A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
The carver is believed to be part of the Aurignacian, an Upper Paleolithic group whose people lived between 43,000 and 35,000 years ago
Source: Carved 40,000 Years Ago and Found in a Cave, These Are the Oldest-Known Animal Sculptures
These are pretty cool.
A battery storage breakthrough utilizes an unexpected but abundant resource—beach sand—for efficient renewable energy grids, even at night.
That’s pretty cool! (No pun intended.)
A Louisiana student has beaten the odds and graduated high school at the top of his class while living in a homeless shelter.
Source: Student who lived in homeless shelter during high school graduates as valedictorian
Very impressive.
Businesswoman Eve Howard says she applied to retrain as a nurse after her cancer treatment.
Source: Cancer all-clear inspires woman to retrain as nurse in Wolverhampton
Inspiring.
The whole process takes 12 hours but can produce a staggering 2,000 liters, or about 500 gallons of drinking-quality water per day.
Source: Indian Engineers Tackle Water Shortages with Star Wars Tech in Kerala
Very cool.
Psychiatrists are writing the first prescriptions for zuranolone, which got approved last year.
Source: The first pill for postpartum depression is finally getting to patients. Doctors say it’s working.
Very cool.
A Missouri fifth grader has won praise and had an award named for him after he raised more than $7,000 to erase school meal debt in his district.
Source: A fifth grader’s fundraiser cleared his school of meal debt. It named an award for him
Well done!
According to figures from the Aviation Safety Network, in the 1970s, there were about 6 fatal airliner accidents for every million commercial flights. This meant about 1 in every 165,000 flights ended in a fatal accident.
Source: Commercial flights have become significantly safer in recent decades
You wouldn’t know it from the news, but it’s very true.
The terrier was found locked in a house alongside the body of her dead owner.
Source: Firefighter gives Martha the dog a home after owner’s death
A seventh grader is being praised for helping his friend cross the finish line at their school race on Thursday.
Source: Utah 7th grader helps friend cross the finish line of school race
So cool.