Jim Radovic says his neighbor's 10 dogs would serenade their block in Hilo, Hawaii, at all hours before the antibark law.

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Hilo, Hawaii (CNN) -- What happens when you mix 11 budding startups with Google executives, Stanford professors, a Nobel Peace Laureate and 600 college students and put them on a ship to circumnavigate the world?

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In August, the safety board concluded its investigation into a February 13, 2008, incident in which two pilots aboard a Go airlines flight fell asleep and traveled 26 miles beyond the destination of Hilo, Hawaii, before waking and contacting air traffic controllers.

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Nina Azari, a neuroscientist at the University of Hawaii at Hilo who also has a doctorate in theology, has looked at the brains of religious people.

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Wayne Holland, currently at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, and his colleagues, who have just published their results in Nature, looked at three stars: Vega (350m years old), Fomalhaut (200m years), and Beta Pictoris (between 10m and 100m years), all within a few dozen light years of the earth.

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In Hawaii, the Puna Geothermal power plant sits about 21 miles south of Hilo on the Big Island on the Kilauea Volcano.

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