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Source: Put This On • The Miyuki-Zoku, 1964 David Marx posted this great…
Hardline tactics succeed in keeping outsiders away from Boyle Heights, the Latino community that is the last holdout to Los Angeles gentrification
Source: ‘Hope everyone pukes on your artisanal treats’: fighting gentrification, LA-style
Dancing auf dem Longboard
Fela Kuti’s jazzy, pre-Afrobeat party music
Home – Take Down / Stay Down
Last month made five years since the nuclear plant at Fukushima, Japan suffered meltdowns. The release of highly toxic radiation from the reactors was enormous, on the level of the Chernobyl disast…
Source: Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties
Source: O.C. History Roundup: Polynesians were first to settle Orange County
Analysis shows that the diminutive Homo floresiensis, died out at least 50,000 years ago, making competition with modern humans a likely cause
Source: ‘Hobbit-like’ hominins died out sooner than thought. Were humans to blame? | Science | The Guardian
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the prestigious John Hinde Studio, based in Dublin, produced a series of elaborately staged photographs that were made into popular postcards – sold at Butlins holiday camps throughout the UK. In those days more than a million Britons had a holiday at Butlins every year. Three photographers, two German (Elmar Ludwig and …
Source: Seventeen Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s Postcards c.1970 – Flashbak
Findings published on Tuesday are likely to replay a debate among climate scientists that started when a draft version of the paper came out last year.
Source: Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries
The US coast guard spotted castaways stranded on remote island near Micronesia three days after their boat capsized in south Pacific ocean
Source: Three men rescued off deserted island after spelling ‘help’ with palm leaves
Eden Ahbez – 14 rare/unreleased recordings – Hippie #1 – Fully annotated, with never before seen pictures. Guest appearances by Paul Horn and Eartha Kitt
Source: Eden Ahbez – Wild Boy – The Lost Songs Of Eden Ahbez
I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of 14. Over my lifetime, I’ve spent many nights in jai…
Photographs show insight into a dying 1,000-year-old tradition. Sailing peacefully across the river Li in Guilin, men fish without the aid of a rod, hook or bait, instead using a method which was first practised in 960AD
Source: Dying art of Chinese cormorant fishing – in pictures
A new study published in Nature suggests that the key to fighting climate change could be under our feet.
Source: Treating Soil A Little Differently Could Help It Store A Huge Amount Of Carbon | ThinkProgress
A new solar cell prototype developed by a team of scientists in Qingdao, China may change the way we use solar panels in the not so distant future. Solar panel technology has changed the way many people bring energy into their homes, but this type of technology has always posed one concern: panels cannot output […]
Source: Future Solar Panels Will Generate Energy From Raindrops –
The 1960s-style Berlinetta is an all-new sports car
Source: Retro To Go: The 1960s-style Berlinetta is an all-new sports car
Last month was the hottest March on record. The Arctic was literally was off-the-charts warm as its been all winter, which led to a record for the lowest maximum sea ice extent ever observed.
Source: Last Month Was The Hottest March In The Global Satellite Record, And The Arctic Is Still Sizzling
The U.S. Forest Service is proposing to give Nestle a five-year permit for bottled water operations in the San Bernardino Mountains.But the permit won’t be issued until a National Environmental Policy Act study is completed and the Fores
Source: New permit proposed for Nestle water extraction in San Bernardino mountains
This “olden style” rendition of the New Order classic Blue Monday uses only instruments available in the 1930s. Performed by Orkestra Obsolete, it features a theremin, a musical saw, a …
The more egalitarian a society, the smaller the chance its citizens being ritually burned, bludgeoned or crushed to death under a new canoe, research shows
Source: Study shows human sacrifice was less likely in more equal societies | Science | The Guardian
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Dirty Old Wedge is a 62 minute documentary about Southern California’s own bodysurfing magnet wave. We sat down with Director/Producer, Tim Burnham to learn more about his film and his proces…
Source: Dirty Old Wedge with Tim Burnham | Swell Lines
Here Today! The Songs Of Brian Wilson by Various Artists (Songwriter Series) on Ace Records
Source: Various Artists (Songwriter Series) – Here Today! The Songs Of Brian Wilson – Ace Records
Codes, Klischees, Charaktere: Kult-Fotograf Glen E. Friedman und die Anfänge des Skateboardens in den 70ern.
Source: Street Photography (1/13) – Am Anfang war das Board | ARTE Creative
The physics of ice predicts that sea level will rise twice as much by the end of the century as previously estimated.
Source: Why the New Sea Level Alarm Can’t Be Ignored
The issue can be overwhelming. The science is complicated. We get it. This is your cheat sheet.
Source: Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change
Packaging of the World is a package design inspiration archive showcasing the best, most interesting and creative work worldwide.
Source: Ayvatú on Packaging of the World – Creative Package Design Gallery
Source: So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star: Photos of the 1960’s Garage Band Explosion | Dangerous Minds
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Water bottle made of algae by Ari Jansson from Iceland – Ambalaj
Migrant workers dumped on islands after being abandoned by boat captains when Indonesia banned foreign fishing
Source: 4,000 foreign fishermen stranded on remote Indonesian islands
We are living in the Anthropocene age, in which human influence on the planet is so profound – and terrifying – it will leave its legacy for millennia. Politicians and scientists have had their say, but how are writers and artists responding to this crisis?
Source: Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet for ever
Despite regular coastal cleanups around the world, the problem of ocean garbage continues. Now, two Australians say they’ve found the solution
Surfing Publication and Newsagency, we provide surfers all the news, Board Buyers Guide, Contest Reports, Big Wave Events, Airshows, Image Galleries, Shapers, Schools and Camps directories, Surfing magazine, Learning to Surf tips
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Sociologists describe the ‘spiral of silence’: people with socially unpopular ideas fear that they’re the only ones who think that way, and say nothing, and their silence convince…
Source: Surveillance has reversed the net’s capacity for social change
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, could be the worst trade agreement ever negotiated in history. In an interview with CBC News, he recommende…
Source: TPP is the ‘worst trade deal ever,’ Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says / Boing Boing
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Going veggie would cut global food emissions by two thirds and save millions of lives – new study
New research factors in collapsing Antarctic ice sheet that could double the sea-level rise to two metres by 2100 if emissions are not cut
Source: Sea levels set to ‘rise far more rapidly than expected’ | Environment | The Guardian
