While we were away, it appears the pandemic ended in the minds of most even as COVID-19 infection rates surged in many states; American kids grew even fatter; and the National Football League […]
Fear fades
We’ll be back
Regular readers of this website might have noticed a slowing of production in the past two weeks. No, the author has not contracted COVID-19. He does, however, have some personal business going […]
Amateur experts
Update: This story was revised to include more information on lightning deaths. The New York Times, a journal pretty much out of its element anywhere west of the headwaters of the Ohio […]
Dividing the baby
Alaska’s Kenai River is today a textbook example of the problems of managing mixed-stock fisheries right down to commercial set gillnetters protesting they catch comparatively few of the weak stock. The weak […]
Rage fuel
Researchers from Yale University went exploring in the Twitter sewer and guess what they found? Voracious Twitterati fed by their fans. Think of the relationship between restaurant waste and the sewer rats […]
Simple solution
The third rock from the sun in the Milky Way galaxy is a planet in a constant state of change inhabited by lifeforms that either adapt or perish. Yes, we’re talking here […]
COVID refugia?
You can’t run from the potentially deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus, but you might be able to hide in the forest, according to some research coming out of China. In one of the stranger […]
The bogeyman
The Kenai River return of sockeye salmon, which might have exceeded spawning needs last year, will almost certainly exceed the desired escapement this year. Cue the “over-escapement” ranting. And credit the commercial […]
COVID’s best friend
Eighteen months into the worst pandemic of the 21st century, with a newly evolved (or created) pathogen now threatening a miracle prophylactic vaccine, one might think there would finally be some discussion […]
Getting it right
Nome Nugget reporter Julie Lerner deserves a journalism award for digging down into a sketchy claim of a bear attack on the Seward Peninsula earlier this month, but you can pretty […]
