A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
India is on the greatest toilet-building endeavor in human history, and it’s a windfall for some companies.
Source: India’s toilet push benefiting vendors of sanitation items
Things we take for granted that can make an immense difference to health and welfare.
A doctor in Bangladesh has found a simple way to treat infant pneumonia
Source: How a shampoo bottle is saving young lives
Cool innovation with impressive results.
The Luck Public Schools confirmed for KARE 11 that that Dennis Frandsen — a self-made success who now has 35 branches of Frandsen Bank and Trust in communities across Minnesota and Wisconsin — offered to pay for two years of technical college for all of Luck’s 34 prospective graduates this year.
Source: Banker picks up college tuition for entire school class … AGAIN!
Awesome.
The O-Wind Turbine captures wind from any direction and, unlike traditional turbines, could be effective in cities
Source: Groundbreaking ‘spinning’ wind turbine wins UK Dyson award
Lots of opportunity here…
Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach Deland McCullough went searching for his biological parents. He found them where he never would have expected.
Source: The jaw-dropping story behind an NFL coach’s search for his family
For once “jaw-dropping” isn’t hyperbole, this is pretty amazing.
Starbucks made headlines this summer after two black men were arrested in Philadelphia for sitting inside without ordering anything. A similar situation at a Nashville Starbucks could have ended similarly, but instead took an unexpected and heartwarming turn.
Source: Heated argument at Nashville Starbucks takes unexpected turn
Well done, corporate.
You never realise how the small world is until you find out that your new colleague is actually the baby you treated 28 years ago.
Source: Nurse finds out new colleague is baby she treated 28 years ago | Metro News
I love coincidences like this.
“The day that I got the call that Martin wanted to reach out to us was the best day of my life. And it’s just gotten better every day after that.”
Source: Son, Given Up for Adoption, Leads Birth Parents to Altar 36 Years Later
Apparently meant to be. 🙂
86-year-old Janice and 88-year-old Jim Catlin are proof that loves knows no age.
Source: Never too old to say ‘I do’
Lovely story.
In 2018, what is left to explore in the world? It seems unlikely, say, that humans might find an untouched forest to study, someplace that hasn’t been bulldozed and burnt and exploited within an inch of its life for precious minerals or virgin timber. But that’s exactly what happened this past spring, when a Welsh researcher, Dr. Julian Bayliss, led a 28-person team that included scientists specially selected for their different talents as well as logistics experts, rock climbers, and filmmakers to the top of a mountain in Mozambique.
Source: How Google Earth led a team of scientists to discover a rainforest on Mount Lico – The Verge
I just found this fascinating. Gorgeous photos, of course, but that the combination of Google Earth, Drones, and some low-tech and serious rope climbing and legwork lead to this expedition and its results is pretty amazing. Somewhat lengthy article, but as I said, fascinating.