Glass Wings Blog

The Glass Wings mailing list and blog is for general idle chit-chat about things we find interesting, especially humor, animation or other subjects relevant to the Glass Wings web site.

‘It matters if you have a parent with an expensive house’: how Australia’s great wealth transfer threatens faith in the fair go

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:02:21 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/feb/16/it-matters-if-you-have-a-parent-with-an-expensive-house-how-australias-great-wealth-transfer-threatens-faith-in-the-fair-go>

"Kim Day has got word that her mother-in-law is dying. At last. It’s good news
for one half of Kath and Kim, the noughties comedy series that delighted
international audiences with its satirisation-cum-celebration of the comforts,

Trump has scrapped the long-standing legal basis for tackling climate emissions

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:00:38 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://theconversation.com/trump-has-scrapped-the-long-standing-legal-basis-for-tackling-climate-emissions-275921>

"Regulating climate emissions just became more difficult. US President Donald
Trump announced on Thursday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has
repealed its own 2009 legal finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger

Climate change could expose 1.1 billion people to hunger by 2100 (but there’s good news too) – AI modelling study

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:59:48 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://theconversation.com/climate-change-could-expose-1-1-billion-people-to-hunger-by-2100-but-theres-good-news-too-ai-modelling-study-274478>

"More than 295 million people globally experienced hunger and starvation in
2025 because of conflict, displacement, climate change and economic disasters.

This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:58:29 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-what-destroying-the-vaccine-market-looks-like-moderna-flu-prasad-fda>

"THE VACCINE MAKER MODERNA decided this past week to tell the world about bad
news it had received from the federal government.

Larry the Cat celebrates 15 years as Downing Street’s chief mouser

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:57:10 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/larry-the-cat-number-10-5HjdSMd_2/

"Larry the cat, the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, is celebrating 15 years
as the British government's official rodent-catcher.

Novel paint could aid drought-hit regions

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:55:35 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.positive.news/environment/novel-paint-could-aid-drought-hit-regions/>

"A paint that cools buildings whilst simultaneously harvesting water from the
air has been unveiled by scientists at the University of Sydney, Australia. The
nano-engineered polymer was created in conjunction with startup Dewpoint

This underwater sculpture will soon be a sanctuary for marine life

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:14:01 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

https://www.positive.news/environment/in-sight-gaia-beneath-the-waves/

"Ocean Gaia, unveiled late last year beneath the waters of Tokunoshima in
Japan, is both a sculpture and a sanctuary.

We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:12:57 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/capitalist-model-climate-growth-capitalism-species-humanity>

"We have an urgent responsibility. Our existing economic system is incapable of
addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the 21st century. When
we look around we see an extraordinary paradox. On the one hand, we have access

The shifting reality of knife crime in the UK

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:11:52 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.positive.news/society/the-shifting-reality-of-knife-crime-in-the-uk/>

"At 17, Samir Khattab was caught up in a gang fight, “ducking and diving” to
avoid being stabbed. He was “sliced” in the head, admitted to a London hospital
trauma ward, given surgical staples, then discharged. “In my day, they patched

Economics has failed on the climate crisis. This complexity scientist has a mind-blowing plan to fix that

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:09:16 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/12/economics-climate-crisis-complexity-scientist-plan>

"It’s a mind-blowing idea: an economic model of the world in which every
company is individually represented, making realistic decisions that change as
the economy changes. From this astonishing complexity would emerge forecasts of