North Shore Mail: Historic Routes and Legendary Carriers
Early residents in the sparsely populated settlements along the North Shore of Lake Superior only had one way to communicate with the outside world: by...
Strange Tales
2023: The AI Landscape Unveiled
The hot news topic these days is the accelerating advancement in “Artificial Intelligence” (AI). While there is praise for the many current benefits of AI...
Lake Superior’s UFO Enigma and Dr. McDonald
Are we alone in the universe? Are extraterrestrials spying on us? Just what are those unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in our skies? In recent years,...
The Wood Wide Net of Mycorrhizal Fungi
My curiosity was recently piqued when I read that researchers reported that the total global length of something called mycorrhizal fungi in the top 3.9...
Mythology of Hidden Folk—Or Are They Real?
Recently I came across an online CBC news article posted in 2014 about a northern Ontario explorer, Bill Steer, who suggested that there may be...
Three Trillion Trees on Earth
Ever wonder what Earth would be like if there were no trees? “Without trees and forests, we would not have clean water, safe mountain slopes,...
Popular Northern Wilds Rivers
Did you know that out of more than 250,000 rivers in the United States, the two longest are the Missouri River at 2,341 miles (3,767...
The World of Underwater Archaeology
Exploring and conserving ancient underwater ruins (like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and Cleopatra’s palace under the Mediterranean Sea), shipwrecks, cities, artifacts, museums, and other submerged...