Not All News is Bad!

Graham Porter was unflappable as swans circled him during his latest rescue.

Source: Watch a man calmly untangle a baby swan from a fishing hook while keeping its parents at bay

The TikTok video is very cool.

Scientists have found a surprising way to regrow damaged knee cartilage by blocking a protein that becomes more abundant with age. In old mice, the treatment restored naturally lost cartilage and also helped prevent osteoarthritis after ACL-like knee injuries, while human cartilage taken from knee replacement patients began producing new, functional joint cartilage after exposure to the same inhibitor.

Source: Goodbye joint replacements? Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis

Want!

Identical twin brothers who grew up in poverty in Virginia are now leading the emergency department at a hospital in the same city where they were raised.

Source: Identical Twin Brothers, Who Grew Up in Poverty, Returned to Their Hometown to Co-Run an ER Together

Inspiring.

A Michigan man is turning discarded bicycle parts into prosthetic legs — and hopes the low-cost design can eventually help millions of amputees around the world.

Source: Man Makes Prosthetic Legs from Easy-to-Find Bike Parts, and He’s Giving the Revolutionary Design Away for Free

So cool.

“There really wasn’t much of a discussion about it,” skydiver Sean Plastine said. “It was just, ‘People need help. Okay, let’s go.’”

Source: These skydivers parachuted 3,000 feet to help people in a plane crash (gift link)

Very cool.

An entangled humpback whale off Westport is swimming free again, thanks to a fast 911 call and a careful cutting sequence.

Source: Westport, WA Crews Free Entangled Humpback Whale

Well done.

This week in Leawood, Kansas, a police officer was patrolling a residential neighborhood when he noticed a dog standing in the middle of the roadway.

Source: Dog Standing in Road Leads Police to Owner Who Needed Help

A very good dog.

A St. Louis man who spent decades wondering about his biological roots was recently reunited with his birth parents—and discovered his father is a five-time Grammy Award winner

Source: Adopted St. Louis man discovers his biological father is a Grammy-winning artist

Very cool.

Wind farm at the bottom of the world: three turbines power U.S. and New Zealand bases in Antarctica and cut diesel use by 122,000 gallons a year.

Source: The world’s southernmost wind farm uses just three turbines to help power U.S. and New Zealand research bases in Antarctica, cutting diesel consumption by about 122,000 gallons a year and preventing an estimated 1,242 metric tons of CO₂ emissions despite operating in one of Earth’s harshest environments

A cool (no pun intended) example.

“Flash floods wash down vast quantities of plastic and other waste.”

Source: Ocean Cleanup stops 463,000 pounds of trash before it reaches the Gulf of Honduras

Very cool.