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The rides have drawn smiles, selfies and attention from passersby while putting the dogs in front of a much larger audience.
Source: Bryan Reisberg’s New York City dog backpack rides help shelter pups find homes
Owner of the extremely popular and photogenic Maxine the Fluffy Corgi.
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.
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.
A cool (no pun intended) example.