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Thursday, Oct 29 · Five good things · Three minutes
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KINDNESS • Sunny Skyz
A cashier quietly paid a stranger's $150 grocery billThe gift cards were for the wrong store. The cashier knew the feeling.
Gina Coleman reached the checkout at a Longo's in Ontario with a cart of groceries and gift cards that did not work. The cards were for a different retailer, and the store could not accept them. Coleman, who had been staying at a Yellow Brick House shelter with her toddler, had no way to cover the bill. "I felt embarrassed. I don't have the money for it. I thought, 'What do I do?'" she told Aurora Today. The cashier, Ada Everingham, pulled out her debit card and paid the roughly $150 herself. She knew the situation from the inside. She and her mother had relied on gift cards during harder years. "I just thought I would have liked it if someone did that for me, too," Everingham said. Coleman cried, then later contacted the store's guest care team to make sure someone knew. She and her daughter move to a townhouse in Belleville on November 16, where the toddler will have her own bed for the first time. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Google News Human Interest
107 preschoolers trick-or-treated through a senior village in costumeThe kids came for the candy. The residents remembered their own.
A total of 107 preschoolers from St. Elizabeth Seton descended on Good Samaritan's St. Martin Village in Rapid City, South Dakota last week, moving along the senior community's annual trick-or-treat trail in costume and dragging increasingly heavy bags of candy. The event began about a decade ago, paused during the pandemic, and returned four years ago. Jana McCroden, senior director for Good Samaritan, said the idea grew out of her own kids attending Seton. Each resident gets a bucket of treats to hand out, and organizers make sure no one is left out, including residents who cannot afford candy themselves. "How many years were they able to hand out candy or hand out different items to kids?" McCroden said. The children collect more than they can carry, so adults bring wagons to haul the bags back to school. "Their bags get heavy," McCroden said. The preschoolers return in December to sing Christmas songs. Read the full story → | |||
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MEDICINE • ScienceDaily Health
A prebiotic fiber eased knee pain and built strengthNot a new drug. A spoonful of fiber in your yogurt.
Researchers at the University of Nottingham have found that a daily fiber supplement eased knee arthritis pain and improved muscle strength in a six-week trial. The INSPIRE study followed 117 adults with knee osteoarthritis, who were assigned inulin, digitally supported physical therapy, both, or a placebo. Inulin is a prebiotic fiber found in chicory root and Jerusalem artichokes. It feeds gut bacteria, which in turn produce compounds that appear to influence how the body processes pain. Participants taking inulin reported less pain and showed better grip strength. They were also far better at sticking with it. Only 3.6% of the inulin group dropped out, compared with 21% assigned to physical therapy, a gap that tells you something about how most people feel about exercise programs. "People were able to fit this supplement easily into their daily lives," said lead author Dr. Afroditi Kouraki. The trial was small, and larger studies are needed before fiber joins standard arthritis care.
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NATURE • Good News Network
Two grads built a filter that pulls microplastics from waterNo federal rule requires this. They did it anyway.
A filtration device built by two Princeton graduates is now pulling microplastics out of wastewater in Atlantic City, in what the startup behind it calls the first system of its kind deployed at scale. PolyGone Technologies, founded by Nathanial Banks and Yidian Liu, designed an implant that mimics hydrophobic plants, which shed water on contact while attracting plastic particles. The collected material then goes to a recycling facility. The Atlantic County Utilities Authority brought the company on for a two-year pilot serving the city of 40,000. No federal rule requires utilities to remove microplastics, but the authority is moving anyway. "We're discharging to the ocean. So, if we're not removing the plastic that's in our wastewater, we're putting it back into the environment," said Matt DeNafo, the authority's president. Lab tests showed the prototype removing 98% of particles. Banks and Liu are architecture students. Liu said the best part was designing the thing. Read the full story → | |||
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
A dad turned baby coos into AC/DC's ThunderstruckNo autotune. No pitch-shifting. Just one year of a baby.
Matt MacMillan spent a full year recording his baby son Ryan, then stitched the tiny coos and squeals into a note-for-note cover of AC/DC's "Thunderstruck." The video has passed 11 million views. None of it is autotuned or pitch-shifted. Every note is genuinely baby. MacMillan, a video editor, filmed Ryan for twelve months, sorted 83 usable clips by pitch, and matched each sound to the song. He doesn't really read music, so he first plucked the melody out on a piano by ear. A sneeze became a cymbal crash. In his own words, "It took forever." This was not his first attempt. He had already built "Carol of the Bells" from the sounds of another baby, Ella. One commenter, a residential plumber thirteen hours into a grim shift, wrote that it made him giggle like a small baby. Ryan has a copy of his own voice performing a rock anthem, which beats most baby books. Read the full story → | |||
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