The gorilla in the room Update: In a peer-reviewed study in BMJ Public Health on July 16, researchers underlined the importance of cardiovascular fitness by reporting people who regularly commute by […]
Health Denial
Ever smaller
Alaska’s littlest sockeye salmon Already struggling Alaska salmon processors are facing yet another problem in the fishery this year: shrinkage. And, no, not that involving the plummeting prices for both wild-caught […]
Trust us
Alaska’s largest news organization downsizes After three months of denying plans to reduce the local newspaper to a two-day per week publication, the Anchorage Daily News officially announced the change today in […]
Talking safety
Realities versus distractions Why is it Americans appear as horrible at risk assessment as they are susceptible to manipulation by “influencers,” as those who now pull big numbers of “followers” on social […]
Bad business
Battering the AK brand Alaska now enters the heart of the commercial salmon season with the fishing industry in chaos. In a commentary in the trade publication Seafood Source, seafood industry consultant […]
Heal thyself
The inexplicable powers of believing Sometimes your problems are largely in your head, according to the latest peer-reviewed research published by JAMA Psychiatry. The shamans, witch doctors, faith healers, medicine men, wizards […]
Big homeless ruling
Is there hope for Anchorage? Having become the Portland of the North, or worse, what will Anchorage do now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the homeless can be prevented […]
It begins
Newest dipnetters can sell their fish Dipnetting for Cook Inlet salmon, which usually doesn’t get underway until the opening of the Kasilof River tomorrow, jumped off to an earlier start last week, […]
Late-night visitor
The American campground disrupters Summer has officially begun in Alaska with the first public report of a unsettlng encounter with a misbehaving bear. Scary as this one must have been for the […]
Better living
If only we could curb the addiction…. Another study is out concluding that more exercise and improved diets could go a long way toward slowing what has become an epidemic of dementia […]
