Thirty-eight seasons in Indo with the surfer, skipper, and explorer

Source: Interview: Jim Banks | The Surfers Journal

Divesting from fossil fuels required breaking a family tradition.

Source: My Oily Heirloom

Edward Curtis’ epic portraits of North American indians are a joy. And so too are his pictures of North America’s indigenous peoples dressed in ceremonial masks.

Source: Fantastic Photographs Of North American Indians In Ceremonial Masks (1905-1915) – Flashbak

10 track album

Source: Freakout | Trabants

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Our weekly look at a favorite new typeface. Share yours with us on Twitter and Instagram @AIGAdesign with #TypeTuesday. Name: Phoreus Cherokee Designer: Mark Jamra Foundry: Type Culture Release Date: 2014; version 2.0 in October 2015 Back story: In the summer of 2011, two representatives from

Source: A Typeface Designed to Revive the Endangered Cherokee LanguageEye on Design | Eye on Design

Fatboy’s $250 “picnic lounge” is a 9’x 7?, weather-resistant, picnic/beach blanket with a built-in pocket (inside the Fatboy logo-tag). (via Geekologie)

Source: Picnic/beach blanket that looks like a knotted rug / Boing Boing

Prof Antonella Sorace says children should be encouraged to learn less common languages to prevent them from dying out

Source: Preserve rare languages to spread benefits of multilingualism, says expert | Science | The Guardian

It started with an email from a source at Interpol. The subject line of the email said: “Brace yourself.” Attached to the email was a video that showed four men at sea, swimming frantic…

Source: A Murder at Sea. Caught on Camera. Will Anyone Investigate?

Though remains of 19 bodies were found at dump, investigators said no physical evidence supports attorney general’s claim that students were incinerated there

Source: Forensic experts reject Mexico’s claim that criminals burned missing students | World news | The Guardian

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Uncontacted Tribes

More than NZ$1.4m raised so far to protect stretch of coastline in Abel Tasman national park from becoming out of bounds to the public

Source: Crowdfunding battle to stop unspoilt New Zealand beach falling into private hands | World news | The Guardian

Located in the waters off Sipadan in Malaysia, is an old oil rig that is now a dive platform and resort named ‘Seaventures‘. The surrounding area is one of the diving industry’s renowned top dive destinations, and is commonly ranked as being one of the world’s best. Seaventures takes advantage o

Source: You Can Stay At This Converted Oil Rig In Malaysia And Go Diving

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Bill Wurtz made this fun and informative 9-minute history of Japan.

Source: Entertaining animated history of Japan

A new documentary coming from Peter Marsh. The subject here is New Zealand ancestry other than Polynesian, but Peruvian and Asian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z6PlYiQSTs

Revealed: how Indigenous Australian storytelling accurately records sea level rises 7,000 years ago

What’s the difference between a $20 ukulele and a $1000 ukulele

Take a vacation, or die young

This is how blue the skies were when Beijing banned 2.5 million cars for two weeks

This guy’s drive through California’s Valley Fire looks like a scene from a horror flick

Invasion of the Lionfish

Vintage Vinyl: 1963 Vintage photographs available as fine-art prints or digital stock images

Shigir Idol is oldest wooden sculpture monument in the world, say scientists

Genetic history of P-M45: Native American migration

Let’s See What Happens When This Group Of Scientists Retests Studies That Contradict Climate Science

Joe & The Magaracs

Trash-mapping expedition sheds light on ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’

Huun-Huur-Tu – Live

Hawaii’s Waikiki beach deserted after heavy rains trigger huge sewage spill

2015 World Bodysurf Championship

Humans Are Set To Wipe An India-Sized Chunk Of Forest Off The Earth By 2050

Extreme Exhibitry

First Offshore Wind Farm In U.S. Under Construction

People Riding Motorcycles on the Streets in Vietnam

DNA study of 24,000-year-old Siberian skeleton links Europeans to Native Americans

The Grog Log: Completed

Jon Savage announced new book – 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded

Ports of Paradise: Playlist for Friday, 21 August 2015

Tim Biskup brings Space Madness to Hong Kong

Native Americans and Turks are related

Kurenya – Bear dance – Mansi folk song – Mansi people (Siberia)

Was Sardinia home to the mythical civilisation of Atlantis?

Pay the Band

Surf City Makes Top 10 List Of Most Polluted Beaches

L.A. From the Air, 1961 – YouTube

Downey: From Orange Groves to the Apollo Space Program

The Kuna: the endangered last tribe of the Caribbean – in pictures

Palm Canyon Drive