GREAT ART! For September’s Digital Design Weekend at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, artists Michiko Nitta and Michael Burton commissioned soprano Louise Ashcroft to sing, altering pitch and volume while wearing a face mask made of algae. According to the artists, since algae’s growth changes with the amount and quality of carbon dioxide it receives, Ashcroft’s voice, … [Read more...] about Algae Art and the High Cost of Scorpion Antivenom and Pet Orthodontia
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Wondering If We Should Care About Mele Carroll And Her Campaign Finance Deadline Issues While Mazie Hirono Erases Ed Case With A Single TV Ad
MELE CARROLL STILL CAN’T MEET A CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORT DEADLINE You know what’s depressing? Reading the newspaper. And I know, because I write for a newspaper. I’m serious. In the last week, it seems that every time I open a paper or check my Google News Reader, I read some downer of a story that forces me to ask why we even bother to have laws and constitutions and … [Read more...] about Wondering If We Should Care About Mele Carroll And Her Campaign Finance Deadline Issues While Mazie Hirono Erases Ed Case With A Single TV Ad
Questioning Native Hawaiian Representation in Prison While MauiTime Wins Two Prestigious AAN Awards
NATIVE HAWAIIAN JUSTICE? On June 8, Hawaii Public Radio‘s Wayne Yoshioka filed a great story on a thoroughly lousy subject: the Native Hawaiian Justice Commission’s two-day summit this week on the question of why Native Hawaiians make up “less than a quarter” of the state’s population but “more than 40 percent” of those incarcerated in our prisons (including those on the … [Read more...] about Questioning Native Hawaiian Representation in Prison While MauiTime Wins Two Prestigious AAN Awards
Hawaii Residents Sort Of Buy Lots More Guns While Ed Case Stands Alone
GUNS AND ALOHA The headlines from Apr. 17 were pretty scary: “Firearm registrations break records in Hawaii,” reported the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, while Maui Now said that “Hawaii Firearm Permits at Record High in 2011.” All the stories, from television, newsprint and the web, used the same word to highlight a new report from the state Attorney General’s office: “record.” … [Read more...] about Hawaii Residents Sort Of Buy Lots More Guns While Ed Case Stands Alone