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Russ Roberts

Retired News director of Pacific Radio Group Radio Stations on Hawaii-the Big Island. I have more than 40 years of broadcast experience, including positons at KTUH-FM (UH-Manoa), KPOI-FM (Honolulu). KHLO-AM (Hilo), KKBG-FM (KBIG-FM)(Hilo/Kona), KAPA-FM (Hilo-Kona). Native-FM (Hilo-Kona), and ESPN Hawaii (Hilo-Kona). Former University of Hawaii-Hilo librarian. Retired Air Force Officer. Amateur (Ham) Radio operator since 1977 (currently holds the Amateur Extra Class License from the FCC-KH6JRM).... Can read, write, and speak Russian. Retired on 30 September 2011, but still maintains a Hawaii Island News Blog.

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Painting Found Inside Walls of Italian Gallery Authenticated as Stolen Klimt December 11, 2019
"Portrait of a Lady" went missing from the Ricci Oddi Modern Art Gallery in February 1997
The Equal Rights Amendment Is 97 Years Old and Still Not Part of the Constitution. Here’s Why November 13, 2019
A brief history of the long battle to pass what would now be the 28th Amendment
One-Ton Boulder Returned to Arizona National Forest Following Brazen Theft November 1, 2019
The thief (or thieves) likely used heavy machinery to commit the crime

Collectors find plenty of bees but far fewer species than in the 1950s January 22, 2020
An analysis of global insect collections points to a major collapse in bee diversity since the 1990s.
Yao-Hua Law
The first U.S. case of a new coronavirus has been confirmed January 21, 2020
After confirmation that a new coronavirus is transmissible between humans, U.S. health officials report a first case in Seattle.
Jonathan Lambert
A 2.2-billion-year-old crater is Earth’s oldest recorded meteorite impact January 21, 2020
The newly dated Yarrabubba crater in Western Australia extends Earth’s impact record by more than 200 million years.
Erin Garcia de Jesus

New image analysis method for time-lapse microscopy shows how giant viruses infect amoeba January 22, 2020
Host cells infected with giant viruses behave in a unique manner. To gain deeper insight into the infection
Jovita
Emissions of potent greenhouse gas have grown, contradicting reports of huge reductions January 22, 2020
Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, HFC-23, were almost eliminated in 2017, an international
Jovita
New opportunity for cancer drug development January 22, 2020
After years of research on cell surface receptors called Frizzleds, researchers at Karolinska Institutet provide the proof-of-principle that
Jovita

Could China's New Coronavirus Become a Global Epidemic? January 22, 2020
Scientists are racing to understand just how bad things could get with the outbreak of a pneumonia-like disease that first appeared in China and has now spread to the US.
Megan Molteni
The Tiny Brain Cells That Connect Our Mental and Physical Health January 21, 2020
A new understanding of long-overlooked cells called microglia is challenging the assumption that body and brain function are completely independent.
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
The Macabre Science of Mass Animal Die-Offs January 21, 2020
Researchers are replicating “mass mortality events” with pig carcasses. The ecological consequences could hint at what's happening in Australia right now.
Matt Simon

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