Thiermann says he still gets harassed on occasion for rocking a wetsuit during his own TED Talk.

Source: $360M Can’t Be Wrong; Why Kyle Thiermann Redefines “Cool”

Source: 453 – Norrie Paramor – Shadows In Latin – AmbientExotica.com – Music Reviews of Ambient, Vaporwave & Tiki Exotica Albums

Super rare river sharks pop up after more than four decades of life in the shadows

Source: Catch of the Day

I started this article because I was researching a Scandinavian subculture of ‘greasers’ said to be responsible for Sweden having amassed more restored American 1950s cars than the […]

Source: The Swedish Subculture Hoarding More 1950s American Cars than the USA | Messy Nessy Chic

Bespoke, handcrafted spirits for the more discerning.

Source: Gestalten Explores Handcrafted Spirits in “Drink Different” Short Film

Have you ever stepped into a tiki bar and wondered, what bamboo aficionado made this place so convincing? Meet the king of kitsch himself, “Bamboo” Ben.

Source: Meet Bamboo Ben, Professional Tiki Bar Designer | Tales of the Cocktail

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

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

Source: Imperial Punch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsnDNkObXJg

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

Get essential tools and recipes for the at-home bartender with this set from MakersKit

 
Genocide, not genes: indigenous peoples’ genetic alcoholism is a racist myth

 
Shaken: cocktail kits by mail

 
Ocean life or acid trip? Photos of psychedelic jellyfish

Nestle–that’s who. And they’re profiting big time. Watch the movie and take action.

Source: Guess Who’s Illegally Occupying Public Land in California?

Where have all the tuna gone, and where are all the cod?

Source: Popular Science

Beat the microbead is an international campaign against plastic microbeads in cosmetics.

Source: Beat the Microbead – Beat the Microbead

I’m well aware that with Paris looming it’s time to be hopeful, and I’m willing to try. Even amid the record heat and flooding of the present, there are good signs for the future in the rising climate movement and the falling cost of solar. But before we get to past and present there’s some past to be reckoned with, and before we get to hope there’s some deep, blood-red anger.

Source: Exxon’s Climate Lie: ‘No Corporation Has Ever Done Anything This Big or Bad’ | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

#NoAdriaticDrilling Croatia! – Citizens say NO to @VladaRH Adriatic #fossilfuel plans for Croatia #COP21

Source: #NoAdriaticDrilling Croatia! – HeadTalker

October 1st through 3rd, 2015

October 1st through 3rd, 2015

October 1st through 3rd, 2015

Singapore Sling | Modern Tiki

Exxon Confirmed Global Warming Consensus in 1982 with In-House Climate Models

Amid Runaway Warming, Richest Nations Spend $200 Billion Backing Fossil Fuels

Tiki Fix | Modern Tiki

Hawaii’s Waikiki beach deserted after heavy rains trigger huge sewage spill

2015 World Bodysurf Championship

Humans Are Set To Wipe An India-Sized Chunk Of Forest Off The Earth By 2050

Extreme Exhibitry

First Offshore Wind Farm In U.S. Under Construction

People Riding Motorcycles on the Streets in Vietnam

DNA study of 24,000-year-old Siberian skeleton links Europeans to Native Americans

The Grog Log: Completed

Jon Savage announced new book – 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded

Plastic Microbeads: They’re Bad (and Gross). But Together We Can Stop Them

There might be fracking wastewater on your organic fruits and veggies

July 2015 was very likely Earth’s hottest month on record

Yvonne Craig – a career in pictures

The Grog Log: Completed

Catalina Island: 1965

Famous horror themes re-recorded in a major key are adorable

Stiggins Fancy Swizzle | Modern Tiki

Chitarre “Cult” – A. Britti, Enrico Ciacci, Bruno Battisti D’Amario e Alessandro Alessandroni

A submerged monolith in the Sicilian Channel: Evidence for Mesolithic human activity