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Technology
Helen Holmes’ Big Film Production Comes To Arcata
Of the 30-member film entourage lodged at the Hotel Arcata, 22 were paid movie staff. These included actors, camera operators, editors, support staff, producer J. P. McGowan and his “colored valet,” and the “colored maid” for Miss Holmes. »
Plaza Parade Of Arms Explodes Expectations – April 1, 1953
Mayor Shawn Brunton was unable to attend, pleading that, “I have to be in our nation’s capital on business, or have to wash my hair or polish my gerbil, or something.” »
HSU: (Big) Bird Is The Word – October 5, 2012
The map is available on Professor Stephens’ blog – floatingsheep.org – along with other all-time tweet-map favorites like “The Great American Pizza Map” and “Church, Bowling, Guns and Strip Clubs.” »
East-West Railway Could Roll Through Arcata – September 8, 2012
Lovelace noted that land in Arcata and perhaps Blue Lake would be needed for right of ways. He questioned why their governments haven’t been given similar presentations. “Is there a reason why those are last when it seems like they’re the most impacted?” he asked. »
Curiosity, Before She Went to Mars – August 7, 2012
We were patient with the half-hour process to clean our photographic gear, don the suits and then go through the whole body vacuum room before entering. No speck of dust from our visit would travel to Mars, but perhaps a sticky carbon dioxide molecule exhaled by one of us would. »
‘Adaptation’ Building Green Communities Conference Begins – July 19, 2012
Humboldt Plan It Green is holding its sixth annual Building Green Communities conference from Thursday, July 19 through Saturday, July 21, highlighting the theme, Adaptation: Creating a Resilient Future. »
MPA’s Approved – June 12, 2012
An MPA near Arcata and Manila allows some fishing and a smaller one at South Humboldt Bay allows recreational fishing “intended to accommodate tribal uses.” It’s one of several MPAs the commission chose not to expand. »
Appropriate Tech Public Restroom Conceived – April 8, 2012
The restroom’s design is still tentative, but it doesn’t look anything like the cinder-block affair that Public Works designed last time a public restroom was under serious discussion, nor the glitzy, super-expensive high-tech jobs used in some metropolitan areas. »
HSU Teams With Yale To Digitize Local Historian’s Photos – March 21, 2012
Hundreds of historic photographs collected by the late Humboldt State University photographer Peter Palmquist (’65, Art) will be available online for students, researchers and historians later this year, thanks to a partnership between the HSU Library and Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. »
Kayla Shapero – GMOs: Proceed With Caution, But Proceed – February 22, 2012
Transgenic plants have many potential ways to benefit our society. Not only are these plants capable of helping us solve hunger problems we have created for ourselves, but they are also capable of helping cleanse the environment we have been polluting with chemicals for our short-term convenience. Also, many concerns raised by environmental activists... »

















