Forget the scare about dogs being potential carriers of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus; it’s cats that are the real danger, according to Chinese researchers probing potential non-human carriers. And maybe too […]
Mask the cat
Danger heating up
As the global climate continues to warm, it is likely to lure people to their deaths, according to scientists from Imperial College London and Harvard. After examining injury deaths in the contiguous […]
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 […]
Comment now
The time has come to talk about online comments, or maybe the time is well past. What seems a long time ago in a world now all different, Debbie McKinney, a reporter […]
Mind over matter
Nobody understands exactly how to harness the placebo effect, but once again scientists have demonstrated its almost unbelievable power. The latest example comes in the areas of endurance and obesity. Scientists genotyped […]
Hidden story
Less than a year after former Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff wrote a rather strange column describing her newspaper as being in “investment mode” and about 8 months before she took […]
Monochrome
Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., think they’ve come up with a way to help scientists and students with one of the countries most widespread and yet overlooked […]
Pressicide
The greatest threat to democracy in the United States today isn’t delusive Donald Trump, the sitting president of the United States who either can’t tell fact from fiction or doesn’t care. The […]
Biggest loser
Former Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff – a financial adviser to Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, the hostess for dinner with President Barack Obama on his historic 49th state visit, and the estranged […]
Listen up
Commentary You may not trust the media – this or any other – and you shouldn’t. Journalism is not an exact science. Journalism is a regularly error-filled compilation of some of the […]
