BasketballMAUI will present the Maui Jim Maui Classic women's basketball tournament Friday and Saturday, Dec. 1 and 2 at the War Memorial Gymnasium. The second annual Women’s NCAA Division I College Basketball Tournament will be hosted by Oregon State and will feature the team as it comes off their March Madness appearance–and finishing on top the PAC12. Joining Oregon State … [Read more...] about Women’s NCAA Maui Jim Maui Classic coming soon to War Memorial Gymnasium
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What it’s like to be transgender in America, and on Maui, in 2017
By Danielle M. Bergan When MauiTime asked me to write an article on trans-rights and transphobia, it sent thoughts racing through my head at light speed. There’s so much happening in and to our Trans community in the summer of 2017 and most of it is a clear and present danger to who we are not just as citizens, but as human beings. Backtracking a bit, when I began my … [Read more...] about What it’s like to be transgender in America, and on Maui, in 2017
NOTW: Rhino dung science, rogue brain cells and the Krispy Kreme black market
WORK OF A RESEARCHER “Field work is always challenging,” explained Courtney Marneweck of South Africa’s University of KwaZulu-Natal in a recent journal article, but studying the sociology of a white rhino’s dung meant developing a “pattern-recognition algorithm” to figure out “smell profiles” of 150 animals’ feces–after tracking them individually to observe them in the act. … [Read more...] about NOTW: Rhino dung science, rogue brain cells and the Krispy Kreme black market
NOTW: Goat yoga, bottling the Ganges and the perils of kissing chickens
FOUL-FEATHERED FRIENDS In September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, noting a recent uptick in cases of “live-poultry-associated salmonella,” repeated its earlier (apparently largely ignored) alert that people should not be kissing chickens (or ducks or turkeys). CDC noted the recent popularity of urban egg farming, but reminded “hipster” farmers and faddish … [Read more...] about NOTW: Goat yoga, bottling the Ganges and the perils of kissing chickens