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April 25 to May 1, 2005
And Hoku Scientific
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s a $58 million IPO...
April 18 to 24, 2005
How U.S. restrictions on family
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ning are affecting the rest of the world, with dire consequences...
April 11 to 17, 2005
The New Hippies http://www.circleoflife.org/news/newsletter/2005spring/new
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etbus.ht...
A request for proposals to turn health fitness centers and gyms into power
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ts...
April 4 to 10, 2005
With 99% confidence, researchers have found that
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etary biodiversity comes and goes roughly every 62 million years, and may be due to astrophysical causes. Looking at the graph, I think we're at ...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
* Don't yell, "Our
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e is leaving." How about adding, "Don't carry a U.S. passport?...
A shortage of silicon is making solar cells scarce. A federal program could help, but funding for solar energy has gone from "pathetic" to "laughable and ridiculous"...
A new solar-powered street trash compactor is only four feet tall yet can hold ten times more trash than an average garbage bin. It also signals when garbage pickup is needed, eliminating unnecessar...
March 14 to 20, 2005
A
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ned device allegedly "destroys" RFID tags...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Meanwhile, a group of tech CEOs went to Washington warning that "profound changes in the global economy put America's competitiveness at risk" and offered a 10-point
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...
Turns out the human mind can't process more than four interdependent variables at once. Our
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et is doomed...
The Flickr guide to the
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et - beautiful photos from around the world, via Gridskipper...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Ira Rennert's house was featured on VH1 this week. It's the largest in the world, containing over 100,000 square feet worth of structures, 30 bathrooms, and its own power
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t. He owned the compan...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The 21-inch Wacom touch-screen flat-
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el display...
February 7 to 13, 2005
George Bush explains his
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to save Social Security...
Genetically modified
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ts are proving to be an excellent way to clean up toxic soils...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
"Climate Change Desiccating the
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et, Researchers Conclude"...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Fujitsu announced the development of
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t-based plastic in PCs...
Using Skype (voice over the Internet), John Perry Barlow was called at random by two young women, one in Vietnam and one in Korea, wanting to learn how to speak English. Here's his reflections on "th...
The Bush administration OKs drilling for oil in rare grassland in New Mexico, despite objections from the state's governor, who used to be the Secretary of Energy in the Clinton administration. Thi...
Only nine chlorine
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ts in the U.S. put eight tons of mercury into the environment each year, although some say 65 more tons are unaccounted for annually. This is mostly due to the use of obsolet...
January 10 to 16, 2005
About two minutes after someone pointed out that the Mac mini was smaller than a standard car radio, companies started working on
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s to offer in-car Macs to handle entertainment and car functions...
January 1 to 9, 2005
"Liquid Gold: The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow
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ts"...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Did a
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e or a missile crash into the Pentagon on 9/11...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The latest developments regarding the potential move of the Leslie A. Hicks Power
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t near Aloha Tower. Perhaps a "grand" park is not warranted, but it would at least be nice to see a greener mix o...
"China
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s to Have Over 100 Eyes in the Sky by 2020"...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Note that modern Macs are compatible with Verizon's wireless BroadbandAccess
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($80 a month for unlimited access)...
And an exotic grass once
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ted by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 70's now threatens to overrun the San Francisco Bay...
October 25 to 31, 2004
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ning a Critical Mass bike ride? Here's strategies you can use to help stop police harrassment...
October 11 to 17, 2004
Air
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e contrails scar the atmosphere...
How Nobel-prize winner Wangari Maathai overcame beatings and jail to empower women to
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t trees in Kenya. 30 million trees later, here is her story...
October 4 to 10, 2004
Use Windows and make a name for yourself! Regarding last week's item "Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-
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pile-up"...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
A Microsoft server crash almost causes a 800-
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e pile-up...
September 20 to 26, 2004
It takes a lot of energy and money to send Oahu's garbage to the mainland. Rather than spreading our trash around the
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et, are there better alternatives...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Revolutionary lens im
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ts for the severely nearsighted are expected to receive FDA approval soon...
August 15 to 22, 2004
More on Hawaii's ethanol
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s...
Forget Doom 3: Here's the state-of-the-art of video game graphics: http://www.
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ethalflife.com/features/articles/sigg04/index.sht...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Over the last few years developer Kenneth Hughes has proposed an ambitious redevelopment
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, which would replace the nearby HECO power
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t with a real parking garage and build apartments...
July 19 to 25, 2004
UH is building a
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t waste processing facility that will net $100k a year by tunrning
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t waste into charcoal...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Cool Concept of the Week: Seed Balls Take 100 to 200 properly chosen seeds of
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ts, trees, fruits, and vegetables, and pack them in a hardened sphere of mineral-rich red clay. Scatter one abou...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Crystalens is a new laser-based technique for treating cataracts. The im
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ted lens moves using the power of existing eye muscles...
A national interactive map of power
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t pollution impacts. Hey, where's Hawaii...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
A biological engineering
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to end human aging...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Spain clubgoers are im
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ted with RFID chips...
Rupert Murdoch's first commercial waste-to-oil
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t launched and makes 200 barrels a day from the turkey processing
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t next door. It's 80% efficient and runs on its own energy...
Do women
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during sex...
May 10 to 16, 2004
In 18 months Kaufmann designed six versions of her prefab "Glidehouse", making use of recyclable, energy-efficient materials. It's designed to accommodate solar panels and looks and feels like ...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
Here's a cool (Mac and Windows) screensaver - an air
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e window, with a moving aerial background...
April 19 to 25, 2004
And Intel
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s to cut the lead content of computer chips by 95%...
Taking another cue from nature, air
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e wings that morph in flight like a bird's with fish-like scales are being developed...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Urban
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ners can reduce costs by
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ting more trees and using lighter-colored pavement... heard of Curtiba, the city widely held as "a paragaon of urban
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ning excellence"...
March 31, 2004
Let's face it folks - taken as a whole, Hawaii architecture sucks. And the urban
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ning leaves a lot to be desired...
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Although expensive, mechanized parking is perfect for high-density areas low on space. Someone in Honolulu urban
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ning should at least take a look at the data...
Rapid Growth of "Dead Zones" in Oceans Threatens
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et...
March 22 to 28, 2004
"Soya-powered
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es promise greener air travel...
March 15 to 21, 2004
A steep decline in "birds, butterflies and native
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ts" in Britain is alarming scientists...
February 9 to 15, 2004
The sad story of a once-historic downtown area that is
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ned to be an auto dealership due to the city's current budget shortfall...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has a nice article on this year's dream engineering jobs. They interview the guy who made Sony's jumping robots, but the real story i...
The image of Buddha, automatically generated by a simple mathematical algorithm that plots points on the real and imaginary
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es...
January 12 to 18, 2004
The federal government
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s to analyze employees' hair, sweat, and saliva as a part of new drug tests...
December 8 to 14, 2003
Advertising is now appearing on air
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e tray tables...
November 17 to 23, 2003
The epidemic is so bad that the U.S. government last week developed a 10-year
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to battle it. Now it is thought to effect 6 of 1,000 kids: "Autism no longer considered a rare condition...
October 14, 2003
A great, great ex
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ation of how this nation's electrical grid works, why more large-scale blackouts are predicted, the effects of deregulation, and yet another example of capitalism ignorin...
September 30, 2003
A Jurassic-age
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t once thought extinct has been discovered, cultivated, and commercialized...
September 8, 2003
Thanks to the human genome project, researchers are pioneering the field of ionomics, the study of how genes regulate ions. That can lead to
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ts that soak up heavy metals.....
September 2, 2003
LEDs and the future of the light bulb: "If the world switches over to LEDs rapidly enough, it could obviate the need to build more than 100 power
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ts between now and 2020...
August 25, 2003
Disney is laying off its traditional 2D animators, opting instead to only do 3D (computer generated) animated films from now on. A passing of an era... http://www.mouse
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et.com/david/dk030814.ht...
EPA to ease air pollution rules for maintaining coal-burning power
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t...
July 28, 2003
"Billion Dollar
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In Limbo...
July 10, 2003
"The Pentagon's
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for Tracking Everything That Moves...
July 8, 2003
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and how it is implemented. As with any revolutionary technology, there are grea...