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Source: Was a son of the powerful Rockefeller family eaten by cannibals?
The Ocean Cleanup just launched a prototype of their trash-removing device. We caught up with their founder to see how it felt.
Source: This young inventor’s brilliant device could remove tons of garbage from our oceans.
Disney depiction of obese Polynesian god in film Moana sparks anger
Video: Waikiki Dawn Patrol
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Vogue’s 21st Century Man (1939)
Tiki Joint Super Power Gets Its Origin Story in Crown Heights
This bijou coastal retreat on stilts owes a debt to wartime sea forts
Source: Redshank beach house review – in deepest Essex, cork tiles are back | Art and design | The Guardian
Most cities are indigenous, insofar as they are built on the lands of dispossessed first peoples. Paul Daley, Guardian Australia’s leading voice on Indigenous history, explores whether a city’s ‘indigeneity’ is just a matter of population – or if culture and equality count just as much
Source: Which is the worlds most indigenous city? | Cities | The Guardian
Recent research provides a better understanding of urban populations throughout history, digitising almost 6,000 years of data for the first time
PineappleGate in Madagascar is much more than meets the eye.
Source: Why Everyone in Madagascar Is Making Jokes About Pineapple · Global Voices
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In classic art, the Ocean is frequently featured as a dark and dangerous entity, waiting to destroy ships and lives. Marine art progressed along with the evolution of ocean going vessels. Swell-pro…
Source: Brush Strokes: The Classics | Swell Lines
Skate legend Tommy Guerrero was one of the biggest names in skateboarding in the 1980’s. As one of the Bones Brigade, Powell Peralta’s famous skate team, Guerrero would go on to head up…
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Source: Individually-shrinkwrapped potatoes are why we must destroy capitalism / Boing Boing
A Walk in the Dead Woods
Star Trek: The Next Generation beachwear
Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation beachwear
Algal bloom ‘of biblical proportions’ has led to protests and health emergency as concerns raised over dumping of rotting salmon in ocean
Source: Toxic ‘red tide’ in Chile prompts investigation of salmon farming | World news | The Guardian
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Silicon Valley father of four Damon McMillan has just put the finishing touches to his Seacharger boat and plans to set it off on a solo trip from the Californian coast down to Hawaii on May 30. The craft is designed to cut through the waves using only a motor powered by solar panels.
Source: Solar-powered boat ready to make 2,000 mile ocean voyage on its own
Women’s & Longboard Champs Crowned At the Australian Indigenous Titles
Grass in the park at the center of San Francisco gentrification debate is now for rent
Source: Grass in the park at the center of San Francisco gentrification debate is now for rent
Sinkhole discovery suggests humans were in Florida 14,500 years ago
Touring artists are using their unique influence to help festival organizers move away from single-use plastic
Source: The Music Industry’s Battle Against Plastic Junk
Surfing in New York – in pictures
Royal Hawaiian Featherwork: Na Hulu Ali‘i | LACMA
Scientists don’t know how much flooding Antarctic melting will cause — but it may wipe out cities.
Source: Fate of World’s Coastlines Rests on Melting Antarctic Ice
From 1820 to 2013, 79 million people obtained lawful permanent resident status in the United States. The interactive map below visualizes all of them based on their prior country of residence. The brightness of a country corresponds to its total migration to the U.S. at the given time. Use the controls at the bottom to stop / […]
Source: Here’s Everyone Who’s Immigrated to the U.S. Since 1820 – Metrocosm
Surfing in Palestine: pleasure-seekers of the occupied territories
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Avalon 1964, With Midget Farrelly and Bobby Brown
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Australia’s world heritage site is the largest living thing on Earth. But warm water driven by El Niño is bleaching the reef, and a recent report calls for it to be listed as in danger
Source: Great Barrier Reef: the scale of bleaching has the most sober scientists worried
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Aztec style is big news this summer – here’s our pick of the best pieces
Source: The 10 best Aztec looks for your home – in pictures | Life and style | The Guardian
LA declares Ritchie Valens Day on 75th anniversary of his birth
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers formally rules that 8,500-year-old Kennewick Man, a.k.a. the Ancient One, belonged to a Native American tribe.
Rabbit Kekai, the Last of the Waikiki Beachboys, Dies At 95
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Predicting the attack on Pearl Harbor
Drowned worlds: Egypt’s lost cities
The Marxophone is a 1912 toy instrument that combines a zither with a keyboard linked to flexible hammers that repeatedly strike the strings. The resulting sound, over the years, has earned a stran…
Source: The Marxophone, spooky carnival instrument / Boing Boing
Where are surfing’s most creative subcultures today?
Oldest known axe discovered in Australia, claim researchers
We need a revolt against the fossil fuel industry
Amidst lingering smoke from the morning’s ceremony, Garifuna leader Miriam Miranda opened up the space with a welcoming. “We celebrate that you are here with us today to build something real. We don’t want our Sister Berta to become an empty word. We don’t want her name to become just another slogan.”
Significant portions of the habitats for loggerhead turtles, right whales, and many other species would be impacted if the Obama administration approves permits for seismic testing.
Source: Loggerhead, Right Whale Breeding Grounds Are Entirely Covered By Atlantic Blasting Area | ThinkProgress
Water is at risk in the United States and around the world. Its quality and availability is in peril. Today, nearly one in eight people lack access to adequate supplies of safe drinking water. Globally, water-borne diseases kill more people than tuberculosis or malaria, and five times as many children die of diarrhea than of HIV/AIDS.
Source: Watching Out for Our Water | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
