The mind-body connection in Covid-19 The ability of placebos – or what have sometimes been called “dummy pills” – to trigger physiological responses that help people battle Covid-19 are now being reported […]
Medical mysteries
Faster, faster, faster
Death by design on U.S. roads With a record number of pedestrians dead in Anchorage last year, the state Department of Transportation has proposed a new, high-speed roadway through the heart of […]
Unseen disaster
The costs of social engineering salmon harvests Part II of II To begin to understand how Alaska has so devalued salmon – once one of the state’s most valuable resources – one […]
Unseen disaster
AK’s economic mismanagement of salmon Part I of II Sixty-six years ago, the political leaders of the newly formed state of Alaska banned fish traps for the harvest of salmon in the […]
Costly gamble
Plan to prop up AK commercial fishing Alaska’s Five-Year Plan for the Production of State Salmon is out with a scheme for the mother of all bailouts of the commercial salmon fishing […]
All doped up
Make America Healthy Again These now unUnited States of America have a drug problem, and it’s a lot bigger than the illicit chemicals that have cost the country more than $1 […]
The masquerade
Only in Alaska where black is white With fisheries scientists now describing expanding populations of pink salmon as ecosystem disrupters across nearly the whole of the Northern Hemisphere, it is time someone […]
Boxed in
Conventional thinking strands AK North Slope gas The second election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States offers Alaska an opportunity to use its stranded, North Slope natural gas […]
Thoughts of Alice
Clean or filthy rich? News that Joe Sanberg – he of the slogan proclaiming “Clean Rich is the New Filthy Rich” – is now caught up in a scandal swirling around “green investor” […]
Victim of pinks
Study blames Alaska pink salmon for Idaho Chinook losses Forty three years after a top official of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game publicly and clearly revealed a plan to take […]
