Posted on 17 October 2014. Tags: disaster, emergency, facebook, safety
Today Facebook announced yet another new feature. Unlike many of the updates from Facebook this one is actually going to be very useful and will likely be a big hit. The new feature is named “Safety Check” and it is designed to help people tell their loved ones that they are ok, primarily following a […]
Posted in Science & Technology
Posted on 12 October 2014. Tags: college, Lesson, Pizza Domino's, Random act of kindness, tip
At Indiana Wesleyan University, CEO of Residential Education, Keith Newman, found a way to teach the lesson of giving to his students and faculty during a recent chapel service. The lesson, “do for one what you wish you could do for everyone” was demonstrated this past Wednesday with the pizza delivery man from Domino’s Pizza. […]
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Posted on 06 October 2014. Tags: australia, coffee, facebook, social media
In this day and age, we are more apt to strike up a conversation with someone we don’t know personally through social media than we are with the person sitting next to us on the bus or the subway. Australian student Matt Kulesza Wants to rekindle good old fashioned face time with real, live human […]
Posted in Society & Entertainment
Posted on 30 September 2014. Tags: Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston, bucket list, cancer, living list, teen, Terminally ill
A young man battling cancer was granted a wish from his bucket list and that wish was to meet Bryan Cranston, star of “Breaking Bad.” Brad Joyner, 19, has a form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma. Though the survival rate for this type of cancer isn’t great, the Mebane, North Carolina teen hasn’t lost […]
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Posted on 25 September 2014. Tags: depression, fruit, health, mental, vegetables
Depression and mental issues are common for millions of people, unfortunately a lot of them are hard to diagnose and even harder to treat. The good news is that a study released this week shows that a simple diet change can dramatically improve mental health for many patients. The study showed that patients who consumed […]
Posted in Health
Posted on 16 September 2014. Tags: 3-D Printer, cancer, science, Vertebra
The wonders of the 3-D printer are just beginning to populate the common consciousness and for one 12-year-old boy, the fantastical invention is changing his life. Minghao of China learned about two months ago that he had Ewing’s sarcoma, a type of bone cancer usually discovered in children. There was a tumor lodged on the […]
Posted in Science & Technology
Posted on 12 September 2014. Tags: 9/11, Newtown, Sept. 11, Tuesday's Child
Amanda Gregory, like so many others, is touched and reminded of the events of 9/11. That is the day she lost her father. The school shooting at the Newtown Sandy Hook Elementary School stirred her feelings of grief like nothing since that fateful day 13 years ago. Gregory, 32, who lives just 40 minutes away […]
Posted in Charity
Posted on 07 September 2014.
Nearly 100 years ago multiple oceanic studies showed that the California blue whale was nearing extinction, and it was all due to the rate they were being hunted at. Fortunately a lot has changed since then and research now shows that the numbers are growing very steadily. This is absolutely great news for multiple reasons […]
Posted in Environment
Posted on 29 August 2014. Tags: drugs, ebola, japan, medicine, treatment
Amidst the growing concerns about the spread of the Ebola virus, a company in Japan is offering what could be the solution. A drug that has been widely used in Japan against the flu is also being used as an experimental Ebola treatment, and apparently it is expected to do a good job. Given the […]
Posted in Health
Posted on 22 August 2014. Tags: California, Fishing trip, Lost in wilderness, pine needles, Sacramanto
A man from West Sacramento, California went fishing in the wilderness and got lost. He spent a terrifying and grueling days alone wondering if he would make it alive and ever see his wife again. Mike Vilhauer went fishing on Aug. 6. Since his luck was running low, he decided to try changing the bait […]
Posted in Environment