Links or 5/8/22

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

Links for 4/23/22

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.

Links for 3/6/22

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

Links for 1/16/22

“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

Links for 12/27/21

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

Links for 11/7/21

Kon-Tiki


 

A Brief History Of LA’s Indigenous Tongva People


 

Plastic pollution on course to double by 2030


 

These facts about dunes will blow you away


 

The Death of the Bering Strait Theory


 

The Facebook whistleblower says its algorithms are dangerous. Here’s why.


 

Supreme court, Facebook, Fed: three horsemen of democracy’s apocalypse


 

Halt destruction of nature or risk ‘dead planet’, leading businesses warn


 

Tiki Tatsu-ya Raises the Bar to Islander Heaven


 

‘Shark calling’: locals claim ancient custom threatened by seabed mining


 

WTF Happened In 1971?


 

Temperature change across the planet from 1880 to 2020. The acceleration of global warming in the 21st century is “impressive”


 

Finding, restoring and sharing Australia’s lost surf films


 

55 Bel Air in Honolulu 1967