Biden is pardoning thousands convicted of marijuana charges on federal lands and in Washington (apnews.com)
Bill to Ban Hidden Fees in California Signed into Law (oag.ca.gov)
12-year-old saves drowning man, credits CPR learned from 'Stranger Things' (abcnews.go.com)
Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Supreme Court blocks $6 billion opioid settlement that would have given the Sackler family immunity | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
Ok, still a ways to go before celebration, but we’re trending in the right direction. So, I’m choosing optimism.
It's one of the biggest experiments in fighting global poverty. Now the results are in (www.npr.org)
It’s an unprecedented – and massive – experiment: Since 2017 the U.S.-based charity GiveDirectly has been providing thousands of villagers in Kenya what’s called a “universal basic income” – a cash grant of about $50, delivered every month, with the commitment to keep the payments coming for 12 years. It is a...
Scientists find possible first room-temperature superconductor (arxiv.org)
90% Reduction: Scientists Discover Natural Molecule That Eradicates Plaques and Cavities (scitechdaily.com)
3,3′-Diindolylmethane (DIM) decreased the Streptococcus mutans biofilm, a leading contributor to plaque and cavities, by 90%....
5 wolves released in Colorado as part of reintroduction plan (www.nbcnews.com)
Somewhere on a remote mountainside in Colorado’s Rockies, a latch flipped on a crate and a wolf bounded out, heading toward the tree line. Then it stopped short....
Mark Dickey: US explorer freed from one of Turkey's deepest caves (www.bbc.co.uk)
Amazing Project Could Reduce Stops at Red Traffic Lights by 30% (www.sciencealert.com)
Mexico supreme court decriminalizes abortion across country (www.theguardian.com)
Massachusetts Adopts Universal Free Meals For All Public School Kids (www.huffpost.com)
A Critically Endangered Sumatran Rhino Successfully Gives Birth In Indonesia (www.sunnyskyz.com)
Heat pumps sold so fast in Maine, the state just upped its target (www.canarymedia.com)
8 years and still meeting for Thanksgiving (www.cbsnews.com)
8 years ago a grandma accidentally texted a young man she didn’t know about Thanksgiving. They’ve gone from strangers to family to business partners
'This could be the holy grail to replace palm oil' - research team (www.bbc.com)
Analysis Shows We’ve Been Overestimating the Amount of Plastic in Oceans by 30x (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
UN approves Gaza truce [video] (bee-tube.fr)
A 5-year-old's lemonade stand in Seattle raised over $17,000 for victims of Maui wildfires (www.usatoday.com)
Routinely Greeting Six Neighbors Maximizes Wellbeing Outcomes (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
‘Amazing’: Queensland mum uses electric car to ‘save’ son’s life with dialysis during power outage (www.theguardian.com)
An electric vehicle owner has used her car’s emergency power system to run her 11-year-old son’s lifesaving dialysis machine and another has ridden to the rescue of his neighbours after devastating storms cut power in south-east Queensland....
Global solar installations projected to jump 56% this year!! (slrpnk.net)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/2294408...
Biden student-debt plan hailed as ‘big step forward’ for millions of borrowers (www.theguardian.com)
Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction (abcnews.go.com)
