“I was like … ‘I can’t charge him for this,’” said former CIA case officer Marc Johnson. “I wanted him to have the tie with my congratulations on becoming a citizen.”
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What a great welcome to citizenship.
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“I was like … ‘I can’t charge him for this,’” said former CIA case officer Marc Johnson. “I wanted him to have the tie with my congratulations on becoming a citizen.”
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What a great welcome to citizenship.
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The robots are coming for garment workers jobs. Will workers be prepared?
Source: Video game teaches women to operate robots set to take their garment jobs
Another creative use of video gaming technology, with an important twist: re-training.
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The Idaho woman had no idea her creation would not only become the talk of her neighborhood, it would fly across the Internet on social media, reaching people around the world.
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Tiny libraries are a cool concept all by themselves, but this one takes the cake.
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The song may be the bane of parents’ existence, but for one family it offered hope for their daughter.
Source: Girl with spina bifida uses ‘Baby Shark’ beat to learn to walk | FOX13
Who knew something good could come of “Baby Shark”.
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Here’s how you can help today.
Source: This New Unilever Brand Is Helping The Homeless Get Access To Showers
I thought this a fascinating idea. I’ll probably try some.
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Sea Hero Quest is a video game developed in partnership with Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, game studio Glitchers and several European universities and it is designed to identify individuals who might have early and mild symptoms of dementia that medical tests aren’t able to detect.
Source: A Video Game Developed To Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Seems To Be Working
Fascinating. I’ve often wondered if video games couldn’t be used in seriously productive ways.
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A Missouri shelter opened earlier this month as a sanctuary specifically for elderly dogs.
Source: Sanctuary for elderly dogs opens, inspired by rescued senior beagle mix – Story | KMSP
It takes special people to take this on. We have our own local equivalent as well: Old Dog Haven.
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“I still don’t want to believe it happened because it’s too much money for me to even think about,” said Eddie Adams, who is a self-taught musician.
What a neat story.
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Scottish entrepreneurs aim to go global with their hope to replace palm oil using coffee waste.
Source: Coffee waste ‘could replace palm oil’ – BBC News
I could contribute … a lot!
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Here’s an interesting press release about a new initiative that you wonder why it hasn’t been done before, given the affinity between LEGO studs and braille:
Obvious, when you think about it. So cool to make it happen.