Links for 6/15/24

Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern life

‘Underwater bicycle’ propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed

‘We’re in our 20s but live in the 1940s’

A response to Hannah Ritchie:  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Economic Growth  

2-5 years to sci-fi level AI? Former OpenAI employee sounds alarm

Papa Doo Run Run America’s Music ~ California’s Band

Rooler Gab

Public has no right to swim in sea, claims firm that dumped sewage at bathing spot

“I Don’t Believe in Growth”

Why We Need “Degrowth” ? Current Affairs

California town asked to return a beachside hotel

Spencer’s Shenanigans

Links for 6/24/23

Ocean heat is off the charts – here’s what that means for humans and ecosystems around the world

A Deep Dive Into Polarizer Skateboards

‘Unheard of’ marine heatwave off UK and Irish coasts poses serious threat

Chris Isaak’s Former Beach Property Becoming a Public Park

Desire to Kill the Streetcar

Rapid changes in cryosphere demand urgent, coordinated action

Rising seas challenge modern notions of property lines

Ever Wondered Why Americans of the 1930s and 40s Spoke with an Accent?

The Crumbling Village of Temples Lost to the Myanmar Jungle

Dear Electric Vehicle Owners: You Don’t Need That Giant Battery

Links for 3/19/23

‘Unprecedented’ Surge in Ocean Plastic Waste Could Accelerate in Future

The creeping threat of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt

It’s like a cult!

Saab Sonett

Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps

Why Methane Surged in 2020

The Ghetto Brothers: Lost Legends of Rock’n’Roll

Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s

Ancient Mystery SANXINGDUI

To truly reach net zero emissions, we need to transform the business supply chain

Links for 7/21/19

In too deep: why the seabed should be off-limits to mining companies


 

Reyn Spooner: Behind the Brand and its Iconic Hawaiian Shirts


 

Ice sheet collapse: The greatest unknown in climate science


 

Anti-Nazi youth movements in World War II


 

Satellite Images Show Vast Swaths of the Arctic on Fire


 

The Sound of Success, Mobile Food Truck Edition


 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw7s1uDY_vA


 

Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950. This is the illustrated story of where it’s gone


 

Weird ‘Plasticrust’ Caused by Pollution Forms on Portuguese Island


 

How Culture Works: Adapt, Teach, Learn.


 

Sea levels, and heads in the sand


 

Seafood Without The Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers?


 

For the sake of our health, we need to kick the indoor habit


 

Psychedelic Vinyl – Vinyl Records LP’s For Sale

Links for 6/2/19

Retro wheels: Fiat 500 Jolly Icon-e by Garage Italia


 

Tiki-style, Hawaiian dress was the all the talk in the 1960s


 

How were vinyl records made in the 1950s?


 

What to Know About JFK’s Wild 1960s Bar-Packed Hotel, Opening Today


 

The Inverted World Map – Variations on a Blue Marble


 

A man spear fishing at night in Hawaii, 1940s


 

The zero-waste revolution: how a new wave of shops could end excess packaging


 

Complex societies gave birth to big gods, not the other way around: study


 

Hans Hass – Unternehmen Xarifa

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


 

link to vimeo


 

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 12/26/17

Living in a parking lot amid Santa Barbara’s wealth is a kind of middle-class homelessness


 

Pachucos: Not Just Mexican-American Males or Juvenile Delinquents


 

A Beautiful Pandemonium


 

Seven charts that explain the plastic pollution problem


 

This Seaweed-Based Edible Packaging Could Help Save Our Seas


 

The never before seen images were taken by photographer Hugh Holland, and are being run in a Hollywood gallery as part of an exhibition called Silver. Skate. Seventies.

Source: California skateboarding revolution captured in photos | Daily Mail Online


 

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Ignored By Big Telecom, Detroit’s Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet – Motherboard