Iditarod’s expeditionary excitement An “even more exciting” version of the ‘Last Great Race’ left civilization Sunday on the 1,000-mile run north to Nome, or so says the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. […]
Musher to watch
Geographic quiz
Nowhere becomes notable Scientific American has called out “Badger, Alaska” as the country’s least “walkable city.” If you’re living there and in poor health because you don’t get any exercise, blame the […]
Dreaded over-escapement
Scientific guestimating For years now, Cook Inlet commercial fishermen have been trooping before the Alaska Board of Fisheries to complain that the state is undermining the productivity of the Kenai River, the […]
Low-value lives
Killer driver’s short jail sentence Anchorage driver Bessie Binkowski avoided homicide charges for killing 63-year-old Arthur Stepetin, Jr. in August, but she will be spending four months in jail thanks to a […]
Dangerous easy lives
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lesson lost
The true American killer What should have been the main lesson learned by the survivors of the pandemic of the old and the ill would appear to have been missed by those […]
