Links for 5/17/25

Polyglot Gives a Talk to High School Students in Their Native Gen Alpha Language

The 1927 Film Metropolis Created a Dystopian Vision of What the World Would Look Like in 2026–and It Hits Close to Home

NASA issues warning after sudden change in the ocean surprises scientists: ‘Getting faster and faster’

Deep-Sea Mining: World’s Oceans Facing a New Threat

Rich Chew chats about the first Duke Kahanamoku Surfing Championships in 1965

Jolly Sand

Melting Antarctic ice will slow the world’s strongest ocean current – and the global consequences are profound

Geoengineering Gone Wrong? Proposed Climate Solution Could Actually Have Dangerous Side Effects

California bill would let insurers, policyholders sue Big Oil for climate disasters

Ultimate Guide To Polarizer Skateboards

Labeled ‘hispanic’

A Dubious Cure for Ocean Plastics

Links for 11/3/24

The Energy Collapse | Louis Arnoux

Climate change, not human population growth, correlates with Late Quaternary megafauna declines in North America

What harmful microbes are lurking in the world’s 7 billion tonnes of plastic waste?

How Peter Sellers Fully Embodied Inspector Clouseau in the ‘Pink Panther’ Film Franchise

Climate scientists sound alarm over Asia’s rising seas

How Far Goods Travel: Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965-2020

Collapse of the Thwaites Glacier Has Accelerated

Can Technology Save Humanity From Social Collapse?

Links for 5/12/24

Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98

While plastic is destroying the planet, fossil fuel lobbyists try drown out Indigenous voices and scientists

A call for economic degrowth

Book Review: Confronting the Slow Calamity of Climate Migration | naked capitalism

On Technology and Degrowth

Stealing Paradise: Sand Mafias, Beach Thefts

Ditch the pursuit of happiness and seek out wonder instead

The uncertain future of the Bay Area’s 90-year-old Tiki bar

A response to Daniel Driscoll: Another slice of degrowth bashing

Huge ancient lost city found in the Amazon

Links for 4/7/24

Skaters with The Best Names

Tea Tree with Taylor Jensen, Tully White, Jack Tyro, Hiroka Yoshikawa, Christy Crookes

A Glimpse into the Future: The 2023 Ocean Temperature and Sea Ice Extremes in the Context of Longer-Term Climate Change

Interview: Why global support for climate action is ‘systematically underestimated’

They Lost Their Land to the Park Service. Now They’re Losing It to Climate Change.

How climate change is messing up the ocean’s biological clock, with unknown long-term consequences

Zombie climate myths that refuse to die (feat. Bob Henson)

How War Became a Business

Big oil uncovered

Location Scouting for Wes Anderson

The Videogame Industry is Larger Than Film and TV Combined, Why Aren’t They Paying Musicians Fairly?