Expedition musher trounces the field Update: And the wealthy geezer from Norway has become the first musher in history to break the Iditarod’s eight-day barrier, though the Iditarod standings don’t report […]
Iditarod record
Musher to watch
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. […]
Failing success
The downside of salmon factories The time has come for Alaskans to accept the reality that a state-backed program began in the 1970 to use salmon hatcheries to farm the sea was […]
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 […]
