This Is Marshall McLuhan – The Medium Is The Massage (1967)
Noosa gets its first ever Greek restaurant
Tourists going crackers over pottery studio’s edible ‘teacups’
How Pollution Can Hurt the Health of the Economy
Surfriding, Canoes, and Swimming in West Africa, 1600-1940.
A 14-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in U.S. history
Native Americans at Standing Rock, North Dakota are being sprayed with chemical weapons, according to protestor Candida Rodriguez Kingbird.
Source: Native Woman Claims Chemical Weapons Used At Standing Rock
Created in 1990, Gesac represents more that 1 million rights holders in the areas of music, graphic and plastic arts, literary and dramatic works, and audiovisual as well as music publishers.
Source: Author Societies – New Study: Unlawful US Copyright Exemption Severely Harms European Authors
Long Halftime Walk is cloaked in shiny new tech, but dismal reviews suggest it’ll soon join the scrapheap of big-screen inventions that didn’t take off
Source: Too big? Too loud? Too real? Billy Lynn and other failed cinematic innovations | Film | The Guardian
. . . we attended The Hilltop Haunting, which was a rad downhill halloween skate jam hosted by Muir Skate & Bustin Boards. The event took place on one. . .
Source: The Hilltop Haunting (Event Recap) – Wheelbase Magazine
Scientists have discovered a ‘lake’ in the Gulf of Mexico. Everyone, who enters this pool at the bottom of the sea will suffer horribly.
Quelle: Scientists Have Found a Lake Under the Sea – Those Who Swim There Won’t Come Back Alive
Greenmedinfo.com – Natural Health Resource – The world’s most widely referenced, open access, natural medicine database, with 20,000+ study abstracts and growing daily
Fukushima: The Untouchable Eco-Apocalypse No One Is Talking About
Island known by traditional owners as Me-mel is currently owned and managed by National Parks and Wildlife
Source: Mike Baird’s government to return Goat Island to Indigenous owners | Australia news | The Guardian
Two skeletons have been discovered in a London graveyard which could change our view of the history of Europe and Asia.
Source: Skeleton find could rewrite Roman history – BBC News
Nat Young, San Diego 1966
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
A division of UnderConsideration, cataloguing the underrated creativity of menus from around the world.
Source: Art of the Menu: Continental Miami
The White House just stopped new coal leases on federal land – a huge step for our climate. Urge him to do the same for the Gulf! (46320 signatures on petition)
Source: Petition: New Lease on Life: Ask the President to end new oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
Cocktail Chemistry explains the drink’s mechanics: you create an iceball using a cheap latex ice-sphere mold, melt a hole in the top with a soldering iron and extract the water from inside wi…
Source: A cocktail inside a hollow ball of ice that you shatter to drink
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Marshall Islands fights for climate action in Paris as sea level rise swallows the island nation
Source: Marshall Islands push for climate action in Paris
Explosion killed 11 workers, spewed 134 million gallons of oil, and fouled the coastline.
Source: Manslaughter charges dropped in BP spill case—nobody from BP will go to prison
The fate of 70 million people rests on the Mekong river. With crucial UN climate talks in Paris next week, John Vidal journeys down south-east Asia’s vast waterway and meets people affected by climate change, dams, deforestation and urbanisation
Source: The Mekong river: stories from the heart of the climate crisis
This [NSFW] 1968 anti-war animated film by Disney legend Ward Kimball is as timely as ever
The chemical sprayed on the 2010 BP oil spill may not have helped crucial petroleum-munching microbes get rid of the slick, a new study suggests.
Source: Study: Dispersants did not help oil degrade in BP spill
The global environment collapses as in the pursuit of short-term growth, humanity overruns natural ecosystems including the atmosphere that make Earth
Source: Biosphere Collapse: The Biggest Economic Bubble Ever | EcoInternet – Earth Blog
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The Drought Is Behind California’s Skyrocketing West Nile Virus Numbers
Toxic dispersant used to clean oil spill
Trailer White Waves – a documentary about surfers fighting against unseen pollution
8-foot-long carnivorous cat-eating lizards are invading Florida
The way humans are using land is dramatically decreasing biodiversity—and it’s only getting worse
California Drought Tests History of Endless Growth
Greg Palast | Investigative Reporter
U.S. Forest Service Cocktail Construction Chart
Beach Boy Brian Wilson: ‘Punk rock? I don’t know what that is’
Stop overfishing and coral reefs will rebound quickly (but we’ll need to fix that climate problem)
Style in the Aisle: Awsome Vintage Hawaiian Airlines Uniforms Over The Years
BP says the Gulf is A.O.K.—this shrimper begs to differ
Mounting Evidence Has Republican Climate Change Deniers on Thin Ice for 2016