We are our own worst enemy When, oh when, is the American medical community going to accept the reality that this country’s biggest healthcare problem isn’t insurance or medications; it’s fitness? Americans […]
Dangerous easy lives
Into the dark
Cheer up, it’s worse elsewhere As Alaska starts down the tunnel toward the long season of the SAD dark, there comes this good news: Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is worse in 13 […]
Deadlier cold?
The frigid danger of global warming Scientists are now warning that one of the least recognized threats of climate change might be deadly cold. No, this has nothing to do with the […]
A pink flood
Hatchery tax to fund study of ocean takeover? In what might be one of the bluntest, to-the-point abstracts every to top a fisheries science paper, a pair of Canadian scientists and a […]
Car-diction
Millions dead give new meaning to ‘killer traffic’ Forget for a moment the pandemic – if that is possible – and turn your attention to a very good study out of England […]
Sea change
Major study links pink salmon and ocean chaos Part I of II Pink salmon and the hatcheries helped boost their numbers to never-before-seen highs were Thursday singled out for disrupting the ecosystem […]
Making things worse
When the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic began, there wasn’t much governments could do to make things better, but there were things they could do to make things worse. And, according to a peer-reviewed study […]
Everyday smarties
Of course, pigs can fly; you can find photos of it on the internet/Wikimedia Commons Anyone who has been paying attention since the pandemic started has surely noticed that “science,” much […]
Death stalks us all
On a purely statistical basis, I should be dead by now. It’s something I try to keep in mind while reporting on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Average life expectancy at my birth in […]
Messing with nature
Scientists looking for evidence that climate-caused ocean acidification is harming North Pacific salmon have instead discovered something else – a threat to wild fish from Alaska’s massive, commercial-fishermen-funded, ocean-farming business. “Using 60 […]
