A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
For more than 50 years, NASA astronauts have relied on duct tape as a fix-it-all for everything from a lunar rover on the moon to an air leak on board the International Space Station. Up until now, though, they have not had an easy way to dispense the adhesive.
Source: NASA taps high school students for space station duct tape dispenser
The power of … duct tape? Well done, students!
From the belly of a drone to a shot in the arm.
Source: Self-flying drones are helping speed deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines in Ghana
Cool idea.
The celebrated cellist gave a short performance at a community college in Pittsfield, Mass., while he was waiting out the 15-minte post-vaccination time.
Source: After his vaccine, Yo-Yo Ma plays a surprise concert during the waiting period
So cool.
Search and rescue dogs are critical first responders in what is on pace to be the deadliest avalanche season on record in the United States.
Source: For these dogs, the deadly serious business of avalanche rescue is all a game
Love these dogs.
Officer L.C. “Buckshot” Smith was born and raised in his small town of Camden, Arkansas. He works for the local police department, serving a community he’s called home for decades.
Source: ‘I love people’: 91-year-old police officer still patrolling in Arkansas with no plans to retire
I love it!
The prescription, which Shaw’s doctor offered to write, read, “You are allowed to hug your granddaughter.” It was just the nudge she needed to reclaim a part of her life that she loved so much.
Source: Grandparents are getting to hug their grandkids for the first time after getting vaccinated
Hope.
Roads in which waste plastic is melted down and mixed with paving materials are becoming more common around the world. Although for now they remain a niche technology, experts say the roads could become one of a diverse array of uses for discarded plastic.
Source: How Paving with Plastic Could Make a Dent in the Global Waste Problem
I love this concept.
Watch a lone penguin flee a pod of killer whales in Antarctica and escape by jumping into a sightseeing boat full of tourists. The post Penguin Escapes Killer Whales by Jumping into Sightseeing Boat appeared first on Nerdist.
Source: Penguin Escapes Killer Whales by Jumping into Sightseeing Boat
Amazing! And with some really cool video as well.
How Tom Hanks and Stephen Colbert saved a small North Carolina bookstore called Foggy Pine Books with a ringing endorsement.
Source: Indie Bookstore Saved by Hilarious Super Bowl Ad, Thanks to Stephen Colbert and Tom Hanks
Awesome. 
82 years after fleeing Nazi Germany with their families, two childhood friends are brought together by USC Shoah Foundation researcher who ‘linked’ their testimony
Source: ‘Amazing detective work’ reunites best friends thought murdered in the Holocaust
An amazing story.