A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
Good feeding conditions see Phillip Island’s little penguins set new records for the number of the birds crossing the Penguin Parade beach, with the previous record tumbling twice in a week.
Source: Record 5,000 little penguins cross beach at Phillip Island in 50 minutes
Good news and cute as heck.
An Ohio man is receiving praise and thanks for finding a toddler that was reported wandering in a neighborhood naked and alone. Officers and Cincinnati received a call that involved someone seeing …
Source: Ohio man saves naked toddler that was wandering alone
Well done!
Brittany Sentelle’s classes at Frederick High School grew by 20 paws this spring.
Source: Kitten care: At Frederick High, one class has a fluffy curriculum
What a cool idea.
Ayda Zugay was fleeing the former Yugoslavia with her older sister when a stranger handed them an envelope after meeting them on a plane. They were shocked to find $100 inside. For years she’s been trying to find the mystery woman and thank her.
Be sure to check the update: they found her!
For the past three decades, the former journalist from Toronto has been volunteering his time to sing to patients and hospital staff in need of a pick-me-up. Last month, the Governor General awarded him the Sovereigns’ Medal for Volunteers to recognize his work.
Source: This 96-year-old has been singing to hospital patients for 30 years
How cool.
Walter Orthmann was just 15 when he began working as a shipping assistant at a textile company in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Love it!
Seventeen-year-old Benjamin Choi put his spare time during the pandemic to good use designing an accessible device that doesn’t require brain surgery
Source: This High Schooler Invented a Low-Cost, Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm
Well done!
MIT researchers created a portable desalination unit that can remove particles and salts simultaneously to generate drinking water. The user-friendly unit, which weighs less than 10 kilograms and does not require filters, can be powered by a small, portable solar panel.
Source: From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button
Very cool!
When a Massachusetts woman ordered a pizza on a routine Friday evening, she had no idea the quick thinking and kindness of her delivery driver would change her life that night.
Well done!
“It was obvious that it had to have something to do with race,” Tracey Meares said.
Source: Black woman named high school valedictorian 38 years after snub
Righting a wrong.