News analysis Almost 100 years ago in a now little read short story titled “The Rich Boy,” the late American author F. Scott Fitzgerald observed that the rich “are different from you […]
SES who?
The cubicle class
Few ideas are more dear to Americans than the belief that they live in a society free of class, and nothing in modern times has done a better job of putting a […]
We were warned
How long have doctors been warning us about the risks of obesity? Long before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, they were cautioning against a dangerous epidemic tied to our visibly spreading waistlines. “Will All […]
Forgotten history
Nurse Donna – my late mother – had two favorite home remedies other than chicken soup for almost every disease: fresh air and a saltwater gargle. Until the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, I […]
Olden days
The difference between hunting for your dinner and shopping for it is writ in the reminder of how easy life in the modern Western world. It is so easy most just take […]
Car problems
SEATTLE – When stuck in the often nightmarish, 2019 traffic of this Pacific Northwest city, it is hard to avoid wondering if U.S. federal highway vehicle emission standards didn’t actually help move […]
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 […]
Wild values
As this is written, the author is sitting at a keyboard pretty well pounded by Alaska. Three and half hours of steady paddling from the seat of a packraft after a four-and-half-hour, […]
Ever larger us
If you are sitting at your computer reading this, you might be doing as much to damage your health as if you’d just lit a cigarette. But you probably already knew that. […]
We’re No. 2!
The Alaska economy might have started a slide into recession in 2016, but the residents of 49th state managed to maintain a joyful outlook on life, according to a newly […]
