music Reggae is now on UNESCO's list of protected cultural heritage David Pescovitz

india The Taj Mahal's white marble walls are turning green and brown with pollution Seamus Bellamy

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native americans The Trump administration is blowing up a religious burial site to make room for their stupid wall Thom Dunn

Climbers fined $860,000 for drilling holes in a UNESCO protected rock formation Mark Frauenfelder

Shotguns and Accordions: the 1970s marijuana music of Colombia David Pescovitz

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conservation Komodo Island is closing because people are stealing the dragons David Pescovitz

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geoglyphs Driver trucks up Peru's ancient Nazca Lines Seamus Bellamy

Copyfight One of the net's most important freedom canaries died the day the W3C greenlit web-wide DRM; what can we learn from the fight? Cory Doctorow

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music Magnificent book about pioneering musicologist/photographer/designer Charles Duvelle David Pescovitz

Copyfight The world's libraries tell the W3C that DRM is bad for the web Cory Doctorow

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Copyfight Anti-DRM artists march on the World Wide Web Consortium today Cory Doctorow

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