Bytemarks

Maybe I would have been a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon if summer sessions like this were available back in my day. Pacific Center for Environmental Studies (PaCES) is a six-week intensive course for high school juniors and seniors held at Windward Community College. This past Tuesday, I had a chance to spend an [...]

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Hawaii students were well represented in top honors at this year’s Intel International Science & Engineering Fair held last week in San Jose, CA.
Nolan Kamitaki from Waiakea High School and his project, Gene Dosage and Expression in Human Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines took the Best of Category and First Place in the category of Cellular and [...]

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Benny Ron is a one man tour de force. He is the Aquaculture Coordinator at the University of Hawaii and runs Aquaculture Hub. I caught him at Geek Meet III this past weekend at Ala Moana, Magic Island. Accompanying Benny in this photo is Shai Shafir and Yoko. It was fun watching them touting their [...]

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Let’s face it the tsunami won. When I went to sleep on Friday night I heard about the 8.8 earthquake in Chile and the potential for a tsunami. When I woke on Saturday morning about 5:30am I got messages from Roxanne Darling and Todd Ogasawara asking if the Unconferenz 2010 was still on. My initial [...]

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It’s not often that I get to experience the other side of Bishop Museum. By other side I mean the collections side, apart from the main museum exhibits and special events. We got an invitation by Allen Allison, a previous guest on Bytemarks Cafe, to come get a glimpse of their collection from New Guinea. [...]

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