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In Move to Protect Whales, Polynesian Indigenous Groups Give Them ‘Personhood’
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:42:49 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/world/australia/whale-personhood-polynesia-maori.html>
"For many Indigenous groups across Polynesia, whales hold an ancient sacredness
and spirit that connects all life. Whales — or tohorā, as Māori call them —
guided their ancestors across the Pacific Ocean. Today, those groups consider
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Trans men enter Miss Italy pageant in droves after trans women are told they can’t compete
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:41:38 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/trans-men-enter-miss-italy-pageant-droves-trans-women-are-told-cant-co-rcna96727>
"More than 100 transgender men have entered the Miss Italy pageant this week,
according to an activist leading a protest against recent comments by the
pageant’s organizer, who said trans women wouldn’t be allowed to compete.
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Failure of Francis Scott Key Bridge provides future engineers a chance to learn how to better protect the public
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:39:27 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://theconversation.com/failure-of-francis-scott-key-bridge-provides-future-engineers-a-chance-to-learn-how-to-better-protect-the-public-226795>
"The cargo ship collision that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in
Baltimore on March 26, 2024, is raising questions about just how much engineers
can do to prevent such catastrophes from occurring in the future. Here, Michael
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Philanthropist group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create ‘European Yellowstone’
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:37:30 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-03-29/philanthropist-group-buys-up-large-tracts-of-land-in-romania-to-create-european-yellowstone.html>
"“It has to be an ambitious conservation project,” Hansjörg Wyss, one of the
world’s leading environmental philanthropists, told Christoph and Barbara
Promberger, promoters of the Foundation Conservation Carpathia, as a condition
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Opinion: Ours is the most wasteful civilization in history. Here’s how to stop that
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:35:59 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-15/trash-garbage-plastic-landfill-climate-change>
"What if the looming calamities of climate change, plastic pollution, the
energy crisis and our whole environmental doom-scroll are symptoms of just one
malady and it’s something we actually can fix?
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Finland is the happiest country in the world – but our research suggests the rankings are wealth and status-oriented
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:34:32 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://theconversation.com/finland-is-the-happiest-country-in-the-world-but-our-research-suggests-the-rankings-are-wealth-and-status-oriented-226521>
"Finland steadily ranks as the happiest country in the world. In March 2024 the
country was, for the seventh year in a row, ranked as the happiness champion.
The ranking is based on one simple question, using a ladder metaphor, that is
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Herbert Kroemer, Nobel winner who developed laser tech, dies at 95
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:45:38 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
https://archive.md/jUd4J
"Herbert Kroemer, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who spearheaded the
development of a new kind of semiconductor, leading to Information Age advances
at the heart of everything from bar-code scanners, CD players and cellphones to
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Factcheck: 18 misleading myths about heat pumps
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:44:17 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-misleading-myths-about-heat-pumps/>
"Heat pumps are an alternative to gas boilers and wood stoves for indoor
heating.
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Meatspace twiddling
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:43:01 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/26/glitchbread/#electronic-shelf-tags
'"Enshittification" isn't just a way of describing the
symptoms of platform
decay: it's also a theory of the
mechanism of decay – the means by which
platforms get shittier and shittier until they are a giant pile of shit.
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Think $5.50 is too much for a flat white? Actually it’s too cheap, and our world-famous cafes are paying the price
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:41:11 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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