Kennecott has been spruced up quite a bit since my last visit there nearly 30 years ago. Even so, many crumbling buildings remain. Some have been shored up by the National Park Service, which now manages the site as Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. A few other buildings have been […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON – Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 176th Wing rescued two pilots in two separate plane crashes Sept. 10. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER opened the first mission after receiving a report from a Good Samaritan of a crash of a Piper PA-18 at Friday Creek about 20 miles east of […]
Roxy Reynolds’ Alaska Sea Grant Mariculture Summer Apprenticeship was a homecoming in the most literal sense. Reynolds apprenticed at the Moss Island Oyster Farm, a Kachemak Bay enterprise founded by her grandparents. Growing up in Anchorage, she had spent parts of her summers at the farm, helping with chores like sorting oysters and lacing nets. It fostered […]
“When the future of humanity is at stake we need a PAUSE on advanced AI development and a ban on artificial superintelligence,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. As Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei added his voice on Saturday to the growing call to slow down development of artificial intelligence, writing in a 3,800-word essay that companies must pace “the rate […]