Laser scanning reveals ‘lost’ ancient Mexican city had as many buildings as Manhattan
Mechanized and Shimmering Vision
Watch projection-mapped lights bring Vegas neon signs back to life
Ghanaian Manufactures Pavement Blocks With Plastic Waste
California’s Climate Emergency
What If I Told You That The Economy Was Done Growing? Like, Forever.
From prudish Victorians to arrows in the eye – 10 things from history everyone gets wrong
Mexico’s Most Celebrated Pachuco: Tin Tan
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How Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago
The plastic tide is a symptom of a sickness in society: Surfers Agains – Gather Outdoors
‘If there’s an ocean, maybe there’s surf’: Bruce Brown on making The Endless Summer
Ensuring Climate Data Remains Public
Lance, Miki and Bruce Brown’s brilliant voice-over – the set-up of The Endless Summer
Why Glitter Must Be Banned | Alternet
The Archivist: The Aquatic Ape | The Surfers Journal
Has Keystone XL Become Obsolete?
Sabine Jessen discusses Trudeau’s plans to increase offshore oil exploration that undermine oceans protection commitments Canada has made.
Source: Canada Undermines Targets for Protecting Oceans by Increasing Oil Exploration
Journey-based charts from the past can help us track the progression of transportation technology.
Source: Atlas Obscura
Mexico markets Trump themed tp, proceeds help migrants
Source: Boing Boing
Yet another white guy cast in a non-white starring role
Source: New Disney World dress shop is perfect for Disney-bounding
The fundamental unit of biology is not the self, but the network — and this view has practical consequences, says David George Haskell, author of The Song of Trees.
Source: David George Haskell Explores Life’s Network’s In ‘The Song of Trees’
Our planet’s temperature is rising, but there are things you can do to help.
Source: Climate Change List
Baxter Dynasty
Stopping global warming is only way to save Great Barrier Reef, scientists warn
The Natural Resources Defense Council works to safeguard the earth – its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
Incoming president Donald Trump’s climate change denial has environmentalists worried. But California is proving that local efforts can achieve real progress – independent of Washington.
Source: California to trump federal plans with local climate action
Ten years of effort finally paid off for Las Vegas. The city government has gone entirely green, and 200 more cities want to do the same.
Source: Las Vegas’s city government is now powered by 100% renewable energy, and more cities will follow
Source: In 1906, He Snaps A Quick Photo. What He Captures? Chilling…
Cahokia was bigger than Paris—then it was completely abandoned. I went there to find out why.
Source: Finding North America’s lost medieval city
Impact of dams on climate change has been underestimated, researchers warn, as rotting vegetation creates 25% more methane than previously thought
Tesla’s new line of energy-harvesting roof tiles are a key part of Elon Musk’s plan to make solar sexy.
Source: Tesla Unveils its New Line of Camouflaged Solar Panels
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Ten Clear Signs Our Climate Is Changing | Climate Reality
A California biotech company receives funding to commercialise algae-based prawns, in an attempt to get people switching to more sustainable diets
Hi-tech imaging has revealed exceptionally rare manuscript overlaid by 16th-century deerhide document held at Oxford University
Source: Hidden codex may reveal secrets of life in Mexico before Spanish conquest | Science | The Guardian
Long before Columbus reached the Americas, Cahokia was the biggest, most cosmopolitan city north of Mexico. Yet by 1350 it had been deserted by its native inhabitants the Mississippians – and no one is sure why
Sound Explosion! Inside LA’s Sound Factory With The Wrecking Crew by . For Wreck-heads everywhere. Record Collector is the world’s leading authority on rare and collectable records
Source: Sound Explosion! Inside LA’s Sound Factory With The Wrecking Crew – Record Collector Magazine
Source: Mory Madness: An Obsession – Electric Deer Guitarworks
From 1820 to 2013, 79 million people obtained lawful permanent resident status in the United States. The interactive map below visualizes all of them based on their prior country of residence. The brightness of a country corresponds to its total migration to the U.S. at the given time. Use the controls at the bottom to stop / […]
Source: Here’s Everyone Who’s Immigrated to the U.S. Since 1820 – Metrocosm
Surfing in Palestine: pleasure-seekers of the occupied territories
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Avalon 1964, With Midget Farrelly and Bobby Brown
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Australia’s world heritage site is the largest living thing on Earth. But warm water driven by El Niño is bleaching the reef, and a recent report calls for it to be listed as in danger
Source: Great Barrier Reef: the scale of bleaching has the most sober scientists worried
The Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal to be signed in New Zealand this Thursday is a toxic deal that would give dangerous new powers to the fossil fuel industry and pose a serious harm to the climate, according to the global climate campaign 350.org.
La música a gogo suena sin parar hasta el amanecer en Tijuana, sin importar que haya una pelea o que los meseros tengan que sacar arrastrando a un chico borracho y dejarlo en la banqueta.
Source: Los mods mexicanos están redefiniendo Tijuana | VICE | México
Source: Tricked out final rides: Vintage hearses from around the world | Dangerous Minds
Film-maker Angus Macqueen had extraordinary access to one of the last uncontacted indigenous peoples for his new documentary. Here he tells of the struggles they now face on the border of Brazil and Peru
Source: Why are the lost tribes now emerging from the Amazon?