For 22 years, Paul Atkins, an avid hunter and outdoorsman, taught school on the edge of the Bering Sea in the remote community of Kotzebue where the winters are long and cold […]
The muskox killer
Unhealthy, unfit, dead
With almost everyone except the Chinese now in agreement the SARS-CoV-2 virus is here to stay (who woulda thunk it), and the medical community debating what to do about news vaccines and […]
Unhappy fishermen
KENAI – Friday found the beaches at the mouth of Alaska’s most fought-over river woefully short of dipnetters willing to help stop the possible “over-escapement” of sockeye salmon so feared by the […]
Natural defenses
If you are among the minority of Americans yet to catch the pandemic disease Covid-19, or one of the majority who suffered a very mild case, thank your T cells. The all-around, […]
Unfit city
Alaska’s largest city came in below average for fitness in the American College of Sports Medicine’s just-released survey of the health of the 100 largest cities in the United States, and it’s […]
Trading fears
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is clearly over in the minds of many, if not most, Americans given that fears about mass shootings, the rarest of American homicides, and gun control are back in […]
A troubled business
The size of the letters in the handwriting on the wall for the Alaska commercial salmon industry just keep getting bigger. Only days after the Bristol Bay sockeye harvest began with processors […]
Everyday smarties
Of course, pigs can fly; you can find photos of it on the internet/Wikimedia Commons Anyone who has been paying attention since the pandemic started has surely noticed that “science,” much […]
Grading science
A team of epidemiologists from across the country, led by researchers from Emory University, have launched an interesting defense of their profession in the June issue of the journal Science Advances with […]
Covid-filled spaces
More than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control has finally decided it might be time to do something about building ventilation. Now retired Anchorage plumber Jeff Cooper […]
