1930s | The Exotic Blog

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Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950. This is the illustrated story of where it’s gone

Weird ‘Plasticrust’ Caused by Pollution Forms on Portuguese Island

How Culture Works: Adapt, Teach, Learn.

Sea levels, and heads in the sand

Seafood Without The Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers?

For the sake of our health, we need to kick the indoor habit

Psychedelic Vinyl – Vinyl Records LP’s For Sale

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Links for 7/5/16

Vogue’s 21st Century Man (1939)

Tiki Joint Super Power Gets Its Origin Story in Crown Heights

This bijou coastal retreat on stilts owes a debt to wartime sea forts

Source: Redshank beach house review – in deepest Essex, cork tiles are back | Art and design | The Guardian

Most cities are indigenous, insofar as they are built on the lands of dispossessed first peoples. Paul Daley, Guardian Australia’s leading voice on Indigenous history, explores whether a city’s ‘indigeneity’ is just a matter of population – or if culture and equality count just as much

Source: Which is the worlds most indigenous city? | Cities | The Guardian

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Links for 3/20/16

1958 Grazioso/Futurama Electric Guitar

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Source: vintage everyday: Picnic at Huntington Beach, California, 1937

On Saturday, NASA dropped a bombshell of a climate report. February 2016 has soared past all rivals as the warmest seasonally adjusted month in more than a century of global recordkeeping. The previous record was set just last month. Perhaps even more remarkable is that February 2015 crushed the previous February record–set in 1998 during the peak atmospheric influence of the 1997-98 “super” El Niño that’s comparable in strength to the current one–by a massive 0.47°C (0.85°F). Although the science of attributing extreme weather events to a warming climate is still evolving, February 2016 gave us a number of extreme weather events that were made more probable by a warmer climate.

Source: February Smashes Earth’s All-Time Global Heat Record by a Jaw-Dropping Margin | Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog

How far would you go to rescue the remains of a bygone world you’ve loved since you were a kid? Peter Knego went to Alang, India, and then did it again and again, to save what he could of the…

Source: A Life at sea, on land

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Links for 11/23/15

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The World’s First Utility-Scale Underwater Compressed Air Energy Storage System. Located off Toronto Island, Canada, Hydrostor converts electricity into air and stores it underwater. When electricity is needed, the process is reversed, sending electricity back to the grid.

Source: Hydrostor

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