A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
Mr. Trash Wheel, the googly-eyed, solar-powered trash interceptor who sits where the Jones Falls meets the Inner Harbor, has been gobbling garbage for 10 years.
Source: Here’s what Mr. Trash Wheel has accomplished in 10 years
We need more Mr. Trash Wheels. 🙂
A manager at a Taco Bell outside Philadelphia saved a woman’s baby who stopped breathing in the drive-thru.
Source: Hero Taco Bell manager speaks out after life-saving CPR on baby in the drive-thru
Retired teacher DonnaJean Wilde has broken the women’s plank world record with a time of 4 hr 30 min.
Source: Canadian grandmother planks for 4.5 hours to break women’s record
Wow!
“Discover how NYU Langone Health utilized artificial intelligence to improve the quality of physicians’ notes, resulting in significant improvements in clinical
Source: AI feedback boosts physician notes quality, NYU Langone study finds
AI as an aid/assistant has a huge future.
During a Cleveland Monsters hockey game, the puck flew toward Asia Davis’s 4-year-old son. Fan Andrew Podolak deflected it within about a second.
Source: A hockey puck hurtled toward her son’s head. A fan jumped to block it. (Gift Link)
Wow!
For the first time, scientists have managed to create sheets of gold only a single atom layer thick. According to the researchers from LiU this has given the gold new properties that can make it suitable for use in various applications.
Source: A single atom layer of gold – LiU researchers create goldene
Fascinating.
Columbia neuroscientists have identified a genetic mutation that fends off Alzheimer’s in people at high risk and could lead to a new way to protect people from the disease.
Source: Newly Found Genetic Variant Defends Against Alzheimer’s Disease
Sounds promising!
Researchers unveiled images of the brain from the world’s most powerful MRI, which could lead to breakthroughs in treating Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
Fascinating.
When Lou Coulon came in for her shift as a nurse in the endoscopy unit on a cold day in February, she had no idea she would be leaving without her shoes.
Source: ‘The soles were torn up’: Nurse gives the shoes off her own feet to patient in need
Simple, yet meaningful.
This woman is a real-life superhero whose blood has saved countless lives!
Source: 81-Year-Old Breaks World Record for Most Blood Donated in a Lifetime
Wow!