Media gets it wrong on Elon Musk and Twitter: The issue is oligarchy, not “free speech”

Introducing The Waxhead

Nano state: tiny and now everywhere, how big a problem are nanoparticles?

8 Endangered Places We Can Still Save From Climate Change

The little island that won: how a tiny Pacific community fought off a giant mining company

How do we stop the plunder of the Pacific? A panel of experts give their solutions

The 5 mass extinction events that shaped the history of Earth — and the 6th that’s happening now

• Bruce Jones (surfboards)
• What Makes Wood So Good? The Benefits of Wooden Boards
• The whole Austronesian language family
• Early Migration
• Inventing the Beach: The Unnatural History of a Natural Place
• The Battle to Save Waikiki Beach
• Environmental Health
• Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare
• How The Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial – The great George Monbiot
• Anthropologist suggest that the “hobbits” of Indonesia may still be alive

The Renewable-Energy Revolution Will Need Renewable Storage

Fires, Floods, FFS Enough! Email Your Local Candidates In the Lead Up To This Year’s Federal Election.

Private paradise: The French Polynesian island locking locals out of beaches

New clues shed light on ‘pivotal’ moment in the great Pacific migration

New Australian Craze “Roller Boarding” 1964

Is it time to begin rewilding the seas?

First Session at Huntington Beach

Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power.

Open Web Advocacy

In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things

Spotify’s ESG Fail: Environment

The Way Sediment Settles around a Rock

Behind the Scenes of As the Wind: The Enchanted Life of Eden Ahbez Parts One + Two – Brian Chidester documentary about Eden Ahbez has two volumes of making-ofs on YouTube. 1 and 2

How do we stop the plunder of the Pacific? A panel of experts give their solutions

Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas

Indigenous Water Governance in the Anthropocene: Non-Conventional Hydrosocial Relations Among the Wayuu of the Guajira Peninsula in Northern Colombia

The internet is tricking our brains

The Voices Of Black Women Were Essential To Phil Spector’s Wall Of Sound

A Celebration of Opening Title Sequences (And Why They Need To Come Back)

Fiji Flashback: Unearthed footage shows Suva in the 1960s | RetroFocus

Teen Dance at Lloyd Goodfellowship Hall [Menominee, MI April 1965]

The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai: LA Exotica: The Trader Vic’s Experience

What is the value of a wave?

A fascinating look at how climate change affects the lobster industry

Dale Davies Surf Movie surfing 50’s & 60’s VOL 1

Journeys Into The Outside with Jarvis Cocker (ep#1)

Big Tech’s Censors Come for Science

The Popular Sport of Surfboarding (1925)

This City Bench Absorbs More Air Pollution Than A Grove Of Trees

The Limits to Growth at 50: From Scenarios to Unfolding Reality

Hawaiian leis and aloha at Martin Luther King Jr. march on “Bloody Sunday” in the Deep South, 1965

Inside L.A.’s Lowrider Car Clubs

The sad story of Astrud Gilberto, the face of bossa nova

The Battle to Save Waikiki Beach

In 1962, Chubby Checker’s sold-out Twist Party was quite the show

Little Pattie – He’s My Blonde-Headed, Stompie Wompie, Real Gone Surfer Boy [Sing, Sing, Sing 1963]

Ceibita en Verano

The Dick Dale Virtual Museum

The wave pool backlash

A proud Aboriginal man and his son, from near the Kimberley Coast in North Western Australia, 1890-1910. They both carry boomerangs and the man has a woomera spear strapped to his back.

When did scientists first warn humanity about climate change?

California 1940’s, Newport Beach in color

Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape, RIP

Bungacast / CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 1

A wave traveling between two parabolic antennas

fringesurfer.tv

How to kill a god: the myth of Captain Cook shows how the heroes of empire will fall

“As I got into building guitars it bothered me seeing how many tropical and rainforest woods were still being used”: Lord Guitars’ Nate Lord on sustainability in the guitar industry

“Gremlins and Sandies in New Craze – Roller Boarding” – 1964

The NFT Report – Brad Troemel

Stone artifacts hint that humans reached the Americas surprisingly early

Gonzalo Guerrero

The Murph 12-String

waterbear

The Gospel of Consumption

“Wave Goodbye” – the battle to save Australia’s surf beaches – Perth, Sydney, Byron

Climate Change Is Going To Be Gross

Jonny Teupen – Tabú

Escapism

“We’re calling time on human exceptionalism” says Superflux

We Are the Land: A History of Native California

A Day at the Beach 1928 – Biarritz France 1920s

The Largest Autocracy on Earth

Blue carbon: the hidden CO2 sink that pioneers say could save the planet

Do the Saigon twist! Meet Phuong Tâm, Vietnam’s first rock’n’roll star

Have Sumatran fishing crews found the fabled Island of Gold?

Geoengineering 101

Isn’t this what Thor Heyerdahl was saying?

One text by Heyerdahl dealing with this.

The great Hap “Happy” Jacobs – innovator, shaper, thinker – gone at 92

Renewable Wind Energy Can Help Save the Planet and the Ocean’s Marine Life

Belchior Diaz Vihuela Made in 1590 by Belchior Diaz Vihuela in Portugal. Dubbed the world’s oldest guitar.

Did Neurological Damage Lead To Ravel’s Masterpiece?

The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing

VW Ponton Boat

Unfreezing the ice age: the truth about humanity’s deep past

Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All Into Dopamine Addicts

Climate study linking early Maori fires to Antarctic changes sparks controversy

The Forgotten History of African Slavery in China

‘Odds are against you’: the problem with the music streaming boom

The Revenge of the Internet Archive: Google and the Metashills Lead the Long March Through State Houses to Weaken Copyright for the Metaverse

Journeys Into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker (ep#3)

A hand carved chess set