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Patrick Brady worked with SPCA International to bring his dog Marshmallow home.

Source: Operation Baghdad Pups helps serviceman and dog reunite back in the US

Nice story. Well done.

Selah, now 8 years old, and her family created The Empowered Readers Literacy Project, a non-profit aimed at helping families build strong reading rituals and getting kids excited about books.

Source: This 8-year-old is on a mission to give away 2 million books to underprivileged kids

Literacy matters SO much. Great job!

“I decided I’m going to be a force of positivity for Cole,” said Starbucks barista Eddie Aldrete. “I’ll be his cheerleader.”

Source: It started as a spontaneous pep talk. Then this Starbucks barista became a lifeline for a boy with cancer.

Sometimes it’s the smallest things that make the biggest difference.

(Important: a note about paywalls.)

Scientists have been scrambling to create an injection that can be one-and-done without the hassle of having to revaccinate the population on a yearly basis.

Source: Experts are homing in on an influenza vaccine that could last a lifetime

That would be awesome.

What started as a random act of kindness from one man paying for the car behind him in a Dairy Queen drive-thru resulted in over 900 cars also taking part in the pay it forward chain.

Source: Over 900 cars paid for each other’s meals at a Dairy Queen drive-thru in Minnesota

Nice.

https://notallnewsisbad.com/6293-2/

Hayley Orlinsky has sold more than $20,000 worth of loom bracelets to help buy personal protective equipment for staff and visitors at a children’s hospital.

Source: Chicago 7-year-old raises money for hospital’s pandemic gear

Very cool.

Three years after losing Lola in a Chicago suburb, the Mejeur family received a call that her microchip was detected.

Source: Kalamazoo woman reunited with her lost service dog after three years

Pretty amazing. Chip your pets!

Binish Desai has developed ways to recycle multiple types of industrial waste into useful products, and thereby diverted 1996 metric tonnes of trash from entering landfills.

Source: This 26-year-old is making value out of waste and paving way for a greener environment

While the linked article is from earlier this year, I stumbled on to this via a report he’s now using this technique on massive accumulations of used PPE (might be paywalled) resulting from the pandemic. Nice!

“This evening our hotline operator took a call. At first she thought she was the victim of a prank call,” wrote the organization in a Facebook post Wednesday.

Source: Curious koala sneaks into Australian home and climbs Christmas tree

Can I be jealous? I think I’m jealous.

Google’s deep-learning program for determining the 3D shapes of proteins stands to transform biology, say scientists.

Source: ‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures

Everything I’ve been reading would indicate this is a very big deal.