Links for 11/27/16

In deep-red white America, the white Christian God is king.

Source: An Insider’s View: The Dark Rigidity of Fundamentalist Rural America


 

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Video: Jordan Spee X California

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events


 

Documenting Trump’s war on science

Source: Documenting Trump’s war on science / Boing Boing


 

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Links for 11/23/16

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It’s Not Climate Change ?- ?It’s Everything Change


 

George Takei: “They interned my family. Don’t let them do it to Muslims.” / Boing Boing


 

Grasberg mine in the Indonesian region has been a source of untold wealth for its owners, but local communities say it has brought poverty and oppression

Source: The $100bn gold mine and the West Papuans who say they are counting the cost | Susan Schulman | Global development | The Guardian


 

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Video: Maybe Tomorrow

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Researchers used bone collagen (protein) sequences to determine the species of 20 previously unidentifiable bone fragments

Quelle: Britain’s Last Hunter-Gatherers Discovered Using Breakthrough Analysis of Bone Fragments | Lab Manager


 

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Links for 11/22/16

Had to be done (actually surprised it hasn’t already): Writing about the latest US elections like US media writes about African countries. **Country Crisis Watch** [insert CNN “breaking…

Source: The US elections (and their aftermath), covered as we do African elections | mohamed el dahshan. economist, writer, speaker, compulsive traveller.


 

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Trump called climate change a Chinese hoax but he wants a massive seawall around his resort


 

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Will Clay heads out to some less crowded spots in search of empty waves. YOWsurf.com

Source: YOW Surf | Secret Surf Spots – Skate[Slate] TV


 

Source: Retro TV has old-school channel-changing knob


 

Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of tailings from the Grasberg mine end up in the Indonesian province’s Aikwa delta system every day, which the Kamoro tribe say is destroying the landscape on which they rely for food and trade

Quelle: West Papuas verdant heartlands devastated by mine waste – in pictures | Global development | The Guardian

Links for 11/16/16

Ghost houseboat washes ashore in Ireland


 


 

The people responsible for national economic policy are economics professors

Source: Why You Should Blame The Economics Discipline For Today’s Problems – Evonomics


 


 

Ken Berlin, president & CEO of The Climate Reality Project, issued the following statement regarding today’s announcement by the United States and China of formally joining the Paris Agreement

Source: Climate Reality


 

The abrasive beads, apart from being harmful to sea life, are found in facial scrubs can ruin your skin. One woman found that the beads in her whitening toothpaste caused her gums to recede.

Source: Microbeads aren’t just poisoning the planet – they can ruin your looks

Links for 10/31/16

Activists released after arrest treated ‘like we’re not human beings’ as standoff with law enforcement continues with peaceful Saturday rally

Quelle: Dakota Access pipeline: Native Americans allege cruel treatment | US news | The Guardian


 

Jasper Ohlson: Home Runs – Blood Orange


 

EU and 24 countries sign long-awaited agreement to protect 1.1m sq km of water in Southern Ocean, ensuring that fewer younger fish will be caught

Quelle: Worlds largest marine park created in Ross Sea in Antarctica in landmark deal | World news | The Guardian


 

Riders of the California Surf

Quelle: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events


 

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Recently, Bustin Boards sent a group of four skaters on a voyage of friendship and shredventure as they embarked on their 2016 Euro Shop Tour. . .

Quelle: Bustin’s European Summer Shop Tour – Wheelbase Magazin


 

Eleven of the past 12 months have set new high-temperature records.

Source: To The Surprise Of No One, NASA Predicts 2016 Will Be The Hottest Year On Record | Huffington Post


 

Source: Kevin Kidney: Fancy Feathers: Restoring Tiki Room Birds

Links for 10/27/16

Living Planet Index shows vertebrate populations are set to decline by 67% on 1970 levels unless urgent action is taken to reduce humanity’s impact

Quelle: World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns | Environment | The Guardian


 

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Climate change and ocean acidification have killed off one of the most spectacular features on the planet.

Quelle: Obituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-2016) | Outside Online


 

Kim Stanley Robinson says Elon Musk’s Mars plan is a “1920s science-fiction cliché”


 

More on soft climate denial: acknowledging that climate change is a serious threat but being unwilling to take sufficient steps to combat it.

Source: Michael Hoexter: A Pocket Handbook of Soft Climate Denial | naked capitalism


 

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Links for 10/22/16

Could Science Save Rapidly Depleting Global Fish Stocks? – May 11 2016 01:28 AM – Breaking News – Labmate Online


 

The Global Human Settlement Layer was launched at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III).

Quelle: New satellite image database maps the dynamics of human presence on Earth – European Commission


 

Thom asks whether nature should be protected with rights just like corporations do.

Source: Should Nature Have The Rights Of A Person Like Corporations Do? – Thom Hartmann Program – The Ring of Fire Network


 

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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


 

Earth is in the danger zone, and every day we burn fossil fuels brings it closer to destruction.

Source: We’re Past the Point of No Return for Climate Change


 

It’s a musical computer for your home.

Source: Watch A ’60s Magician Play The Mellotron | Atlas Obscura


 

Kelly Slater has employed his hefty social media following in the search for surfboards stolen from the Malibu home of Beastie Boys rapper Michael Diamond, also known as Mike D.

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events


 

Scientists finally catch dolphin talking / Boing Boing

Links for 10/15/16

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When we make a batch of our pineapple-infused rum, we tend to go through it rather quickly. It makes a fantastic daiquiri, as you might imagine, and is a good way to intensify the flavor of pineapp…

Source: Shipwrecked Monk | Modern Tiki


 

Windansea Reunion Down Under

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events


 

Pop Sixties is the must have book for any enthusiast of sixties aesthetic and culture. Featuring an intro by Bobby Sherman and many artifacts from Donna Loren’s (The Mickey Mouse Club, Batman, The Monkees, Beach Blanket Bingo, etc.) own personal collection, as well as the art, furniture, and clothing from the period. This special edition will be signed, hand numbered, and include a special signed/handnumbered print from the book. Free shipping on all domestic orders, and a 20% discount for the first 2 weeks after Tiki Fest when you use the code TIKIFEST2016 at check out. Preorder your copy today! Sale ends September 5

Source: [Preorder] Pop Sixties by Donna Loren—Tiki Sale!

Links for 10/8/16

IF you have a Yahoo account you might want to ditch it after revelations the tech giant created a tool for the US government to scan through people’s private messages. The company had worked with e…

Source: How to delete your Yahoo email account after secret monitoring revelations


 

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This excellent op-ed piece by ?Ohu Gon  needs to be shared with many. By Sam ‘Ohu Gon September 4, 2016 The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently unveiled a groundbreak…

Source: Indigenous Traditions could be New Resource Management Model – Ka’ahele Hawai’i


 

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By reconstructing past global warming and the carbon cycle on Earth 56 million years ago, researchers have used computer modeling to estimate the

Source: Warning from the Past: Future Global Warming Could Be Even Warmer | Lab Manager

Links for 10/5/16

Spill 46 miles off Shetland is being monitored by air and said to be heading away from land and dispersing

Source: BP platform leaks 95 tonnes of oil into North Sea | Environment | The Guardian


 

Nations on the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Seas have decided to bolster their tsunami warning systems by giving France, Greece, Italy and Turkey a regionwide alert role.

Source: Europe to strengthen tsunami alert system – UNISDR


 

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Video: Johnny Depp, Harry Roach & Surfing

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Hydrofoil surfing on open ocean swells

Source: Hydrofoil surfing on open ocean swells


 

Entdecken Sie das thematische Angebot von ARTE rund um Wissenschaft, Medizin und neue Technologien: ein origineller Blick auf die Welt von heute und morgen.

Source: Plastik in unseren Meeren | Wissenschaft, Umwelt, Technologie | ARTE Future


 

Earth’s wilderness decimated


 

Introduction Five years ago, I met Professor John Sweeney. At the time, Sweeney was the head of the Centre for Climate change in Maynooth. He is now emeritus. Sweeney has also been the IPCC represe…

Source: How climate change is rapidly taking the planet apart. Part 2: amplifying feedbacks, divestment


 

Ominous music in shark videos makes people more negative about the fish