Handsome Science

"We have normality, I repeat we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem."        ...

I've been reading more than usual.  Much more.  I brought one book with me, lent to me by a friend just before I left, as well as an old...

Alaska is on fire.  Over 100 wildfires are currently burning, and only 10% or so being managed by firefighting efforts.  Few people have bee...

While I was in Fairbanks last week, I found out I'd be assisting a biologist, working for BLM, with a bird survey. I didn't know exa...

Considering the conditions outdoors in the Arctic, it's amazing anything survives the winter at all.  Yet bears, moose, Dall sheep, cari...

It's not hard to see evidence of ice in Coldfoot, even in summer.  Even today, there's snow on the nearby mountains.  The taller the...

That phrase, "stay in the light," is a favorite of one of the staff here at the visitor center.  It's not difficult to do nort...