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Five good things · Three minutes
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KINDNESS • InspireMore
A mother, two kids, and the guard who shielded themHe saw the car coming. He walked toward it.
A school crossing guard in Las Vegas stepped in front of a car traveling 35 miles per hour in a school zone last week, shielding a mother and her two children as they crossed. Richard Jones walked calmly into the middle of the intersection outside Pinecrest Academy St. Rose and put up his stop sign. The driver slowed down. Dash cam video captured by Jake Garcia showed the whole thing. Kae'la Leon Guerrero, the mother, played the footage for Jones afterward and gave him a high-five. "If that cross guard didn't jump in front of that car, something bad would have definitely happened," she told Fox 5. She said she has lost count of how many times she has thanked him, and that her kids thank him every day. Jones was less impressed with himself. "Honestly, I just try to do the job the best way I can," he said. Read the full story → | |||
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NATURE • Upworthy
A drought took the river. Beavers brought it back.Engineering couldn't fix the river. The beavers could.
A team from Utah State University began moving displaced beavers to the drought-stricken Price River in 2019, betting that the animals could do what expensive engineering could not. Six years on, the water levels are the healthiest in years and the fish are thriving. Beaver dams slow a river's flow and create ponds where wildlife can shelter while the rest of the riverbed runs dry, waiting for rain. The beavers relocated by master's student Emma Doden and her colleagues had been captured or removed elsewhere for being a "nuisance," the polite word for chewing through infrastructure. Not all of them stayed. Some died, some were killed by predators, and some simply left. Enough remained to build dams and rebuild the watershed. The Price River runs through downtown Helper, where a Salt Lake Tribune column in 2025 said the revival "helped save our Utah town." On a warm day it is now full of people tubing and kayaking, on water that was nearly gone. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Good News Network
Only 3% of these ex-prisoners re-offend. The nation's rate is 66%.Just weeks out of prison. A crash course in trigonometry.
A converted machine shop in southeastern San Diego is training men who spent decades in prison to become certified machinists, often just weeks after release. Rise Up Industries, a nonprofit running the paid apprenticeship for more than a decade, pairs the trade instruction with therapy and case management. The shop fills real contracts for aerospace parts, medical devices and, among other things, fishing lures. Only 3% of graduates re-offend, the group says, against a national rate near 66% over three years. Komisi Savaiinaea served more than two decades before joining. He had no machining experience and little patience for technology, and the whole thing scared him. Then he watched other former prisoners run the machines. "If these gentlemen on the floor can get it, you know, I believe in myself," he said. He is now a supervisor, and a cancer survivor, and married more than 30 years. He teaches the new arrivals trigonometry. Read the full story → | |||
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DELIGHT • InspireMore
Chris Martin joined a street busker for a surprise duetHe was playing his last song of the night. Then Chris Martin walked up.
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin walked up to a street busker in London's Trafalgar Square and joined him for a duet of "Viva la Vida." The busker, Hanny Junee, was playing the song as his final number of the night when Martin appeared and started singing along. Junee filmed the moment and posted it to Instagram. "Still can't believe this happened," he wrote. "Thank you, Chris, for the most unforgettable moment of my life!" The video went viral, and Junee added text confirming it was real, with no AI involved. One commenter noted the best detail: Martin apparently did not know he was being filmed, which spared him any stage fright, a phrase that does not usually apply to a man who sells out stadiums. Junee, who describes himself as someone who purely loves music, said he plans to keep traveling and busking. "I feel like I might have used up a lifetime's worth of luck all at once," he wrote. Read the full story → | |||
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MEDICINE • ScienceDaily Health
One infusion cut cholesterol in half for a yearOne dose. One gene switched off. Cholesterol still down a year later.
A single infusion of a CRISPR gene-editing therapy cut LDL cholesterol by 52.5% and triglycerides by 47.8% after one year, according to a Phase 1 trial from Cleveland Clinic published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study followed 15 people with lipid disorders that had not responded well to standard medications. All received one dose of an experimental treatment called CTX310, which carries the editing system to the liver and switches off a gene, ANGPTL3, that helps regulate fats in the blood. No serious adverse events tied to the therapy were reported over the year. "The durability of the lipid-lowering effect was impressive," said cardiologist Luke Laffin, the study's first author. The treatment is still experimental, and 15 people is a small start. Researchers plan to keep tracking participants for another 15 years, which is the part of gene editing nobody rushes. Read the full story → | |||
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