Links for 1/16/22

“Wave Goodbye” – the battle to save Australia’s surf beaches – Perth, Sydney, Byron
  Climate Change Is Going To Be Gross
  Jonny Teupen – Tabú
  Escapism
  “We’re calling time on human exceptionalism” says Superflux
  We Are the Land: A History of Native California
  A Day at the Beach 1928 – Biarritz France 1920s
  The Largest Autocracy on Earth
  Blue carbon: the hidden CO2 sink that pioneers say could save the planet
  Do the Saigon twist! Meet Phuong Tâm, Vietnam’s first rock’n’roll star
  Have Sumatran fishing crews found the fabled Island of Gold?
  Geoengineering 101

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 10/30/21

Why Grassroots Music Promotion Is Reaching Crisis Point
  Tom Morey, the inventor of the bodyboard, passes away at 86
  Lethal ‘forever chemicals’ taint our food, water and even blood. The EPA is stalling
  Think big on climate: the transformation of society in months has been done before
  The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba
  The Historical Narrative About Geronimo Is All Wrong
  Flower power: how one company is beautifying the wind turbine
  Stolen “Bruce’s Beach” to be returned

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