A little boy from League City is alive thanks to the selflessness of a stranger. A sheriff’s deputy from Oklahoma donated bone marrow to Kayden Nazzario two years ago. On Sunday, they met for the first time.
Date archives "March 2019"
This girl’s epic surprise dance with her dad is highlight of her quinceanera
Most fathers would do anything for their little girl, but one Houston, Texas, dad set the bar pretty high when he performed a choreographed dance routine with his 15-year-old daughter at her June quinceanera.
Link: https://www.today.com/parents/girls-epic-dance-dad-highlight-her-quinceanera-t42306
‘Little Frog’ makes leap from fighting octagon to big screen
Oum Sam Tharoth remembers that during her first martial arts fight in 2014 she could see her parents crying from across the octagon as she took blow after blow from her opponent. She won, but nonetheless afterwards they insisted that she give up her dream.
NASA has Googled the stars — and found new rocky planets in a ‘major discovery’
NASA and Google on Thursday announced what they called a “major discovery”: another solar system with eight planets.
Astronomers already knew about the star system, called Kepler-90, and seven of its planets. But by using new artificial-intelligence software developed by Google, researchers identified an eighth planet, Kepler-90i, lurking in old data.
Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-google-kepler-new-planets-artificial-intelligence-2017-12
Universal Basic Income Explained – Free Money for Everybody? UBI
Bringing ‘Avatar’-like glowing plants to the real world
The 2009 film “Avatar” created a lush imaginary world, illuminated by magical, glowing plants. Now researchers are starting to bring this spellbinding vision to life to help reduce our dependence on artificial lighting. They report in ACS’ journal Nano Letters a way to infuse plants with the luminescence of fireflies.
Link: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171213104604.htm
A Hundred Million Stars in 3 Minutes
In January 2015, NASA released the largest image ever of the Andromeda galaxy, taken by the Hubble telescope. Totaling 1.5 billion pixels and requiring 4.3 gigabytes of disk space, this photo provides a detailed glimpse at the sheer scale of our nearest galactic neighbor.
Link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/video/shorts/411229763799/
Futuristic Gyroscopic Transportation By Dahir Insaat
Man loses car in St. Paul ramp. For a week
If you’ve never been in the position an 80-year-old Amery, Wis., man was in earlier this month, trust me, you will be someday. Let’s hope by then someone in downtown St. Paul will notice that you’ve been looking for your car for five hours and give you a hand.
Link: https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2017/12/man-loses-car-in-st-paul-ramp-for-a-week/