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KINDNESS • Upworthy
Three teens stopped to fix a tire. They saved a life.Three Cooper City High School students were headed out for a fishing day on April 19 when they spotted Diego Fernandez-Delgado struggling with a blown tire on South Flamingo Road in Florida. The 65-year-old had two problems. His phone was dead, and his chest had started to hurt. He was having a heart attack, and he had no way to call anyone. Logan Royer, Cody Magrone and Brody Murray crossed the McDonald's lot to help. "We saw him on the side of the road and we were like, let's go help him," Magrone told WSVN-TV. The tire stopped mattering when Royer noticed the man was drenched in sweat and could barely speak. One teen called 911 while the others stayed. "There's an old guy on the side of the road," he told the dispatcher. "He does not feel good at all." First responders said the quick call likely saved his life. On May 12, recovered after several procedures, Fernandez-Delgado thanked the boys in person at a city ceremony. All three are now considering careers as first responders.
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MEDICINE • Reasons to be Cheerful
Forty sessions of music gave him his voice backA 2023 stroke left Naresh Shanbhag, a 53-year-old sales professional in Bengaluru, unable to form words or sentences, despite a career built on talking. A doctor friend suggested music therapy. He was skeptical that listening to songs could rebuild his speech. "From the very first session, I was hooked," he says. At India's first music cognition lab, run by neuropsychology professor and trained classical vocalist Shantala Hegde at NIMHANS, Shanbhag started by tapping single beats on a smartphone app. When his therapist noticed he could sing more fluently than he could speak, the exercises became sentences set to melody. The science rests on neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to rewire undamaged regions around injured tissue. A year and 40 sessions later, Shanbhag walks better, speaks in coherent sentences, and runs an Instagram page for his music videos. Every morning he fetches milk and groceries, his shopping list belted out as a song. The lab charges just over 42 dollars for 20 sessions.
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
Two grandparents met as wedding guests. Seven months later, engaged.Seven months after Jenna and Blake Savacool married in California, two of their wedding guests are engaged. Those guests are Jenna's grandpa and Blake's grandma, introduced for the first time at the couple's ceremony. "We never imagined that introducing our families at our wedding would eventually lead to an engagement," Jenna told Upworthy. The two grandparents fell for each other quickly. Both had been hoping to find someone to spend their later years with, though neither was actively looking the day they met. A TikTok video of the proposal has gone viral, including the moment Jenna's grandpa got down on one knee and then needed a hand getting back up. His new fianc\u00e9e helped him. "They both deserve the world," Jenna wrote. Commenters left their own stories of late-in-life romance, along with one practical observation about the new family tree: "Y'all cousins now."
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SCIENCE • Good News Network
A rover just finished a full marathon on MarsNASA's Perseverance rover has driven 26.2 miles across Mars, a full marathon, after marking five years on the Red Planet. The robotic lab landed in Jezero Crater, where its drilling confirmed that the basin once held water and left lake sediments at its base. In 2022 it climbed onto a delta of 3-billion-year-old sediments, firing radar pulses down about 65 feet to map buried rock that matched the regular, horizontal pattern of Earth lakes. "We picked Jezero Crater as a landing site because orbital imagery showed a delta," said project scientist Ken Farley of Caltech, who called it a place "for entombing signs of ancient life." The rover has gathered nearly 100 samples, sealed in tubes of sterilized sapphire described as the cleanest surfaces in the universe. There is still no settled plan to bring them home. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has suggested astronauts could one day pick them up by hand.
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DELIGHT • Good News Network
A 120-year-old railroad bridge is now a free restaurantA 120-year-old railroad bridge over the Kansas River reopened in April as the Rock Island Bridge, a restaurant and event space with a walking path connecting Kansas and Missouri. CEO Mike Zeller, who holds a 66-year lease on the structure, first noticed the old crossing on a boat trip and thought someone should do something with it. Ten years later, in 2017, he founded Flying Truss LLC to lead the $20 million renovation. Some 35 local businesses donated materials and labor, including a legal firm that worked pro bono for seven years. Engineers found the original steel, built by Andrew Carnegie's firm, sturdy enough to need only a few new bolts and some rust addressed. The truss beams still plunge through the walkway and even the tables, and the old rail track now serves as footrests along the bar. Entry is free. Zeller called it a gift from about 200 Kansas Citians to their city.
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