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KINDNESS • NPR Stories
The photographer who documents others became the moment himselfNo signal. No cars. Then three engines slowed.
A photojournalist crashed his bicycle into a boulder on a remote road in Scotland, leaving him bleeding, injured and without cell service to call for help. Three motorcyclists rode past, and then they stopped. They tended to his injuries and stayed with him on a road where he had no way to reach anyone. It is the kind of place where you can wait a long time for a car, and longer still for one that slows down. These three did. The photojournalist, whose job is usually to document other people's moments, ended up on the receiving end of one. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • GreaterGood
Rehomed four times, she grabbed on and never let goFour homes before her first birthday. Then someone stayed.
A polydactyl kitten with oversized paws and extra toes had already passed through at least four homes before her first birthday. Then, at a PetSmart adoption event four years ago, she grabbed onto Tiffany's long hair, which is one way a cat makes a case for herself. Tiffany, who lived in Murray, Utah, and had spent six months living alone, took the eleven-month-old blue-gray cat home. Because polydactyl cats are sometimes called boxing cats, she named her Moe, after Muhammad Ali. The adjustment was real. Moe opened cupboards and drawers with her paws, forcing a round of baby-proofing, and arrived with separation anxiety from her earlier homes. She now sees a chiropractor and is doing much better. Today she plays fetch with mini tennis balls, sits for treats, and half the time thinks she is a dog. Tiffany has promised her a home for the rest of her life, no matter what. Read the full story → | |||
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
Not one layoff in 100 years at ToraniA cheaper state offered tax breaks. She pulled up the staff map.
Torani, the San Francisco syrup maker behind your vanilla latte, has not laid off a single employee since it opened in 1925. That streak has held through the Great Depression, World War II and the COVID-19 pandemic. Two Italian immigrants, Rinaldo and Ezilda Torre, founded the company in North Beach with five flavors carried home from Lucca, Italy. When Rinaldo died of a heart attack in 1938, Ezilda ran the business alone with two young children and her family's backing. That refusal to shed people continues under CEO Melanie Dulbecco, who joined in 1991 when the team numbered eight. When the company planned a move to its 330,000-square-foot San Leandro factory, tax incentives elsewhere were on the table. Dulbecco pulled up a zip code map of her staff and drew a radius that never left the East Bay. The plant now turns out about 450,000 bottles a day. "Most companies focus on their financials, and then people are the tools," she said. "We look at it the other way around." Read the full story → | |||
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DELIGHT • GreaterGood
Firefighters raised a ladder and carried the cat downHow she got up there, nobody could say.
The Berlin Volunteer Fire Department responded last week to a call that felt more slapstick than emergency: a cat stuck on the roof of a home. The owner figured she had slipped out through an open skylight, then found herself on the ledge with no plan for getting down. Firefighters arrived, raised a ladder, and carried her back to safety. She is now indoors again, which is where cats prefer to be after proving they can be somewhere else. The department posted about the rescue on Facebook, where commenters thanked the crew and asked the more pressing question. Nobody could explain how she reached the skylight in the first place. The cat is not saying. Read the full story → | |||
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
Built in the 1940s, this lost invention shaped how billions typeIt weighed 50 pounds and nobody could read the keys.
Jennifer Felix and her husband Nelson pulled a strange 50-pound machine from an Arizona storage unit, part of her late father's belongings. It looked roughly like a typewriter, but the keyboard was covered in characters neither of them recognized. "This isn't just a typewriter. These are not English symbols," Jennifer told Stanford Magazine. Nelson posted photos to a Facebook group called "What's My Typewriter Worth?" and the couple went out to dinner. By the time they checked again, people worldwide were trying to reach them. Some wanted to buy it. Others begged them not to sell. The machine was the MingKwai, the only prototype of an experimental Chinese typewriter built by author Lin Yutang in the 1940s, long considered lost. Its 72 keys let a typist search thousands of characters through a small window Lin called the "Magic Eye," the same basic idea behind typing Chinese on a phone today. It now sits at Stanford, and researchers ran it through a medical CT scanner rather than risk taking it apart. They are building a replica, which would be the second ever made.
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