A 14-year-old New York student was named “America’s Top Young Scientist” for inventing a solar-powered water jug that changes dirty water into purified drinking water.
Deepika Kurup not only surpassed 9 finalists with her science and math skills to win $25,000 from Discovery Education and 3M, she persuaded the judges with a dynamic five-minute LIVE presentation about the plight of a billion poor people who have no access to clean drinking water.
A 14-year-old New York student was named “America’s Top Young Scientist” for inventing a solar-powered water jug that changes dirty water into purified drinking water.
Deepika Kurup not only surpassed 9 finalists with her science and math skills to win $25,000 from Discovery Education and 3M, she persuaded the judges with a dynamic five-minute LIVE presentation about the plight of a billion poor people who have no access to clean drinking water.
What would your life be like if your feet were literally too big to ever buy shoes?
For Igor Vovkovinskiy, who stands 7ft-8in tall, it resulted in six painful foot surgeries and the inability to walk further than your own yard.
On Thursday, America’s tallest man received what could be a life-changing gift: several pairs of custom-made sneakers, molded specifically for his size-24 10E feet.
What would your life be like if your feet were literally too big to ever buy shoes?
For Igor Vovkovinskiy, who stands 7ft-8in tall, it resulted in six painful foot surgeries and the inability to walk further than your own yard.
On Thursday, America’s tallest man received what could be a life-changing gift: several pairs of custom-made sneakers, molded specifically for his size-24 10E feet.
Nothing was stopping Michael Ferns from scoring a touchdown during the football game between Ohio’s St. Clairsville High and Edison High on October 5. Ferns, however, stopped running just one yard from the goal line.
The reason? To let a teammate honor his father who had recently passed away.
A small British company has produced the first “gasoline from air” using a revolutionary technology that promises to solve the energy crisis as well as helping to curb global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Air Fuel Synthesis has produced five liters of fuel since August when it switched on a small refinery that manufactures gasoline from carbon dioxide and water vapor.
The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards announced the winners of their first Cell Phone Photo Contest.
The call for entries attracted intimate family portraits, spontaneous street shots, and avant-garde imaginary that demonstrated the creativity of artists from 42 countries.
Karen Divine from the U.S. was named the winner, with Vlad Sokhin from the Russian Federation as the Runner Up.
The occupant of a 90-year-old cottage had stashed a huge collection of maps throughout their Mount Washington, Calif home. The maps, destined for the trash, will now put the Los Angeles Public Library “on the map”.
Tens of thousands of maps. Fold-out street maps were stuffed in file cabinets, crammed into cardboard boxes, lined up on closet shelves and jammed into old dairy crates. Wall-size roll-up maps once familiar to schoolchildren were stacked in corners.
After a dramatic recovery from serious brain injury experienced by the first patient Dr. Michael Lewis treated with fish oil, the physician urged its use again, this time on a brain-dead Virginia boy in a coma.
Fish oil is composed of omega-3 essential fatty acids, and our brain itself is a fatty mass made up of 30% omega-3 fatty acids. So it is not surprising that the boy’s brain responded to the treatment, which was likened to rebuilding a brick wall using bricks.
That the cries of Brazil’s endangered golden lion tamarins should fill the air at all on a recent afternoon was cause for celebration, the result of one of the world’s most inspired species restoration efforts.
In fact, that campaign has transformed the lush forest where the monkeys live and has become a model widely cited for saving other animals.
A film screenwriter who, after a round of mishaps and bad luck, had amassed a staggering $220,000 in credit debt was spending his days sparring with debt collectors, and doing all he could to keep bankruptcy at bay.
That was until an attorney steered him toward a path he never thought he’d travel: Debt settlement––essentially negotiating his debt directly with lenders.
A small group of grassroots activists in Midland, Texas has spread hope to homeowners in need, providing critical home repairs free of charge. Since its inspiring start 30 years ago, “Rebuilding Together” has grown to a nationwide network of 3.4 million volunteers who have delivered services worth $1.3 billion to families, the elderly, veterans and community centers.
Realizing their neighbors’ homes had fallen into disrepair, the original group in Texas with the help of local banks pooled their labor and skill and to set about to fix the problem.
This simple act of neighbors helping neighbors inspired others, spread slowly, and then across the country — with the help of larger corporate partners — which eventually led to the opening of the Rebuilding Together National Headquarters in 1988.
Today, Rebuilding Together consists of 200 chapters throughout the United States that have completed work on more than 100,000 homes, some left damaged by natural disasters.
The goodwill of volunteers is matched by the charity and energy provided by corporate partners, like TD Bank, Sears, Lowes, Safeway, which not only provide materials and financial support but enlist employees and their families to join the rebuilding army. The teams also retrofit homes to become more energy efficient for those who can’t afford their heating bills.
Governments too, support the effort through federal agencies and groups like the AmeriCorps service members. Even professional sports are involved, through NBA Cares and a partnership with the MLB All-Star Game.
Visit their website to learn how you can get involved in your local city by grabbing a paint brush or hammer: RebuildingTogether.org/how-you-can-help
WATCH both videos below which beautifully illustrate how corporations step up to help and how communities, like the one in Philadelphia, are uplifted in many ways — their spirits, their homes and their health.
A small group of grassroots activists in Midland, Texas has spread hope to homeowners in need, providing critical home repairs free of charge. Since its inspiring start 30 years ago, “Rebuilding Together” has grown to a nationwide network of 3.4 million volunteers who have delivered services worth $1.3 billion to families, the elderly, veterans and community centers.
George McGovern, the former U.S. senator from South Dakota, is nearing the end of his dignified life at age 90. As his family and friends say their final goodbyes, we remember and rejoice a life extraordinaire; a man imbued with compassion, humility, integrity, and faith in America.
Though he was a bona fide war hero, having flown 35 missions as a B-24 pilot in World War II, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross for his bravery, George McGovern never spoke of it during his political career.
Following his military heroics, he returned home to continue his education, ultimately earning a PhD in history and became a professor…
(READ the story from Daniel Sullivan in Policy Mic)
Malala Yousafzai, the teenage education-rights campaigner who was shot in the head by the Taliban in Pakistan, has been able to stand for the first time since the attack and is communicating by writing, a British hospital official said Friday.
Malala, 14, was flown to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England this week to receive treatment after Taliban leaders targeted her for assassination because of her campaign in support of girls’ education in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban has at times banned girls from attending school.
Tim Farber was handed a sandwich at a drive-through window and told that lunch was free. The motorist who arrived before him paid his bill.
It was part of an infectious trend that’s been bringing smiles to Winnipeg coffee store patrons, and Tim was happy to participate. He offered to pay for the order of a total stranger in the car behind him. “It literally made my day,” said Farber. “Hopefully, the guy behind me paid. Maybe it went on for a few cars.”
It’s not clear when this wave of generosity started rolling through the Canadian prairie city.
(READ the story in Macleans.ca)
After a series of conflicting reports about whether vitamin pills can stave off chronic disease, researchers announced on Wednesday that a large clinical trial of nearly 15,000 older male doctors followed for more than a decade found that those taking a daily multivitamin experienced 8 percent fewer cancers than the subjects taking dummy pills.
A randomized, double-blinded clinical trial, the kind considered the most rigorous type of study, it was one of the largest and longest efforts to address questions about vitamin use. The reduction in total cancers was small but statistically significant.
Australian authorities are thanking the crew of an Air Canada flight for helping to locate a sailor in distress off the country’s east coast.
After an emergency beacon activation was received on Tuesday, Maritime officials asked the crew of an Air Canada Flight, a Boeing 777 en route from Vancouver to Sydney with 270 passengers, to divert to the area and see if they could spot the yacht.
Luckily, one of the passengers had binoculars.
(READ the story from the CBC)
Cuba will scrap much-reviled travel restrictions starting in January, making it easier for its citizens to leave the communist-ruled island in the first major reform to its migration policies in half a century.
The changes reverse tough restrictions imposed in 1961 when the government tried to put the brakes on a mass migration of people fleeing after the 1959 revolution that put Fidel Castro in power.
After 3 1/2 days searching for his dog across the mountain trails in Santa Fe, N.M., camper Mike Stotts decided he had to accept what park rangers and fellow campers had been telling him:
That no 15-year-old house dog with diminished hearing could survive that long without food or water among the coyotes and mid-August heat.
Still grieving 66 days after saying goodbye to the dog that went with him everywhere, Stotts received a shocking telephone call on Monday.
