A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
Becky Jorgensen, the owner of Becky’s Bookshelf, felt retirement creeping closer but resisted. “You keep thinking, ‘One more year, one more year,'” she said. Yet as the pandemic ground on, her store appeared to be on its last chapter.
Source: A Logan bookstore was about to close. Then a customer’s quip changed everything.
Very cool.
Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can analyse eye scans taken during a routine visit to an optician or eye clinic and identify patients at a high risk of a heart attack.
Source: AI can identify heart disease from an eye scan
Very cool.
In a great leap of faith, the trusting dog crawled right into his patrol car alongside her rescuer.
Source: State Trooper Adopts Pit Bull He Saved from Highway: “I Knew She Was Secure with Me”
Very cool.
Staff librarians who found it agreed that as unconventional as it was, Dillon’s book met the criteria for the collection.
Source: An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf. It now has a years-long waitlist.
Love how this turned out.
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed how vulnerable older workers can be to income shocks. Google and AARP are launching new digital training to help change that.
A great idea for so many reasons.
It felt like the whole community raised a hand to donate and help Maddie Barber give back to St. Jude.
Great story.
Comics Conspiracy donated dozens of copies after Tennessee schools removed the book.
Source: Bay Area comic book shop sends free copies of banned Holocaust graphic novel ‘Maus’ to Tennessee
While the topic is horrific, and the banning reprehensible, I take a lot of heart in the fact that there are several comic book stores, and others, who are taking similar action. Well done, all.
One of the biggest environmental concerns regarding textiles is that most of them are difficult to recycle once they reach the end of their use.
Source: Designers turn unrecyclable clothes into high-quality textiles | The Optimist Daily
Great solution for a growing problem.
Meet Beryl, the 100-year-old volunteer who is still making drinks at Ealing Hospital.
Source: The 100-year-old volunteer with no plans to stop
I love stories like this.
The bottle surfacing in Ireland was a salve for Sasha Yonyak, 14, whose friend died two years after they had tossed it off the side of a fishing boat in Ocean City, Md.
Source: A message in a bottle that traveled 3,200 miles helped heal a Maryland boy’s grief
I love message-in-a-bottle stories.