Links for 3/11/23

Could a Ming dynasty Buddha found near an Australian beach rewrite history?

High seas treaty: historic deal to protect international waters finally reached at UN

Fantastic Nantasket: 1905

The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret

A critical ocean system may be heading for collapse due to climate change, study finds

“I Don’t Come Onstage To Pose and Play Some Pyrotechnic Scales. It’s To Kick Some Serious Ass”: Dick Dale Talks Gigs and Gear

Yap: How Did You Know We’d Like TV? (1981)

Links for 11/17/22

The inconvenient truth of global warming in the 21st century

A journey through Morocco’s vanishing oases

How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels

Take a trip through the Los Angeles music scene of the 1960s

Why Capitalism Can’t Handle Climate Change

Ignoring climate change will yield ‘untold suffering,’ panel of 14,000 scientists warns

The Case for Hawaii Having Its Own Olympic Surf Team

Archaeologists Have a Lot of Dates Wrong for North American Indigenous History

Link for 8/14/22

Reasons not to Buy a Bamboo Toothbrush

The U.S. Tested 67 Nuclear Bombs in Their Country. Now They’re Dying in Oklahoma.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-u-s-tested-67-nuclear-bombs-in-their-country-now-they-re-dying-in-oklahoma

Historical big wave surf film & TV archive acquired

The Theft of the Commons

Vintage Dick Dale Playing Drums & Saxophone

Bunger Surfboards

Snapshots From A Spring Party in 1965 Fresno

Cities For People: How Paris & Barcelona Learned Urban Planning From Groningen

Simpler Way to Learn Surf Etiquette

The Wrought Iron Bug

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 3/8/22

Indigenous Water Governance in the Anthropocene: Non-Conventional Hydrosocial Relations Among the Wayuu of the Guajira Peninsula in Northern Colombia

The internet is tricking our brains

The Voices Of Black Women Were Essential To Phil Spector’s Wall Of Sound

A Celebration of Opening Title Sequences (And Why They Need To Come Back)

Fiji Flashback: Unearthed footage shows Suva in the 1960s | RetroFocus

Teen Dance at Lloyd Goodfellowship Hall [Menominee, MI April 1965]

The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai: LA Exotica: The Trader Vic’s Experience

What is the value of a wave?

A fascinating look at how climate change affects the lobster industry

Dale Davies Surf Movie surfing 50’s & 60’s VOL 1

Journeys Into The Outside with Jarvis Cocker (ep#1)

Big Tech’s Censors Come for Science

The Popular Sport of Surfboarding (1925)

This City Bench Absorbs More Air Pollution Than A Grove Of Trees

Links for 10/30/21

Why Grassroots Music Promotion Is Reaching Crisis Point


 

Tom Morey, the inventor of the bodyboard, passes away at 86


 

Lethal ‘forever chemicals’ taint our food, water and even blood. The EPA is stalling


 

Think big on climate: the transformation of society in months has been done before


 

The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba


 

The Historical Narrative About Geronimo Is All Wrong


 

Flower power: how one company is beautifying the wind turbine


 

Stolen “Bruce’s Beach” to be returned