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The gesture is being hailed as an exemplary act of corporate responsibility for over 12,000 workers worldwide.
Source: Café Chain Celebrates Its Buyout By Giving Massive Cash Bonus to Every Single Employee
Someone referred to this as “ethical capitalism.” Either way, this is a great way to share success.
A Memphis couple is going viral for all the right reasons.
Source: WATCH: Couple unknowingly plan to propose to each other at Memphis zoo on same day
Awesome. 🙂
Providing one dose every six months saved one in four babies, researchers reported. Now the W.H.O. will consider recommending routine use.
Source: Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa With Routine Antibiotics
One word: immunize.
After a successful experiment with free public transport for all citizens in Tallinn, Estonia wants to become the world’s first free public transport nation. Allan Alaküla explains why this is a good idea.
Source: Estonia To Become The World’s First Free Public Transport Nation
Fascinating concept.
AI-powered weed hunters could soon reduce the need for herbicides and genetically modified crops.
Source: Weed-killing robots are threatening giant chemical companies’ business models
What a wonderful idea.
A family’s precious coonhound was thought to be gone forever after being missing for almost a year.
Source: Group of strangers drive lost dog 3000km home
These kinds of “transport relays”, as they’re called, aren’t at all uncommon in the animal rescue world. Jakes is a tad longer than most, however.
Ampli’s reusable blocks let scientists quickly and cheaply create diagnostic tests–and they could be especially helpful in the developing world.
Source: This kit for making medical tests can be put together like Legos
How cool is that?
“A couple of people asked us, ‘Why did you return it?’,” wife Maria Colonna-Emanuel said. “It wasn’t even a question. It wasn’t ours.”
Source: Couple Stumbles Across ‘Treasure’ On Staten Island Property « CBS New York
It wasn’t even a question. Indeed.
A sunny day on the river turned into a baby moose rescue mission Saturday afternoon when a group of Alberta boaters spotted something peculiar in the muddy riverbank.
Source: Alberta boaters rescue moose calf submerged in muddy riverbank | CBC News
And I learned a new word: moosling!
Milt Lessner has “always had dogs” – and he’s 104 years old. So are dogs the secret to longevity?
Source: A dog that transformed a 104-year-old’s life – BBC News
Sounds like a perfect match.