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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Rare Pleasure:
🎵 Let Me Down Easy
#RarePleasure
https://dendesound.bandcamp.com/track/rare-pleasure-let-me-down-easy-dende-sound-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3RcRE1Chqbrp1dzNewMhWX

Simultaneously fascinating and horrifying: memories from the last of the Scottish whalers in this episode of #RareEarth about the whale hunts of the Antarctic that led to near extinction.
Rare Earth: A Whale's Life
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f013

China has suspended almost all exports since April 4 of seven kinds of #rare #earth metals,
as well as very powerful magnets made from three of them.
The halt has caused increasingly severe shortages that threaten to close many factories in the United States and Europe.

What to Know About China’s Halt of Rare Earth Exports
Since early April, China has stopped almost all shipments of critical minerals that are needed for cars, robots, wind turbines, jet fighters and other technologies.

What I find really interesting is how we judge people from different cultures who basically do the same thing. Think about Greenlandic narwhal hunters, they're generally considered quite differently to Faroese pilot whale hunters, or indeed, this old boy who was sailing south to hunt humpbacks, sperm and blue whales in the 1950s 60s...
#RareEarth about the whale hunts of the Antarctic that led to near extinction.
Rare Earth: A Whale's Life
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f013