Checkmate: how do climate science deniers’ predictions stack up?
This skate company is turning guns into skateboards
Bartend Against: Helping Communities Across the Globe
“Pacific Vibrations” 1970 “Brave Ulysses”, Ashish & Randy’s Music
Bros go to LA city council to speak for house parties
The problem with nuclear waste
Source: House Preparing to Sacrifice Right Whales for Big Oil
MCS joins 150 organisations backing call to ban oxo-degradable plastic packaging | Marine Conservation Society
Source: Extreme Heat Takes a Toll on Our Mental Health | NRDC
Source: Swift Cruiser Board | 100% Handmade in the UK | Lush Longboards
Source: Diggers delight: London’s 8 best secret record shops – The Vinyl Factory
Source: Thailand bans smoking on 20 popular tourist beaches | Travel | The Guardian
Source: Vulture Capitalists Circle Above Puerto Rico Prey | By | Common Dreams
Vintage Air India route map on a souvenir hand fan
Source: Boing Boing
Source: Forget Everything You Learned In Economics. You Were Totally Lied To.
Dakota Access Pipeline already Leaking Oil & not Completed
We just discovered A Future on Wheels, a longboarding project in Cambodia, that teamed-up with local NGO OBT (Organization for the basic training) to bring
Source: A Future on Wheels – Longboarding Project in Cambodia » Blog Archive » Longboard Girls Crew
Cadillac Wheels wurde mit der Erfindung des binnen weniger Jahre zum Marktführer. Aber nichts ist für die Ewigkeit. VENI.VIDI. VICI.PERII.
Source: Cadillac Wheels – Wie das Rad neu erfunden wurde.
The Fallacy of Endless Economic Growth – Pacific Standard
While restoring one of the exploration huts in Antarctica, Conservators of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust discovered a box that turned out to be a remarkable treasure. It contained 22 never-before-seen cellulose nitrate negatives
Source: 100-Year-Old Box of Negatives Discovered Frozen In Block of Antarctica’s Ice – Abandoned Spaces
We all know that spending time outdoors is good for you on both a physical and mental level, but the benefits of spending time specifically at the beach have just been revealed. That incredible feeling of peace and calmness that you experience at the beach is now being referred to as “blue space.” That’s what […]
Source: According to scientists, visiting the beach can change your brain in an incredible way
Shoreline variability of an urban beach fronted by a beachrock reef from video imagery
This is Mohammad Mohiedine Anis 70, who has parked his classic collection of American cars in the al-Shaar neighbourhood of Aleppo while civil war raged all around.
Source: Meet Aleppo’s classic car collector who refused to leave | Daily Mail Online
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
Ron ‘Canoe’ Drummond was an author and surf pioneer whose massive 6’6 frame was eclipsed only by his passion for the Ocean. Drummond self-published The Art of Wave Riding at 24 ye…
Source: Sandy Pages: The Art of Wave Riding | Swell Lines
Eating at all of LA’s grand old restaurants and dives, one at a time
Most skaters know the commonly accepted story of how modern skateboarding was invented and popularized: In the 1950s, surfers who wanted to experience the sensation of riding waves on concrete started to disassemble roller skates and attach them to wooden boards.Surf shops and manufacturers began producing skateboards to capitalize on this newly forming market in the early 1960s. These boards looked like small surfboards.
Quelle: The Prehistoric Skateboard? | Jenkem Magazine
Morro Bay Skateboard Museum Fundraiser 2016
The story of how the Sámi received a report documenting human rights abuses at Standing Rock — and used it to pressure Norway’s largest bank to divest from the Dakota Access pipeline — illustrates how international networks of Indigenous people are challenging the power structure behind the oppression of Indigenous people all around the world.
Source: How Indigenous Activists in Norway Got the First Bank to Pull Out of the Dakota Access Pipeline
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Video: Just Killer: the Byron Section
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Source: Iraqi Twitter account reveals lost beauty of Baghdad
It’s Not Climate Change ?- ?It’s Everything Change
George Takei: “They interned my family. Don’t let them do it to Muslims.” / Boing Boing
Grasberg mine in the Indonesian region has been a source of untold wealth for its owners, but local communities say it has brought poverty and oppression
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Video: Maybe Tomorrow
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Researchers used bone collagen (protein) sequences to determine the species of 20 previously unidentifiable bone fragments
Quelle: Britain’s Last Hunter-Gatherers Discovered Using Breakthrough Analysis of Bone Fragments | Lab Manager
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Enter surfing’s secret garden and get ready for the ride of your life
Introducing the Bahne Bamboo Tiki Longboard. This is a top of the line 44″ (111.76cm) classic longboard cruiser featuring a multi-ply hard wood maple & beautiful artisan Bamboo deck, rugged aluminum trucks & durable 70mm PU wheels.
Source: Bahne – Bamboo Tiki 44″ Longboard – Bahne Skateboards
Authorities are investigating whether pollution is to blame for a spate of mysterious mass fish deaths along the country’s central coast
Source: Vietnam investigates mass fish deaths
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“These traditions come from Neolithic times — from shamanism — and they have never stopped,” said Mr. Fréger,
Source: European Masquerades: Pagan Costumes Of The Light Continent’s Wilder Men – Flashbak
The Beach Boys film Love and Mercy portrays Brian Wilson as experiencing music playing constantly in his head. A growing body of research suggests that this rare phenomenon might have been behind his creative talent
Source: Was musical memory the secret to Brian Wilson’s genius? | Music | The Guardian
Source: A Story as Sharp as a Knife – inside the vibrant art of the Haida | Creative Review
Source: The 19th-century whaling logbooks that could help scientists understand climate change
