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Hilda Jackson and fellow residents partied with strobe lights, glowsticks and drum’n’bass from festival-headliner

Source: ‘I’m still dancing’: Derbyshire woman has 105th birthday rave at care home

Lovely.

“He has been in the Army, he’s worked for a trucking company, stuff like that,” she said. “He likes dogs, he likes plants.”

Source: Homeless Army veteran gets help from Woodhaven cafe owner, community

Community. Needed now more than ever.

Over the past 50 years, however, techniques originally developed for oilfields and adapted for “enhanced geothermal systems” (EGS) have offered the promise of tapping deep reserves of natural heat across a broader swath of the planet.

Source: Enhanced geothermal systems promise wider access to clean energy

I’ve always loved the concept of geothermal. It seems a natural source of energy.

Pet miniature donkey being trained as a therapy animal

Source: Seamus the donkey is bringing smiles, good vibes to Bonavista North

Another kind of emotional support Canadian.

Shigeru Ban is a world-famous architect who uses his unique designs to help people in disaster zones.

Source: These paper houses, filled with cardboard furniture, shelter homeless people after disasters

Pretty cool idea.

The baby had been diagnosed with an especially challenging case of hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

Source: Surgeons first in world to perform open heart surgery on baby mid-delivery

Wow.

One year since the launch of routine malaria vaccinations in Africa, over 9.8 million doses of malaria vaccines (in total 12 million since 2023) have been delivered to 17 endemic countries through the Gavi malaria vaccination programme.

Source: One year anniversary of malaria vaccine rollout underscores remarkable progress, offers new data on potential impact

Vaccines work.

Research in Chile could help to provide drinking water for some of the world’s most arid places.

Source: Fog harvesting could provide water for the driest cities

Fascinating.

The late game show host donated $500,000 toward the renovation of a unique homeless shelter in Los Angeles.

Source: LA roller rink now a homeless shelter funded by ‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek

Very cool.

Now engineers from MIT and Freie Universität Berlin have developed a new type of glue that combines the waterproof stickiness of the mussels’ plaques with the germ-proof properties of another natural material: mucus.

Source: Engineers create new glue that mimics mussels and mucus to prevent bacterial buildup

OK, kinda icky, but still very cool.