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3D printing technology is revolutionising the way that blind and low-vision students learn about the world around them.

Source: How 3D models are becoming a ‘game changer’ for vision-impaired students

Very cool use of the tech.

Colton Koonooka-Kowchee jumped out his window and sprinted through deep snow to get help.

Source: 8-year-old boy helps save his family from White Mountain house fire

Well done, kid, well done.

A family’s week-long search for their missing golden retriever, Freddy, ended in a heartwarming reunion—thanks to a kindhearted hiker and his own loyal dog. Today’s good news story comes from Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

Source: Hiker’s Dog Leads Him To Missing Golden Retriever Trapped In A Deep Coal Pit

Lucky dog.

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.