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A nursing home in Madisonville is starting a pet therapy program as a way to address its residents emotional needs.
Source: Madisonville nursing home brings in puppy for pet therapy program
I’m a sucker for these stories because they make so much sense. I’ve seen the good they can do.
Dedicated Senior Medical Center in Tampa understands the holidays can be tough for low-income seniors living alone, so they handed out frozen turkeys to those in need.
Source: Medical center hands out turkeys to seniors in need
A very cool idea.
The three dogs were on their own after their owner was hit by a pick-up truck as she jogged in San Antonio.
Source: Her dogs were to be euthanized while she was in a coma. A stranger stepped in.
Well done.
A lucky discovery could revolutionize the battery and change how we power our world.
Source: An accidental discovery could change the world
Very exciting.
The 6-year-old gentle giant was selected from a group of hundreds of other dogs and named 2023 American Humane Hero Dog.
Source: This 150-pound Great Dane was just given ‘hero dog’ status
A very good boy.
People who have experienced significant muscle damage have new hope thanks to Evolved.Bio, a startup that has developed innovative technology that can regenerate muscle tissue in a highly effective
Source: A better way to heal damaged muscle | Waterloo News
Fascinating.
They say a reader does not steal and a thief does not read. In the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, that’s definitely true.
So cool.
A wildly innovative turbine that could halve the cost of offshore wind is set to go into testing in Norway. The 19-m (62-ft), 30-kW, contra-rotating vertical-axis turbine is a prototype of a design that could scale to unprecedented size and power.
Source: Extraordinary contra-rotating floating wind turbines to begin testing
Very interesting…
Gary Guadagno had lost hope of finding his parents’ wedding rings until the new owners of his childhood home messaged him on Facebook, saying they’d found them.
Source: He thought his parents’ wedding rings were lost forever. Then, he got a message.
Very cool.
Marc Gauthier can now step into an elevator without his body stiffening and freezing in place. He can take a 3-mile lakeside stroll without stopping. He can stand up out of a chair with ease. For Gauthier, 63, who has been living with Parkinson’s disease for almost three decades, these everyday activities were a challenge — until now.
Source: Experimental spinal cord implant helps Parkinson’s patient walk in new study | CNN
Such a cool advancement.