Forget the scare about dogs being potential carriers of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus; it’s cats that are the real danger, according to Chinese researchers probing potential non-human carriers. And maybe too […]
Mask the cat
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The science hunt
Number crunchers around the world are having a field day trying to sort out the whys and wherefores of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the driver of the Great Pandemic of 2020. The pre-print […]
A natural disaster
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is far from over, but already it can claim its place as the worst national disaster to strike the U.S in the lifetimes of nearly everyone reading this. As […]
Economic doomsday?
A newly released report on the “Blue Economy” from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development contains nary a mention of Alaska, but it is stuffed full of bad news […]
Be thankful
Four months into the pandemic that should remind self-important, modern humans that Mother Nature still rules the planet, with the battle against SARS-CoV-2 having left many masked up and living in a […]
Bell curves
The bell curve that no Alaskans wanted to see flatten started late, peaked early and is now falling fast as state fishery managers begin to worry about whether they will be able […]
Bears everywhere
The SARS-CoV-2 virus might have upended the world, but in Alaska’s largest city, some things haven’t changed. Summer is back and along with it the bears. They are seemingly everywhere, though […]
Fear of flying
Between the new-found fear of travel by air and the desperate attempts of Alaska communities to protect themselves from SARS-CoV-2, the global coronavirus has put a chokehold on the Alaska tourism industry, […]
A testing headache
Sometimes doing the right thing is not easy as Bub Nelson learned when he finally made it back to Alaska in this the year of COVID-19. After Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced near […]
COVID weirdness
Of all the strange twists and turns that have come out of the research into COVID-19 since the pandemic began to sweep the world six months ago, the strangest comes from Israel […]
