A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
The winner of the Water Abundance XPrize creates enough water for 100 people every day by making an artificial cloud inside a shipping container.
Source: A device that can pull drinking water from the air just won the latest XPrize
Water is a big issue for the future. I can see why this approach won.
“We need to keep building bridges, we need to keep the American dream.”
Source: Syrian refugee opens restaurant in Tennessee, wins title of ‘Nicest Place in America’
If I’m ever in Knoxville….
Princess Eugenie had major surgery on her back as a child.
Source: ‘I wanted wedding dress to show my scar’
Inspiring.
Here’s one way no bride-to-be wants to start a phone call just two days before her wedding: “I don’t want you to freak out, but …”
Source: Hurricane Michael flooding can’t stop dream wedding fit for the silver screen
Love communities like this. 🙂
(FYI: I encountered a brief survey to access the content for free. “Prefer not to answer” seemed acceptable for all questions asked.)
A number of different things have to happen for a child to develop leukemia.
Source: We finally know what causes childhood leukemia—and how to prevent it
This could be big, really big…
Two EMTs drove hospice patient Laura Mullins, her nurse and her chaplain, who said a blessing, to Scituate Lighthouse in Massachusetts
Source: “My dream has come true”: EMTs help woman get her dying wish
Awesome.
“Iron Man” and “Avengers” star Robert Downey Jr. sent a video message Monday to 7-year-old Jackson Tijerina. Jackson, a second-grader at College View Elementary School, has brain cancer.
Source: ‘Iron Man’ star Robert Downey Jr. sends special message to Bluffs boy with brain cancer
I love when celebrities do this kind of thing.
Thirty-seven dogs and nine puppies in the path of Hurricane Michael were rescued Tuesday by the Humane Society Naples.
Source: 37 dogs, 9 puppies rescued from the path of Hurricane Michael by Humane Society Naples
Animals play such an important role in our lives. I know that there are many people out there helping in the wake of Michael.
Ecovative thinks it can use mycelia, the hair-like network of cells that grows in mushrooms, to help build everything from lab-grown meat to 3D-printed organs to biofabricated leather.
Source: Can mushrooms be the platform we build the future on?
Absolutely fascinating.
Scientists at Radboud University discovered a new mechanism for magnetic storage of information in the smallest unit of matter: a single atom.
Source: Scientists discover new mechanism for information storage in one atom
Hard disk filling up? Just wait. (OK, might have to wait a while…. 🙂 ).