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KINDNESS • Google News Human Interest
Three strangers pulled the driver from the burning carHe could have driven on. His wrist is broken because he didn't.
A driver going the wrong way crashed into a car on the Henry Hudson Parkway around 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 6, setting vehicles on fire. James O'Connell and his wife had narrowly avoided the same driver moments earlier. Rather than wait for 911, O'Connell made a U-turn, flagged down NYPD Officers Feliciano Merino and William Brodwell, and led them to the wreck. Then he climbed in to help. "Mr. O'Connell gave me the boost to get over the barrier," Merino said. "I didn't even think twice about it. I just hopped in." O'Connell broke his left wrist pulling at the burning car, and said he would do it again in a second. He has his reasons. "I'm sick from [the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks]; I'm currently battling cancer. Life is important." The injured driver is still recovering in the hospital. The wrong-way driver, 39-year-old Emichell Noloya, now faces drunk-driving and other charges. Read the full story → | ||||||||||
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MEDICINE • ScienceDaily Health
3,000 steps a day may slow Alzheimer's in the brainNot 10,000 steps. A third of that may be enough.
Researchers who followed almost 300 older adults for nine to 11 years have found that walking just 3,000 steps a day may slow one of the brain changes behind Alzheimer's disease. The pedometer study, written up by Eef Hogervorst of Loughborough University, found that activity did not clear the toxic amyloid plaques most treatments target. Instead, among people who already had those plaques, movement roughly halved the buildup of misfolded tau proteins, which appear later and track more closely with memory decline. Benefits showed up at around half an hour of moderate walking. The sweet spot was 5,000 to 7,500 steps, after which the effect flattened out. More steps did not mean more protection, which quietly undercuts the famous 10,000-step target nobody actually hits. The study was small and limited, the researchers caution, but it joins larger work pointing the same way. A realistic goal, then, is a stroll, not a marathon. Read the full story → | ||||||||||
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NATURE • Smithsonian Magazine
Wildlife crashes dropped 90 percent after the crossing openedThey used to play Frogger. Now they just walk.
Wildlife-vehicle collisions have dropped more than 90 percent along an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 25 in Colorado, where officials finished a decades-long crossing system in December 2025. The final piece, a $15 million bridge near Monument, is the largest wildlife overpass in North America, spanning six lanes of a road that carries 100,000 vehicles a day. Before the fencing and underpasses, elk and pronghorn had few safe options. "It was an effective wall that they had to play Frogger and try to get across," said Brandon Marette, a wildlife biologist for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The overpass runs 200 feet wide by 209 feet long, and the big animals took to it fast. For the first time in decades, pronghorn are crossing to the west side of I-25. Elk have ambled over on camera. Rabbits and northern leopard frogs have used it too. Since the bridge opened, two collisions have been reported along that stretch. Read the full story → | ||||||||||
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DELIGHT • Sunny Skyz
Teens saw a boy sitting alone and asked him to playThey saw a boy sitting alone. They didn't know why.
A group of teenagers at Urban Air Adventure Park in Bellingham, Massachusetts, noticed a 7-year-old boy sitting alone last week and asked him to play. The boy, Tristan, is autistic. The teens did not know that, and it did not come up. Livy Molinari started things off by complimenting a ball Tristan had just won. "I said, 'That's a really nice ball you have,'" she recalled. She asked to hold it. He said yes. That turned into roughly 40 minutes of tossing the ball around and going down the slides. Tristan's mother, Christina Caron, watched the whole thing. She said her son is not always met with kindness by children who read him as a little different. "To see these teenagers just be so inclusive, and so welcoming and warm, it was just a really good feeling," she said. The teens told WBZ-TV they had not been trying to make a point. They just wanted another kid to play with. Read the full story → | ||||||||||
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SCIENCE • Smithsonian Magazine
One honest phone call unearthed two 3,000-year-old pharaoh statuesHe could have kept the pink stone quiet. He called it in.
A farmer in Egypt's Nile Delta spotted a pink stone in his dirt and reported it to the authorities, who then dug up two colossal statues of Ramses II from beneath his land. Khaled al-Shahat noticed the stone was covered in hieroglyphs and called it in rather than keeping quiet. Archaeologists later found a five-foot-tall head they believe once topped a statue standing nearly 28 feet, plus part of a second figure wearing a striped royal headcloth. Ramses II ruled ancient Egypt from 1279 to 1213 B.C.E. and built more monuments than any pharaoh before or after him. The inscribed granite block that started it all bears the title "Sa-Ra," meaning son of Ra. The site sits in Behbeit El-Hagar, a village about 80 miles north of Cairo. "They told me this might change the history of the area," Shahat told CBS News. He was, by his own account, surprised and happy.
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