Possibility safety gear might up danger Thirty-two-year-old Eric Walter was wearing an avalanche airbag when he triggered a snowslide in Denali National Park early this month, National Park Service officials have […]
Dangerous compensation
Ecosystem management
Are disappearing Yukon River king salmon collateral damage? Conservation biologists have been talking for decades now about something called “ecosystem management,” but it is hardly ever practiced. Politics fueled by money, good […]
More fair!
Gender only complicates fairness in sport With most Americans – except for some “men, heterosexuals, older generations, those without a college education, Republicans, Christians, and rural residents” – now supporting the idea […]
Post-truth journalism
Feelings, nothing but feelings… In commenting on the dying credibility of the American mainstream media last week, Matt Taibbi, a one-time reporter for a variety of left-leaning publications and an award-winning […]
Overlooked killers
How the machines took control In science fiction stories – be they told in books, movies, or digitally – the machines are required to develop intelligence before they try to take […]
Lifting the curtain
Window opens for possible “Fish War’ game changer Amidst chaos comes the change if not the need to think outside the box, and thus Alaska fishery biologists today find themselves staring […]
Rest matters
Tired Iditarod dogs could be seen to look ‘exhausted’ Yet again, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has a public relations problem because people have noticed the esoteric little race across the […]
Big wild life
Anchorage businessman was a true Alaska success story Bob Penney, a true Alaska character loved by some and hated by others, is dead at the age of 90. Cook Inlet commercial fishermen […]
This is us
Rise of the extra-wide home sapiens If you looked in the mirror recently and saw someone too big looking back, don’t worry. The World Obesity Foundation is now reporting the world population […]
Know it alls
How certitude is destroying media credibility After years of the mainstream media suggesting that the only Americans suspicious that the SARS-CoV-2 virus could have come from a Chinese lab leak were […]
