The Backlash Against AI Scraping Is Real and Measurable

Ray Kurzweil’s Predictions For 2009 Were Mostly Inaccurate

History of Wind Power

The end of cloud computing

Astra-Gnome: Time and Space Car (1956)

From labour camp to guitar hero: the abstract beauty of Branko Mataja

Collapse of the Thwaites Glacier Has Accelerated

The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister

Why climate change action requires “degrowth” to make our planet sustainable

The Lunacy Of Rebuilding In Disaster-Prone Areas

As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires

Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI

Hunter-gatherers were mostly gatherers, says archaeologist

Breaking Free of Plastic Pollution: One of the Biggest Threats to Biodiversity

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12Dave Wronski at The Electric Guitar in American Culture conference, Oct. 12-14, 2018

12Dave Wronski at The Electric Guitar in American Culture conference, Oct. 12-14, 2018

12Dave Wronski at The Electric Guitar in American Culture conference, Oct. 12-14, 2018

Redistribution and how responsively the two lines are connected.

The World Wealth and Income Database: data and visualizations from 110 researchers in 70 countries

Source: The World Wealth and Income Database: data and visualizations from 110 researchers in 70 countries / Boing Boing

Fraternal Order of Moai – F.O.M. sends annual donation to the Easter Island Foundation

How a young guitarist and inventor named Del Casher perfected the sound that transformed the electric guitar.

Source: The Wah-Wah Pedal Turns 50: Inventor Del Casher Looks Back of a Half-Century of Making Guitars Weep | L.A. Weekly

Underwater Pinups: How Bruce Mozert Seduced Fun-Seekers To Florida’s Silver Springs

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About Music Tools | Ann Arbor District Library

California’s lingering drought has pushed the number of dead trees across the state past 100 million, an ecological event experts are calling dangerous and unprecedented in underlining the heightened risk of wildfires fueled by bone-dry forests.

Source: ‘Unprecedented’: More than 100 million trees dead in California

A glimpse of the last people on Earth to colonize a continent without humans.

Source: 14,000-year-old campsite in Argentina adds to an archaeological mystery | Ars Technica

Guitarist, record producer and songwriter who co-wrote The Dark End of the Street and worked with Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin and Tammy Wynette

Source: Chips Moman obituary | Music | The Guardian

Working On a Dream: the Long Reef Old Mal & Vee Bottom Surf Fest

‘I am a Sunflower’: Amazing Chinese children’s propaganda record

When New England fishers complained of working harder and harder to catch fewer and fewer fish, Spencer Baird assembled a scientific team to investigate. Though a fishery failure would once have seemed inconceivable, Baird wrote in his report, “an alarming decrease of the shore-fisheries has been thoroughly established by my own investigations, as well as by evidence of those whose testimony was taken.” Continue reading

Source: The Number One Thing We Can Do to Protect Earth’s Oceans – BillMoyers.com

Skate legend Tommy Guerrero was one of the biggest names in skateboarding in the 1980’s. As one of the Bones Brigade, Powell Peralta’s famous skate team, Guerrero would go on to head up…

Source: Skateboards and Guitar Chords: Tommy Guerrero Reflects on a life of Skating and Music Making | blurredvisionary

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Source: Individually-shrinkwrapped potatoes are why we must destroy capitalism / Boing Boing

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A Walk in the Dead Woods

Star Trek: The Next Generation beachwear

Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation beachwear

Algal bloom ‘of biblical proportions’ has led to protests and health emergency as concerns raised over dumping of rotting salmon in ocean

Source: Toxic ‘red tide’ in Chile prompts investigation of salmon farming | World news | The Guardian

This week we’re honoured to have the legend of TWANG drop into the Henhouse, Mr. Duane Eddy himself! For those of you who don’t know him, Duane Eddy revolutionized the sound of the electric guitar and became the king of “twang” with his trusty Gretsch guitar in hand.

Source: Episode 11 – Duane Eddy (Part 1)

Lost in time

Source: stiffspeed

To imagine the ocean of the future: picture a writhing mass of unkillable tentacles, forever

Source: To imagine the ocean of the future: picture a writhing mass of unkillable tentacles, forever

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Vulnerable Twenty Group (V20) Foundation Press Release: 8 October 2015, Lima – Finance Ministers of the Vulnerable Twenty (V20)

Source: Vulnerable Twenty Group V20 – Founded

She influenced Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and countless others, but Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a legend in her own right.

Source: The First Badass Female Guitarist: Meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll

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In a rare move to shun tourism profits for environmental protection, 10 popular dive sites have been shut down in a bid to slow a coral bleaching crisis

Source: Thailand closes dive sites over coral bleaching crisis | Environment | The Guardian

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