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Caribbean reef sharks rebound in Belize with shark fishers’ help

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 03:37:37 +1000

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

Andrew Pam
<https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/caribbean-reef-sharks-rebound-in-belize-with-shark-fishers-help/>

"Rosie knows the Lighthouse Reef Atoll like the back of her fin. She calls this
atoll home and is a matriarch of the thriving population of Caribbean reef
sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) living there.

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Amid stifling summers Japan warns of future restrictions on children’s sport

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 03:34:53 +1000

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

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/17/japan-heat-childrens-summer-sport-restrictions-global-heating>

"The tens of thousands of fans filing into Koshien baseball stadium near Osaka
are more grateful than usual for the freebies handed out at the entrance:
floppy sun hats bearing the logo of the Hanshin Tigers, the baseball team they

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Gaming in their golden years: why millions of seniors are playing video games

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 03:33:36 +1000

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

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-interactive/2025/jul/14/video-games-older-adults-data>

"Michelle Statham’s preferred game is Call of Duty. It’s fast and frenetic,
involving military and espionage campaigns inspired by real history. She
typically spends six hours a day livestreaming to Twitch, chatting to her more

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WA had the highest rates of Indigenous child removal in the country. At last, the state is finally facing up to it

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 03:31:58 +1000

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

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/wa-had-the-highest-rates-of-indigenous-child-removal-in-the-country-at-last-the-state-is-finally-facing-up-to-it-258695>

"In 1997, Australia was confronted with the landmark Bringing Them Home
report. It chronicled the country’s long, dark history of the forced removal of
First Nations children.

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‘A vastly superior way to live’: why more seniors should choose cohousing

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 03:30:54 +1000

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

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/jul/11/seniors-retirement-cohousing-community>

"Earlier this year, Angela Maddamma, 72, loaded all her belongings into her
car. She drove from a house in suburban Richmond, Virginia, where she had lived
for 20 years, to her new life about five hours west, in a senior cohousing

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New Barbie with type 1 diabetes could help kids with the condition feel seen – and help others learn

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:42:06 +1000

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

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/new-barbie-with-type-1-diabetes-could-help-kids-with-the-condition-feel-seen-and-help-others-learn-261263>

"Barbie has done many things since she first appeared in 1959. She’s been an
astronaut, a doctor, a president and even a palaeontologist. Now, in 2025,
Barbie is something else: a woman with type 1 diabetes.

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The UK's First All Electric College!

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:41:19 +1000

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

Andrew Pam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS6S1i_GLfw

"In this week's episode Imogen Bhogal and the team visit Wolfson's College, a
constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Built in 1974 when
buildings were not designed with sustainability in mind, Wolfson College has

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Rising seas threaten to swallow one of NZ’s oldest settlement sites – new research

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:40:32 +1000

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

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/rising-seas-threaten-to-swallow-one-of-nzs-oldest-settlement-sites-new-research-260799>

"One of Aotearoa New Zealand’s oldest settlement sites is at risk of being
washed away by rising seas, according to new research.

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How playing the piano for strangers set in motion a new life for Baher Skaik

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:39:41 +1000

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

Andrew Pam
<https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-19/gaza-refugee-baher-skaik-the-piano/105522398>

'Five months after fleeing his home in Gaza, Baher Skaik sat behind a piano in
Melbourne's Preston Markets, his proud family watching on.

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Caught in the contest between China and the west, the Cook Islands asks where its future lies

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:36:25 +1000

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

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/14/caught-in-the-contest-between-china-and-the-west-the-cook-islands-asks-where-its-future-lies>

"On a remote stretch of land in the Cook Islands lies a second world war
airstrip. Once used as a wartime supply route by American forces, the narrow
runway is in dire need of resealing to allow larger tourist jets to land.

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