“If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history.” The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the Republican legislation speeding through the U.S. House of Representatives would cut household resources for the bottom 10% of Americans while delivering gains to […]
String, Twine — IRafkuruaq, IRafkungcuk, WiRufkuruaq IRafkuruanek initalitallriit. – They used string to make clothesline. String games like cats cradle are a popular pastime around the globe. From Australia to Asia, Africa, North America, and the high Arctic, people have long used a simple loop of string and their fingers to make designs. The function […]
A Fairbanks biologist recently cupped in his hand a tiny bird whose arrival he had been rooting for. That bird — a female Hammond’s flycatcher — now holds the title of the oldest known of its species. A few days ago, Robert Snowden of the Alaska Songbird Institute in Fairbanks felt his heart beat a […]
Corridors that allow animals to move to more hospitable landscapes are essential to their survival in a changing climate, according to a new paper published this week in the journal Science. To arrive at that conclusion, researchers combined Indigenous and Western scientific methods — including ancient DNA and stable isotope analysis — to examine a […]