A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
One load of laundry at a time.
Source: Clinton Foundation’s laundromat libraries aim to boost literacy — Quartz
Not just a neat idea, but the tip of a very interesting philosophy.
As a means of celebrating the centennial of Children’s Book Week, the Library of Congress has digitized dozens of rare children’s books online.
Source: Library of Congress Makes Dozens of Ultra-Rare Children’s Books Available For Free Online
To me this is one of the many promises of digital technology being fulfilled.
The Lambert family adopted Edgar last July and credit him with scaring off a would-be child-abductor who broke into their home April 28 in Franklin County.
Source: From ‘unadoptable’ to hero: Rescue dog saves three girls from possible abduction – pennlive.com
A very Good Boy indeed.
A special moment happened between a mother and son at Central Michigan University’s commencement ceremony.
Source: CMU honors mom who missed her ceremony
Now that’s pretty cool. Congratulations to both!
“I was like … ‘I can’t charge him for this,’” said former CIA case officer Marc Johnson. “I wanted him to have the tie with my congratulations on becoming a citizen.”
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What a great welcome to citizenship.
The robots are coming for garment workers jobs. Will workers be prepared?
Source: Video game teaches women to operate robots set to take their garment jobs
Another creative use of video gaming technology, with an important twist: re-training.
The Idaho woman had no idea her creation would not only become the talk of her neighborhood, it would fly across the Internet on social media, reaching people around the world.
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Tiny libraries are a cool concept all by themselves, but this one takes the cake.
The song may be the bane of parents’ existence, but for one family it offered hope for their daughter.
Source: Girl with spina bifida uses ‘Baby Shark’ beat to learn to walk | FOX13
Who knew something good could come of “Baby Shark”. 
Here’s how you can help today.
Source: This New Unilever Brand Is Helping The Homeless Get Access To Showers
I thought this a fascinating idea. I’ll probably try some.
Sea Hero Quest is a video game developed in partnership with Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, game studio Glitchers and several European universities and it is designed to identify individuals who might have early and mild symptoms of dementia that medical tests aren’t able to detect.
Source: A Video Game Developed To Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Seems To Be Working
Fascinating. I’ve often wondered if video games couldn’t be used in seriously productive ways.
