The blank lines tell a story How is it that in all these years nobody ever noticed that Chris McCandless, the young man who died a tragic early death in the wilderness […]
Revisiting the bus
Journalism 2024
All the news that’s fit to print The big Alaska news lighting up the internet over the Memorial Day holiday came from Denali National Park and Preserve, and it was arguably good […]
News fiction
Believing things doesn’t make them true Update: A state medical examiner has now determined that Homer’s Dale Chorman died of a single blunt blow to the back of head and/or cervical […]
Medical tribalism
The politicization of everything Is there nowhere free from politics anywhere in these Ununited States anymore? Scientists once tried to at least make an effort to avoid the societal cesspool of politicization, […]
On Artificial Ignorance
How is it that a system billed as “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) can be so fundamentally stupid? The screenshot above is Goggle version of AI reporting on the 2023 salmon harvest in British […]
Bad messaging
Alaska salmon, the poor folks’ seafood! Why, oh why, do the political leaders of the 49th state want to portray Alaska salmon as a commodity the market doesn’t want? First it was […]
Paying the price
Some ‘long-Covid’ tied to lifestyle issues Add Post-Covid Syndrome, or what many now just call “long Covid,” to the lengthy list of ailments compounded by the American Slothdemic. Swedish scientists who examined […]
Accepting reality
Ocean pastures are not limitless An Oregon State University professor studying the levels of dissolved oxygen in the offshore waters of the Pacific Northwest has described almost perfectly what Alaska’s free-range salmon […]
No penis zones
With Alaskans and the rest of America confused, sometimes angry and arguing over humans with penises being allowed to use spaces once reserved for humans without penises, maybe it’s time to update […]
Car-diction
Millions dead give new meaning to ‘killer traffic’ Forget for a moment the pandemic – if that is possible – and turn your attention to a very good study out of England […]
