“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

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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

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The public are being enlisted to read through detailed logs of whaling ships which include records of ice flows and weather conditions

Source: The 19th-century whaling logbooks that could help scientists understand climate change

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C’est avec un vrai frisson et beaucoup de plaisir que nous mettons notre nouveau site en ligne afin de vous faire partager notre passion ! Nous y sommes, Swincar prend vie après de nombreuses années […]

Source: SWINCAR le véhicule électrique tout terrain innovant

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Climate Home: fluential financial body estimates $30/tonne tax on emissions from international transport could have raised $25bn in 2014

Source: IMF calls for carbon tax on ships and planes

DWM Music offers the best in Blues, Surf and Rockabilly CDs from independent artists and small labels.

Source: DWM Music Company | Blues CDs | Surf CDs | Rockabilly CDs

Owner Rod Moore has gone to painstaking detail to make sure his bar in authentic to tiki culture.

Source: Shameful Tiki Room in Parkdale takes tradition seriously | Metro News

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Excavation reveals scale and importance of Greek city on Nile delta that dominated trade

Source: Naukratis: ancient Egypt’s version of Hong Kong unearthed by British team

The Internet is a diverse ecosystem of private and public stakeholders. By excluding a large sector of communities—like security researchers, artists, libraries, and user rights groups—trade negotiators skewed the priorities of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) towards major tech companies and copyright industries that have a strong interest in maintaining and expanding their monopolies of digital services and content.

Source: How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Financial specialists making carbon investment risk real today in the capital market

Source: Library | Carbon Tracker Initiative

Source: COP21: Tom Goldtooth Calls for Leaders to Recognize ‘The Spirit of Life Itself’ | The Edge of Change Road Trip

Kraken Ceramic

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This map shows how the decisions world leaders make right now could affect future food availability

Source: Let Them Eat Cake?

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Photos of Greenland’s Inuit communities show a way of life vanishing with the ice

Source: Gone with the Ice

‘If you want to see a pause and you don’t understand statistics…it is very easy to find a pause.’

Source: Study refutes global warming pause

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The Tongva are part of the past, present, and future of the Arroyo Seco.

Source: Outreach: The Tongva are the Native People of Los Angeles

Source: Tiki lounge comes to Portland this winter | Urban Eye

[The Washington Post] A new scientific analysis highlights the role of corporate donations in creating doubt about climate change.

Source: Why are so many Americans skeptical about climate change? A study offers a surprising answer. in Energy Policy curated by Ohio Citizen Action

All images courtesy Joanna Bird Gallery unless otherwise noted As a child, Danish artist Steffen Dam loved poring over his grandparents’ collection of scientific books and cabinets of insects. This fascination of how we catalogue and understand the natural world followed through to his artisti

Source: Exquisite Marine Life Specimens Imagined in Glass by Steffen Dam

Nurtured by three generations of African Americans with a shared vision of economic self-empowerment, the patronage of black businesses, the cultivation of black arts, and the maintenance of a public commons for political discourse, Leimert Park is not just the crown jewel of black Los Angeles, it is its center.

Source: The Center Can Hold: Leimert Park and Black Los Angeles

Jeff Goldblum explains the Clean Power Plan to “reptilian nincompoops” (aka fossil fuel execs)

Source: Don’t Be Garbage People

… and don’t be a tool of garbage people, I’d like to add.

These 10 business leaders show how fighting climate change is good for everyone’s bottom line

Source: The onEarth 10

Dewey Weber’s 22nd Street Cutback Becomes History Written In Bronze – the Full Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT5420ENg7o

The World’s First Utility-Scale Underwater Compressed Air Energy Storage System. Located off Toronto Island, Canada, Hydrostor converts electricity into air and stores it underwater. When electricity is needed, the process is reversed, sending electricity back to the grid.

Source: Hydrostor

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Crab invasions, tropical visitors, and massive marine die-offs. What’s going on in the Pacific?

Source: Starved by the Sea?

Tracing Raymond Chandler’s early days in L.A.

Source: Looking for Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles : Longreads Blog

Mixology 619: The Tiki Cross

Source: Mixology 619: The Tiki Cross

Source: Win a guitar from Loog / Boing Boing

Biarritz Doctors Can Now Prescribe Surfing To Treat Illnesses

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

The 1960s fashion is far different from the fashion and makeup styles in the earlier decades. The 1960s introduced the mod look. In this era, the glamorous 1960s makeup pays emphasis on the eyes and little less on the other parts of the face.

Source: How to get a 1960s Makeup Look | 1960s Fashion Style

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Chitarra Elettrica Meazzi Mustang – Il Calascione Artisti Liutai

at Praia de S. Pedro Estoril in late November

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events