Not All News is Bad!

For the past several years, the knitters at Sew Steamboat have been knitting “knockers” — handmade breast prostheses for cancer survivors.

Source: Steamboat knitters make “knockers” for breast cancer survivors

What a great idea…

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.