A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
UK libraries are at the heart of local communities as eborrowing soars, printers turn out PPE, and staff get creative online
Source: Lego, learning and laughter: how libraries are thriving in lockdown | Society | The Guardian
Libraries (and librarians) everywhere are coming to the rescue.
Graham Walters nearly missed out when he was blown off course six miles from Antigua
Source: British 72-year-old is oldest person to row solo across Atlantic | World news | The Guardian
Impressive!
Unseen trends, uplifting stats, creative solutions — a new chart every day. From Information is Beautiful.
Source: Healthy Life Expectancy Has Increased in Almost Every Country Since 2000 — Beautiful News
Encouraging.
When Gustavus, Alaska, was cut off from its grocery supply chain, one resident decided to take action.
Source: The man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship
Quite the story.
Funds for native American tribes who have been badly hit by coronavirus are flooding in from Ireland as they repay a debt dating back to the 19th-century famine.
Source: Grateful Irish honour their Famine debt to Choctaw tribe – Independent.ie
I thought this was pretty special.
It’s time off for good behavior like you’ve never seen it before
Source: Six inmates who saved guard’s life rewarded with shorter sentences – CBS News
A good deed, and a good reward.
A start-up is recycling tonnes of discarded fishing nets throughout Chile. Is this a template for tackling the global plastic waste problem?
Source: Ocean plastic was choking Chile’s shores. Now it’s in Patagonia’s hats | World news | The Guardian
Very cool idea.
A therapy dog from Baltimore, Maryland, is at the forefront of the city’s volunteering efforts to support hospital staff in light of the coronavirus outbreak. Loki, a 2-year-old Rottweiler and her owner, Caroline Benzel, a medical student enrolled at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, have collected over 4,500 “Hero Healing Kits”, which haveRead More
Good dog(tor).
The aerial salute for the “amazing” war veteran “was meant to be a surprise”, Grant Shapps says.
Source: Coronavirus: RAF flypast for Captain Tom’s 100th birthday – BBC News
This story, originally featured here a few weeks ago, keeps getting better and better.
The miniature Australian shepherd had been missing since an EF-4 tornado leveled the Putnam County home of Eric and Faith Johnson on March 3rd.
Source: Missing dog back with family 54 days after tornado destroys their home
Yay!