12Dave Wronski at The Electric Guitar in American Culture conference, Oct. 12-14, 2018
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Redistribution and how responsively the two lines are connected.
The World Wealth and Income Database: data and visualizations from 110 researchers in 70 countries
Fraternal Order of Moai – F.O.M. sends annual donation to the Easter Island Foundation
How a young guitarist and inventor named Del Casher perfected the sound that transformed the electric guitar.
Underwater Pinups: How Bruce Mozert Seduced Fun-Seekers To Florida’s Silver Springs
About Music Tools | Ann Arbor District Library
California’s lingering drought has pushed the number of dead trees across the state past 100 million, an ecological event experts are calling dangerous and unprecedented in underlining the heightened risk of wildfires fueled by bone-dry forests.
Source: ‘Unprecedented’: More than 100 million trees dead in California
A glimpse of the last people on Earth to colonize a continent without humans.
Source: 14,000-year-old campsite in Argentina adds to an archaeological mystery | Ars Technica
Guitarist, record producer and songwriter who co-wrote The Dark End of the Street and worked with Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin and Tammy Wynette
Source: Chips Moman obituary | Music | The Guardian
Working On a Dream: the Long Reef Old Mal & Vee Bottom Surf Fest
‘I am a Sunflower’: Amazing Chinese children’s propaganda record
When New England fishers complained of working harder and harder to catch fewer and fewer fish, Spencer Baird assembled a scientific team to investigate. Though a fishery failure would once have seemed inconceivable, Baird wrote in his report, “an alarming decrease of the shore-fisheries has been thoroughly established by my own investigations, as well as by evidence of those whose testimony was taken.” Continue reading
Source: The Number One Thing We Can Do to Protect Earth’s Oceans – BillMoyers.com
Skate legend Tommy Guerrero was one of the biggest names in skateboarding in the 1980’s. As one of the Bones Brigade, Powell Peralta’s famous skate team, Guerrero would go on to head up…
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Source: Individually-shrinkwrapped potatoes are why we must destroy capitalism / Boing Boing
A Walk in the Dead Woods
Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation beachwear
Algal bloom ‘of biblical proportions’ has led to protests and health emergency as concerns raised over dumping of rotting salmon in ocean
Source: Toxic ‘red tide’ in Chile prompts investigation of salmon farming | World news | The Guardian
This week we’re honoured to have the legend of TWANG drop into the Henhouse, Mr. Duane Eddy himself! For those of you who don’t know him, Duane Eddy revolutionized the sound of the electric guitar and became the king of “twang” with his trusty Gretsch guitar in hand.
Source: Episode 11 – Duane Eddy (Part 1)
Lost in time
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To imagine the ocean of the future: picture a writhing mass of unkillable tentacles, forever
Source: To imagine the ocean of the future: picture a writhing mass of unkillable tentacles, forever
Vulnerable Twenty Group (V20) Foundation Press Release: 8 October 2015, Lima – Finance Ministers of the Vulnerable Twenty (V20)
Source: Vulnerable Twenty Group V20 – Founded
She influenced Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and countless others, but Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a legend in her own right.
Source: The First Badass Female Guitarist: Meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll
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In a rare move to shun tourism profits for environmental protection, 10 popular dive sites have been shut down in a bid to slow a coral bleaching crisis
Source: Thailand closes dive sites over coral bleaching crisis | Environment | The Guardian
Watch: The Dying Craft Of Neon Signs
Here’s a shorebird’s-eye view of the Galveston oil spill
Food and Climate Justice
Murakami: a rocking chair that generates electricity
Electricity decentralization, here we come
Barney Kessel – Let’s Cook! : AmbientExotica.com – Music Reviews of Ambient & Tiki Exotica Albums
Borrowed Time on Disappearing Land
P&G Competitor Colgate-Palmolive Commits to No Deforestation
altaeros energies high altitude wind turbine deploys at 1,000 feet
The Legend Series: Reynolds ‘Renny’ Yater
R.I.P. HOBIE ALTER: MASTER AND PIONEER OF THE SURFING LIFESTYLE