by Raphael O’Suna

The next time a doctor tells you that you have a virus, ask him: “What is a virus?”

Is a virus an organism, a form of life, a creature, something like a bacterium, or is it a piece of chemistry? Is it like light, which changes from being a particle to a wave when we look at it?

Does a virus change from lifeless form to living matter, when we look at it? Do viruses lie at the border of life? Do they cross back and forth? Do you think your doctor knows what a virus is? Why does he often give antibiotics for viral conditions?

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Hoodie-Hoo Day Day 51 of 2009 314 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —
“This is the place where rainbows are born.

February 20, 1906: The Port of Kahului begins loading raw cane sugar into the American-Hawaiian Steamship The Nevadan. Over two days, loaders will put more than 5,000 tons of the Maui sweet stuff into the ship, which will be transported to the mainland, specifically, Crockett, California, where, for the first time, Hawaii sugar will be refined outside the territory.

The transport comes shortly after an agreement between the Territory and the United States is sealed, allowing for free, unfettered exchange of agricultural goods between the two, um, land masses. The trade continues for nearly 20 years, when it becomes much more economically viable to process all sugar here on the islands.

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