TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani, 81, was seriously injured in a New Hampshire car crash after assisting a domestic violence victim, suffering a fractured vertebra and other injuries when his rental car was rear-ended at high speed; he remains hospitalized but is said to be in good spirits and expected to recover.
BREAKING: The President of Portugal just came out and said Donald Trump is a Russian asset.
Seems like he has Trump figured out.
From Aaron Parnas
Helsinki achieved a full year without traffic deaths thanks to its long-term “people-first” mobility strategy, which prioritized lower speed limits, better cycling infrastructure, and improved public transport to make streets safer and more inclusive.
Japanese athlete Kansei Matsuzawa, who taught himself American football kicking through YouTube after growing up a soccer player in Tokyo, rose from sending highlight tapes to U.S. schools to becoming the University of Hawaii’s starting kicker—culminating in a game-winning field goal against Stanford that made him a college football hero.
Chester Zoo conservationists hatched eight Socorro dove chicks—an island species extinct in the wild since 1972—boosting the global population of just ~200 birds and offering renewed hope for reintroduction after decades of decline caused by habitat loss and invasive predators.
Villagers in Youyu County, China, reversed desertification by painstakingly planting and irrigating trees across 240,000 acres, transforming a once-barren landscape into thriving forests and farmland—an effort now recognized by the UN as a global model for ecological restoration and sustainable development.
Iraq’s Multidimensional Poverty Index shows material poverty has nearly halved since 2011, reflecting major gains in healthcare, education, housing, and food access, though regional disparities remain and officials stress the need for inclusive progress.
Craig Clark, a 79-year-old retired technician known as the “Tech Fairy,” has rebuilt and donated over 700 laptops to people in need across Sarasota, Florida, funding upgrades himself and turning community donations of old computers into a grassroots project that has earned national recognition and changed countless lives.
Researchers at UC San Diego have developed a promising low-cost cancer immunotherapy using the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV), which activates human immune cells to attack tumors and build long-term anti-cancer memory; the plant-based treatment, effective in animal models and canine patients, is now moving toward clinical trials as a scalable alternative to costly therapies.
A new blood test developed by AOA can detect ovarian cancer with over 90% accuracy—even in early stages—offering a promising tool for earlier diagnosis and potentially life-saving interventions, according to recent US and UK trials.
Scientists at Oxford University, working with partners in the UK and Denmark, engineered yeast using CRISPR to produce six essential sterols found in natural pollen, creating a superfood that boosted honey bee colony growth 15-fold compared to standard synthetic diets — a breakthrough that could strengthen hive resilience and secure future fruit and nut production amid declining wildflower availability.
An Australian woman was reunited with her iPad lost two years earlier in the U.S. after posting on a Columbus, Ohio Reddit forum, where locals helped trace it to a recycling shop called e-Cycle; employees confirmed ownership through the serial number and arranged its return, turning her plea for a “miracle” into a heartwarming example of online community kindness.
Police in Rybnik, Poland are searching for a teenage “hero” who, wearing a Hello Kitty t-shirt, intervened to stop a man violently attacking a woman at a bus stop, pulling the assailant off long enough for her to escape before being attacked himself, with authorities praising his bravery as part of their “See—react” campaign encouraging civilian action.
The sailback houndshark, unseen since the 1970s and thought extinct, has been rediscovered off Papua New Guinea’s Astrolabe Bay, with six individuals—including the first recorded male—reviving hope for conservation of this little-known species.
In Logan, Australia, postal worker Gurpreet Singh was hailed as a “laundry hero” after security footage showed him taking a minute to pull in a homeowner’s laundry and place it by the door to keep it dry during heavy rain while delivering a package; the simple act of kindness went viral, earning praise across Australian and Indian media and even from Priyanka Chopra, who called him a “real life hero.”
A man with type 1 diabetes became the first patient in the world to produce his own insulin after receiving a transplant of donor islet cells edited with CRISPR to evade immune attack; though he still needs daily injections, the transplanted cells continued producing insulin after 12 weeks, marking a major breakthrough toward a potential cure according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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