The temperature at the airport in International Falls, Minn., hit 11 degrees below zero at 5 a.m. Tuesday. It was a balmy 32 degrees in Anchorage at the same hour, and 9 […]
Warm North!
Bias in our eyes
Our eyes have prejudices, according to psychologists studying how we view the world. City people and country people are likely to look at the same picture and perceive different images, suggests […]
Sue ’em
A New York doctor angry about what he considers slanderous reviews on the website Yelp has filed another lawsuit aimed at silencing his critics. The only thing surprising here is that this […]
Climate refugia
This an open letter to the residents and businesses of Silicon Valley from Anchorage, Alaska, where the temperature in the Front Range Chugach Mountains today hit 50 degrees and the 49th state’s […]
Killing us slowly
While the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was this week suggesting states make bicycle helmets mandatory – an act that has been shown to discourage cycling – the Rand Corporation was calculating that […]
Helmet distractions
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Tuesday issued its analysis of why increasing numbers of bicyclists are dying on U.S. roads even though some – especially women – now don’t ride […]
New world orders
Bakkafrost, a mid-tier salmon farming business in the remote Fareo Island, is reporting a third-quarter harvest of about 28 million pounds or – to translate that into Alaska terms – the […]
Oil in the Chukchi
When Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips and other oil companies abandoned plans to drill for oil in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea three years ago, environmentalists took the news as a victory for the […]
Playing with ice
Why is it so many spend so much time worrying about social media providing a platform for “fake news,” and so few if any seem concerned about the same media facilitating the […]
Thanks, buddy
Yes, this might be a little hard to believe – and cat people might choose to argue – but scientists have concluded a dog could add years to your life. “Dog ownership […]
