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 […]
Trained by machines
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 […]
The Angry American
No ‘peace on earth, goodwill to all’ Comes now that holiday season when so many will be walking on eggshells at family gatherings in an angry nation. Credit, in part, a political […]
Alaska Salmon 2025, modern history IV
Food for pets Part 4 of a 4-part series The road to hell on which the Alaska salmon fishing industry finds itself today was paved with good intentions that stretch all the […]
Alaska salmon 2025, modern history III
Never bet against tech Part 3 of a 4-part series Now semi-retired Alaska economist Gunnar Knapp, the nation’s foremost authority on the economics of the Alaska fishing business, offered a blunt warning […]
AK Salmon 2025, modern history II
Mother of all changes Part 2 of a 4-part series For hundreds of thousands of years, change has been an undeniable and unavoidable constant for the human species. Sometimes it has crept […]
AK Salmon 2025, modern history I
The roots of disaster Part 1 of a 4-part series Thirty-five years ago, Alaska politicians and the politically powerful commercial fishing interests that had long punched above their economic weight in the […]
