HUMANS
SAME BLOOD DRIVE. DIFFERENT DOORS.
HUMANS
The church and mosque next door keep giving blood together.
They started as new neighbors. Fifteen years later, the annual blood drive is still on the calendar.
SOURCEMemphis Islamic Center
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ALL THE SLOP
Every serving. No expiration date. Page 3 of 3.
PROGRESS
RUBELLA, OFF THE LIST.
PROGRESS
Thailand just knocked rubella off the public-health list.
Decades of vaccination and surveillance turned a dangerous pregnancy infection into a preventable public-health victory.
SOURCEWorld Health Organization
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HUMANS
THE BOAT ADAPTED.
HUMANS
The wheelchair stays on shore. The sailor doesn’t.
Sometimes inclusion looks like a hoist, a custom boat and a wide-open sea.
SOURCEReasons to Be Cheerful
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PROGRESS
STONE IS LOAD-BEARING AGAIN.
PROGRESS
They built a high-rise out of stone. Like, structurally.
The future of lower-carbon construction might involve a material humans have been stacking for thousands of years.
SOURCEDezeen
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HUMANS
DINNER. YOUR PRICE.
HUMANS
100 restaurants said: pay what you can.
A one-day idea from Mexico City restaurant Masala y Maíz grew into a global event with 100 restaurants in 14 countries signed on, while staff kept their normal wages and tips. The radical business innovation: trust people.
SOURCEPaga Lo Que Puedas / Masala y Maíz via Good Good Good
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PROGRESS
TRACHOMA, REGION-WIDE, GONE.
PROGRESS
A whole region just knocked trachoma off the public-health list.
WHO has validated Timor-Leste’s elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. Because it was the last country in WHO’s South-East Asia Region where the disease was still suspected to be a public-health problem, the entire region has now cleared that threshold.
SOURCEWorld Health Organization
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HUMANS
HUNTING SKILLS. NEW MISSION.
HUMANS
The hunters switched teams.
In Nigeria’s Omo Forest Reserve, former hunters are using the tracking skills they once used to hunt wildlife to find snares and help stop poaching instead. Redemption arc: operational.
SOURCEReasons to Be Cheerful / Ogar Monday
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PROGRESS
RABIES LOST ITS FOOTHOLD.
PROGRESS
Bhutan just kicked dog-transmitted rabies off the public-health list.
WHO has validated Bhutan’s elimination of dog-transmitted human rabies as a public-health problem — the first country in WHO’s South-East Asia Region to reach the milestone. Bhutan has gone more than two years without a human death from dog-transmitted rabies. Vaccines, surveillance and people showing up worked.
SOURCEWorld Health Organization
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HUMANS
ALL THREE STEPS, THEIRS.
HUMANS
The women took the whole podium.
At Colorado’s Aspen Backcountry Marathon, Brier Youngfleish won the race outright — and women finished first, second and third overall. The overall podium was all women. That’s the whole post.
SOURCERunner’s World / Aspen Backcountry Marathon
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HUMANS
SPIN CYCLE, STORY TIME.
HUMANS
The laundromat has a library now.
Laundromats are becoming tiny literacy hubs, with children’s books and family reading spaces turning wash-cycle downtime into reading time. Apparently the spin cycle comes with a library card now.
SOURCELaundryCares Foundation / Reasons to Be Cheerful
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