A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
Bill Nye the Science Guy is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement award at next month’s Children’s & Family Emmy Awards in New York.
Source: Bill Nye to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honor at the 4th Annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards
Well deserved. (But to me he’ll always be Speed Walker. 
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The jaguar is an apex predator that can hunt anything, but recent video camera trap footage has revealed they possess a softer side as well.
Source: Jaguars Recorded Meowing for the First Time Ever (LISTEN)
Cute.
As the monks marked their 100th day of walking across the country in Richmond, Virginia, thousands came out to support their efforts.
Source: VIDEO: Drone footage shows thousands joining Buddhist monks’ ‘Peace Walk’ as they near DC
Nice.
Dr. Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas and Dr. Kiran Musunru crafted a bespoke treatment that has successfully corrected the genetic defect.
Awesome.
Bracken later recalled finding the teen in an interview with ABC affiliate WMAR, saying, “To the untrained eye, it can just look like blank, white canvas, but to a bloodhound, it is a layered archive of different human scent signatures.”
Nice.
As temperatures dropped and a winter storm moved through the Tulsa area over the weekend, one local man saw a need and decided to act by using a fire truck he originally bought just for fun.
Source: Local business owner helps dozens during winter weather using vintage fire truck
Pretty cool.
A St. Louis man is being praised after he rented heavy equipment with his own money and spent days clearing snow-covered neighborhood streets for free, helping residents get back on the road after winter weather made many areas difficult to navigate.
Source: ‘This Is What Community Looks Like’: Snowplow Vigilante Clears Streets For Free
Nice.
Researchers are testing a stem-cell-based “pain sponge” that could intercept pain signals before they reach the brain, offering a drug-free solution for chronic pain.
A long way away, but this could be huge.
“They contacted the Ohio Department of Transportation, and we had a snowplow literally go in front of the vehicle that was taking the folks from the Children’s Hospital there, …”
Source: Snowplow escorts ambulance transferring child to Cincinnati Children’s during winter storm
VERY well done.
By keeping rodents and small fruit-eating birds out of the orchards, kestrels were found to be an effective means of pest control.
Source: Cherry Crops Kept Safe from Diseases Thanks to Tiny Kestrel Falcons in Michigan
Pretty cool idea.