When kids want a pet, they will try everything in the book — including scribbling over the headlines you know your parent will read.
Source: 8-year-old’s brilliant request to adopt a dog goes viral … and works!
Points for resourcefulness, for sure.
A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
by Leo
When kids want a pet, they will try everything in the book — including scribbling over the headlines you know your parent will read.
Source: 8-year-old’s brilliant request to adopt a dog goes viral … and works!
Points for resourcefulness, for sure.
by Leo
It is ready to use in sensitive environmental regions, for the treatment of oil production and refinery wastewater, ballast water, the run-off from car washes and car parks and any petroleum polluted wastewaters containing both legally regulated compounds and the most toxic or persistent compounds.
Clean water … what’s not to love?!
by Leo
Julia Hawkins and Orville Rogers are here to inspire and maybe shame you.
Source: Watch 102- and 100-year-old runners set world records, you lazy slugs
My favorite quote from the article: ‘“How wonderful it is, how great it is, to be alive,” he told Dallas’ WFAA last December. “I really enjoy life.”’. #lifegoals
by Leo
“Start now. It’s never too late,” says 92-year-old Dorothy Steel, who initially turned down a chance to audition for the movie.
Source: She started acting at 88. Four years later, she’s recognized everywhere for ‘Black Panther.’
Age is never an excuse, it’s just a number.
by Leo
Chi Chi was rescued from a dumpster in South Korea and now spends her day helping others in Arizona
Source: Chi Chi the Golden Retriever Therapy Dog Has Four Prosthetic Paws | PEOPLE.com
Pretty amazing.
by Leo
When the impact of hearing near-constant bad news stories became a problem in her life, Jodie Jackson decided to delve deeper: why does the news emphasise what’s going wrong? After seven years researching the psychological impact of media, Jackson has written a book to help others become ‘conscious news consumers’. In doing so, people can change the media, she believes
Source: ‘We all hold the power to change the news’
Indeed, we do.
by Leo
“The world isn’t short of water, it’s just in the wrong place, and too salty,” says Charlie Paton – so he’s spent the past 24 years building the technology to prove it
And he’s doing something about it.
by Leo
The results showed an accurate diagnosis in 99.38 per cent of cases, using a human pathologist as a gold standard.
Source: Artificial intelligence can diagnose prostate cancer as well as a pathologist | Science|Business
Pretty amazing, and particularly hopeful given an apparent shortage of pathologists.
by Leo
An Ontario man whose life was saved with a heart transplant ran his first 10-kilometre race over the weekend with the father of the donor cheering him on.
Source: Father cheers on man running 10K race with son’s donated heart
Something positive we can all do: sign up to be an organ donor.
by Leo
New York student Benjamin “Benjy” Firester has won one of the United States’ top young science prizes…
Source: Science Talent Search 2018: $250,000 prize for agricultural solution that could save billions – CNN
“Modeling the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Phytophthora infestans on a Regional Scale” – Dry title, exciting research.