Links or 11/5/15

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Source: In 1959, a white journalist traveled the Deep South posing as a black man. The conditions horrified him. / Boing Boing


 

[BreakingNews.ie] WHO are to warn about the cancer threat caused by eating processed meats.

Source: Processed meats ‘on same carcinogenic level as cigarettes’ in Headline says what? curated by Louisiana World Network #LWN


 

Source: Prepare to have your head ripped off by the buzzsaw guitar of Love Sculpture’s ‘Sabre Dance’ | Dangerous Minds


 

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Source: SurfGuitar101.com | Forums: South East Asia Surf Music Movement


 

Source: El Niño w/Mark Sponsler | Swell Lines

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The Oakland A’s exec is named and shamed for excessive water use.

Source: Check Out the Homes of Some of the Bay Area’s Biggest Water Guzzlers—Including Billy Beane | Mother Jones


In an alternate universe version of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, Eddie Murphy, not Samuel L. Jackson, might have played Jules, the bible-spouting hit man. His partner-in-crime, Vincent Vega, might have been played by Gary Oldman, not John Travolta.

Source: Quentin Tarantino’s Original Wish List for the Cast of Pulp Fiction | Open Culture


It has become one with the jungle since the last human inhabitants abandoned its shores in World War II. Ross Island, or as I’ve come to call it, “Jungle Book Island”, was once […]

Source: Buried by Nature: The Dark Colonial Past of Jungle Book Island


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A new mega-study says ocean life will be unable to recover from climate change

Source: Goodbye, oceans! Study finds ecosystems headed toward a major collapse | Grist


 

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Gaia Vince’s Adventures in the Anthropocene has won the Royal Society Winton science book of the year for its account of her travels through an endangered planet. Nick Pattinson captured her journey in photographs

Source: The wild beauty of a threatened world – in pictures | Books | The Guardian

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Ghostly underwater images capture the third global coral-bleaching event in less than two decades

Source: Ghostly underwater images capture the third global coral-bleaching event in less than two decades


 

Color photos from Brazil seven decades ago, when the beautiful, troubled nation was enduring “growing pains” not dissimilar to what it’s going through today.

Source: Brazil in the Fifties: Portrait of a Beautiful, Troubled Country | TIME


 

A third global bleaching of coral reefs is underway following a massive and persistent underwater heatwave

Source: World’s oceans facing biggest coral die-off in history, scientists warn


 

They’re homing in on the gigantic Thwaites Glacier, which is bigger than Pennsylvania.

Source: Scientists declare an ‘urgent’ mission – study West Antarctica, and fast


 

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Source: Near-Total Meltdown of Fukushima Reactor 2 Confirmed


 

The Kermadec ocean sanctuary, in the South Pacific and spanning 620,000 sq km, expands an existing reserve surrounding the Kermadec Islands

Source: New Zealand’s new ocean sanctuary will be one of world’s largest protected areas

Links for 8/29/15

Million gallons of wastewater closes another beach in Hawaii

13 Rare Photos of The Queen of Crime Agatha Christie

Beyond the Sea – Fabulous Vintage Beach Images from Vogue from between the 1940s and 1960s

Climate change to raise price of German beer – The Local

Pesticides in paradise: Hawaii’s spike in birth defects puts focus on GM crops

Stormwater Runoff Fees Get Property Owners’ Attention

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Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole Toward a Second Great Dying? World Ocean Shows Signs of Coming Extinction