When 36-year-old Nordia Palmer-Ferguson went to her doctor complaining of blurred vision, headaches, pressure and swelling in her left eye, little did she know she was facing the possibility of blindness, or even death. Thanks to the ingenious solution of an ophthalmologist and professor of surgery at Cornell, not only was her life saved, but her eyesight has been completely restored.
Not long after giving birth to her daughter earlier this year, Nordia Palmer-Ferguson noticed discoloration in her left eye, which became swollen and painful. A neighbor, who is a nurse, told her she might have broken a blood vessel during delivery. The pain persisted, the eye became enlarged, and her vision blurred. She knew something was wrong.
Riley Avron recently wrapped up his third internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This summer, the Purdue University sophomore developed a program for NASA engineers to practice driving the Mars Curiosity Rover.
In the days before Avron’s phone app, researchers had to carry a full-size laptop on their arms. Now, with a few finger taps, they can send commands to the test model of the Curiosity rover, which is used for testing outcomes.
A subway motorman honored by the Daily News last month for tackling a man who stabbed a passenger in 2009 has saved a kitten stuck in a Sun Chip bag.
The 42-year-old motorman was pulling his train out of a Brooklyn station on Tuesday when he spotted trouble. A cat with a snack bag over its head was lying smack in the middle of the tracks.
Powerful new anti-cancer drugs made from green tea leaves could soon be available now that Scottish scientists have shown that tumors treated with an extract from the beverage had shrunk in half within a week.
The University of Strathclyde team made 40 percent of human skin cancer tumors disappear using the compound, in a laboratory study.
Wednesday was Georgia’s Random Acts of Kindness Day declared by Gov. Nathan Deal. And a middle school teacher wanted to instill in her students the importance of the practice and how helping others can come back to them in rewarding ways.
After reading “Pay it Forward” by Katherine Ryan Hyde, middle school students in the town of Rome have been going around the school, educating their peers about doing Random Acts of Kindness and what it means to pay it forward.
Two best friends in Florida after leaving jobs that no longer fulfilled them decided to pack their bags and go on a “Summer Service Adventure”. 56-year-old Carol Hasbrouck and 60-year-old Joyce Claflin left their St. Petersburg home in June embarking on a 33-city volunteering tour under the banner, “Dames Gone Wild”.
Their goal is to perform more than 1500 hours of service while traveling 12,000 miles in 12 months.
“We had the courage to leave our home,” wrote the pair on the NPR blog, Participation Nation. “The response we’ve received has been overwhelming.”
On August 20th they joined a friend and gave out free hugs in Burlington, Vt., their fifteenth stop on the 33-city itinerary.
They’ve given help to homeless shelters, senior citizens, brain injury patients, and Habitat for Humanity. They’ve helped create quilts for orphans, volunteered at a holistic Hispanic center, and joined an educational puppet troupe. Both have been avid volunteers since they were children.
“Our lives will never be the same.”
The pair — one lost her job as a mortgage broker and one is a massage therapist involved in the holistic arts — are staying with host families along the way. The are still looking for someone to host them in Kill Devil Hills, NC and Charleston, SC in September.
Facebook chose to build its latest data storage facility 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle in Sweden because colder temperatures eliminate the need for air conditioning.
The company’s massive Nordic operation—to house tens of thousands of servers—will save millions of dollars on electricity while cutting their potential carbon emissions.
If you were born prematurely at 29 weeks with congenital cerebral palsy and motor function impairment, what would you be doing when you reached your teens?
From the age of five, Natasha Tse has used therapeutic riding to re-invent herself as an athlete.
She put all the problems and operations behind her and learned to ride a horse, working so hard that she earned Hong Kong a place in the London Paralympics equestrian dressage competition this week.
First Lady Michelle Obama announced at a Naval base today that 2,000 businesses around the country have hired or trained more than 125,000 military veterans and spouses in the past year, exceeding a White House goal of 100,000 by the end of next year.
This effort, called Joining Forces, led by the First Lady and Mrs. Biden, along with recent legislation, has achieve a 20 percent decrease in veteran unemployment compared to this time last year.
A Radford University student has a newly restored car and added security system thanks to Virginia businesses that took a firm stand against bullying.
The young man’s car was vandalized four times this year, it’s tires slashed, windows broken and, worst of all, gay slurs carved into the side of the vehicle.
A manager at Quality Auto Paint and Body in Roanoke, Richard Henegar Jr., heard what happened and rallied local businesses to help.
A Radford University student has a newly restored car and added security system thanks to Virginia businesses that took a firm stand against bullying.
The young man’s car was vandalized four times this year, it’s tires slashed, windows broken and, worst of all, gay slurs carved into the side of the vehicle.
A manager at Quality Auto Paint and Body in Roanoke, Richard Henegar Jr., heard what happened and rallied local businesses to help.
This morning a baby bird fell out of its nest just outside the window that is near my desk. I watched it tumble from the dense pillow of twigs and leaves tucked into the eaves under the deck, falling a distance of 12 feet to the cement patio below.
The mother bird dashed to the baby’s side, hopping in a circle around him. After a few stunned moments, the fledgling righted himself and faced her. She screeched at him, wings extended, beak thrust forward. I knew what she was saying: “Why did you sit so close to the edge? What were you doing? Wrestling with your brother? Didn’t I tell you…?”
A small round lithium-ion battery has been hacked to charge itself when it is flexed or compressed, a breakthrough that could lead to a class of small, portable electronics that stay charged without ever being plugged in.
Such an advancement could decrease trash in landfills as the need for chargers are eliminated.
A non-profit organization, working 15 years to save a historic property owned by Nikola Tesla, learned a lot about the power of social networks this week.
In just five days, a grassroots campaign set up by an artist was able to raise $829,000 from citizen donors contributing money to buy back Tesla’s laboratory and turn it into a museum that honors the pioneering physicist and engineer.
A non-profit organization, working 15 years to save a historic property owned by Nikola Tesla, learned a lot about the power of social networks this week.
In just five days, a grassroots campaign set up by an artist was able to raise $829,000 from citizen donors contributing money to buy back Tesla’s laboratory and turn it into a museum that honors the pioneering physicist and engineer.
Phyllis Diller, the first woman to make it big as a comedian, was an American pioneer. She created a stage persona of a wild-haired, eccentrically dressed housewife. She made self-deprecating jokes about her age and appearance, her terrible cooking and housekeeping, and her fictional husband named “Fang”.
Diller’s signature was her unusual laugh, a booming cackle she let loose always while pretending to smoke from a long cigarette holder. Her jokes later in life about her many facelifts made the procedure seem “more normal” for Americans, she said.
When government fraud squads crack down on one Medicare scheme, another pops up close by.
But the fraud squads that look for scams in the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs have been bolstered with new weapons: tools provided by the Affordable Care Act.
54 children from across the country were invited to the White House today for the first ever “Kids’ State Dinner” to celebrate healthy eating and the First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign.
Baked Zuccini Fries and Cabbage Sloppy Joes were two of the winning recipes chosen to be on the lunch menu from among the hundreds of healthy meal ideas submitted by the kids, aged 8-12 from all 50 states.
Not only is it the first State Dinner where the guests of honor were all under the age of 13, it’s also the first time the White House kitchen has served a formal meal where the entire menu was created by cooks who have no formal training.
”For you guys to actually come up with recipes that are healthy and tasty and to do it in a way that helps to contribute to spreading the word to your peers, that’s a very big deal,” President Obama told the 54 young chefs.
Epicurious, a website that co-sponsored the contest, reports that the President also warned the kids about Bo, the family dog. “Try not to drop any scraps on the floor because Bo is on a diet right now, and he will eat anything that he sees.”
The winners arrived in Washington, D.C. yesterday and toured the new Julia Child exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution.
This morning at the White House they were treated like heads of state, dining among elaborate table decorations and using the red china designed by Nancy Reagan.
You can get a PDF cookbook with the 54 winning lunch recipes from the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge at LetsMove.gov.
Winners were selected from among 1,200 recipes, which were evaluated at D.C. Central Kitchen by a panel of judges that included White House Assistant Chef Sam Kass. Watch the White House chefs talk about the menu in the video below.
54 children from across the country were invited to the White House today for the first ever “Kids’ State Dinner” to celebrate healthy eating and the First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign.
Baked Zuccini Fries and Cabbage Sloppy Joes were two of the winning recipes chosen to be on the lunch menu from among the hundreds of healthy meal ideas submitted by the kids, aged 8-12 from all 50 states.
Not only is it the first State Dinner where the guests of honor were all under the age of 13, it’s also the first time the White House kitchen has served a formal meal where the entire menu was created by cooks who have no formal training.
”For you guys to actually come up with recipes that are healthy and tasty and to do it in a way that helps to contribute to spreading the word to your peers, that’s a very big deal,” President Obama told the 54 young chefs.
Epicurious, a website that co-sponsored the contest, reports that the President also warned the kids about Bo, the family dog. “Try not to drop any scraps on the floor because Bo is on a diet right now, and he will eat anything that he sees.”
The winners arrived in Washington, D.C. yesterday and toured the new Julia Child exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution.
This morning at the White House they were treated like heads of state, dining among elaborate table decorations and using the red china designed by Nancy Reagan.
You can get a PDF cookbook with the 54 winning lunch recipes from the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge at LetsMove.gov.
Winners were selected from among 1,200 recipes, which were evaluated at D.C. Central Kitchen by a panel of judges that included White House Assistant Chef Sam Kass. Watch the White House chefs talk about the menu in the video below.
When 36-year-old Nordia Palmer-Ferguson went to her doctor complaining of blurred vision, headaches, pressure and swelling in her left eye, little did she know she was facing the possibility of blindness, or even death. Thanks to the ingenious solution of an ophthalmologist and professor of surgery at Cornell, not only was her life saved, but her eyesight has been completely restored.
the red china designed by Nancy Reagan.