A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
Nearly 100 people are volunteering their time to drive hundreds of Island Health employees to hospitals across Vancouver Island.
Source: ‘Snow angels’ help drive hospital staff to work in winter weather | CTV News
4×4 groups, and others, can be super helpful not just in inclement weather, but you’ll also see them out helping search and rescue operations as well.
More drivers, more cars, more journeys. Fewer deaths per mile.
Source: Road travel in the US is safer than ever — Beautiful News
Too easy to take for granted.
Meals on Wheels usually means home delivery or lunch at a senior center. But at a new project in Vancouver, Wash., it’s a retro-hip neighborhood diner where seniors can get eggs, coffee and community.
Source: Meals On Wheels Opens Local Diner To Feed Seniors : NPR
What a neat idea.
Plants are photographed regrowing in parts of Australia ravaged by fire last month.
Source: Australia fires: Plants photographed regrowing in ashes – BBC News
It takes time, but nature perseveres.
Not only is the single raising awareness for the neurodegenerative disease, it is also raising money for Alzheimer’s charities.
Source: Senior With Dementia is Climbing UK Music Charts After a Caregiver Recorded Her Sinatra Cover
It’s pretty touching…
TV writer and producer Melissa Hunter created a viral Twitter thread asking people to share their middle-age success stories.
Source: 40 Wholesome Middle-Age Success Stories | Bored Panda
The responses are amazing and inspiring.
The sails of the Sydney Opera House have lit up with touching images of volunteer firefighters in support of bushfire affected communities. The projections […] are a tribute to the firefighters and communities who have suffered through months of searing temperatures and smoke.
Source: Sydney Opera House lights up with images of firefighters in support of Australia’s bushfire crisis
Beautiful.
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. — Clifford the Big Red Dog is very popular with kindergarten and first-grade students, but an elementary school in Virginia has a real-life version that could give him a run for his money, WHSV reports.Gabriel is a 200-pound mastiff who serves as a therapy dog at River Bend Elementary School.
Source: 200-pound therapy dog helps elementary school children | myfox8.com
My kinda thereapy…
A Google artificial intelligence system proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting which women had breast cancer based on screening mammograms and showed promise at reducing errors…
Source: Study finds Google system could improve breast cancer detection – Reuters
I find this type of application of technology and specifically AI absolutely fascinating.
The cancer death rate in 2017 posted the largest single-year drop ever recorded, as continued declines in smoking and new treatments reduced the lung cancer mortality rate, according to a new report issued Wednesday by the American Cancer Society.
Source: Cancer death rate posts biggest one-year drop ever – The Washington Post
Such great progress.