Not All News is Bad!

“Immediately I heard a voice inside my head saying, ‘pay for the groceries’, “Maria explained in her now viral Facebook post.

Source: Young H-E-B bagger displays act of kindness, pays for family’s groceries

I keep hearing good things about H-E-B.

A Tennessee woman who launched a message in a bottle into the ocean during a trip to Georgia said she received word more than two years later that it had been found in France.

Source: Message in a bottle travels from Georgia to France in just over 2 years

Cute. Cue Sting.

It can eliminate the need for finger prick tests and prevent life-threatening attacks, say experts.

Source: Artificial pancreas to revolutionise diabetes care in England

Very cool.

A Richmond animal shelter received more than 400 requests for snuggle sessions with seven Pyrenees puppies after offering the chance for folks to “forget about the worries of the world.”

Source: Richmond animal shelter gets 400+ requests for puppy snuggle sessions: ‘Kiss these love buckets’

How cool. Looks like complete fun.

Cortney Gensemer suffers from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Now, she may have discovered a gene responsible for it.

Source: Ph.D. student has rare disease. Her own research discovered a potential breakthrough.

Very cool.

“We’d both gone through some tough things in life,” Kelvin Simmons said about the dog he is training as part of a diversion program.

Source: They were facing jail time. Instead, they’re training shelter dogs.

Great idea.

A team of researchers are studying the possibility of using caffeine as a therapeutic treatment to alleviate some attentional based symptoms of ADHD.

Source: Could caffeine be used to treat ADHD? | The Optimist Daily

Behold the power of coffee.

The MIT spinout Frequency Therapeutics uses a new kind of druggable regenerative therapy that targets progenitor cells to create hair cells of the inner ear and reverse hearing loss.

Source: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

Pretty cool. I hope it pans out.

Bruce Tronolone is back home after recovering in the hospital from a cardiac arrest. He is encouraging everyone to learn basic CPR skills.

Source: Local man credits off-duty TFD lieutenant and hockey teammates for saving his life

CPR saves lives.

Direct support to individuals on platforms like Etsy can zoom in and help us see our contributions in real-time, helping people just like us. This Ukrainian Etsy seller gives us a look into life in Ukraine during an ongoing conflict.

Source: Meet One Ukrainian Etsy Seller Creating In The Midst of Conflict

I love how the internet has enabled these back-channel ways to support people directly.