Lovely hula hands encourage a healthy heart

Hula is good for the body and good for the soul. That’s the conclusion of researchers at the University of Hawaii and the Queen’s Medical Center, according to a news item last week.

As the Star-Advertiser report noted, their studies "aimed to evaluate how hula might be harnessed to improve health among Native Hawaiians, whose death rate from heart disease is roughly twice that of the general population of Hawaii."

That clarifies why the researchers studied hula instead of, say, country line dancing. Hula is what Native Hawaiians are more likely to enjoy, since it’s the dance of their culture, and it makes sense to encourage them to do it, if it will help them with their health.

Similarly, it seems likely that bon dancing would have similar physical and emotional benefits for, say, Japanese; samba dancing for Brazilians; country line dancing for …

You get the idea. Basically, get out there and dance!

Imagine 50,000 people all Web surfing together

Going to Aloha Stadium to watch a football game will not be limited to that if the stadium is fitted throughout for Wi-Fi by the 2014 season.

Scott Chan, the stadium’s manager, is considering making wireless connection to the Internet at every one of the 50,000 seats. While the game is going on, fans could use their smartphones or tablets to tweet, update Facebook or even check the scores of games elsewhere.

"Technology has broadened the scope," says Chan, although the investment would be expensive.