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KINDNESS • Good News Network
A bag held $128,514. He handed back every dollar.The bag was just sitting there. He made one call.
A man who stopped at a Texas ATM found a bag stuffed with $128,514 sitting on top of the machine and called the police instead of walking away with it. The incident happened in Lewisville, where the man, who identified himself only as a local barber, first carried the bag next door to a Chick-fil-A to ask whether the cash belonged to the restaurant. It did not. When an officer arrived, he handed over the money and 19 checks without hesitation. Investigators traced it to Bank of America and a Brinks technician who had been told to take the cash after repairing the ATM, then appears to have left it on the roof like a coffee cup. At the station, officers double counted the haul and ran it through a currency counter. Not a dollar was missing. The Lewisville Police Department wants to honor the man. He agreed, so long as the ceremony stays private.
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NATURE • Smithsonian Magazine
Sgiath the Labrador was named Animal of the YearLab work takes days and DNA tests. She needs a nose.
A black Labrador named Sgiath was crowned Animal of the Year by the International Fund for Animal Welfare on October 15, recognized for sniffing out an invasive marine species along Britain's coast. The 6-year-old, pronounced Skee-ah, is believed to be the first dog trained to detect carpet sea squirt, a slimy organism nicknamed "sea vomit" that can smother native species and clog oyster farms. Originally trained for mountain rescue, she now walks the beach near Glencoe, Scotland, entering the water at low tide to find colonies hidden under seaweed. Her handler, marine ecologist Texa Sim, says Sgiath is never wrong. "She just does a survey with her nose, essentially," Sim told BBC News. "She can pinpoint exactly where it is." Traditional detection needs DNA testing and lab time. Sgiath needs a nose. Sim has since added a 3-year-old protege named Uisge to the team. Read the full story → | ||||||||||
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DELIGHT • Good News Network
The fight was fake. The whole school yelled surprise.They staged a fight. The principal ran straight into it.
Bobby Davis, the 51-year-old principal of Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School in Georgia, was in his office when a student rushed in reporting a fight in the cafeteria. Davis bolted down the hall. He arrived to find a ring of students with phones raised and two kids apparently going at it in the middle. He pushed through and grabbed a boy he knew well, one with a history of fighting. Then the crowd broke into cheers. "Happy Birthday!" It was Davis's birthday, and the whole thing was staged by 17-year-old De'Zayviun Watkins, the student he had grabbed. Watkins told TODAY that Davis, who also coaches football, helped him work through his anger and turn toward writing poetry and composing music. Watkins kept calling himself a "bad kid." Davis would not accept it, calling him "a great kid." Davis jumped up and down like a child, which, on his birthday, seemed fair enough. Read the full story → | ||||||||||
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SCIENCE • MIT News
MIT students won $925,000 turning lunar trash into partsA future moon base will need tools. It will also need somewhere to put the garbage.
A team of MIT students has won first prize in both tracks of NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge for building a system that turns lunar trash into usable parts. The group, called CERBERUZ, grinds non-biological waste into powder, melts it, and injects it into molds to produce composite components, cutting the need for expensive shipments from Earth. Their process uses no water and no chemicals, a deliberate choice for a place where you cannot restock either. One of the harder materials to handle was Zotek F30, an aerospace packaging foam so light it defeats intuition. "We had big shipments of Zotek coming in, and one person can carry them on their head like it's nothing," says José Soto, a graduate student and the team's pre-processing lead. "The box is the size of a person." The win caps nearly two years of work and $925,000 in prize money, which the team hopes to pour back into MIT's Space Resources Workshop for the students who come next. Read the full story → | ||||||||||
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KINDNESS • GreaterGood
Firefighters gave the trapped dog oxygen. He ran back to his owner.His owner was in the store. The car was on fire.
Spokane Valley firefighters arrived at a parking lot last week to find a car engulfed in flames, and something moving in the back seat. A dog was trapped inside, trying to escape the smoke, while his owner and friends shopped in the grocery store, unaware the vehicle was burning. Crews put out the fire and pulled the dog free. He was in rough shape when they reached him. "He was in rough shape, with melted whiskers and clearly needing some help. So our firefighters gave him oxygen and some much-needed TLC," the Spokane Valley Fire Department wrote. More oxygen, more time, and the dog got back on his feet. He ran around the lot and found his owner. The department posted photos of the reunion alongside the charred car. "A scary morning ended with the best possible outcome: a family back together. That's why we do what we do," they wrote.
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