Links for 11/7/21

Kon-Tiki


 

A Brief History Of LA’s Indigenous Tongva People


 

Plastic pollution on course to double by 2030


 

These facts about dunes will blow you away


 

The Death of the Bering Strait Theory


 

The Facebook whistleblower says its algorithms are dangerous. Here’s why.


 

Supreme court, Facebook, Fed: three horsemen of democracy’s apocalypse


 

Halt destruction of nature or risk ‘dead planet’, leading businesses warn


 

Tiki Tatsu-ya Raises the Bar to Islander Heaven


 

‘Shark calling’: locals claim ancient custom threatened by seabed mining


 

WTF Happened In 1971?


 

Temperature change across the planet from 1880 to 2020. The acceleration of global warming in the 21st century is “impressive”


 

Finding, restoring and sharing Australia’s lost surf films


 

55 Bel Air in Honolulu 1967

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

Links for 10/14/21

Computer Models Of Civilization Offer Routes To Ending Global Warming
  Born Into Rebellion: How Dignidad y Resistencia Merge Music and Liberation
  West Papuans: The Forgotten People
  Facebook putting profit before public good, says whistleblower Frances Haugen
  “Surfa Sam” – Australia’s first skateboard company returns after 36 years in hibernation
  Native Land
  Space-Cowboys: What Internet history tells us about the inevitable shortcomings of a tech-bro led Space Race
  Global coral cover has fallen by half since 1950s, analysis finds
  Guided tour through the exhibition ‘Doggerland’ at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden
  Fukushima: Japan announces it will dump contaminated water into sea

Links for 8/7/21

not just bikes strong towns


 

Bruce Walker, 1951-2011 et plus


 

Mat Surfing with Paul Gross


 

The history of the 1966 BatMobile


 

A Peek Inside the World’s Greatest Record Store


 

These Are the People Who Built LA’s New Chinatown


 

Sisters with Transistors: inside the fascinating film about electronic music’s forgotten pioneers


 

Scientists find 25,000 barrels of possible DDT at ‘staggering’ dump site near California coast


 

Climate fight ‘is undermined by social media’s toxic reports’


 

If We Want to Clean Up the Oceans, We Have to Confront the Fossil Fuel Giants

Links for 5/16/21

Getting Shacked on a Surf Mat


 

4 Tips for Improving Your Noseriding


 

Discourses of Climate Delay


 

Racism 101 Asked And Answered: Mugs, Cocktails And Statues — Is Tiki A Form Of Cultural Appropriation?


 

The Pink Lady was a short-lived painting by Lynne Seemayer on a rock face near Malibu, California in 1966


 

Surfing In The Sixties – Mona Boys


 

Samurais Pop Group (1968)


 

Truckin’ with the crowd – Jeff Belzer at Malibu


 

The Morality of Manipulation


 

Tour Santa Monica’s once-vibrant Black neighborhoods, nearly erased by racism and ‘progress’


 

Video: This Wind-Powered Gigantic Cargo Ship Will Carry 7,000 Cars Across the Atlantic


 

The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean


 

SOMA Bioworks – Biosporin


 

Cold Water Therapy Trailer


 

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood


 

These Sea Creatures Are Actually Made of Glass