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Exploring East New Guinea in 1956 (2nd part) – YouTube
Storm warning to Fukushima plants for the morning of 5/23/2012
Rums of The Mai-Kai: Legendary Lemon Hart returns to the promised land
Strontium 90 spread over 1000km evenly in Pacific ocean
Does radiation travel across the sea ?
Mastering Then and Now : Recording Magazine
Irradiated whales | Fukushima Diary
Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists
ToneRite
Daily Kos: Connect the Dots: Health & Climate Change
How Dangerous is the Radioactive Wave Headed Toward the US? – YouTube
Chevron wie immer unschuldig | Karl Weiss
Ghost Ship Off Canada Signals Arrival Of Tsunami Debris
Come Trash N Treasure They Didn’T Have Ebay In 1987!
Conan O’brien, 1/18/94 – Duane Eddy (“Rebel Rouser” & “Ramrod”) – Youtube
The culture was already in a state of decline. I find this text by Jared Diamond on the topic very interesting.
I suspect, though, that the disaster happened not with a bang but with a whimper. After all, there are those hundreds of abandoned statues to consider. The forest the islanders depended on for rollers and rope didn’t simply disappear one day-it vanished slowly, over decades. Perhaps war interrupted the moving teams; perhaps by the time the carvers had finished their work, the last rope snapped. In the meantime, any islander who tried to warn about the dangers of progressive deforestation would have been overridden by vested interests of carvers, bureaucrats, and chiefs, whose jobs depended on continued deforestation.
Here’s the full text: Jared Diamond, Easter Island’s End