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.

One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:20:20 +1100

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

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08375-z

"Freshwater ecosystems are highly biodiverse1 and important for livelihoods and
economic development, but are under substantial stress. To date, comprehensive
global assessments of extinction risk have not included any speciose groups

Public Domain Image Archive

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:19:02 +1100

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

https://pdimagearchive.org/

"We are very excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image
Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright
historical images, all free to explore and reuse.

Diffractive Chocolate

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:17:46 +1100

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

https://wp.optics.arizona.edu/oscoutreach/diffractive-chocolate/

"Take your science skills into the kitchen. Turn ordinary chocolate into an
edible optics demo that shows how diffraction works."

Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:16:36 +1100

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

https://grist.org/imagine2200-climate-fiction-contest-2025/

"Welcome to the 2025 Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
collection. For four years, this contest has celebrated stories that invite us
to imagine the future we want — futures in which climate solutions flourish and

Steve Langasek, One of Ubuntu Linux’s Leading Lights, Has Died

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:14:45 +1100

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

<https://thenewstack.io/steve-langasek-one-of-ubuntu-linuxs-leading-lights-has-died/>

"The Linux world will be a poorer place without Steve Langasek.

It came as no real surprise, for he had been fighting illness for several

An endangered Hawaiian crow went extinct in the wild: The San Diego Zoo is trying to help save them

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:13:45 +1100

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

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-endangered-hawaiian-crow-extinct-wild.html

"A decades-long effort to save a critically endangered Hawaiian crow from
extinction is taking a new strategy—relocating the birds to a different island
than their historical home. And the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is playing

Thailand bans imports of plastic waste to curb toxic pollution

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:07:27 +1100

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

<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/07/thailand-bans-imports-plastic-waste-curb-toxic-pollution>

"Thailand has banned plastic waste imports over concerns about toxic pollution,
as experts warn that failure to agree a global treaty to cut plastic waste will
harm human health.

A Gigantic Wave in The Pacific Ocean Was The Most Extreme 'Rogue Wave' on Record

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:06:27 +1100

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

<https://www.sciencealert.com/a-gigantic-wave-in-the-pacific-ocean-was-the-most-extreme-rogue-wave-on-record>

"In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome
buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet).

A new era of lies: Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:05:15 +1100

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

<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/07/new-era-of-lies-mark-zuckerberg-meta-social-media>

"Social media has always acted as something of a funhouse mirror to society as
a whole. The algorithms and amplifications of an always-online existence have
helped accentuate the worst parts of our lives, while tucking in and hiding the

Biocubes

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:04:06 +1100

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

https://biocubes.net/

"all life on Earth started from a chemical soup

after billions of years, it has turned into a diversity of biological and