In 2011, three researchers published a paper in Psychological Science that did something unusual with one of the longest-running datasets in American social science. Shigehiro Oishi and Selin Kesebir, then at the University of Virginia, and Ed Diener, at...
This story was originally published in The Stranger’s 2026 Queer Issue.
In honor of Pride month—and in honor of highly complex queer dynamics that are at least one thing we can count on, from our relationships with each other to...
The new Wired Wall Switch Modules fit behind existing switches. | Image: Signify
Smart lighting company Philips Hue has launched its first wired wall modules. Installed behind existing wall switches, the new devices bring non-smart lights into the Hue ecosystem...
Happy summer solstice and Juneteenth, Seattle! We hope you make it out to a celebration or two between other weekend events from the Fremont Fair and Solstice Parade to the Belltown Mural Festival Block Party and from Karaoke in...
Seafair Summer Fourth takes place at Gasworks.
Image: Courtesy Seafair
We're nearing the almost-official start of Seattle summer: The Fourth of July. Here come the fireworks, not to mention the season for grilling, parades, and generally being outside. The Seattle area is celebrating...
One of these days we will write about the glory of Seattle’s James Beard Award winners… but alas, today is not that day. The city struck out yet again at the Oscars of the culinary world, which isn’t exactly...
Have I found my Chromecast Audio replacement? | Image: NTS Radio
NTS Radio and Swedish audio company Atonemo have teamed up on a dedicated player that brings NTS's genre-defying mixes and streaming stations to almost any stereo or speaker setup....
Here’s how many of my mornings go. I sit down to write, open the research tab, and start reading for the angle I need. The angle does not come. So I check Slack, just for a second. Then a...
Between 2011 and 2015, American body brokers, companies with names like Biological Resource Center, Restore Life USA, and MedCure, received donated human bodies and shipped body parts across the United States and overseas, according to the Reuters investigation The...
A slew of organizations are collaborating on a “major AI infrastructure deal.”
Bell Canada, Cohere, Hypertec, and Hive Digital Technologies subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing are combining forces toward development and deployment of advanced AI workloads on sovereign Canadian infrastructure,...
