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 10/14/21

Computer Models Of Civilization Offer Routes To Ending Global Warming
  Born Into Rebellion: How Dignidad y Resistencia Merge Music and Liberation
  West Papuans: The Forgotten People
  Facebook putting profit before public good, says whistleblower Frances Haugen
  “Surfa Sam” – Australia’s first skateboard company returns after 36 years in hibernation
  Native Land
  Space-Cowboys: What Internet history tells us about the inevitable shortcomings of a tech-bro led Space Race
  Global coral cover has fallen by half since 1950s, analysis finds
  Guided tour through the exhibition ‘Doggerland’ at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden
  Fukushima: Japan announces it will dump contaminated water into sea

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

Links for 6/21/21

New research shows how many important links on the web get lost to time


 

If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist


 

The miracle of the commons


 

“This Is The BIGGEST SCAM of The Century” – Edward Snowden (NEW)


 

Points of No Return


 

Cameroonian maestro Francis Bebey explains “pygmy” flute music


 

Son makes a documentary about his QAnon-infected mother


 

Pacific Plunder


 

Carbon Pricing is a False – Solution to Climate Chaos


 

A world map that shows borders and absolutely nothing else


 

Why was the ancient city of Cahokia abandoned? New clues rule out one theory.


 

Surfing New York with David Arganda


 

The fight to save 100 years of Black history in gentrifying Los Angeles


 

The rise, fall and rediscovery of the Fender Jaguar


 

How China ended the lie of recyclable plastic

Links for 5/29/21

Hinter den Masken (1962)


 

The climate crisis requires a new culture and politics, not just new tech


 

Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories


 

How product placements may soon be added to classic films


 

Have you watched “Seaspiracy?


 

South Africa’s Stunning West Coast Faces Serious Mining Threat


 

Who are the Indigenous People That Columbus Met?


 

A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children


 

Is this the end of forests as we’ve known them?


 

The Historic Gold Star Recording Studio and the Audio Legacy of Producer Phil Spector