The debate over the so-called global warming ‘pause’ just got reopened.
Honey Skateboards
Source: Drinking Your Way Through ‘The Waldorf Astoria Bar Book’
Handmade models of classic midcentury Palm Springs houses.
Source: Palm Springs midcentury modern in miniature: Mini City by McKean Studio | Retro to Go
Melanesians may carry genetic evidence of a previously unknown extinct human relative.
Quelle: DNA data offer evidence of unknown extinct human relative | Science News
Temperatures in parts of the Arctic are expected to rise above 0C for the second winter in a row
Source: Ice-melting temperatures forecast for Arctic midwinter | Environment | The Guardian
Wißt ihr wie ihr im Longboardbusiness in kürzester Zeit eine Million Euro nach Hause bringt? Nein? Ganze einfach: Investiert einfach zwei Millionen. Mit Glück bleibt dann eine Million übrig. Das nicht alles immer nur fun sport ist, bekommen derzeit die amerkikanischen Hersteller zu spüren. Etliche Firmen sind in unruhige Fahrwasser geraten und kämpfen um das …
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This handsome and heartfelt documentary takes us into the world of the Gaza Strip’s surfing enthusiasts, and reveals a formidable resilience pulsing within a beleaguered population.
Source: Gaza Surf Club
Horace Poolaw’s photography is unearthed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
Source: A Rare Insider’s View of Native American Life in Mid-20th-Century Oklahoma
Young ripper Santi Domingorena is probably one of the best groms out there on the Island. He has a great ability to make everything seem much easier than it is.
Source: Santi Domingorena – A secret spot on the Island – Longboard Magazine Europe
Very Cool: Heat Pump Water Heaters Save Energy and Money | NRDC
At 88, Morricone is a towering presence in film history. As he celebrates 60 years in music, the Italian composer talks shoots, scores and the masterpieces we missed
Source: Drips, pop and Dollars: the music that made Ennio Morricone | Film | The Guardian
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Logging With Love / Norway
Had to be done (actually surprised it hasn’t already): Writing about the latest US elections like US media writes about African countries. **Country Crisis Watch** [insert CNN “breaking…
Trump called climate change a Chinese hoax but he wants a massive seawall around his resort
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Will Clay heads out to some less crowded spots in search of empty waves. YOWsurf.com
Source: YOW Surf | Secret Surf Spots – Skate[Slate] TV
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Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of tailings from the Grasberg mine end up in the Indonesian province’s Aikwa delta system every day, which the Kamoro tribe say is destroying the landscape on which they rely for food and trade
We have been at war in Syria over pipelines since 1949. This is just the next mad phase.
Source: Gaius Publius: Syria Is Another Pipeline War | naked capitalism
North Dakota regulators accuse company of failing to disclose the discovery of Native American symbolic stones on a site where construction was planned
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Source: The Turtles began a meteoric rise to 1960s music stardom in Westchester | South Bay History
Source: Beyond the Eameses: Seven Things You Might Not Know About L.A.’s Rich Design History – Core77
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Source: We Need to Literally Declare War on Climate Change | New Republic
Michael Hoexter, Ph.D.ContentsConventional “Hard” Climate DenialA Web of Soft Climate DenialThe Foundations of Soft Climate Denial in EconomicsSettling on Neoliberal, “Mark
Source: Living in the Web of Soft Climate Denial – New Economic PerspectivesNew Economic Perspectives
Source: VIDEO: An Introduction to Carbon Pricing | Climate Reality
Announcement comes as Xi Jinping and Barack Obama are expected to meet ahead of the start of the G20 to make a joint statement on climate change
Source: China ratifies Paris climate change agreement | World news | The Guardian
An international trade deal being negotiated in secret is a “turbo-charged privatisation pact” that poses a threat to democratic sovereignty and “the very concept of public services”, campaigners have warned.
Source: The new TTIP? Meet TISA, the ‘secret privatisation pact that poses a threat to democracy’
Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s “frozen wall of earth” has failed to prevent groundwater from entering th
Source: Panel: TEPCO’s ‘ice wall’ failing at Fukushima nuclear plant?The Asahi Shimbun
The Portuguese government has authorized some companies to prospect for oil & gas in Algarve, the southernmost region of Portugal
Source: Keepers of the Coast – Offshore oil and gaz drilling projects in Portugal
How New Yorker Sy Devore became Hollywood’s swankiest tailor
Source: The Man Who Dressed Elvis Presley
Hamptons features on real estate, art and culture, entertainment, celebrities, style, parties and events in the Hamptons, community news, vineyards and restaurant guides covering the Hamptons and north Fork of Long Island, New York.
Source: Consent Decree Impact Infographic – MTT – Music Think Tank
Download this 100% free Summer Lines Icon EPS vector pack with icons of the beach, summer activities, clothes, food, weather and events.
Source: Summer Line Icon Pack Free Vector EPS Download | JUST™ Creative
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For $20 I really like this new Matone dual USB battery pack! I haven’t found anything better at this price. The Matone battery is a great combo. I’ve tried water and damage resistant ba…
Source: $20 Water resistant, solar charging, 10000mAh power bank / Boing Boing
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I have an open fire and spend my evenings tanning animal and fish skins, and carving wood
Source: Experience: I am 16 and live alone in the wilderness | Life and style | The Guardian
Found an abandoned garage during a hot July session and decided to film a mellow one in the shade to make you smile…boss setup: Bastl Boards “Walzer”/ Cloudride “Ozones”music by Barefoot Basement (www.barefootbasement.at)thanks to the Linz crew and the “blind” security guards to make this happen.Riding: Rene SchmidFilming: Rene Nocker, Andy Marva
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Back in the ‘70s, a skateboarder from Northern California was blazing new ground. His name was Rick Blackhart, and he skated with reckless abandon and pure aggression. Tunnel’s Rick Blackhart didn’t ride any old decks. He would design skateboards with his fellow Tunnel Team member Kevin “KT” Thatcher. They would take solid alder, router […]
Source: Tunnel Blackhart Model – LongBoardLarry
Captured by pirates or stranded at sea for years, all these people are a testament to the strength of the human spirit.
Source: These Real-Life Castaways Survived The Harsh Conditions Of The Sea Against All Odds
Tom the Dancing Bug, in which Nate the Right Pundit bravely asserts that the Science just isn’t settled yet, on such pressing issues as global warming and his acute appendicitis.
Source: Tom the Dancing Bug: Nate, in “Skeptic Shock”
When LA was stripped of its beloved streetcar in the 1960s, the city was quickly thrust into a traffic-clogged world of private cars and diesel buses. But with the involvement of automobile and oil companies, was this the work of a conspiracy?
Source: Story of cities #29: Los Angeles and the ‘great American streetcar scandal’ | Cities | The Guardian
For their March 1958 issue, Family Circle magazine invited eight “authorities,” including Charles Eames, to offer advice on home decoration.
Source: Love and Discipline in the Age of Choices | Eames Office
+2 C everywhere and all of the time.
Analysis of difference between 1.5C and 2C of warming finds extra 0.5C would mean longer heatwaves, greater droughts and threats to crops and coral reefs
Source: Study reveals greater climate impacts of 2C temperature rise
Jake Phelps has run Thrasher Magazine for two decades. It may be killing him.
Source: Thrashed — The California Sunday Magazine
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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
