SCIENCE
LAB BENCH HOPE.
SCIENCE
Scientists found antibodies that blocked the red-meat allergy in the lab.
42 antibodies made. Two blocked the reaction. In a dish, for now.
SOURCENIH
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ALL THE SLOP
Every serving. No expiration date. Page 5 of 6.
SCIENCE
STAGE 1 AND 2, CAUGHT ABOUT 87% OF THE TIME
SCIENCE
A blood test just got better at finding pancreatic cancer early.
An investigational blood test flagged stage 1 and 2 pancreatic cancer about 87% of the time in a study of roughly 1,800 people. Not FDA-cleared. Still a big deal.
SOURCENature Medicine
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HUMANS
800 VILLAGERS. 350,000 OBSERVATIONS.
HUMANS
They used to hunt the wildlife. Now the photos pay better.
About 800 villagers across nine Borneo villages get paid for verified photos, video and audio of wildlife. Two villages have since banned hunting themselves.
SOURCEBorneo Futures
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WEIRD JOY
EIGHT LESSONS. NEARLY 2,000 SCHOOLS.
WEIRD JOY
Kindergarten PE now includes learning to ride a bike.
An eight-lesson learn-to-ride curriculum is now in nearly 2,000 US elementary schools. Balance bikes first, pedals when you are ready, gym class credit either way.
SOURCEAssociated Press
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HUMANS
$650 AND JEOPARDY AT 7.
HUMANS
The rent was too high. Then she met her 77-year-old roommate.
Affordable rent, useful help, and Jeopardy at 7.
SOURCEGood Good Good / HomeShare Vermont
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ANIMALS
TWO WIRES, SWITCHED OFF.
ANIMALS
Kenya’s pangolins kept dying on electric fences. So landowners switched off the bottom wires.
The fix was two unpowered wires.
SOURCEMongabay / The Pangolin Project
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SCIENCE
18.5 MONTHS INSTEAD OF 10.
SCIENCE
The experimental lung-cancer drug nearly doubled median survival.
18.5 months vs. 10.0. Promising, not approved.
SOURCEBioNTech / OncoC4
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ANIMALS
EIGHT POUNDS OF RARE CAT.
ANIMALS
An Ohio zoo just had its first-ever Amur leopard cub.
Eight pounds of extremely rare cat.
SOURCECleveland Metroparks Zoo
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ANIMALS
SHE WENT BACK. SHE STAYED.
ANIMALS
The gorilla they rescued as a baby just had one in the wild.
Rescued at 18 months. Rewilded eight years later. Now Lulingu is raising a baby of her own in the forest.
SOURCEGRACE Gorillas
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SCIENCE
FOUR MILLION LAKES, WATCHED.
SCIENCE
The Arctic has a new early-warning map. It watches lakes disappear.
Four million Arctic lakes are now being watched in near real time for signs that frozen ground is giving way.
SOURCEAlfred Wegener Institute
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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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ANIMALS
653 FROGS, RELOCATED HOME.
ANIMALS
653 frogs just got their mountains back.
653 endangered frogs. Two mountain-stream releases. One species getting a real shot at coming back.
SOURCELos Angeles Zoo
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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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WEIRD JOY
A SHED FULL OF GLOW.
WEIRD JOY
The glowworms came back. A garden shed was involved.
After a century away, tiny green lights are blinking again in North Yorkshire.
SOURCEThe Guardian
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WEIRD JOY
HE BOUGHT THE MARQUEE.
WEIRD JOY
Rick Steves bought his hometown movie theater so it wouldn’t die.
A century-old neighborhood movie house just got a very determined new owner.
SOURCEKNKX Public Radio
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SCIENCE
NINE MONTHS HE DIDN'T HAVE.
SCIENCE
The pig kidney bought him nine months. It was enough.
A genetically modified pig kidney kept Tim Andrews off dialysis for 271 days — the longest such stretch yet in a living person. He later received a human kidney, making this the first reported pig-kidney transplant to serve as a bridge to a human one.
SOURCEMass General Brigham / The Lancet
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WEIRD JOY
SNAKES, APPARENTLY, HAVE FRIENDS.
WEIRD JOY
The baby rattlesnakes are cuddling. Please adjust your worldview.
Livestream cameras in California, Colorado and Pennsylvania captured live rattlesnake births, dozens of newborns and baby snakes cuddling adults for protection. Apparently even rattlesnakes have a snuggle phase.
SOURCECal Poly / Project RattleCam
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SCIENCE
YOUR TREE PHOTOS HAVE A JOB.
SCIENCE
The AI still needs your tree photos.
AI-generated images helped species-identification models when real photos were scarce — but actual photographs from people in the real world still performed better. Your random tree picture remains scientifically employed.
SOURCENC State University
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WEIRD JOY
TINY TRACKERS, BIG MIGRATION.
WEIRD JOY
The warblers have backpacks now.
Researchers are fitting tiny songbirds with Tic Tac-sized geolocator backpacks that record light and atmospheric pressure across entire migrations. Serious science has once again required an extremely small backpack.
SOURCESmithsonian Migratory Bird Center / The Conversation
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ANIMALS
A BRIDGE JUST FOR DEER.
ANIMALS
The deer have infrastructure now.
Washington’s I-90 Snoqualmie Pass wildlife overcrossing recorded its 10,000th successful animal crossing in July. Add 11 undercrossings and the project is nearing 40,000 recorded crossings since 2014. Apparently the elk were just waiting for civil engineering.
SOURCEWashington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) via Good Good Good
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SCIENCE
THE CLINIC RUNS ON SUN.
SCIENCE
The sun is running a clinic now.
Twenty-three students built Stella Juva, a solar-powered mobile clinic that drove more than 800 km across Kenya and, while stationary, generated enough energy to power all its onboard medical equipment at once. It hasn’t treated real patients yet — this was field testing — but the sun appears to be doing rounds.
SOURCESolar Team Eindhoven / Amref Health Africa
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ANIMALS
THE PARROT SAID NO.
ANIMALS
The world’s weirdest parrot refused to go extinct.
New Zealand’s critically endangered kākāpō population has reached 325, after a record 90 chicks joined the official count this season. The recovery program began in 1995 with just 51 birds. Extremely round bird: still here.
SOURCENew Zealand Department of Conservation / Kākāpō Recovery Programme
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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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WEIRD JOY
AN EMOTIONAL SUPPORT LOG.
WEIRD JOY
The internet gave the baby porcupine an emotional support log.
Point Defiance Zoo welcomed its first prehensile-tailed porcupine baby in 121 years. Then the internet spotted the tiny porcupette clutching a log and named it an “emotional support log.” For once, the comments improved the story.
SOURCEPoint Defiance Zoo & Aquarium / Good Good Good
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