, he’s a sportscaster. What sport, you ask? Magic: The Gathering, a strategy card game.
Fish, With a Side of Ballard History
THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Ballard THE PERSON: Pete Knutson, fisherman THE STORY: Pete Knutson is a 47-year commercial fisherman, a fourth-generation Ballardite, and a college professor. When he’s not up in Alaska catching salmon, you’ll find him down on the dock at Fishermen’s Terminal selling it. In fact, Knutson led the charge to make sure commercial fishing remains at the heart of Seattle since it’s a tradition that stretches back more than 100 years.
In the DJ booth at KEXP
Cheryl Waters never thought her volunteer gig would lead to a job, much less a 25-year career in live radio. Back in 1994, Cheryl was volunteering her Friday nights (Saturday mornings, technically) to work 1 to 6 a.m. in the DJ booth at KCMU.
How urban sprawl shapes the critters that crawl our city
A band of raccoons scamper over a downed tree. A coyote sneaks a drink from a mossy pool. The black and white photos that flash across Professor Mark Jordan’s computer screen look like they could have been shot out on the Olympic Peninsula or maybe at a remote spot in the Cascades — until a curious house cat sneaks out of the underbrush. These images, along with the 50,000 other stills that Jordan collected last summer, all came from game cameras stationed in public parks around Seattle.
Meet the cricketers of Marymoor Park
THE LOCATION: Marymoor Park, Redmond THE PERSON: Vishwa Gaddamanugu, Co-founder, Seattle Cricket League THE STORY: When Vishwa Gaddamanugu moved from Hyderabad, India to the Pacific Northwest he left behind family and friends. But what he brought with him was a serious passion for cricket. By some measures, it’s the second most popular sport in the world. When he arrived in the early 2000s, Gaddamanugu found a thriving cricket community that’s only continued to grow.
Karen Braitmayer is designing a more inclusive Seattle
MEET THIS CHANGEMAKER: Karen Braitmayer, architect and principal of Studio Pacifica WHAT SHE’S DOING: You may not know it, but Karen Braitmayer’s architectural consulting studio has left its marks around town. You’ve probably encountered some of her work if you’ve ever been to the Space Needle renovation, the Central Library and the Pike Place MarketFront. Braitmayer teaches architects across the Pacific Northwest how to incorporate accessible design into their buildings.
Seattle’s #1 biking, blogging dad
In 2009, Tom Fucoloro and his girlfriend Kelli sold their car and moved to Seattle. Shortly after, he started a little website called seattlebikeblog.com. Today, Tom and Kelli are married, have a new baby, and still don’t own a car. And that blog? It’s become a prime source of news and information for riders around the city. Tom’s focus has always been on covering bike-related issues for the everyday commuter.
Best of 2018: Why do so many new apartment buildings in Seattle look the same?
As Seattle continues to boom, so does the market for apartment buildings. From Ballard to Beacon Hill, towering cranes presage the arrival of mid-rise apartment buildings, soon followed by new neighbors. Curbed Seattle recently reported that in 2017 alone, the city added 7,500 new residential units. And often the buildings that have housed those units are strikingly — and, for some, depressingly — similar. You know the look: towers clad in candy-colored paneling.
Why some Seattle music fans went underground in the ‘90s
As the last century neared its end, songs from Seattle topped the charts. Seen on MTV and heard over the radio, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Sir Mix-a-Lot acted as ambassadors of a rich music scene that was the envy of teenagers around the globe. But the teenagers who were actually in Seattle didn’t exactly have easy access to the music being made in their city. Because of the Teen Dance Ordinance, passed by the city in the ‘80s, all-ages concerts were prohibitively expensive to produce.
How Seattleites navigated downtown before GPS
About the Authors & Contributors Knute Berger Knute “Mossback” Berger is a senior writer and columnist covering history, politics and culture in the Pacific Northwest. Eric Keto Eric is a video producer for Cascade Public Media.
From Dutch baby to teriyaki, 5 foods that define Seattle
Every city has a dish (or five) to call its own, and every dish has a story to tell. Seattle is no exception. In this episode of Mossback’s Northwest, Knute Berger serves up five courses that were invented or popularized in Seattle. The culinary tour starts with 19th century prospectors on the hunt for a high calorie breakfast before winding through the long lines of the World’s Fair and ending up in the 1980s, where a bagel vendor devised a new kind of hot dog for the late-night crowd.
What Seattle’s redlining history tells us about wealth today
It started with the Great Depression. Rampant foreclosures had left lenders fearful and so the federal government devised a solution. It would encourage banks to loan money to would-be home buyers by developing maps that would show where their mortgages were most likely, and least likely to be paid in full. It was called “redlining” and the stated aim was economic development. The result was racial discrimination.
When being poor in Seattle was a criminal offense
In 1872, the Seattle council passed Ordinance 32 that outlined punishment for vagrants — the idle, dissolute, immoral, profligate, or the unemployed — by specifying that they could be put to work. Many offenses earned a sentence on the chain gang: Swearing, drunkenness, illegal gambling, patronizing prostitutes. But for many, the only offense was being poor. If you couldn’t pay a fine, you had to work it off on the gang.
A procrastinator’s guide to Washington's 2018 midterm election
Yes, we’re in the midterms, but you wouldn’t know if from the amount of enthusiasm for the Nov. 6 general election. A political landscape seemingly cast by Hieronymous Bosch has energized voters across the political spectrum, including here in Washington state.
The man who forever changed Seattle's skyline
Paul Allen passed away on Oct. 15, but his legacy lives on through contributions in technology, arts, music, animal conservation, sports and more. In Seattle, his influence can also be found in the skyline and on the streets. From South Lake Union to CenturyLink to MoPop, there is perhaps no one in the city’s recent history who’s done more to reshape the built environment.
When Seattle just said 'no'
People often wonder: Why did we wait so long for mass transit? Folks sometimes ask: Why don’t we have a central park? Or maybe: Why isn't this city more walkable? The answer: we voted against it. Seattle has a history of saying “no” to grand ideas. In this episode, Knute explores the Seattles that might have been -- but died at the ballot box.
How past cougars tell us a story about modern attacks
About the Authors & Contributors Eric Keto Eric is a video producer for Cascade Public Media. Knute Berger Knute “Mossback” Berger is a senior writer and columnist covering history, politics and culture in the Pacific Northwest.
Group pushes ballot measure to repeal Safeco funding
The group filed a petition for a referendum with the King County Clerk Thursday, setting off a dash to collect 40,382 signatures by Nov. 2 to send the question to the February ballot. The filing arrives a week and a half after the King County Council narrowly approved a highly controversial ordinance to dedicate $135 million over the next 20 years toward Safeco Field improvements.
New play spotlights Detroit, 'metaphor for Black America'
One measure of that re-emergence: the break-through plays of Dominique Morisseau, including Skeleton Crew, which receives its Seattle premiere this week, Sept. 20–Oct. 14, 2018 at ArtsWest Playhouse. Through her Detroit Projects trilogy, which includes this tale of auto factory workers facing layoffs, Morisseau has become something of a dramatist laureate of her native city. Setting her dramas in Detroit is “like writing about family,” explained Morisseau, in an email exchange.
Where are all of Washington's dinosaurs?
In 2015, scientists found the first — and only — dinosaur fossil in Washington state. It was the partial thigh bone of a theropod — a group that includes raptors, t-rex, and modern birds. Dinosaur fossils have been found in every state in the west, and Washington has plenty of mammoth, mastodon, and giant sloth bones. Why is evidence of dinosaurs so rare here? Turns out, the answer has a lot to do with an epic geologic journey.
Why your favorite Seattle landmark isn't safe from the bulldozer
Seattle has more than 400 officially designated landmarks, including buildings, boats and even a few historic clocks. Landmark designation is a public process involving the property owner, the city and members of the community. The process often requires negotiation. What portions of the site should be preserved? What elements can be altered or changed? And with whose permission?
Did the City Council violate open-meeting laws a second time?
The nature of their communication raises questions about how far council members can or should be able to go in working directly with one another beyond the public eye — and achieving what might be a balance between transparency and productive collaboration. On May 14, the council was preparing to vote on a tax on large businesses as a way to fund housing and homeless services.
At Camp Blaze, young women fight wildfires and stereotypes
In the mountains of North Bend, Washington, Camp Blaze hosts a group of teenage girls who choose to spend their summers putting out fires — literally. They also rappel off tall buildings, smash car windows and use the jaws of life in simulated rescues, haul heavy firehoses across the pavement, and learn how to cocoon themselves in thin plastic shelter bags. Many hope to one day save a burning building or forest, but Camp Blaze does more than just teach what it takes to be a firefighter.
When palm trees thrived in the Pacific Northwest
A 12,000-year-old pine cone, a fossilized ginkgo leaf — Knute Berger dives into the Burke Museum’s paleobotany collection to find out what Washington use to look like and to contemplate which of the state's former, and considerably warmer, climates would be the most suitable dwelling for a modern-day Mossback. These specimens might help scientists understand, and prepare for, human-caused climate change.
Lost: Seattle's laid-back charm
Many folks came to Seattle in the late 20th and early 21st centuries looking for comfort, to kick back, to be a little more like their true selves here rather than someone stuck in a rat race. People wanted less glitz and more real; a town laid back enough, you could find yourself. Seattle made it easy. We were relatively accepting, tolerant. Our politics were open, our social hierarchies flat. We were a middle-class city, for better or worse.
Why do so many new apartment buildings in Seattle look the same?
As Seattle continues to boom, so does the market for apartment buildings. From Ballard to Beacon Hill, towering cranes presage the arrival of mid-rise apartment buildings, soon followed by new neighbors. Curbed Seattle recently reported that in 2017 alone, the city added 7,500 new residential units. And often the buildings that have housed those units are strikingly — and, for some, depressingly — similar. You know the look: towers clad in candy-colored paneling.
Does the sun make you crave rain? You might be a mossback
Remembering Cascadia’s last great world’s fair, 35 years later Vancouver’s Expo ’86 was the last time North America hosted a world’s fair. Here’s what made it a golden moment. Latinx farmworkers fight for their rights and lives while feeding America A family mourns the loss of their father to coronavirus, while a son of farmworkers spends countless hours rallying around Washington state.
Meet the man with a nuclear reactor in his basement
In this episode of Reinventors, host Katie Herzog visits Greninger's home to find out more about his nuclear fusion reactor and what it's like to have it in his basement. ReInventors is produced by KCTS 9 and PBS Digital Studios. Each episode features scientists, inventors and tinkerers who are reimagining the basic elements of our everyday lives.
Carmen Best named Seattle Police Chief
The announcement marks a stunning turnaround from a decision last May that left Best off the list of three finalists for the job. The decision, made by a small group of formal and informal advisors to Durkan, was based on the belief that the department would benefit from the leadership of an outsider. Her exclusion sparked outrage both from community members who’ve grown to respect Best and the department’s rank-and-file who see her as one of their own.
Detainees in Tacoma protest Trump's policies with hunger strike
Immigrant-rights activist Maru Mora Villalpando of the volunteer community group NWDC Resistance said at least two cells containing approximately 170 people had on Saturday pledged to stop eating. The protest was expected to last three days — at least nine consecutive meals — but is likely to continue.
Separated at the border, mother and son reunite at Sea-Tac
As a gaggle of reporters and TV cameras documented the reunion at Sea-Tac International Airport, the mother who was separated from her son at the U.S.-Mexico border became the first parent in Washington state to be reunited with her child. “It was like my heart was going to leap out of my body,” she said smiling.
The media ignore women’s sports. Can this network change that?
A few years ago, Megan McNally became extremely frustrated when she discovered bike racing. “I really loved bike racing, but it was so hard to find and watch bike racing — but then when you did, you could only find the men's races. You couldn't find the women's races,” McNally says. She didn’t grow up playing or watching them, but as sports became an increasingly important part of her life, she kept hitting roadblocks over and over when trying to access and watch women’s sports.
From Kent to the Moon: The most expensive car ever built
After dramatic week, Seattle gets to meet its police chief candidates
Self-Driving Bikes: The Next Transit Revolution?
What does your future commute look like? Will you be taking a self-driving car, a solo-wheel, the hyperloop? In this episode of "ReInventors," we look at how Professor Tyler Folsom and his students at University of Washington Bothell are spearheading a grassroots effort to test and develop lighter, more affordable, personal rapid transit: self-driving bikes. "ReInventors" is hosted by Katie Herzog.
Self-Driving Bikes: The Next Transit Revolution?
What does your future commute look like? Will you be taking a self-driving car, a solo-wheel, the hyperloop? In this episode of "ReInventors," we look at how Professor Tyler Folsom and his students at University of Washington Bothell are spearheading a grassroots effort to test and develop lighter, more affordable, personal rapid transit: self-driving bikes. "ReInventors" is hosted by Katie Herzog.
Self-Driving Bikes: The Next Transit Revolution?
What does your future commute look like? Will you be taking a self-driving car, a solo-wheel, the hyperloop? In this episode of "ReInventors," we look at how Professor Tyler Folsom and his students at University of Washington Bothell are spearheading a grassroots effort to test and develop lighter, more affordable, personal rapid transit: self-driving bikes. "ReInventors" is hosted by Katie Herzog.
Self-Driving Bikes: The Next Transit Revolution?
What does your future commute look like? Will you be taking a self-driving car, a solo-wheel, the hyperloop? In this episode of “ReInventors,” we look at how Professor Tyler Folsom and his students at University of Washington Bothell are spearheading a grassroots effort to test and develop lighter, more affordable, personal rapid transit: self-driving bikes. “ReInventors” is hosted by Katie Herzog.
Port lawyer: Harassment allegation, a $500K settlement and paid leave
The Port of Seattle lawyer who reached a $500,000 settlement in exchange for leaving his position has been on paid leave since March 29, according to emails provided to Crosscut through a public records request. He was placed on leave for allegedly violating the Port's anti-harassment policy. Attorney Craig Watson will remain on the payroll until Aug. 31 — earning him an additional $102,000 for five months of paid leave. His annual salary is $245,000, according to Port spokesperson Peter McGraw.
Activist who says ICE targeted her will remain in U.S.
For months, immigrant-rights activist Maru Mora Villalpando had been waiting to walk into a Seattle courtroom to learn her fate: Would she, an undocumented activist, be able to remain in the United States? On Tuesday, immigration Judge Brett M. Parchert seemed to suggest yes. Parchert told her and her lawyer, Devin Theriot-Orr, that Villalpando could adjust her citizenship status through her daughter Josefina, a U.S. citizen who turns 21 in August.
Puget Sound - say it like a local
What keeps Mossback awake at night? People calling it "the" Puget Sound.
Why do we keep loving our orcas - to death?
Seattle played a huge role in turning orcas into celebrities and performers at marine parks, aquariums and oceanariums around the world. It was here in 1965 that the first captured killer whale was put on show for commercial purposes, at a small aquarium on Pier 56. That orca was given the name Namu, after the Canadian town where he was inadvertently trapped by fishermen. He was purchased by the aquarium’s owner, Ted Griffin, who saw the commercial benefits of putting a “killer whale” on display.
Turning beer and food waste into electricity
In this episode of ReInventors, host Katie Herzog visits Jan Allen of Impact Bioenergy to find out how a shipping-container-sized digester converts leftovers into energy. (Watch her get a workout with food scraps and step into a "HORSE.") ReInventors is produced by KCTS 9 and PBS Digital Studios. Each episode features scientists, inventors and tinkerers who are reimagining the basic elements of our everyday lives.
The art of dancing with a wheelchair
Curtiss became paraplegic after a gymnastics accident when she was 17. After an inspiring encounter with Brazilian musicians during a visit abroad, she soon began dancing with the front end of her wheelchair off the ground. Curtiss then formed Light Motion Dance in 1988, inviting Petroff to join the company in 1990.
Crosscut and KCTS 9 win 15 awards
It was one rewarding award season for the reporters, editors, producers and photographers at Crosscut and KCTS 9. The recognition came for their work doing what great journalism does: It critiqued power and celebrated art. It found hope in our blighted past. It chronicled the drama of this turbulent political moment. It informed voters. And it made us deeply reconsider our relationship to . . . oysters?
How the Space Needle got its look
Report: Sheriff’s Office should be more transparent on police shootings
Oregon State Scientist Creates Edible Plastic. What Does It Taste Like?
Oregon State Scientist Creates Edible Plastic. What Does It Taste Like? By Ken Christensen, and Eric Keto • 1 hour ago A scientist at Oregon State University is developing edible food packing as well as edible coating for fruits and vegetables. Her goals: reduce plastic waste and keep food fresher longer. Katie Herzog visits Yanyun Zhao in her lab for a taste test. "ReInventors" is produced by KCTS 9 and PBS Digital Studios and hosted by Katie Herzog.
Oregon State Scientist Creates Edible Plastic. What Does It Taste Like?
A scientist at Oregon State University is developing edible food packing as well as edible coating for fruits and vegetables. Her goals: reduce plastic waste and keep food fresher longer. Katie Herzog visits Yanyun Zhao in her lab for a taste test. "ReInventors" is produced by KCTS 9 and PBS Digital Studios and hosted by Katie Herzog. Each episode features scientists, inventors and tinkerers who are reimagining the basic elements of our everyday lives. VIDEOCopyright 2018 EarthFix.
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