The integrity of science is suffering as scientists rush to save the world from the pandemic driven by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Or so say scientists from Switzerland and Slovenia who examined the […]
Science struggles
A fumbled pitch
Make Alaska Great Again One of the most misguided political campaigns in Alaska state history was drawing to a close today with Dr. Al Gross still holding out hope for a miracle […]
Who you gonna call?
WARNING: “We are on the cusp or teetering towards a troposphere-stratosphere-troposphere coupling event that includes both a strong stratospheric polar vortex and a positive Arctic oscillation.” This on Monday from Dr. Judah […]
Saved by truck
An Anchorage man who reported intentionally running his truck into a moose is being praised as a hero by his neighbors on social media. They have good reason if the story told […]
Gorilla warfare
In these times when America seems possibly more divided than at any time since the Civil War, is it good to discover how much more civilized our world than that of our […]
The optimist
As of today – with Dr. Al Gross trailing incumbent Alaska Republic Sen. Dan Sullivan by 61,000 votes to 119,000 votes – the independent candidate needs to win about three out of […]
Two Americas
Americans awoke today to a nation every bit as divided, maybe more so, than before a Tuesday national election billed as monumental. The “basket of deplorables” – as failed, 2016 Democrat candidate […]
Sadly lost
Aged Alaska mountain man Duane Ose has been discharged from a Fairbanks hospital and is now on Facebook looking for help and railing against those who rescued him from deep in […]
Vanishing kings
A controversial study pointing to the ocean – and not dams or other freshwater issues – as responsible for a 65 percent decline in the productivity of Chinook salmon along the North […]
Racing COVID
Swedish epidemiologist Anders Tegnell months ago warned that the battle against the pandemic is a “marathon, not a sprint,” and his words should resonate for everyone in Anchorage now. Alaska used the […]
