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Early Solar System Chronology

Gary Huss, Researcher at the Hawai’i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology and Director of W. M. Keck Cosmochemistry Laboratory, joins Research in Manoa to share his research interests in Early Solar System Chronology, Presolar Grains and Material Reservoirs in the Early Solar System. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 […]

Peacemaking and Mediation Through the Process of Divorce and Life with Thomas DiGrazia

Thomas DiGrazia has focused his life work as a lawyer on speaking for the under privileged and advocating mediation and listening from the others point of view verses being right and adversarial. His circuitous journey, documented in his very readable autobiographical book Peace Maker, A Sicilian-American Memoir covers his path to the mixing pot of […]

Cyber Terrorism is the New Normal – The Latest in National Hacking Attacks

*Recorded live on January 30, 2017 Andrew Lanning, Co-founder of Integrated Security Technologies (IST) shares the latest in national hacking attacks and explains what exactly did Mr. Putin do in the 2016 US Election. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii Time, then streaming earlier […]

New Wisdom on Drones

Chuck Devaney, our very first host when Where the Drone Leads started out in life, joins us by Skype from frigid Washington DC – a long way from his graduation at UH and even longer from his Kauai home.  Drones have taken Chuck on his cross country experience.  Lets hear from Chuck his new wisdoms […]

Bringing Rail Back to Earth – Cutting Elevated Costs with the Honolulu Transit Task Force

A group of Honolulu architects and planners are advocating for bringing the rail to street level for last 5 miles through downtown saving 3 billion dollars and the character of Honolulu. How would it work? What would it look like? What about capacity? To learn more visit salvagetherail.org ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet […]

A Look at the 2017 Legislative Agenda

What sorts of clean energy and transportation bills will be featured at the 2017 Legislature? Margaret Larson of the Hawaii State Energy Office joins Stan the Energy Man to share details on the bills focused on improving Hawaii’s clean energy and transportation sector during the 2017 Legislative Agenda. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet […]

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Senate Approves Aid Bill for Ukraine and Israel, Sending It to Biden

The overwhelming bipartisan vote for the long-stalled $95.3 billion aid package capped a tortured journey for the legislation on Capitol Hill. President Biden is expected to quickly sign it. [...]

Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Here’s What Happens Next.

After President Biden signs the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it, the legislation will face court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing’s [...]

Midnight Deadline to End Protest Encampment at Columbia University Passes With No Sign of Police

The university, which asked the police to arrest protesters last week, said student protesters had agreed to remove some tents and continue talks. [...]

Columbia University Protests: Inside a Week of Unrest on Campus

In a Washington war room, Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, decided to call police officers to arrest protesting students. The backlash now threatens her leadership. [...]

Trump Trial Judge Questions Defense Lawyer’s Credibility as Pecker Testifies

Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan is off to an ominous start for the former president, and it might not get any easier in the days ahead. [...]

'Show respect', Nottingham victim's mum urges police over graphic WhatsApp

Emma Webber has urged the author of a graphic post in a police Whatsapp group to contact her. [...]

Former Labour minister Frank Field dies aged 81

The crossbench peer spent 40 years as MP for Birkenhead and was a leading voice on welfare reform. [...]

US Congress approves $95bn aid package for Ukraine and Israel

President Biden is expected to sign the package, which includes a potential TikTok ban, into law. [...]

TikTok faces US ban as bill set to be signed by Biden

The app's owner, ByteDance, has nine months to sell its stake or face being blocked in the US. [...]

Warning over 30 hours' free childcare rollout

The National Audit Office says a £35m pilot to test the expansion of free childcare in a few areas was cancelled. [...]

Australian police arrested seven people in connection with an investigation into a 16-year-old accused of stabbing a priest in western Sydney. Officials said those arrested represented an "unacceptable risk and [...]

Germany will reestablish cooperation with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the government said. Meanwhile, Israel has thanked the US Senate for approving billions in miliary aid. Follow [...]

Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, who was once accused by the team of the late Alexei Navalny of living a lavish lifestyle, is suspected to have taken bribes. [...]

A North Korean Cabinet minister who led a delegation visit to Moscow earlier this month is in Iran, according to Pyongyang state media. [...]

The move comes a year after three children and three staff were killed in a school shooting in Nashville. The bill will now be sent to Republican Governor Bill Lee [...]

Senate overwhelmingly passes aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan with bipartisan vote

The bill passed the Senate on an overwhelming 79-18 vote late Tuesday after the House had approved the package Saturday. Biden is expected to quickly sign the legislation. [...]

Tesla profits have plummeted. Elon Musk remains all-in on robotaxis

Tesla's sales are down. It's slashing car prices and laying off staff. Yet CEO Elon Musk remains bullish on a future that's self-driving and battery-powered. [...]

Trump to score additional $1.2 billion windfall thanks to his Truth Social app

Trump is getting additional shares in his social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group, as part of his current agreement. He still can't cash in yet though. [...]

Scrambled GPS: the New Electronic Fog of War

Two stories of how our reliance on GPS becomes problematic in regions experiencing war. In Ukraine, the power grid's use of GPS becomes a liability. And in the Middle East [...]

A hunk of space junk crashed through a Florida man's roof. Who should pay to fix it?

"It was not like anything I had ever seen before," Alejandro Otero says. It turned out his home was hit by debris from the International Space Station that had been [...]

A top Russian military official arrested on suspicion of accepting a bribe has been sent to pre-trial detention after appearing before a court in central Moscow [...]

The U.S. secretary of state is on his second visit to China in a year, but progress on issues including Ukraine and sparring in the South China Sea will be [...]

Argentine journalist Juan Pedro Aleart said he wanted to share what had happened to him to encourage other male survivors of sexual abuse to talk and seek help. [...]

Students were arrested during pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia, Yale and NYU, while encampments were launched at schools including MIT. Here’s what to know. [...]

The Senate overwhelmingly passed the $95 billion foreign aid bill, which includes $26 billion in funds for Israel and humanitarian aid for Gaza and other places. [...]

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