Today’s uplifting news:

1. A new robotic diagnostic tool can detect lung cancer at much earlier stages than conventional tools.

2. A new artificial intelligence tool is helping nurses decide which patients need to be woken up at night to have their vital signs checked and which should be left to sleep without interruption.

3. The 3-month old panda at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo has been named after a public vote.

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S1 E20     Tuesday, November 24, 2020

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Today’s stories cover advances in health technologies.

Headline 1

A new robotic diagnostic tool can detect lung cancer at much earlier stages than conventional tools.

Related links:

Interesting Engineering – ‘Game changing’ robotic technology goes mainstream, diagnoses lung cancer

Headline 2

A new artificial intelligence tool is helping nurses decide which patients need to be woken up at night to have their vital signs checked and which should be left to sleep without interruption.

Related links:

Digital Medicine – Let sleeping patients lie, avoiding unnecessary overnight vitals monitoring using a clinically based deep-learning model

Interesting Engineering – New AI tool cuts patient vital sign check-ups, lets them sleep, saves lives

Daily Fluff

The 3-month old panda at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo has been named after a public vote.

Related link:

Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute – His name is Xiao Qi Ji

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Giant Panda Cam

Today’s uplifting news:

1. In an act of kindness, a FedEx delivery driver buys a new basketball and hoop for a child on her route.

2. After his security system warns that there’s an intruder in his driveway every evening, a Utah man makes a chalk racetrack for the young boy who keeps setting the security camera off during his evening bike rides.

3. Panda, a lost cat from Washington state, turned up in Alaska, more than 2,000 miles from home.

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S1 E19     Monday, November 23, 2020

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Today’s stories cover kindness!

Headline 1

In an act of kindness, a FedEx delivery driver buys a new basketball and hoop for a child on her route.

Related links:

CBS News – FedEx driver surprises boy with new basketball hoop: “There are very much still good people in the world”

Headline 2

After his security system warns that there’s an intruder in his driveway every evening, a Utah man makes a chalk racetrack for the young boy who keeps setting the security camera off during his evening bike rides.

Related links:

CanyonChasers YouTube channel

CBS News – Man draws out racetrack on driveway for 4-year-old neighbor to enjoy on bike

Interesting Engineering – Neighbor takes action after kid keeps riding his bicycle in his driveway

Daily Fluff

Panda, a lost cat from Washington state, turned up in Alaska, more than 2,000 miles from home.

Related link:

Today – Lost cat turns up thousands of miles away in Alaska. Here’s how he got home

Our humanitarian of the week is Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, a doctor and football player who is taking the season off from the NFL to help combat COVID-19.

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S1 E 18     Friday, November 20, 2020

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Headline

Our humanitarian of the week is Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, a doctor and football player who is taking the season off from the NFL to help combat COVID-19.

Related links:

CNN – The first practicing medical doctor to play in the NFL opts out of the 2020 season

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif on Twitter

Sports Illustrated – A lineman’s choice: To defend a Super Bowl, or to fight a pandemic

Today’s uplifting news:

1. In Vancouver, British Columbia, deconstructing homes instead of demolishing them is offsetting demolition waste.

2. At The Climate Store in Sweden, food is priced based on its carbon footprint.

3. Coloradans have voted to reintroduce the gray wolf to the Southern Rocky Mountains.

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S1 E17     Thursday, November 19, 2020

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Today’s stories cover climate and the environment:

Headline 1

In Vancouver, British Columbia, deconstructing homes instead of demolishing them is offsetting demolition waste.

Related article:

CBC - Vancouver crew ‘unbuilds’ home in record time, as it aims to offset demotion waste

Headline 2

At The Climate Store in Sweden, food is priced based on its carbon footprint.

Related article:

Inhabitat – New Swedish grocery to price goods based on carbon footprint

Daily Fluff

Coloradans have voted to reintroduce the gray wolf to the Southern Rocky Mountains.

Related links:

Good News Network – In historic vote, Coloradans give thumbs-up for gray wolves to be reintroduced west of the Rockies

National Geographic – Gray wolves to be reintroduced to Colorado in unprecedented vote

Today’s uplifting news:

1. Midshipman First Class Sydney Barber will be the first Black woman to serve as a brigade commander at the US Naval Academy.

2. Chris Nikic is the first athlete with Down syndrome to complete an Ironman triathlon.

3. The Smithsonian’s National Zoo has a new baby panda and they want you to vote on his name!

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S1 E16     Wednesday, November 18, 2020

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Today’s stories cover breaking barriers!

Headline 1

Midshipman First Class Sydney Barber will be the first Black woman to serve as a brigade commander at the US Naval Academy.

Related links:

New York Times: Black woman, for first time, will lead midshipmen at the US Naval Academy

Headline 2

Chris Nikic is the first athlete with Down syndrome to complete an Ironman triathlon.

Related links:

CBS News: Florida man becomes first person with Down syndrome to finish Ironman triathlon

Daily Fluff

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo has a new baby panda and they want you to vote on his name!

Related links:

Vote for the baby panda’s name here!

Smithsonian’s National Zoo – Giant Panda Cam

Good News Network – The National Zoo has a new panda cub and they’re asking for votes to name it

Today’s uplifting news:

1. Four co-workers at the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, British Columbia won a $6-million-dollar jackpot on Halloween.

2. Alex Durkan, a Russian engineer, has designed the first hydrogen-powered exoskeleton.

3. The Burmese roofed turtle population has been brought back from near extinction.

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S1 E15     Tuesday, November 17, 2020

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Today’s stories cover good things happening to good people, and innovative engineering:

Headline 1

Four co-workers at the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, British Columbia won a $6-million-dollar jackpot on Halloween Related links:

Related link:

CBS News: Four hospital workers win $6 million after playing the lottery together for a year

Headline 2

Alex Durkan, a Russian engineer, has designed the first hydrogen-powered exoskeleton.

Related links:

Alex Lab on YouTube

Interesting Engineering: This exoskeleton uses hydrogen to power its artificial ‘muscles’

Daily Fluff

The Burmese roofed turtle population has been brought back from near extinction.

Related link:

The New York Times: A turtle with a permanent smile was brought back from near extinction

Today’s uplifting news:

1. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 launch successfully sent a crew of 4 toward the International Space station in a rocket built by SpaceX, the private rocket company.

2. Researchers have flown drones into the volcano Manam Motu, in Papua New Guinea, to help develop a method for monitoring volcanoes to send out early warnings before they erupt.

3. With the app MeowTalk, you can finally find out what your cat is trying to tell you.

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Monday, November 16, 2020

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Today’s stories cover technological innovation:

Headline 1

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 launch successfully sent a crew of 4 toward the International Space station in a rocket built by SpaceX, the private rocket company

Related link:

NASA - information about Crew-1 launch

Headline 2

Researchers have flown drones into the volcano Manam Motu, in Papua New Guinea, to help develop a method for monitoring volcanoes to send out early warnings before they erupt.

Related articles:

Science Alert – Drones are flying straight into volcanoes, for life-saving science

Science Advances – Aerial strategies advance volcanic gas measurements at inaccessible, strongly degassing volcanoes

Daily Fluff

With the app MeowTalk, you can finally find out what your cat is trying to tell you.

Related article:

Interesting Engineering – Ex-Amazon engineer designs app that reportedly translates cat meows

Today we celebrate our humanitarian of the week, John Kinney, an electrician in Woburn, Massachusetts, whose efforts to remodel the dilapidated home of a woman in his community spurred similar acts of kindness all across the nation.

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S1 E13     Friday, November 13, 2020

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Today’s Headline:

Today we celebrate our humanitarian of the week, John Kinney, an electrician in Woburn, Massachusetts, whose efforts to remodel the dilapidated home of a woman in his community spurred similar acts of kindness all across the nation.

Related links:

Gloria’s Gladiators

Kinney Electric

The Washington Post – An electrician saw his client’s house was in disrepair. So he called friends and they fixed her house for free.