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Source: Put This On • The Miyuki-Zoku, 1964 David Marx posted this great…
Hardline tactics succeed in keeping outsiders away from Boyle Heights, the Latino community that is the last holdout to Los Angeles gentrification
Source: ‘Hope everyone pukes on your artisanal treats’: fighting gentrification, LA-style
Dancing auf dem Longboard
Fela Kuti’s jazzy, pre-Afrobeat party music
Home – Take Down / Stay Down
Last month made five years since the nuclear plant at Fukushima, Japan suffered meltdowns. The release of highly toxic radiation from the reactors was enormous, on the level of the Chernobyl disast…
Source: Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties
Source: O.C. History Roundup: Polynesians were first to settle Orange County
Analysis shows that the diminutive Homo floresiensis, died out at least 50,000 years ago, making competition with modern humans a likely cause
Source: ‘Hobbit-like’ hominins died out sooner than thought. Were humans to blame? | Science | The Guardian
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the prestigious John Hinde Studio, based in Dublin, produced a series of elaborately staged photographs that were made into popular postcards – sold at Butlins holiday camps throughout the UK. In those days more than a million Britons had a holiday at Butlins every year. Three photographers, two German (Elmar Ludwig and …
Source: Seventeen Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s Postcards c.1970 – Flashbak
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These pages are extracted from a graphic design magazine that was published in 1901 in Japan. The magazine was titled Shin-Bijutsukai and regularly publish
Source: A Japanese graphic design magazine from 1901
NASA Confirms Earth’s Temperature Reached an Even-More-Terrifying Milestone in February
It was like a sequel to a bad movie.
Source: Power grab topples another defender of California’s environment – LA Times
When you mix the tropics with the tundras, this is what you get.
Source: Nordic-Tiki Cocktails: Not as Crazy as You’d Think
Giant Waves Lash Hawaii Oceanfront Homes In Historic Surf Event
The Oscar nominated film’s success owes as much to America’s troubled mindset as to the movie itself
Source: What lies beneath The Revenant | Ato Quayson | Opinion | The Guardian
Source: Vintage Australian travel posters found in storage reveals travel history | Daily Mail Online
One cocktail that we particularly enjoy is the Missionary’s Downfall, which uses pineapple and mint for a cocktail that is both fruity and refreshing. When we have fresh mint, we never fail t…
Source: Missionary’s Landing
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Bill Wurtz made this fun and informative 9-minute history of Japan.
Electronics firm builds floating solar farm on a reservoir due to a scarcity of land for utility-scale solar in Japan
Source: Japan begins work on ‘world’s largest’ floating solar farm | Environment | The Guardian
In 1964, ten of the world’s best surfers converge on Manly Beach to fight for the title of world champion. (Video excerpt 2.03 minutes This clip chosen to be G)
Source: King of the Surf
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Richard Delvy: April 20, 1942-February 6, 2010
Source: Richard Delvy: April 20, 1942-February 6, 2010 | Sundazed News
Source: New declassified report on Fukushima reveals devastation was worse…
A Conversation with Naomi Klein
About Climate Change
We know that climate change will force millions from their homes, but will they even be recognised as refugees?
Source: Where will the climate refugees go? – Al Jazeera English
The gigantic sand dunes in Cronulla, Sydney – close to the so-called birthplace of modern Australia – date back to mesolithic times. But over the past century they have been steadily encroached upon by human activity
As sea levels rise and streets begin to flood, South Florida confronts a bleak future.
Source: Miami is Flooding – The New Yorker
Move allowing state to build shelter for families more quickly comes after officials clear one of largest homeless encampments in US
Source: Hawaii governor declares state of emergency amid homelessness crisis
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Three’s usually a crowd.
Source: Magicseaweed Photo of the Day of
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Today, nearly 20 food, farming, public health and environmental organizations submitted a letter in support of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment’s (OEHHA’s) determination to list glyphosate as a substance known to the State of California to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (aka Proposition 65).
Ghostly underwater images capture the third global coral-bleaching event in less than two decades
Source: Ghostly underwater images capture the third global coral-bleaching event in less than two decades
Color photos from Brazil seven decades ago, when the beautiful, troubled nation was enduring “growing pains” not dissimilar to what it’s going through today.
Source: Brazil in the Fifties: Portrait of a Beautiful, Troubled Country | TIME
A third global bleaching of coral reefs is underway following a massive and persistent underwater heatwave
Source: World’s oceans facing biggest coral die-off in history, scientists warn
They’re homing in on the gigantic Thwaites Glacier, which is bigger than Pennsylvania.
Source: Scientists declare an ‘urgent’ mission – study West Antarctica, and fast
Source: Near-Total Meltdown of Fukushima Reactor 2 Confirmed
The Kermadec ocean sanctuary, in the South Pacific and spanning 620,000 sq km, expands an existing reserve surrounding the Kermadec Islands
Source: New Zealand’s new ocean sanctuary will be one of world’s largest protected areas
