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Matthias Schrader/AP/APLaulauga Tausaga was born on Oʻahu and attended Pearl Harbor Elementary, but she and her family moved to California when she was 7 years old. The Conversation got the chance to talk to Tausaga about her historic victory at the World Athletics Championships in Hungary. -
Department of Land and Natural Resources/A new program launched by the Department of Land and Natural Resources focuses on tree canopies and the role of trees in our communities. Chanel Yee and Dustin Palos, two of the four inaugural researchers, shared their findings with The Conversation.
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Author Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's new short story collection "Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare" explores Native Hawaiian myth, love and family. She talked to The Conversation about writing Native Hawaiian-Japanese women through a feminist lens. -
Gov. Josh Green just returned from a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals summit in New York where he spoke about the challenges of climate change and recovering from the Maui fires.
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Gov. Josh Green addresses housing and the opening of Maui to tourism next month; HPR's Ku'uwehi Hiraishi's report on the state water commission meeting; Author Megan Kamalei Kakimoto discusses her short story collection; DNA helps to identify a sailor killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor
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The University of Hawaiʻi Center for Oral History just launched a collection of interviews tapping seaweed cultural expertise across the state. The oral histories with limu experts like Wally Ito build on the work of seaweed scientist Isabella Abbott.
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Artificial intelligence is the technology behind facial recognition for unlocking your phone, the personalization of social media and much more. As it becomes more prevalent, Hawaiʻi businesses have started to consider the usefulness, or harmfulness, of AI. Ian Kitajima, the president of the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research, shared his perspective.
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Julian Aguon, a native of Guam, is using his skills as a writer and a lawyer to tackle issues of environmental justice — tangled in complicated political history. He's in Honolulu as a featured speaker at the University of Hawaiʻi’s Better Tomorrow Speaker Series.
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Lāhainā's Wo Hing Temple lost to Maui fires; writer and environmental lawyer Julian Aguon about his desire to build community across the Pacific and the world; Artificial intelligence's impact on our work life; University of Hawaiʻi Center for Oral History embraces stories about limu experts
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Financial Secretary and Treasurer Cade Watanabe said more than 300 of its members work with Kaiser Permanente or in West Maui hotels.
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For National Suicide Prevention Month, The Conversation sat down with Amanda Martinez from Mental Health America of Hawaiʻi to talk about a series of workshops and events promoting mental resilience.
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A new play at the University of Hawaiʻi envisions an 1890s gathering of Hawaiian intellectuals who explore the intersection between Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" and Hawaiʻi’s political landscape during the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. The Conversation's Russell Subiono spoke to writer-director Iāsono Kaper about his ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi play "Kaisara."
