(November 23, 2023)
It was probably early morning but it felt like the middle of the night when we were awakened by the guards. We had only been in bed a few hours because...
(November 23, 2023)
"The thought of light traveling billions of years from distant galaxies only to be washed out in the last billionth of a second by the glow of the nearest strip...
(November 16, 2023)
While we're caught up in the daily grind here on the ground, there's a lot of great birding happening above our heads. That's where the big birds fly: the eagles,...
(November 16, 2023)
Hello. I'm the mayor of Schlong Beach. Despite my town's name, you won't find any "phallic symbols" here. We are fully phallic. For example, the monuments to our heroes aren't...
(November 9, 2023)
For three glorious months in 2019, it seemed like it was finally going to happen for me. I was attending a dance fusion class at the Arcata HealthSport led by...
(November 9, 2023)
"You can find many different diagnoses in death certificates, but they're just details. What really kills us is entropy increase." — Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics Along with the Big Bang,...
(November 2, 2023)
For nearly all of that century, the 1919 made-in-Humboldt movie The Valley of the Giants was thought lost. In 2010, one surviving print surfaced in an archive in Russia. Film...
(November 2, 2023)
I grew up in Southern Humboldt but somehow had only been to Redway Beach once or twice, and never in the last 30 years. It's accessible to the public from...
(October 26, 2023)
If you've ever watched the launch of a rocket, perhaps a Space Shuttle or one of SpaceX's Falcon 9s, you'll have heard the phrase "Max Q." About a minute after...
(October 12, 2023)
Humboldt Bay (Wigi, to the Wiyot people) is actually a lagoon, the largest protected large body of water between San Francisco and Puget Sound. It's about 14 miles long and...
(October 5, 2023)
Wheelchair access is hard enough to find in our paved world. A park trail threading its way through 1,000-year-old evergreen conifers presents countless obstacles that can keep those with mobility...
(October 5, 2023)
I said, "Get outta my way, old man. I don't need your rules. That's why I'm running past your NO RUNNING sign and diving next to your NO DIVING...
(December 1, 2023)
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office today stated that it will allow the family of an inmate who suffered “non-survivable” injuries in an apparent suicide attempt at the jail on...
(November 30, 2023)
Sequoia Park Zoo’s bears — Noni and Tule — are branching out into a larger area of their habitat at the facility, which is designed to mimic the natural...
(November 24, 2023)
The annual Gift Guide cometh! We're also talking with photographer Kait Angus about the recent Trans Day of Remembrance and how the Yurok Tribe is rebuilding food sovereignty with acorn...
