We are our own worst enemy When, oh when, is the American medical community going to accept the reality that this country’s biggest healthcare problem isn’t insurance or medications; it’s fitness? Americans […]
Dangerous easy lives
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China wins
The global humpy leader Scientists can argue about the ecological consequences of Alaska salmon hatcheries helping to flood the North Pacific Ocean with pink salmon, but what appears clear now is that […]
Magic bullets
A problematic wonder drug Overweight and obese Americans, who now comprise the majority of this country’s adults, just got some bad news from The BMJ, the journal of the British Medical Association. […]
Humpies invade
The all-conquering pink salmon While Alaska fisheries biologists have been fretting about whether pink salmon straying from the state’s ocean-farming ranches could damage the genetics of wild, 49th-state pinks, the feral progeny […]
Trained by machines
How tools influence our brains The debate roiling the mainstream media over the weekend focused on last week’s deadly shooting in the state of Minnesota involving an agent of the Immigration and […]
Obesity redefined
Obese Americans now an overwhelming majority If you’re a regular air traveler in Alaska or even just an occasional one, as most are, you might have noticed that the people occupying the […]
Killing chums
An Alaska fisheries management failure Seemingly without thought, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has confessed to mismanaging wild chum salmon in Southeast Alaska to the benefit of private hatcheries run […]
Weather v. climate
Goodbye, Seattle of the North What a difference a few years can make in Alaska. Five years ago, the New Year’s Eve view from top of the Hotel Captain Cook in downtown […]
20th Century Dreaming
Alaska’s gas pipeline versus reality While delusional Alaska politicians cling to a now nearly 57-year-old fantasy of a natural gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to tidewater at Cook Inlet or the ice-free […]
Big fat flop
Lifesaver offered old Americans fails Why are so many Americans so unhealthy? Could it be because the health-care industry and average Americans themselves just don’t want to make the effort to fix […]
