Links for 12/19/12

Checkmate: how do climate science deniers’ predictions stack up?


 

This skate company is turning guns into skateboards


 

Climate change has created massive blooms of ecologically disruptive jellyfish, but luckily they’re delicious


 

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

Surf Film Maker Bruce Brown Dead at 80

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So we lost John Severson and Bruce Brown in the same year …

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I watched his films many times – maybe because I couldn’t be in the water nearly as much as I would have appreciated. His iconic The Endless Summer was my first exposure to both Brown’s work as well as to mid century surf films as a genre.

Links for 12/5/17

Rich Roat, House Industries founder, dies


 

The news on “The Reef Beneath” – from the largest living structure on earth


 

Buckminster Fuller’s Map of the World: The Innovation that Revolutionized Map Design (1943)


 

Weird Waves: The Gudauskas bros, Gerry Lopez, Dylan Graves and Hannah Scott “surfing” 200 miles from the coast


 

Trump Is No Teddy Roosevelt to America’s Outdoorsmen | NRDC


 

Yup, the World’s Still Warming and Humans are to Blame | NRDC


 

Black Magic | Modern Tiki


 

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Become a patron of Dr. Wallace ‘J’ Nichols today: Read 41 posts by Dr. Wallace ‘J’ Nichols and get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators.

Source: Dr. Wallace ‘J’ Nichols is creating a movement, for water. | Patreon

Links for 11/11/17

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Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events


 

Source: The Point is Forever – The Cleanest Line


 

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High school physics teacher shows his awesome home made marble tracks

Source: High school physics teacher shows his awesome home made marble tracks


 

Source: The Stone-Cold Truth About Our Warming Planet | NRDC


 

The giant build-up was captured by underwater photographer Caroline Power.

Source: BBC Radio 5 live – In Short, The colossal mass of plastic waste taking over the Caribbean


 

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Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events


 

Geneva, Switzerland (PRWEB) October 09, 2017 Mr. Queen, the former drummer for Oscar Peterson, whose career includes memorable collaborations with a veritable who’s who of music royalty, includin

Source: Jazz great, former Oscar Peterson drummer Alvin Queen, denied entry into USA.

Links for 11/6/17

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There is more than enough wind energy to power our future. But our model of paying for it is stuck in the past.

Source: Who Owns the Wind? | Boston Review


 

Source: There’s enough wind energy over the oceans to power human civilization, scientists say – The Washington Post


 

Seth Andrews and The Thinking Atheist’s Matt Dillahunty recently took a little field trip to Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter — the giant creationist theme park designed to teach children that the bible is literally true and the earth is around 6,000 years old.

Source: Atheists give a tour of Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter: ‘It’s a $100,000,000 paperweight’ – DeadState


 

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Links for 11/5/17

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Honda’s new classic Super Cub motorscooter looks as good today as it did 60 years ago

Source: Honda’s new classic Super Cub motorscooter looks as good today as it did 60 years ago


 

Source: Harry Belafonte tells crowd at likely last public appearance: ‘We shall overcome’ | US news | The Guardian


 

Source: The great climate silence: we are on the edge of the abyss but we ignore it | Clive Hamilton | Environment | The Guardian


 

Source: Mapping 15 of Los Angeles’s Most Glorious Remaining Googies


 

Source: the unbelievable story of transgender soul singer jackie shane – i-D

Links for 11/2/17

Source: New Zealand bird of the year: playful alpine parrot kea soars to victory | Environment | The Guardian


 

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Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events


 

Source: Whales and dolphins have rich ‘human-like’ cultures and societies


 

Source: Plague is spreading at an alarming rate in Madagascar. Yes, plague.  – Vox


 

Source: Siskel & Ebert’s take on “Pulp Fiction” when it first hit theaters (1994) / Boing Boing


 

Source: Syria’s Heritage, and the World’s, that the War Destroyed


 

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