“Golden Week” is tied to Asian holiday and tourism action, so it needs no introduction to Saipan Tribune readers. So allow me to present another week, one that doesn’t carry the sparkle of golden notions: Blah Week. Well, that’s what I call it, anyway....

One of my minor goals for 2016 is to learn more about rice. That’s right: rice. I eat it all the time but I don’t know anything about it. I have pal who is an agricultural economist and he asks how I can remain so concertedly ignorant about so many important topics....

If yuletide fruitcake can be made of random ingredients, then we can play along, too, and consider some random insights and points today. Here we go: 1) The Pew Research Center has published some interesting information on technology use. While 74 percent of adults report that...

Ah, the tropics. Warm sunshine. Cold drinks. And, in some places, malaria. We’ll skip the sun and suds today and note that malaria, according to the World Health Organization, caused an estimated 438,000 deaths last year. So here’s a story to note: The MIT Technology...