Links for 6/3/23

Australia’s Crackdown on Climate Activists 

The Gym of Life

The future of AI is chilling – humans have to act together to overcome this threat to civilisation

Global heating will push billions outside ‘human climate niche’

Wanted: More skills for workers as green jobs grow

Discourses of Climate Delay

Recent, rapid ocean warming ahead of El Niño alarms scientists

Massive beach restoration project for Orange County coastline approved – CBS | KCAL News

Battery, Baghdad, 250 BCE

The Antidote To Digital Disconnectivity

Journeys Into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker (ep#2)

Links for 5/13/23

Listen to Brian Wilson’s isolated vocals on “Don’t Worry Baby”

See Photos of the Hand-Built Boat That Might Sail from Sausalito to Hawaii

Das Meer und der Müll – Treibgut in der Tiefsee – Dagmar Röhrlich (2008)

The thinking error that makes people susceptible to climate change denial

See how a quick-fix climate solution could also trigger war

1960s Queensland – ‘Route One: Highway to the Sun’

How We Met: Poison Ivy and Lux Interior

Uranium Stories: the largest nuclear disaster in US history, 43 years later

Links for 7/3/22

High Tide Lefts – Tosh Tudor

A Plastic Bag’s 2,000-Mile Journey Shows the Messy Truth About Recycling

These 36 World Cities Will Be Underwater First

Hawaii: The Stolen Paradise (Full Documentary)

Dreaming Big on the Open Web – The History of the Web

Crate Diggers Australia | Keb Darge

A Brief History of Classic Ska

Partying At Fresno State College – 1963

The problem with the internet that no one is talking about

From Wendy Harmer: As Australia battles wild weather and coastal erosion, we should learn from our mistakes

Robert Louis Stevenson Museum

Feed your moths and hide your trousers: the expert guide to making clothes last for ever

What too much artificial light steals from our night skies

ImillaSkate: an indigenous Bolivian skateboard collective – photo essay

Recording, ’50s Style

Beyond The Reef – Kerri Shannon Trio

Music For Airplanes – A collection of instrumental showpieces and scores for Egyptian films and TV-series (1973-1980)

Mapping Southern California’s history of oil extraction and spills

Jackson Palmer @ummjackson on Crypto Currencies

Links for 4/23/22

The Renewable-Energy Revolution Will Need Renewable Storage

Fires, Floods, FFS Enough! Email Your Local Candidates In the Lead Up To This Year’s Federal Election.

Private paradise: The French Polynesian island locking locals out of beaches

New clues shed light on ‘pivotal’ moment in the great Pacific migration

New Australian Craze “Roller Boarding” 1964

Is it time to begin rewilding the seas?

First Session at Huntington Beach

Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power.

Links for 3/6/22

The Limits to Growth at 50: From Scenarios to Unfolding Reality

Hawaiian leis and aloha at Martin Luther King Jr. march on “Bloody Sunday” in the Deep South, 1965

Inside L.A.’s Lowrider Car Clubs

The sad story of Astrud Gilberto, the face of bossa nova

The Battle to Save Waikiki Beach

In 1962, Chubby Checker’s sold-out Twist Party was quite the show

Little Pattie – He’s My Blonde-Headed, Stompie Wompie, Real Gone Surfer Boy [Sing, Sing, Sing 1963]

Ceibita en Verano

The Dick Dale Virtual Museum

The wave pool backlash

A proud Aboriginal man and his son, from near the Kimberley Coast in North Western Australia, 1890-1910. They both carry boomerangs and the man has a woomera spear strapped to his back.

When did scientists first warn humanity about climate change?

California 1940’s, Newport Beach in color

Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape, RIP