Update: This story was edited on Sept. 7, 2020 to reflect Chinese findings of T-cell immunity for SARS-CoV-2. With COVID-19 cases at over 27 million and some residents of most of […]
Future COVID
Old media twilight?
The fading significance of Alaska’s legacy media is broken down by the numbers in the September issue of the state Department of Labor’s Alaska Economic Trends, and the picture isn’t pretty. An […]
Warming winner
The Alaska Arctic appears to be home to global-warming winner familiar to almost everyone in the 49th state: pink salmon. Impossible to miss for those fishing in the “Top of the World” […]
Shitty story
Scientists working on an archeological dig in Oregon contend they’ve found the fat in the crap of the ancients, and it shows humans were roaming North America before those now known as […]
The humpy swarm
As Alaska putters toward what looks to be its worst commercial salmon season in almost 40 years – despite another banner season for sockeye in Bristol Bay – Cook Inlet streams […]
Collecting cash
While U.S. House Democrats were in April of this year lobbying to have labor unions officially listed as entities qualifying for funds from the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) intended to provide […]
Goin’ crazy
Few know better the dangers of enforced isolation than old-time Alaskans. Tales of “cabin fever” among those locked into the wilderness by the onset of winter are the stuff of legend in […]
Deprivation diet?
Alaska’s decades-long bonanza of pink salmon has now been fingered as one of the likely suspects in a roller-coaster decline in size of four other species of Pacific salmon. After examining a […]
The doomists
UPDATE: This story was updated on Aug. 21 to reflect the falling infection fatality rate in England When Italian Dr. Matteo Bassetti, the head of the infectious diseases clinic at the San […]
Bears attack
No one will ever know how Daniel Schilling met his demise in the Kenai Mountains above the long-abandoned mining community of Sunrise this summer, but many will long wonder given that two […]
