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.
The “Legal Literacy Test” Imposed On Artists By Lenz Decision Benefits Google, Violates Human Rights
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BBC Global Dimming Documentary About Geoengineering & Global Warming
Are you looking for a way to get back to the good old days in one way or another? This classic hippy van is a way to do it without compromising your values
Source: Volkswagen Re-Releasing Classic Hippy Van As New Electric Version
Tom the Dancing Bug, in which Nate the Right Pundit bravely asserts that the Science just isn’t settled yet, on such pressing issues as global warming and his acute appendicitis.
Source: Tom the Dancing Bug: Nate, in “Skeptic Shock”
When LA was stripped of its beloved streetcar in the 1960s, the city was quickly thrust into a traffic-clogged world of private cars and diesel buses. But with the involvement of automobile and oil companies, was this the work of a conspiracy?
Source: Story of cities #29: Los Angeles and the ‘great American streetcar scandal’ | Cities | The Guardian
For their March 1958 issue, Family Circle magazine invited eight “authorities,” including Charles Eames, to offer advice on home decoration.
Source: Love and Discipline in the Age of Choices | Eames Office
+2 C everywhere and all of the time.
Analysis of difference between 1.5C and 2C of warming finds extra 0.5C would mean longer heatwaves, greater droughts and threats to crops and coral reefs
Source: Study reveals greater climate impacts of 2C temperature rise
Jake Phelps has run Thrasher Magazine for two decades. It may be killing him.
Source: Thrashed — The California Sunday Magazine
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Source: Put This On • The Miyuki-Zoku, 1964 David Marx posted this great…
Hardline tactics succeed in keeping outsiders away from Boyle Heights, the Latino community that is the last holdout to Los Angeles gentrification
Source: ‘Hope everyone pukes on your artisanal treats’: fighting gentrification, LA-style
Dancing auf dem Longboard
Fela Kuti’s jazzy, pre-Afrobeat party music
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These pages are extracted from a graphic design magazine that was published in 1901 in Japan. The magazine was titled Shin-Bijutsukai and regularly publish
Source: A Japanese graphic design magazine from 1901
NASA Confirms Earth’s Temperature Reached an Even-More-Terrifying Milestone in February
It was like a sequel to a bad movie.
Source: Power grab topples another defender of California’s environment – LA Times
When you mix the tropics with the tundras, this is what you get.
Source: Nordic-Tiki Cocktails: Not as Crazy as You’d Think
Giant Waves Lash Hawaii Oceanfront Homes In Historic Surf Event
The Oscar nominated film’s success owes as much to America’s troubled mindset as to the movie itself
Source: What lies beneath The Revenant | Ato Quayson | Opinion | The Guardian
Source: Vintage Australian travel posters found in storage reveals travel history | Daily Mail Online
One cocktail that we particularly enjoy is the Missionary’s Downfall, which uses pineapple and mint for a cocktail that is both fruity and refreshing. When we have fresh mint, we never fail t…
Source: Missionary’s Landing
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From jazz bars and spoken word poetry to berets and black turtlenecks, we chart the evolution of beat from subversive to chic
Source: How Beatnik Style Made the Underground Mainstream
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This short excerpt from a documentary on AI pulls together clips from a variety of 1960s interviews with some of AI’s most storied pioneers, including Claude Shannon, Jerome Wiesner and Olive…
Source: Watch: Claude Shannon, Jerome Wiesner and Oliver Selfridge in a 1960s AI documentary
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) Campaigns Director and keen surfer Andy Cummins reveals his top spots for surfing around the UK coast
Source: Top 5 UK Surf Spots | www.coastmagazine.co.uk
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Vintage photographs available as fine-art prints or digital stock images
Source: Shorpy Historic Picture Archive :: Young Salts: 1900 high-resolution photo
Here are 10 things that you probably don’t know about this crisis because the media, having come to the story so late
Source: Michael Moore: 10 Things They Won’t Tell You About the Flint Water Tragedy, But I Will
This winter’s freezing season in the Arctic is falling short. The extent of Arctic sea ice this week is hovering near record-low values for early February, based on observations that extend back to the start of satellite monitoring in 1979. Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) shows that last month had the lowest overall Arctic sea ice extent of any January in the satellite record. Hand in hand with the skimpy ice cover, temperatures across the Arctic have been extraordinarily warm for midwinter, also setting January records.
Source: Absurd January Warmth in Arctic Brings Record-Low Sea Ice Extent | Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog
Source: Bodysurf Skills Required
Los Angeles’ fast-food stands are an iconic part of California’s tradition of car-oriented architecture. But as the city rapidly transforms, the hamburger stands are being erased from the urban landscape
Source: The disappearing roadside hamburger stands of downtown Los Angeles | Cities | The Guardian
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Tiki cocktails are making a comeback, but where and when did the trend take root? We take a brief look at the history of tiki cocktails and bars in the U.S.
Source: Tiki Cocktails: Then and Now – KegWorks Blog
Hackney Brewery and food waste charity Feedback link up to launch quality pale ale that’s made from surplus loaves of bread
Source: Raise a Toast and help tackle the problem of food waste
Brant from Climate Truth writes, “A fishing boat captain, a restaurateur, and a Cuban refugee being displaced by rising seas in South Florida are setting off for New Hampshire next week to ha…
Source: Watch: Florida climate survivors travel to New Hampshire to confront Marco Rubio / Boing Boing
Tiki cocktails are making a comeback, but where and when did the trend take root? We take a brief look at the history of tiki cocktails and bars in the U.S.
Source: Tiki Cocktails: Then and Now – KegWorks Blog
