The snows are piled deep in Alaska’s urban core this year, and modern-day adventurers are doing what winter adventures have done for more than 100 years in the north: bitching and moaning […]
Trail bashing
Killing trust
A widely reported, peer-reviewed study that concluded the Omicron variant of the Covid-19-causing, SARS-CoV-2 virus evolved through months of circulation in West Africa has been retracted, and some scientists are now […]
Mind-altering machinery
As residents of Alaska’s largest city struggle and steam their way through roads still clogged by an unusual volume of snow, maybe it is time for some serious contemplation of the country’s […]
Swallowed by Alaska
Twenty-five years ago, Sheila Nickerson, a woman who was the Alaska poet laureate when that meant something, wrote a book about those lost in Alaska titled “Disappearance: A Map; A Meditation on […]
Deadly wildlife
Some in the remote Bering Sea community of Nome, Alaska, long feared the consequences of inviting the muskox into town, and their worst fears became a reality this week. A herd of […]
Good-bye ‘useless’
Were the pandemic of our times the subject of a novel rather than reality, it would surely be premised on a scheme to kill old people to eliminate their burden on the […]
Cryptic crypto
Where, oh where went the Iditacoins? Nine months ago, as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was nearing its finish in Nome, race organizers unveiled this new cryptocurrency with big claims. “IditaCoin […]
The outcast
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which for years put up with the antics of Cat in the Hat-musher Hugh Neff, has now banned him, but won’t say why. Neff says he […]
Old neighbors
If the work of archeologists sifting the soils of the Grotte Mandrin cave in France are to be believed, it would appear Neanderthals didn’t just fade away after the arrival of modern […]
Eat, sit, die
With the vaccinated but unfit continuing to die from Covid-19 at a significant rate, isn’t it about time someone asked how many lives might have been saved if political leaders had spent […]
