The big, global news over the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. should have come as a surprise to no one. SARS-CoV-2 spun off a new, even-more infectious variant – this one named […]
The Oo threat
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Dragging you down
If a paper published last week in the open-access journal of the American Medical Association is to be believed, social media really can drive you crazy. Mental illness is nothing to […]
Careful out there
Alaska’s now popular Knik Glacier has bagged its first misguided adventurer of the winter season. Social media was this week lighting up with photos of a late-model Ford Ranger pickup truck that […]
Colder than…
With the snow squeaky cold and the temperature pushing toward 20 degrees below zero on the Tour of Anchorage Trail late Sunday night, the “new normal” with which some in Alaska’s largest […]
Misinformation madness
Enough with the ranting about “misinformation.” The country is getting close to “Red Scare” territory, and worse than that, the ranting does not work. DOES NOT WORK! Ranting about misinformation is […]
Fear not
If worrying about the global pandemic has left you clinically depressed, there may now be good news. A study in the Lancet, a respected British medical journal, is reporting that fluvoxamine, a […]
The dark side
Backed by the conservative Pacific Legal Defense Foundation, three Homer fishermen have gone to court to try to overturn the pending closure of commercial salmon netting in the federal waters of Cook […]
Déjà vu all over again
Now almost two years into the Great Pandemic, humans are discovering they’re not nearly as smart as they’d like to believe, and clearly not above the nature they once thought they had […]
The salmon yo-yo
Once more the pendulum of ocean productivity has swung back to bless Alaska commercial salmon fishermen and processors – or at least some of them – with another season of bounty, […]
The soft Americans
HIGH ABOVE FLYOVER COUNTRY – Encased in a tube full of masked humans carried on the wings of a Boeing 757 some 35,000 feet above the lights of civilization spread around […]
