From prudish Victorians to arrows in the eye – 10 things from history everyone gets wrong
Mexico’s Most Celebrated Pachuco: Tin Tan
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How Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago
The plastic tide is a symptom of a sickness in society: Surfers Agains – Gather Outdoors
‘As close as the US gets to Egypt’s pyramids’: how Chaco Canyon is endangered by drilling
Source: Study finds different types of alcohol may affect our emotions differently / Boing Boing
Source: Will You ‘Promise to Protect’? Coalition Urges New Wave of Resistance to Stop KXL | Common Dreams
Source: Who Owns the Internet? | The New Yorker
EV West, a car shop in California, built the world’s first electric Ferrari.
Source: Meet the DIY Mechanics Retrofitting Classic Cars With Electric Motors
Source: Australian Lawmakers Propose Outlawing Parody, Having A Sense Of Humor | Techdirt
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Can it be true? A working ‘Dick Tracy Wrist Watch’
Source: Can it be true? A working ‘Dick Tracy Wrist Watch’
Languages of the US before European Colonisation
Source: Zealandia drilling reveals secrets of sunken lost continent | World news | The Guardian
Tiki drinking first bloomed after Prohibition, and now—after a protracted decline—it has returned, integrated into the larger classic cocktail canon.
Source: Honda’s new classic Super Cub motorscooter looks as good today as it did 60 years ago / Boing Boing
There’s a new Sims documentary coming out soon and we had a chance to chat with Scott Clum who has been working on it for some time. For more info on Tom, see
Source: New Tom Sims Documentary – Pure Juice | Concrete Wave Magazine
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Video: Sea of Joy – Wayne, Nat, Ted & Crew
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Source: Charles Phoenix: Addicted to Americana – Book Launch Party
Source: Rare Surf Tees – Vintage classic retro surf t-shirts, singlets and hoodies
Source: How Alexander Girard’s Folk Art Obsession Changed The Course Of Modernism
Source: Waiting for the tide to turn: Kiribati’s fight for survival | World news | The Guardian
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We keep discovering talents from Brazil. Patricia Rodrigues is a Downhill Skateboarder from São Paulo who just dropped a freeride run down Timburi. LGC
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Indigenous Education Foundation (IEF) Watch a Film, Save a Culture – #wafsac campaign
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(2017). Criminalizing Environmental Activism. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 49, Prisons, Punishment, and Policing in the Americas. Across the region, violence continues to spiral. What can be done?, pp. 315-322. doi: 10.1080/10714839.2017.1373958
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol 49, No 3
Source: Disappointment and delight mark the death of Energy East pipeline | National Observer
Source: Crazy-cool vintage Aloha shirt: Tikis wearing Shriner fezzes / Boing Boing
Source: Adsausage – vintage advertising library.
Source: In a Summer of Wildfires and Hurricanes, My Son Asks “Why Is Everything Going Wrong?”
Circa 1910. ‘Los Angeles & San Diego Beach Railway — Gasoline motor car running from San Diego to La Jolla, California.’ A McKeen Motor Car at the Hotel Cabrillo in La Jolla. 5×7 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co.
Source: La Jolla Line: 1910 | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos
Source: Moondog: the Man on the Street : Free Streaming : Internet Archive
Distant volcanic eruptions disrupted climate, a new study suggests, causing life-giving rains along the Nile to fail.
Source: How Volcanoes Caused Violent Uprisings in Cleopatra’s Egypt
The Pacific Southwest Exposition embodied the spirit of 1920s Hollywood: spectacle for its own sake, cheerful vulgarity, and commercial hard sell.
Source: Flappers and Indians in the Dream City: The Jazz Age Ends in Long Beach
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Source: Lace Music Products – The Teliki – Custom Electric guitar from Lace.
Source: When Wall Street Owns Main Street — Literally | naked capitalism
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Source: One of world’s largest marine parks created off coast of Easter Island | Environment | The Guardian
Source: Elektroauto Jaguar E-type Zero: “Das schönste Elektroauto der Welt” | heise online
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1960s James Bond-inspired retrofuturistic design comes together in a pair of wireless audio speakers that may leave you both shaken and stirred.
Source: Bossa Moonraker Retro-Futuristic Stereo Speaker System – Design Milk
Source: Record Amazon fires stun scientists; sign of sick, degraded forests
Source: I Went Undercover at a Boot Camp for Young Conservatives—Here’s What I Learned | Alternet
Source: Where is the musical underground in 2017? | Music | The Guardian
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Tribes people from around the world watch the BBC’s programme Protecting Our Parents.
Source: BBC Two – Tribes, Predators & Me, Web exclusive: Tribes react to care homes
Source: Gin Wong: 5 LA projects by the modern architect – Curbed LA
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Built in 1883 by the eccentric Boston millionaire Franklin W. Smith as his winter home, Villa Zorayda was inspired by the 12th-century Moorish Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. (Wikipedia)Circa 1904. “Zorayda Club, King Street, St. Augustine, Florida.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
Source: Villa Zorayda: 1904 | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos
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Tribes people from around the world are shown BBC news footage of Morris dancing.
Source: BBC Two – Tribes, Predators & Me, Web exclusive: Tribes react to Morris dancing
Source: Trash Isles: Could the Great Pacific Garbage Patch become an official nation? — Quartz
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Source: The South Bay Bands that Created the 60’s Surf Music Sound – Southbay Magazine
A basic income could defeat the scarcity mindset, instill a sense of solidarity and even ease the anxieties that gave us Brexit and Trump
Source: Basic Income Isn’t Just a Nice Idea. It’s a Birthright
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Source: Diving for Dakuwaqa: giving Fiji’s shark god a helping hand | Science | The Guardian
Source: Sea salt around the world is contaminated by plastic, studies show | Environment | The Guardian
A recent dig may give archaeologists more clues about one of the oldest North American civilizations.
Source: Archaeologists find more info about old North American civilization – Business Insider Deutschland
Push 2 von Michael Minks, selbst Fahrer & Filmer, immer nahe am Rider, nahe am Spaß. Schöner Einblick in die österreichischen Downhill-Szene
Source: Push 2 · Austrian Downhill Culture · Fahrer und Events 2017
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Source: Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing – The New York Times
Source: She’s Photographing Every Native American Tribe in the United States | KCET
