Maddie Bender
Producer the Conversation at KHPR-FM (Honolulu, HI)
science pixie dream girl @wearehpr | co-founder @sequencermag | work in @nytimes @thedailybeast @sciam @motherboard @smithsonianmag et al. | semper scrutans
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hawaiipublicradio.org | Maddie Bender
Kine Musubi is being billed as New York’s first Hawaiʻi-style musubi store. It's the brainchild of Chi Ian Chan, who grew up in Honolulu’s Chinatown. “I've eaten so much musubi. And my mom would make my brother and I musubis for field trips as early as elementary school. But I couldn't tell you the first time, because I've had so many of them, and like all other kids that grew up in Hawaiʻi, this is a daily part of life," he said. After moving to New York, Chan longed for nostalgic flavors.
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hawaiipublicradio.org | Catherine Cruz |Maddie Bender
Byron Goo, CEO of Tea Chest Hawaiʻi, talks about how tariffs are affecting the tea tradeJennifer Doudna, Nobel laureate in chemistry, discusses developments in gene editing with CRISPRHPR’s Ashley Mizuo reports on attendance record of lawmakers in the last legislative session | Full Story Chi Ian Chan, owner of Kine Musubi, shares plans to open up the first musubi store in New York City The Conversation ScienceEconomy
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hawaiipublicradio.org | Maddie Bender
How did the Hawaiian honeycreepers get their curved bills? Well, the answer lies in the flowers of one of the birds’ favorite plants. Lobeliads grow spectacular, tubular flowers that honeycreepers’ bills fit perfectly. Now, a new study uncovers clues into how this co-evolution took place. Tom Givnish is a botanist and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied lobeliads since the 1980s.
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hawaiipublicradio.org | Catherine Cruz |DW Gibson |Maddie Bender
Ralph Gaston of Rusty's Hawaiian Coffee lays out how tariffs are affecting Kona coffee growers | Full Story Overstory's Noelle Fujii-Oride reports on a new program to support mental wellness among farmers | Full Story HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote reports on what a massive spending bill making its way through Congress means for clean energy | Full Story Botanist Tom Givnish studies the co-evolution of lobeliads and honeycreepers Producer Ken Martinez Burgmaier shares a preview of the Big...
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hawaiipublicradio.org | Catherine Cruz |Maddie Bender
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