Links for 11/7/21

Kon-Tiki


 

A Brief History Of LA’s Indigenous Tongva People


 

Plastic pollution on course to double by 2030


 

These facts about dunes will blow you away


 

The Death of the Bering Strait Theory


 

The Facebook whistleblower says its algorithms are dangerous. Here’s why.


 

Supreme court, Facebook, Fed: three horsemen of democracy’s apocalypse


 

Halt destruction of nature or risk ‘dead planet’, leading businesses warn


 

Tiki Tatsu-ya Raises the Bar to Islander Heaven


 

‘Shark calling’: locals claim ancient custom threatened by seabed mining


 

WTF Happened In 1971?


 

Temperature change across the planet from 1880 to 2020. The acceleration of global warming in the 21st century is “impressive”


 

Finding, restoring and sharing Australia’s lost surf films


 

55 Bel Air in Honolulu 1967

Links for 10/14/21

Computer Models Of Civilization Offer Routes To Ending Global Warming
  Born Into Rebellion: How Dignidad y Resistencia Merge Music and Liberation
  West Papuans: The Forgotten People
  Facebook putting profit before public good, says whistleblower Frances Haugen
  “Surfa Sam” – Australia’s first skateboard company returns after 36 years in hibernation
  Native Land
  Space-Cowboys: What Internet history tells us about the inevitable shortcomings of a tech-bro led Space Race
  Global coral cover has fallen by half since 1950s, analysis finds
  Guided tour through the exhibition ‘Doggerland’ at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden
  Fukushima: Japan announces it will dump contaminated water into sea

Links for 8/1/21

The Day the Good Internet Died


 

Big quiffs, zombies and dead crows: the wild world of psychobilly



 


Logging the Four Doors break in San Onofre



 


How to see millions of years of history on a day at the beach



 


Inti Illimani – La Partida (1975)



 


Baby Boomers Shed Tears When They Remember The 1960s



 


A new investigation shows an Amazon warehouse destroying millions of unsold products each year



 


Earth is trapping ‘unprecedented’ amount of heat, Nasa says



 


Some of Europe’s Oldest-Known Modern Humans Are Distantly Related to Native Americans



 


Hawaiian shirts are returning – but ‘people want to think twice’, says expert



 


The Earth is humming. Caused by ocean waves

Links for 7/26/21

The Map Of Native American Tribes You’ve Never Seen Before


 

Al Santos – a Pioneer In Hawaiian Bag Surfing


 

The Sandals The Endless Summer LP (re-issue)


 

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months


 

McDonald’s introduced an “impossible” meatless burger in 1962 but it was pineapple


 

Fender 1959 catalog


 

Stealing Children To Steal the Land


 

Apple Is Not Your Friend


 

Tech vs. Journalism


 

The 1963 dam break that flooded parts of Los Angeles


 

Doughnut Economics

Links for 6/21/21

New research shows how many important links on the web get lost to time


 

If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist


 

The miracle of the commons


 

“This Is The BIGGEST SCAM of The Century” – Edward Snowden (NEW)


 

Points of No Return


 

Cameroonian maestro Francis Bebey explains “pygmy” flute music


 

Son makes a documentary about his QAnon-infected mother


 

Pacific Plunder


 

Carbon Pricing is a False – Solution to Climate Chaos


 

A world map that shows borders and absolutely nothing else


 

Why was the ancient city of Cahokia abandoned? New clues rule out one theory.


 

Surfing New York with David Arganda


 

The fight to save 100 years of Black history in gentrifying Los Angeles


 

The rise, fall and rediscovery of the Fender Jaguar


 

How China ended the lie of recyclable plastic