The exhaustion I feel from the last month is debilitating. Can we please post some good news?

Stanford University chemists have developed a practical, low-cost way to permanently remove atmospheric carbon dioxide, the main driver of global warming and climate change.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scientists-discover-low-cost-way-to-trap-carbon-using-common-rocks-which-could-help-farmers-too/

First off, try this
https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/

Also, there is a bad news bias in the media - left, right and center. While bad things happen both quickly (war) and slowly (global warming), good things tend to happen only slowly (reduction in child poverty, reduction in cancer deaths.

So if you want to find good news, I take refuge in long-term trends. For example...

For example, deaths per 100,000 due to cancer in the US have consistently fallen
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/topics/cancer-deaths.htm#featured-charts

Also, play around with tools at
https://www.gapminder.org/

https://www.futurity.org/retina-surgery-robot-3270062/

https://www.futurity.org/dorsal-grasper-spinal-cord-injuries-assistive-tech-3269942

https://www.futurity.org/alzheimers-drugs-extend-independent-living-3269772

https://www.futurity.org/daily-omega-3-slow-down-aging-3269582

https://www.futurity.org/horses-uveitis-blindness-treatment-3268892

Longest living pig kidney transplant recipient : Health News : NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5273529/pig-kidney-human-transplant-survivor


FDA Approves Transplant Trials for Gene-Edited Pig Kidneys | Smithsonian

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/kidney-transplants-180986018/

Here's what I consider good news. I apologize that it is political and may trigger all the same reactions as any political news, but...

Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard and several other high-ranking Trump appointees told Musk to F off their employees to ignore Elon Musk's demands that they submit a weekly summary of their accomplishments.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/us/politics/elon-musk-email-federal-workers.html

It's good news that Th3Core hasn't vanished from the face of the earth!!!!!

Sorry about the issues.  The hosting company has been pretty terrible here.  I may move when it is time to renew.  I've had to do a complete new install (not an upgrade) but retain the posts.  There have been a few hiccups along the way and today is the first time I've had a good chunk of time to work on it since Jaguar re-shut it down.  I am still tweaking a few things.

Bad news:  I've had to remove all the attached documents.  I still have access to them in a .tar.gz, but they are no longer accessible from links in the forum.  If anybody needs anything that was previously downloadable let me know.

Would it help if somebody sacrificed a chicken?

Hang in there! 

Quote from: buckworks on March 02, 2025, 05:49:32 AMWould it help if somebody sacrificed a chicken?

Only if I get to eat it afterwards.

https://www.futurity.org/glaucoma-treatment-3272142/

Raquel Lieberman and her lab team have discovered two new antibodies with promise to treat glaucoma.The antibodies can break down the protein myocilin, which, when it malfunctions, can cause glaucoma.

I suppose Randy Rainbow has more content this term.

Also, Randy Rainbow is the only musical theater I like.

https://youtu.be/KpPIxcntxkE?si=hGqgcmuyPfljjv9R

At least five interesting things: Stubborn optimism edition (#64)

Noahpinion by Noah Smith / May 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/at-least-five-interesting-things-71f

Psilocybin may slow aging process
https://www.futurity.org/psilocybin-aging-lifespan-3286132

I should never have quit....

Another one...

Heart drug kills dangerous antibiotic resistant bacteria
https://www.futurity.org/fendiline-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-3285582/

QuoteThey found that fendiline, a drug that acts as a calcium channel blocker and formerly used to treat heart arrhythmia, kills the bacterium by targeting the essential lipoprotein trafficking pathway, which is weakened in antibiotic resistant bacteria.

In 2022 researchers got video of a bird that had not been seen since 1882. Here's the story
https://www.audubon.org/news/like-finding-unicorn-researchers-rediscover-black-naped-pheasant-pigeon-bird

But that's just the story. The real "good news" part is the video that has popped up showing the researcher's reaction

https://www.reddit.com/r/youseeingthisshit/comments/1l18bq8/researchers_react_to_firstever_photos/

This via https://semi-rad.com/2025/07/friday-inspiration-494/