ALL THE SLOP

STAGE 1 AND 2, CAUGHT ABOUT 87% OF THE TIME

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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800 VILLAGERS. 350,000 OBSERVATIONS.

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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EIGHT LESSONS. NEARLY 2,000 SCHOOLS.

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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$650 AND JEOPARDY AT 7.

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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TWO WIRES, SWITCHED OFF.

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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18.5 MONTHS INSTEAD OF 10.

The experimental lung-cancer drug nearly doubled median survival.

18.5 months vs. 10.0. Promising, not approved.

SOURCEBioNTech / OncoC4

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EIGHT POUNDS OF RARE CAT.

An Ohio zoo just had its first-ever Amur leopard cub.

Eight pounds of extremely rare cat.

SOURCECleveland Metroparks Zoo

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208 TURTLES, HAND-DELIVERED.

Seven “turtle women” sent 208 hatchlings back to the Amazon.

235 eggs in. 208 tiny turtles out.

SOURCEMongabay

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SHE WENT BACK. SHE STAYED.

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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FOUR MILLION LAKES, WATCHED.

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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SAME BLOOD DRIVE. DIFFERENT DOORS.

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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THE LAND CHANGED HANDS.

7,500 acres just switched sides.

An English grouse-and-sheep estate is being reworked around peat, wildlife and long-term restoration instead.

SOURCEThe Guardian

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653 FROGS, RELOCATED HOME.

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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ONE BIRD BOUGHT THE LAND.

One weird bird helped build 19 nature reserves.

A bird nobody had scientifically recorded helped trigger a conservation network protecting habitat across Ecuador.

SOURCEThe Guardian

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THE BOAT ADAPTED.

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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A SHED FULL OF GLOW.

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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HE BOUGHT THE MARQUEE.

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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NINE MONTHS HE DIDN'T HAVE.