Gary C. Gibson - Essays

  From Beringia to the Vikings: Ancient Journeys Through Ice and Adaptation In the vast tapestry of human history, few stories captivate li...

  Since the Younger Dryas when the glacial melt woke Mankind felt being and becoming life was hard like a cruel joke Wondering a portion of ...

 There is a proposed expansion of the Red Chris mine in Canada upstream of the Stikine River from Wrangell. It is an open pit mine and they ...

Someone criticized me for writing that I don’t expect political leadership to appear that supports a competent, realistic plan for a complet...

 I like more ice in the drink in the middle of February; it looks kinda thin and sparse. Cryosphere Today aka Sea Ice Today by N.O.A.A. has ...

Instead of sending another dime’s worth of federal deficit adding dollars and weapons to Ukraine that Pork should be diverted to make Califo...

Since 1990 I lived much of the time in a small Alaska town where the logging mill that was the major employer closed down a year or two late...

  Independents probably voted for Trump because the Harris-Biden campaign included a move to  initiate World War Three in their bundle of wh...

  A Trump win might generate fairly predictable consequences ( good economy, compiling public debt, peace with Russia etc). A Harris win alt...

 Wittgenstein's Blue and Brown books presented a simple anthropology of language development. It was a somewhat more pragmatic approach ...

  Nothing like the world advancing toward nuclear war to get the heart pumping. Apparently the generations changing have forgotten the down ...

Perhaps the phrase Kamala Harris uses (‘What can be, unburdened by what has been’) isn’t a quote from Karl Marx. It does require a little ex...

 It is worth mentioning that neither presidential candidate of Republicans and Democrats mentions the nine planetary boundaries for a health...

 Maybe it's just a matter of time before Artificial Intelligence monitoring world scientific developments replaces humans on the Nobel C...

  Why destroy the Space Station instead of moving it to L-5 or L-3 for storage? Why did Biden-Harris give Space X a contract to destroy the ...

  With another Democrat era school shooting in Georgia Vice President Harris has advocated for the Soviet state security apparatus of intern...

  I have given some thought on what to do with the old Wrangell Hospital that is apparently costly for the city to keep in its inventory bec...

When former Vice President Dick Cheney threw his support to the Harris presidential campaign recently that notable marker indicated the powe...

  For the price of a used home a 36,000 sq foot former city hospital with a great location just a mile from the airport and a half mile from...

  Science fiction writers like to fold space for faster than light space travel. Maybe Frank Herbert in Dune was the first to use the concep...