links for 12/20/22

Rockabilly Pioneer Charlie Gracie Passes Away

The search for an AC that doesn’t destroy the planet

Fired? Why cooperatives might be your next career choice in tech

Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’

Cartoonist Kayfabe talks paintings by Robert Williams, founder of Juxtapoz magazine and ZAP comix artist

The Ghosts of Antarctica Will Haunt the End of the World

Biden’s Campaign for “Digital Democracy” Is Really a Giveaway to Big Tech

The Game Is Rigged: Rethinking The Creator Economy | What Works with Tara McMullin

John’s Beachcombing Museum is an eco-friendly attraction made from objects found on the beach

The Chimbu, a tribe in Papua New Guinea paints skeletons on themselves to strike fear in their enemies

Minimal Maintenance

Melodians Steel Band – Für Elise (1972) Rare UK Funky Instrumental Reggae

Links for 1/2/18

Pachucos and Teddy Boys: How Generations of Youth in the U.S. and U.K. Borrowed From Each Other


 

 


 

Benjamin Munday the Sheer Joy of Moondog


 

Sad 7-Foot Tall Clown Sings “Pinball Wizard” in the Style of Johnny Cash, and Other Hits by Roy Orbison, Cheap Trick & More


 

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Help Beat Arctic Oil In Court!


 

A forecasting tool reveals which cities will be affected as different portions of the ice sheet melt, say scientists.

Source: Nasa forecast: Which cities will flood as ice melts? – BBC News

Links for 11/11/17

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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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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 10/14/16

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As Hurricane Matthew hits Florida, it has already left hundreds dead and tens of thousands displaced in Haiti.

Source: IRIN | Haiti hurricane toll soars


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Source: Vince Taylor: The leather messiah who inspired Ziggy Stardust | Dangerous Minds

 


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A short history of cops telling women what to wear at the beach

Links for 12/2/15

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Opponents of $250m project on island Barbuda say the government is trampling on citizens’ rights by approving project under new celebrity-incentive law

Source: Robert De Niro’s plan for Caribbean mega-resort opposed by island residents


 

Bruce’s Beach and the Inkwell served as sites of leisure, agency, community, and controversy, and demonstrate the complex racial history of the Golden State.

Source: Fighting for Leisure: African Americans, Beaches, and Civil Rights in Early 20th Century L.A.


 

Come explore these corals in 3D (no SCUBA certification required)

Source: Corals, Now Playing in 3D

Links for 11/9/15

Millions of people around the world live in “energy poverty,” including 15-year-old Hannah Herbst’s pen pal in Ethiopia.

Source: This Ninth Grader Invented A Device That Harvests Power From Ocean Waves


 

In November 2012, Salvador Alvarenga went fishing off the coast of Mexico. Two days later, a storm hit and he made a desperate SOS. It was the last anyone heard from him – for 438 days. This is his story

Source: Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months


 

…an area roughly the size of Maryland—drifted into the Caribbean. So much of this floating brown algae has been washing ashore that beaches are positively blanketed in stinky, rotting piles that are more than a few feet deep.

Source: Formerly pristine Caribbean beaches are blanketed in stinky, rotting piles of seaweed


 

George Orwell thought they were ‘sex maniacs’. They thought they were spiritual samurai, rebuilding Britain after the Great War. With their magical rituals, outdoor living and utopian vision, they are the most fascinating of forgotten youth movements – and their ideas still resonate

Source: The other KKK: how the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift tried to craft a new world | Art and design | The Guardian


 

German surfer Sebastian Steudtner rides a speed run display on a massive wave at Praia do Norté in Portugal on Tuesday

Source: German surfer Sebastian Steudtner rides huge wave in Portugal – video | Sport | The Guardian