Your Favorite Rock ‘n’ Roll, Country and R&B Legends as Marionettes

Summers could become ‘too hot for humans’

Earth’s final frontier: the global race to map the entire ocean floor

From LAX to Frank Sinatra’s house, Paul R. Williams’ architecture defined mid-century California

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature, John Hubley

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For decades, scientists puzzled over the plastic ‘missing’ from our oceans – but now it’s been found

Arizona national monument, home to sacred Native American burial sites, is being blown up for the border wall

Temperatures at a Florida-Size Glacier in Antarctica Alarm Scientists

Federal disaster relief is being wasted on NC beaches

Honolulu Hawaii Episode 1

Tear-down of the San Onofre nuclear plant – work on the distinctive containment domes first on the list

‘We loved each other’: America’s first racially integrated all-girl swing band

Climate Change Will Displace Millions

Scotty Moore Tells It Like It Was

World’s Largest Vintage Skateboard Collection and Tour of SkateLab in Simi Valley

Skateboard History Timeline

Google and Amazon are now in the oil business

Gregg Carroll

The Art of Dignity: Making Beauty Amid the Ugliness of WWII Japanese American Camps

Neoliberalism and Climate Change

Rip City or Die: The Tide of Gentrification Is Pushing Dogtown’s Oldest Skate Shop Elsewhere

Reducing music’s climate impact through innovation

Toxic Coastal Fog Linked to Dangerously High Levels of Mercury in Mountain Lions

An Old Brochure Reveals How the Palos Verdes Peninsula Became a Massive Planned Community

Where are the architects who will put the environment first?

Vietnam – Bobby Jameson – Film Clip – 1967

Once Upon a Time There Was a Band, Pt. 1

Malaysia’s last indigenous nomadic tribe threatened by deadly mystery illness

1964 The Holy Grail

What the World May be Like in the Near Future

Standing Rock Fights On: Tribal Activism Goes Solar

The Designer Who Gave Googie its Flair

B.C. has a whopping 1,807 species at risk of extinction — but no rules to protect them

Ike’s Instrumentals

Our Zero Emission Future

Retro wheels: Fiat 500 Jolly Icon-e by Garage Italia

Tiki-style, Hawaiian dress was the all the talk in the 1960s

How were vinyl records made in the 1950s?

What to Know About JFK’s Wild 1960s Bar-Packed Hotel, Opening Today

The Inverted World Map – Variations on a Blue Marble

A man spear fishing at night in Hawaii, 1940s

The zero-waste revolution: how a new wave of shops could end excess packaging

Complex societies gave birth to big gods, not the other way around: study

Hans Hass – Unternehmen Xarifa

The Climate Change Lawsuit That Could Stop the U.S. Government From Supporting Fossil Fuels

The Killing Times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront

‘We are fighting’: Brazil’s indigenous groups unite to protect their land

The Global Assault on Indigenous Peoples

Greenland’s ice is melting four times faster than thought—what it means

Three-Ingredient Summer Cocktails

Easter Island looks for help to save statues from ‘leprosy’

Marvin Rand’s Gorgeous Photos of California Modern

Extreme CO2 levels could trigger clouds ‘tipping point’ and 8C of global warming

Rescued octopus comes back a day later to chill with its rescuers

Aspen Ski House Interiors by Shawn Henderson

Puerto Ricans and Ultrarich “Puertopians” Are Locked in a Pitched Struggle Over How to Remake the Island

“Day zero” water crises: Spain, Morocco, India and Iraq at risk as reservoirs shrink

Lessons from Las Vegas

The British jazz explosion: meet the musicians rewriting the rulebook

Legende Longboards

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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: The Birth, Death and Rebirth of Tiki

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: ‘Non-drinkers deserve a great adult cocktail’: how alcohol-free spirits became a stealth hit | Life and style | The Guardian

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A longtime South Bay resident barrels through the wave of early-‘60s surf bands and clubs that once gave our Beach Cities a summer soundtrack.

Source: The South Bay Bands that Created the 60’s Surf Music Sound – Southbay Magazine

In another one of our occasional posts on crazy continental architecture here we look at a groovy German coastguard station on the island Rugen in northern Germany. It may look like it’s in the middle of a field but don’t let these photos deceive you – it’s not, it’s by the sea, where it should [&hellip

Source: Space Age German Lifeguard Station – Voices of East Anglia

Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater | DeSmogBlog

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There are numerous ruins of Tiahuanaco origin which were later occupied by the Incas. These are sacred places for the peoples of the Andes.

Source: The Precursors of the Inca – Top Documentary Films

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It started back in the 1950s. Bill Haley and Elvis burst onto the scene. Rock ‘n’ roll was born. The guitar took center stage, and it never left.

Source: The Story of the Guitar: The Complete Three-Part Documentary | Open Culture

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Last month, we highlighted for you The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays, a largely-forgotten 1957 educational science film. The production is notable partly because it was shot by Frank Capra, the influential director who had won not one, not two, but three Oscars for best director.

Source: Frank Capra’s Science Film The Unchained Goddess Warns of Climate Change in 1958 | Open Culture

Bartenders at TikiCat in Westport were trained by some of the legends in the tiki bartending business.

Source: These young KC bartenders are aiming to be ‘tiki superheroes’ | The Kansas City Star

Frank Lloyd Wrights Hollyhock House is an early example of Mayan Revival

Here it Comes: Another Safe Harbor For Digital Services | The Trichordist

Five mid-century gems in unlikely architecture haven Fort Wayne

What’s Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise

Activists Sue to Block Plans to Bury 3.6 Million Pounds of Nuclear Waste Near California Beach

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Open source breeders hope to preserve a handful of important varieties for the farms of the future.

Source: For Seed Rebels, Saving Life’s Building Blocks Has New Urgency | Civil Eats