Bing Crosby shopped the aisles, Frank Zappa worked the floor
Source: Remembering L.A.’s First Great Record Store, Wallichs Music City – Los Angeles Magazine
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We look at the new album the legendary popsters, with material contributed by some of their biggest fans.
China plans undersea lab, 3km down / Boing Boing
Eigentlich soll Palmöl im Kraftstoff das Klima schützen. Nach Ansicht von Umweltschützern ist das Gegenteil der Fall.
Source: Biokraftstoffe: Europa giert nach Palmöl – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Dwindling of Arctic’s oldest ice since 1990
Six more islands have large swaths of land, and villages, washed into sea as a result of ‘dramatic impact of climate change’ on the Solomon Islands
Source: Five Pacific islands lost to rising seas as climate change hits
Findings published on Tuesday are likely to replay a debate among climate scientists that started when a draft version of the paper came out last year.
Source: Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries
The US coast guard spotted castaways stranded on remote island near Micronesia three days after their boat capsized in south Pacific ocean
Source: Three men rescued off deserted island after spelling ‘help’ with palm leaves
Source: Eden Ahbez – Wild Boy – The Lost Songs Of Eden Ahbez
I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of 14. Over my lifetime, I’ve spent many nights in jai…
Water bottle made of algae by Ari Jansson from Iceland – Ambalaj
Migrant workers dumped on islands after being abandoned by boat captains when Indonesia banned foreign fishing
Source: 4,000 foreign fishermen stranded on remote Indonesian islands
We are living in the Anthropocene age, in which human influence on the planet is so profound – and terrifying – it will leave its legacy for millennia. Politicians and scientists have had their say, but how are writers and artists responding to this crisis?
Source: Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet for ever
Despite regular coastal cleanups around the world, the problem of ocean garbage continues. Now, two Australians say they’ve found the solution
Surfing Publication and Newsagency, we provide surfers all the news, Board Buyers Guide, Contest Reports, Big Wave Events, Airshows, Image Galleries, Shapers, Schools and Camps directories, Surfing magazine, Learning to Surf tips
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Bill Wurtz made this fun and informative 9-minute history of Japan.
Marshall Islands fights for climate action in Paris as sea level rise swallows the island nation
Source: Marshall Islands push for climate action in Paris
Explosion killed 11 workers, spewed 134 million gallons of oil, and fouled the coastline.
Source: Manslaughter charges dropped in BP spill case—nobody from BP will go to prison
The fate of 70 million people rests on the Mekong river. With crucial UN climate talks in Paris next week, John Vidal journeys down south-east Asia’s vast waterway and meets people affected by climate change, dams, deforestation and urbanisation
Source: The Mekong river: stories from the heart of the climate crisis
This [NSFW] 1968 anti-war animated film by Disney legend Ward Kimball is as timely as ever
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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.
Source: Corals, Now Playing in 3D
In June 1943, L.A. witnessed some of its most surreal scenes of street violence: sailors coursing through the city streets in their Navy uniforms, carrying sticks and targeting anyone wearing a zoot suit.
Source: Los Angeles’ 1943 War on the Zoot Suit
Source: 25% of people shot to death by LA police were unarmed. No cops were prosecuted.
Source: Bottle Up will das Glasmüll-Problem in Sansibar lösen
There’s a secret world of hidden independent nations, with their own populations, governments – and football leagues. In fact, you’ve almost certainly visited one without realising.
Source: The countries that don’t exist
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
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
A great tract of Earth is on fire and threatened species are being driven out of their habitats. This is a crime against humanity and nature
Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social measures in South American nation
Source: Bolivia enshrines natural world’s rights with equal status for Mother Earth
‘Unless the world acts decisively in coming weeks, the Pacific as we know it is doomed,’ says Fijian prime minister Frank Bainimarama
Come for the shipwrecks, stay for the ecological treasures
Source: Come for the shipwrecks, stay for the ecological treasures
Source: Which Presidential candidates are climate change deniers? / Boing Boing
The Food / Beverage community provides an interactive environment to share breaking news and product information for professionals in pre-clinical drug development.
Source: Food / Beverage – The Online Scientific Community – News
