Not All News is Bad!

We take a break from our usual programming to celebrate a slightly different bit of good news:

Five. Years.

Today is the 5th anniversary of Not All News is Bad (*). And I don’t think I missed a day. (Excel tells me that 1,826 days. Whew!)

Thank you for tagging along and sharing NANIB (as my friends and I often refer to it) with your friends and family. The world still needs a constant reminder that all the shouting media appearances to the contrary: not all news is bad!

Onward!

---

(*) The email version, that is. My informal and random Facebook posts started late in the year prior — hence the “2017” in the masthead.

In their engineering and design class, students are making custom devices to help Sadie, whose leg was amputated after an accident, regain her stride.

Source: A 3-legged dog was struggling. A high school engineering class stepped in.

Great opportunity.

Tailoring medicine dosages to a patient’s DNA can reduce serious side effects by 30 percent, according to an international study led by Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and published in The Lancet. “The one-size-fits-all approach for prescribing medication is outdated,” LUMC said.

Source: Matching medicine dosage to patient’s DNA can cut side effects 30%: LUMC

Fascinating,

A 19-year-old Arkansas man’s random act of kindness has sparked an unexpected friendship between him and the recipient of his generosity.

Source: An Arkansas man returned a lost wallet to a grandmother. His kind act sparked an unexpected friendship.

So cool.

Patrick Kaufmann, 14, has involved students across the D.C. area to make the cards for people in hospitals, nursing homes and other places.

Source: Teen gives 16,000 valentines to people who might not otherwise get one

Very cool.

American Vickie Moretz got the last seat on a flight to the UK in 1982, finding herself sat next to Englishman Graham Kidner. Four decades later, they tell the story of a whirlwind romance that never stopped.

Source: She got the last seat on a flight next to a stranger. They’ve been married for 40 years | CNN

Very nice.

Danish wind turbine maker Vestas says it’s figured out how to recycle all wind turbine blades – even ones already sitting in landfills.

Source: A Danish wind turbine giant just discovered how to recycle all blades

This could be huge.

Joe Salmon, a 17-year-old Okoboji High School student, and 4 others helped save an 83-year-old driver and his dog when his car went into a lake.

Source: An Iowa teen, strangers helped save man and dog from an icy lake — and a drone caught it all

Pretty amazing footage.

A new immunotherapy releases cancer-killing cytokines only within the tumor. Researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have developed a new T cell-based immunotherapy that selectively targets cancer cells, producing a powerful anti-cancer cytokine specifically when it encount

Source: Supercharged T Cells: A New Way To Kill Pancreatic Cancer With Minimal Side Effects

Very cool.

Habitat for Humanity and the City of Eau Clarie are working to convert a wing of rarely-used church classrooms into new housing. The project is in line to receive $1.14 million in COVID-19 relief

Source: Eau Claire nonprofit working to convert unused church classrooms into

What a neat idea.