California to consider buying back private beachfront properties

The unexpected benefits of surfing

Beaver believers: Native Americans promote resurgence of ‘nature’s engineers’

Special brew: eco-friendly Peruvian coffee leaves others in the shade

Smile for the camera: the dark side of China’s emotion-recognition tech

Changes in Atlantic currents may have dire climate implications for the next century

6 Echo Chambers That Shaped the Sound of Pop Music

China is scaling up its weather modification programme – here’s why we should be worried

Music historian delves into LA’s rich jazz scene and how clubs were an ‘oasis from racism’

L.A.’s coast was once a DDT dumping ground.

Steve Pezman’s thoughts about Surf Music at Surfer’s Journal.
I know what he is saying. But I also think it’s too black and white. There’s richer Surf Music and even some bonafide Surf/Jazz hybrids.

The drum solo is common in Jazz and Surf.

No, You’re Not Tripping On Peyote, Plastic Made From Cactus Exists

Neil Fujita: The Man Behind the Look and Feel of Jazz

The Locations of Jim Rockford’s House Trailer & Office on the Rockford Files TV Show

and The Beach Boys debut album shot at Paradise Cover

Lib Tech Surfboards: Eco-friendly and Never Trendy

“Lady Shred” – Beth O’Rourke

Interactive Sea Level Rise Map

Australia – Surf And Underwater Girls 1963

Watch rare footage of Louis Armstrong play an open-air concert in pre-independence Ghana

Hawaiian Hula Song

Deus 9ft and Single presented by Swell

Prepare for 10 Feet of Sea Level Rise, California Commission Tells Coastal Cities

The wicker men: ‘People are fed up with plastic and industrial products’

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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How’s this for fusion? Here we have The Sachal Studios Orchestra, based in Lahore, Pakistan, playing an innovative cover of “Take Five,” the jazz standard written by Paul Desmond and originally performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1959.

Source: Pakistani Musicians Play an Enchanting Version of Dave Brubeck’s Jazz Classic, “Take Five” | Open Culture

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David Bald Eagle, who died July 22 at 97, was known for an eclectic mix of passions, especially his work in motion pictures. But he also left a legacy of activism for the Native American community, including his service as the first chief of the United Indigenous Nations of the Americas.

Source: Emma Niles: Truthdigger of the Week: David Bald Eagle, Lakota Chief and Native American Rights Activist – Truthdigger of the Week – Truthdig

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Biodiversity across much of Earth has recently dropped below safe levels. Here are some of the species we’ve lost just this century.

Source: Animals That Went Extinct In The 21st Century [Infographic]

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Insect populations are declining dramatically in many parts of the world, recent studies show. Researchers say various factors, from monoculture farming to habitat loss, are to blame for the plight of insects, which are essential to agriculture and ecosystems.

Source: Vanishing Act: What’s Causing Sharp Decline in Insects and Why It Matters by Christian Schwägerl: Yale Environment 360

I wasn’t expecting much from jazz bagpipe, but this is great.

Source: Jazz bagpiper Rufus Harley on “I’ve Got a Secret” (1996)

The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational competition got underway at 8am (local time) today in monstrous waves at world-famous…

Source: Gladiators, Monster Waves | Quiksilver

Source: Yale Environment 360: Scientists find new large lizard species on remote Papua New Guinea island

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Source: The Reality of Touring Revenue From Someone Who Has Done It For 32 Years | The Trichordist

Carlos Santana talks about Gabor Szabo

Dead Dolphins, Pelicans Continue to Wash Ashore after Refugio Oil Spill

Huge oarfish found off Catalina Island in SoCal

3 ways humans create poverty

Drainage System of Harappan Civilization

Ho‘okuleana: Menehune Ditch

Israelite House of David – Musical Traditions

Scottish government accused of abandoning wave power

How Religion Could Be Making Climate Change Worse

Building an identity: Immigration and architecture in Southern California

A Sea Full of Trash