Spotify uses ghost artists to “shape listening behavior” and avoid paying real ones
San Diego band ‘The Unknowns’–on the verge of success in 1981
Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds
Argentina cult worships “King” President Milei as peso becomes worthless
Pluralistic: Unpersoned (22 Jul 2024)
Mapped: Reform UK’s Anti-Green Network
Study Warns of ‘Irreversible Impacts’ From Overshooting 1.5°C, Even Temporarily
‘The atmosphere was electric’ – the fall and rise of Morocco’s cinemas
Planetary Crisis: We are not all in this together
Archeologist takes Joe Rogan to task in open letter addressing Rogan’s embrace of pseudo archeology
Sounding the Climate Change Alarm: Lessons from Carl Sagan
Greasy Mike at the Beatnik Café
Stewart Copeland offers evidence of Ringo Starr’s impressive groove
The Tragic Tale of Kevin ‘the Head’ Brennan
Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things
On Navajo Lands, Ancient Ways Are Restoring the Parched Earth
This Photographer Documented Native American Tribes Before They ‘Vanished’
Pella Thiel: “Criminalizing Ecocide: The Rights of Nature”
A new understanding of human history and the roots of inequality
SkateBoarder Magazine – Vol. 1, No. 1
Big Digital Tech Moves Into Synthetic Biology: The Generative AI Rush / Black Box Biotech P1/2
Further cliff damage In Bali’s idyllic Uluwatu concerns residents, tourists and surfers
Why Nuclear Energy Is Not the Solution to the Climate Crisis
Go back in time at JFK’s refurbished TWA terminal
Understanding Chechnya’s Strange Ban on Music That’s Either Too Fast or Too Slow
A Rapid Transition To Renewable Energy Is Possible. Uruguay Proved It
A new plan seeks to protect California’s coast against a rising ocean: It doesn’t require sea walls
Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it
A Brief History of South American Surf Rock
What Earth Could Look Like in 2050 If We Do Nothing About Climate Change
How climate change is messing up the ocean’s biological clock, with unknown long-term consequences
Marc Andreessen Is Wrong About Everything
Lab-grown meat is now approved for sale in the US. Will it help the climate?
The Backlash Against AI Scraping Is Real and Measurable
Ray Kurzweil’s Predictions For 2009 Were Mostly Inaccurate
Astra-Gnome: Time and Space Car (1956)
From labour camp to guitar hero: the abstract beauty of Branko Mataja
Collapse of the Thwaites Glacier Has Accelerated
The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister
Why climate change action requires “degrowth” to make our planet sustainable
The Lunacy Of Rebuilding In Disaster-Prone Areas
As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI
Hunter-gatherers were mostly gatherers, says archaeologist
Breaking Free of Plastic Pollution: One of the Biggest Threats to Biodiversity
AI’s Bizarro World, we’re marching towards AGI while carbon emissions soar
This New Map Reveals The Predicted Future Climate Where You Live
The father of Chicano art photography
Berlin In The Summer of 1957 by Willy Pragher
A World Without Insurance: A Climate-Future Look at Property Values
Tech bro fascism looks like a lot like old-fashioned fascism
“I’m not a climate change guy,” says a guy about to lose his home to climate change
New research supports Thor Heyerdahl’s theory on South Americans in the Pacific
Trawling the bottom of the ocean is kicking up tons of carbon dioxide
The world’s oceans just broke an important climate change record
B.C. government affirms Haida Nation title over all of Haida Gwaii in draft agreement
Brandi Morin: The Apache stronghold standing in the way of a massive copper mine
Read Steve Albini’s famous essay on the music industry’s problems
Guitar amps made with home-made vacuum tubes
The Hawaiian steel guitar changed American music. Can one man keep that tradition alive?
The climate is doomed if we continue to be fixated by economic growth
Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster
Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground
Kapitän Harmsen – Adios, Kopenhagen!