Quote: “There are new shadows over the pens created by the solar arrays. It’s a large canopy that offers a form of protection. Now, with the absence of the noise of the turbines and disturbance of the fuel delivery vessels, the farm is an ocean oasis. The fish farmers are thrilled, but who’s moved into the basement?”…
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Fun! Click through and give it a try. (h/t Kottke) Headline: Voters question gubernatorial candidates in Anchorage speed dating-style event Dana sez, This actually sounds kinda cool, and they should do it again after the primary has winnowed the field down to four candidates. Read the full story here. (Alaska Public Media) Love this. (h/t…
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I remember seeing the animated Aladdin in the theater, laughing so hard and so continuously my sides literally ached, and wondering later how on earth the animators’ pencils managed to keep up with Robin Williams’ mouth. “We had a script,” one of them says at the beginning of this video, a little despairingly. (h/t Laughing…
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Heh. (h/t Laughing Squid) I’m an optimist for the most part, not a doom-and-gloomer, but I also read history for fun. Hard to ignore the parallels between 1929 and 2026. (Heather Cox Richardson’s 250 to 250.) Quote: “Dishearteningly, but perhaps inevitably, [the priest] began to speak of the Great Replacement Theory. ‘There are places where…
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Quote: “…we discovered that one of the Bosnian pines on the mountain is Europe’s oldest-known living tree dated with tree rings: more than 1,075 years old…We named the oldest Bosnian pine Adonis, after the Greek god for beauty and desire.” (h/t The Best of Journalism) Quote: “So last year, after the Trump administration shut down NOAA’s official climate…
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Alaskans, listen up. This is going to be more about us today. The Alaska state legislature is currently being bullied by our governor to pass his version of a no-tax natural gas pipeline.* In fact, as Andrew Halcro so eloquently expresses on his “With All Due Respect” podcast (which you should follow if you want…
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