Alaska and Age
What could be better than a state with views like this which also gives away free money each year? Some readers know I live in Alaska and that I work […]
Tag Archives: Alaska
Pleistocene Park, Alaska
What would it be like to hunt a woolly mammoth? I’m not talking about going back in time. I’m talking about genetic engineering that could bring an extinct species back […]
Killing Death- Homicide
A recent homicide shook Alaskans and the rest of the country. On May first, two state troopers, dispatched from Fairbanks, were shot and killed in the tiny village of Tanana. […]
How Long Should We Live? -Part I- Short and to the point
How long should we take to age and die? Asked another way, how long does natural selection want us to live? Let’s examine the short life by talking […]
The Immortal In Your Garage Part II
Last week I explored immortality when I compared Alaska’s giant mining machines, the dredges, to the human body. Two of Fairbanks’ ten dredges ran 24 hours each day and 254 […]
The Immortal In Your Garage Part I
Several weekends ago, I got a shock on my way into the Laundromat. A newspaper headline proclaimed that Fairbanks, Alaska had lost an icon. My favorite place to explore, Gold Dredge […]
The Phoenix Series 