Celebrate Solstice with Starshine Sugar Cookies
Happy Solstice! As a kid growing up in Alaska, winter solstice was a much-anticipated and much-welcomed event. Winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, marks an important change in the rotation...
View ArticleGeeky Ways to Love the Iditarod: Build a Better Dog Sled
Talk about an amazing race. The Iditarod dog sled competition, which started Saturday, stretches more than a thousand miles from Anchorage to Nome, crossing some of the toughest terrain in the world...
View ArticleNuclear Meteorology – A Primer
Wow — how did the GeekMoms get their hands on a trained nuclear meteorologist? I don’t really talk much about it because ordinarily peoples’ eyes tend to glaze over. I mean, who wants to hear about...
View ArticleThe Strange Story of Sally-Anne Lambert’s Hlinget Word Encyclopedia
Let me save you a quick “let me google that” trip. Hlinget is not a variant dialect of Klingon, or Elvish, or any other fictional language. Even if you do a quick search, you’ll still have to dig a...
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