What’s with the assumption that all animals are male? Really, pay attention to the pronouns most people use when describing an animal they don’t know. It’s almost always male, and that goes double for animal characters (Smokey Bear, the Geico gecko, you name him).  As a biologist, I’m here to tell you that it’s just…

Yup. Especially when there’s any wind. The exception is when the skirt is a Skhoop worn over something else.

I would argue that going anywhere wearing only shorts in my town right now (Anchorage AK) is suicidal, and that goes double for Fairbanks. Yet I see folks all over town driving their nice warm cars while wearing only shorts, tanks, etc. with sneakers. While you will do OK 99 times out of 100, even in weather like…

Alaskans like me understand why Prime makes sense, even at $119/year. While we don’t get our stuff anywhere near as quickly as you Lower 48ers do, at least we don’t pay twice for shipping: once for the “no free shipping to AK and HI” fees, and the second time for the cost of everyone else’s free shipping, which is of…

Here at 61.5 N we’ve had our earliest sunset, at 3:41 PM on 12/16. Our latest sunrise is at 10:16 AM on Boxing Day. So our mornings will be getting brighter before January.

Presumably you have data to back up the assertion that humidifiers are good for one’s health. Could you please provide it? Otherwise I am unable to view this article as anything but craven marketing. I can get that elsewhere.

Presumably you have data to back up the assertion that humidifiers are good for one’s health. Could you please…

You are under no obligation to provide any information about anyone (including yourself) to anyone except the police, and even then their authority is limited to asking your name, unless they have a warrant.  Don’t all cell phones give you the option of blocking calls from specific numbers?  After a single call from a…

“. . . traveling with two boarding passes might earn you a few concerned looks from TSA . . .”

The weight of pax is not usually the issue, but 1) its distribution (that’s what the “and balance” is all about) and 2) the weight of luggage, which can be substantial. If you look around a cabin, a lot of its volume is air even if every seat is filled. Not so in cargo compartments which can be densely filled with…

Somewhat, but not completely, true. I am an elite with Alaska Airlines who sometimes flies on a “saver” fare (on short hops when I’m paying my own way). Pax who have no status with the airline are still more likely to be involuntarily bumped than I am, as are those who checked in later than me. I always check in as…

Pine tree sap /= Christmas tree (or Christmas decoration) sap. Most trees, wreaths, etc. used during this season are a species of fir tree (Abies spp.), not pine (Pinus spp.). E.g. Fraser fir, Noble fir, Balsam fir, and Grand fir. Please stop using the term “pine tree” when you are really referring to any number of…

Pine tree sap /= Christmas tree (or Christmas decoration) sap. Most trees, wreaths, etc. used during this season are …

Thanks for the patronizing comeback! Maybe you could think a little more. The containers may be used more than once by some of the people who buy them, but purchasing them nonetheless needlessly consumes petrochemicals in their manufacture, and energy in shipping them. I don’t know anyone in the USA who doesn’t…

Gotcha, Millenial.

Yeah, Gen X and Millenials, just what we need to expand the market for single use plastic containers! As if most of us don’t already have all the yogurt containers we need.

Def not going to happen here in Alaska.  Too cold between now and June, too many mosquitoes thereafter.  Maybe I should turn my thermostat up and combine this with my morning dose of 10,000 lux light from my SAD lamp?

I that Jezebel and The Root are filling in the huge gap left by the abrupt cancellation of Splinter.  Good.

My local health department has zero jurisdiction over my home bathrooms! Which are used by the same two residents of my house 99% of the time. We’ve already been exposed to most of the bacteria and viruses that live here. Basic hygiene in a private home does not require the use of single-use cleaning supplies, or…

My local health department has zero jurisdiction over my home bathrooms! Which are used by the same two residents of…

The Environmental Working Group’s take on these cleaning products: https://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners/2815-X14MildewStainRemoverDeepClean

The Environmental Working Group’s take on these cleaning products: https://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners/2815-X14Mildew…

Bulkhead seats come in two flavors: those with walls and those with curtains in front of them. Curtains allow your feet to extend under the First class seat in front of you, and you can also store carryons in this space. Walls, not so much. Both kinds of bulkhead seats have tray tables in their armrests so they are a…

Not only is there ambiguity re gender identity, but re geography! Like 99% of businesses located in the Lower 48 US states, this company thinks Alaska, where I live, is not on the same continent as the rest of the country, sans Hawai’i. How then do they explain that the tallest mountain on said continent is visible…