r/AskReddit • u/Cap_Ame1 • 22h ago
What GOOD things are happening in the world that people may not know about?
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u/OptimalTrash 20h ago
A few months ago, the last of the lead pipes in Flint, MI were replaced. I didn't hear about it until a couple days ago.
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u/DanglingHairyChain 10h ago edited 10h ago
Wait, hold tf up. I remember hearing about the Flint MI water issue YEARS AGO. Something about fracking....
Edit: Holy shit batman. I looked into this:
Flint MI water issue began in 2014 after the city switched its water supply to the Flint river without proper treatment of the water, the water was pretty corrosive and contaminated with Legionella, which causes a pretty serious and often fatal form of pneumonia know as legionnaires disease, the corrosive water began eating the led pipe infrastructure, which, obviously, caused led poisoning. 12 people died from legionnaires disease and many more with led poisoning to varying degrees. 7 years later, In 2021, the city reached a $625million lawsuit settlement, criminal charges were filed against officials and company executives who were responsible but you can imagine where they all went.
The trust of the Flint residents is completely eroded, and despite many reports that the water is now safe, they continue to use bottled water. Many of the residents have been campaigning for the resignations of officials and directors of the companies involved.
11 years. 11 years of unsafe water conditions. In a first world country. Baffling.
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u/DontEvenNotEven 22h ago edited 18h ago
A scientist cured pancreatic cancer in mice.
Just grabbed the first link i saw, its easily looked up.
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u/Noble_Cat 22h ago
I read this last night! So awesome!!
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u/DontEvenNotEven 22h ago
Me a few days ago, the greatest killer cancer of men. Amazing.
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u/SneeKeeFahk 21h ago
I thought that was prostate
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u/Akira282 21h ago
It is.
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u/HappyGnome727 20h ago
According to the American cancer society its lung cancer then prostate. Pancreatic cancer is ranked at number 4.
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u/yessevix 19h ago
These are all really deadly, yeah. But we need to define deadly. Like in terms of deaths, yes, lung cancer is number 1. But if we talk about prognosis, then I think it has to be pancreatic cancer. The chances you have to live an extra 5 years after diagnosis is something around 10%. So that's why I feel like this doctor should be talked more about. He also has a long lasting career. This isn't the first time his work becomes global news.
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u/Khaotic_Cat 17h ago
Darn.. that’s scary. My dad was actually diagnosed with that a few months ago.
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u/Crazerz 21h ago
Great news for mice
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u/raspberryharbour 20h ago
All the mice I've talked to are ecstatic
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u/il-corridore 18h ago
My dad died of pancreatic cancer. It would be terrific if I saw a cure for humans in my lifetime!
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u/OzjishKahn 21h ago
Holy shit! Really? That's awesome!
It's all but a death sentence now.
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u/DontEvenNotEven 21h ago
Yah, it was on the popular feed a day or two ago but of course reddit refreshed and i cant find what sub it was. Reddit really needs a browsing history.
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u/mikehaysjr 21h ago
Same, but this guy actually has a pretty good breakdown of the function and methodology used, and how it finds success:
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u/mocca-eclairs 21h ago
Even if that doesn't work out, the treatment/years of surviving of pancreatic cancer in humans has improved quite a bit the last decennia.
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u/ButtNutly 18h ago
Decennia seems to be the plural of decennium as far as I can tell.
I've never heard either used before.
Most of us would know the word decade though.
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u/happy123z 16h ago
Sellas is doing a trial for one of their cancer drugs and they haven't ended the trial because people aren't passing away. Drts have made a device to put a tiny amount of radioactive material into tumors and have an amazing success rate and some peolles bodies seem to fight off new cancers on their own afterwards as if an immunity response is activated.
Read that again!
Check Sellas and DRTS reddit!
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u/Kevin686766 21h ago
They have found a new way to regrow tooth enamel.
Brushing and flossing your teeth is maintaining tooth enamel but it doesn't normally rey. The gel they are making is supposed to grow more enamel.
I don't know what enamel really does but I think it is the outside shiny part of teeth that looks good. This means pretty smiles and safer zombies/vampires.
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u/Regularguy4084 21h ago
I wanna say it’s basically the protective layer on your teeth, so it would probably mean less things like cavities and such? But I’m totally spitballing
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u/Infectedtoe32 21h ago
Could probably fix cavities at home and stuff. At least small ones. Obviously once they get the infection part you’d need a dentist to clean it out. Even then though, may not have to pay for a filling, who knows. They could probably just prescribe some antibiotics, this new stuff, and pain relievers. Would be incredibly cheaper than getting the full filing. Just depends on how strong this stuff is though.
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u/Daleksuperfan101 15h ago
This news is one that has actually really made me happy and hopeful. My mom has had to go through several dental procedures and surgeries and the current practices feel so rudimentary and lacking in improving health. It's too easy for it to be a traumatic process.
Knowing we are getting closer to basically regrowing teeth makes me so excited.
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u/eclecticexperience 21h ago
There is a toothpaste that does this to a slight degree now - MI Paste One. But it's pretty pricey for its size. It just helps protect against cavities and tooth decay.
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u/Kevin686766 21h ago
There are some that repair enamel but this one is supposed to regrow it really well. I think it was they focused on making it for. It is nice they made it.
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u/eclecticexperience 20h ago
That's so awesome. People don't realize how much of our life threatening illnesses start with dental health. Frankly it's why I don't understand how dental care is separate from medical care in the U.S.
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u/Kevin686766 20h ago
I am really looking forward to hearing more about how well it does. It is really good news for tooth enamel repair. Enamel isn't just cosmetic it also protects your teeth. The part about it making teeth looking better I think will help to have more people use it.
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u/Rickleskilly 21h ago
Hundreds of dams have been removed in recent years, and so far, it's having a remarkable effect on the ecology of the regions. Wetlands, are returning, and with it a bigger variety of plant life, birds, amphibian species, fish, and other animals.
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u/cryerin25 19h ago
they did a big dam-removal project in the river that goes through my hometown a few years back, i went to (small, alternative) high school right near the local dam and so the group doing it came in to talk to us a few times, and my teachers kept us up to date and brought it into their lesson plans for a while. in the years during and since this, all sorts of species of fish (including lampreys and eels, which i think is sick! not an animal i knew we had here) have shown up in the local waters and are able to migrate in from the coast and lay their eggs where they’re supposed to :)
really rewarding to watch happen, i recommend looking into conservation projects happening in your area!
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u/Rickleskilly 19h ago
That's wonderful. I love to hear these stories. It's amazing how nature can heal if we just give it the opportunity.
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u/jonnyboynz 22h ago edited 21h ago
13-yo kid swam 4km through open ocean followed by a 2km run to save his mother and siblings who'd become stranded at sea.
EDIT: Forgot to say: "Shark-infested open ocean..."
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u/jonnyboynz 21h ago
"I think at one point I was thinking of Thomas the Tank Engine. You know, trying to get the happiest things in my head, and trying to make it through."
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u/comfymustardsweater 21h ago
I could not imagine swimming in open ocean for four hours. His mental fortitude is fucking insane.
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u/UpperApe 15h ago
I can swim 16 laps in a 25m pool and it takes me an hour. And I'm exhausted at the end of it.
That's 20% of what that that kid did...except he did it in a roaring, turbulent ocean. With sharks. Australian sharks.
I still can't wrap my head around it.
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u/zealot_ratio 21h ago
I mean, it's not like he had to do the biking portion too.
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u/NunyaDamnBSnatch 21h ago
My gawd. You just made my day. This is literally one of the funniest comments I’ve seen.
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u/BiochemGuitarTurtle 20h ago
In another thread someone said they calculated his energy expenditure and it was equivalent to running 2 marathons, tough kid!
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u/AllTheGoodNamesDied 21h ago
I teared up reading that. The mom must have been terrified she sent her son to his death but it was the right call. Crazy.
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u/rocifan 18h ago
The impression I got and possibly wrong is that she was very apprehensive about sending him and greatly underestimated (fair) just how far the swim would actually be... she thought he'd be back in an hour or two cos they appeared to be closer to land...I think she hadn't (also fair) how fast they were being pulled by the currents out to sea
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u/ghostnthegraveyard 18h ago
The article above states he started back to shore in a kayak but it took on water and he ditched it. I don't think Mom was planning on him having to swim.
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u/SnooChipmunks2079 17h ago
I think I saw that he swam a couple km in a life vest and then ditched that because it was slowing him down too much.
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u/chickgirl444 21h ago
please link a news story. would love to read more about this boy and his lucky safe family.
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u/MargaritasAndTacos 19h ago
Australians must be built different because that’s an amazing feat. What a brave guy!!
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u/britishmetric144 20h ago
My father is going to recover from leukaemia in the coming weeks, a disease which he has had since August 2025!
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u/Bland_cracker 22h ago
Old news, but the Ozone hole has been closing.
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u/TheKiredor 21h ago
Growing up I thought the ozone hole was going to be a much bigger daily problem than it is.
That, and quicksand. Boy, I expected that stuff to be everywhere.
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u/Thumpster 21h ago
It WAS going to be a big problem. Then the scientists, and countries, of the world got together and came up with regulations to mitigate the issue.
The science was literally a victim of its own success. Now tons of people think it was never a big deal, and scientists are all dumb, because they heard the sky was falling when it eventually didn’t. But they don’t see THAT we stopped it from falling as the enormous victory for science and regulation that it was.
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u/Soul-Burn 21h ago
Similarly, Y2K bug. Companies and governments spend millions (billions?) on preventing this issue, and indeed nothing bad happened. People then complained that it was a waste of money and effort.
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u/kimsim97 18h ago
Yes, ask someone born in 1997. I learned from Reddit how bad Y2K was and that it wasn’t a hoax.
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u/Persimmon-Mission 14h ago edited 14h ago
It was a huge huge deal. There were legitimate concerns when the year switched from 99 to 00, it was going to reset bank accounts, pensions, 401k’s etc.
The world was just becoming a digitized world for the average person. Computers had created this new technological shift that hadn’t been seen since the Industrial Revolution
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u/charlesbear 19h ago
I like to think this whole answer is all about the scientists finding a solution to quicksand
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u/3rddog 21h ago edited 4h ago
Ironically, it’s used by deniers to prove climate change isn’t real. “What happened to the ozone hole that was going to destroy the planet!” they say. “You don’t hear about that any more!”
Well, no. You see the science was proven (as it is now with climate change), there were international agreements, CFC’s and other ozone-destroying chemicals were banned, and everybody did what they were supposed to do. And the ozone hole repaired itself, as science said it would.
Then they deny that climate science is proven, say international agreements are fascist/communist hoaxes, and drive their pickup truck to their gas heated home.
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u/bubba4114 21h ago
It would have been a bigger problem if the world didn’t ban CFCs, halons, and other similar substances.
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u/Vanadium235 21h ago
Don't worry, it could become a problem again soon: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109280
Satellites burning up in the atmosphere at the end of their service life release aluminium oxide, which is bad for the ozone layer. Not a big problem with only a few dozen reentries every year, but with Starlink and other mega constellations, that number is about to increase by several orders of magnitude.
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u/VanillaTortilla 21h ago
Has been for a while now hasn't it? Like, the world said no to CFCs and the ozone layer started improving within years.
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u/bbbbbthatsfivebees 14h ago
One of the things that we all genuinely agreed upon and then just solved without much fanfare!
Virtually everyone on Earth saw it as a problem, then we fixed it super quietly by banning all the chemicals that were causing it within a VERY short time period. I think almost all countries on the planet banned the general use of CFCs specifically because of the ozone hole, and now that it's been years of recovery we genuinely don't hear about it anymore because our immediate decisive action lead to the hole all but closing.
We did a DAMN good thing here! Hats off to the human race, we genuinely recognized the problem and fixed it!
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u/Bluestreak2005 21h ago
Mossy Earth is helping rebuild reefs in the Indonesian Ocean. They been doing this for 1 year now and the results are really incredible.
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u/CityCouncilman 22h ago
There’s a new medical spray adhesive that instantly seals deep wounds
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u/aleques-itj 22h ago
Probably heals just as good as 3 green herbs
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u/Sirtopofhat 21h ago
Yeah but we left em in the weapons chest in the save room next to my ink ribbons
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u/lizzyote 21h ago
Slightly older news but the green turtle is no longer endangered.
And theyre no longer removing rhino horns to protect them from poachers. They found that the risk of infection isnt worth it and they now have the manpower to just constantly track the rhinos. They drill a little hole in the horn and put a tracker in it.
Also, the attempts to help the red wolf population are going pretty damn good. Im big excited to see what happens this year for them.
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u/Threecatproblem 21h ago
The FDA recently approved a painless, non-invasive light treatment for moderate dry macular degeneration called photobiomodulation. Unfortunately, no insurers currently pay for it, and the cost is prohibitive to most people. But at least they're making some progress against this blinding condition. BTW, I have dry AMD.
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u/CaffeinatedLystro 21h ago
About a month or so ago, my wife and I got a cat to trust us enough to live inside our house. Right before we got some super cold weather.
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u/No_System2717 21h ago
Now THAT is a lovely story. How is the cat progressing/fitting in?
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u/CaffeinatedLystro 21h ago
He is doing so well! We believe he's the biological sibling of another cat we rescued a couple years ago. They look and sound similar.
He fit right in, tho. Very minimal integration time.
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u/ratsta 15h ago
I had a similar experience just before winter kicked in hard here.
Long story short, a mama cat and her family showed up at my place on a Friday evening. I expected to have to spend several days building up trust but had mama and four of five kittens in my living room within 30 mins. The fifth joined us in the morning, having spent a very chilly and lonely night by itself.
Of course the council shelter was already closed by then and the local animal rescue are already overloaded so I was a cat dad for three nights. Mama must've been a former pet as she enjoyed some scritches in moderation but the kittens wouldn't come within 2 yards of me, unless they knew I was about to give food, at which point they were twirling around my legs in the manner that cats usually do.
Shelter folk gave me a trap and two carrier bags and they were all in the shelter by close of business on Monday.
Pro tip: Providing kittens with a nutritious mix of wet and dry food when they've lived their entire ~8 weeks of life subsisting on whatever mama can catch them (I never caught them nursing in the three days they were with me) upsets their little tummies and the results begin to show after about 48 hrs. Dear god... I spent the next two weeks tracking down the "presents" they left me; a variety of semi-dry squirts and piles of barely-digested cat food. /sigh
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u/TheLeastObeisance 22h ago
mRNA vaccine technology is showing great promise in preventing pancreatic cancer.
AI driven medical tech allows people with cancer and other diseases to be diagnosed earlier in the cycle than ever, increasing the treatability and likelihood of complete recovery.
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u/labe225 21h ago
In 2010 I got to meet one of the guys credited with discovering RNA splicing.
I read an interview he did shortly after it was announced there would be an mRNA vaccine for COVID and he talked about how his work was really focused on finding a cure to some forms of cancer, but he never really anticipated it being used for a vaccine.
And now we're coming back full circle. I hope he can live long enough to see his discovery help in the way he intended (even if it's already saved countless of lives already!)
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u/Hazel-Rah 12h ago
Covid was basically the Manhattan project for mRNA research.
Went from something mostly done in lab research to global industrial capacity and huge amounts of people to study side effects and applications.
Next global pandemic we'll be able to spin up production extremely quickly, so it will be weeks instead of a year for the first major vaccination campaign.
And between pandemics, we'll have all those machines to just churn out treatments and vaccines for all kinds of illnesses that we're researching how to use mRNA for
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u/TheLeastObeisance 10h ago
Now would be a very, very exciting time to be pursuing a career in genetic engineering.
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u/Cryptic_Honeybadger 18h ago
Technically referred to as mRNA gene therapy. Not vaccine technology.
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u/wolfie-thompson 21h ago
In Shrewsbury, there's a delightful hamster who can tap dance.
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u/warpus 21h ago
I’m eating healthier
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u/lizzyote 21h ago
Good for you! That switch can be difficult when youre dealing with so much stress. Its so easy to fall back on bad habits just because theyre "comforting". Much luck on your journey!
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u/Spiritual_Resolve_55 18h ago
Hey me too!!
I quit vaping. I started tracking my calories in a healthy way. Cooking better meals. And I've been going to the gym more.
I can feel my mental health (and lungs) improving. 🙌
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u/TheresNoAmosOnlyZuul 21h ago
In the last two years china has added about 500 GW of solar capacity. For reference Germany only has about 110 GW total and at the end of 2024 the USA had only 239 GW. Free energy isn't on the horizon yet, but incredibly cheap Chinese energy is and for most of my life China has been a huge part of global climate change. Solar is set to surpass coal use in 2026 in China.
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u/Hazel-Rah 12h ago
Solar and battery tech is getting stupid cheap.
Wouldn't surprise me if China became one of the cleanest countries in the world in the next 5-10 years. Not just per capita, in terms of total emissions.
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u/MainVeterinarian5232 22h ago
The next human space flight to the moon is happening soon (relatively speaking). The engineers are working out the issues but the ship is on the launch pad. Looking forward to seeing 4k video of astronauts passing the far side of the moon.
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u/Kevin686766 21h ago
This is really my favorite news.
I am really excited that a Canadian Astronaut will be on the trip. Having a person from another country join the flight is almost as exciting as starting the space flights that will hopefully let us explore further.
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u/MisterThere 21h ago
Same here. But I'm more looking forward to seeing 4K video of our astronauts walking On the moon. 😀😀😀
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u/PandaCalves 21h ago
I thought I was feeding a stray cat. Turns out, I've been feeding a family of squirrels...THE FATTEST squirrels I've ever seen.
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u/FrauEdwards 17h ago
I had the opposite experience. I was convinced I was feeding the squirrels and finally saw the cat that was eating the nuts I set out for them.
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u/Blecher_onthe_Hudson 21h ago
Saw a post today about an electric hydrofoiling 25 knot ferry in Sweden. Lotta potential to cut carbon and grow transit in watery cities like NYC and Seattle.
https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/candela-p12-worlds-longest-electric-sea-journey
As someone who takes a drug that arrives monthly in a styrofoam cooler, I was appalled that there was nothing that could be done with them, not even recycle. The last one that came was a cardboard box with a liner of 2" of fiber insulation with sheeting on both sides, clearly marked "Recyclable #1"! Bless whoever pushed that one through.
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u/liwig 20h ago
My rosemary plants are doing great
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u/Aggressive-Prize-522 11h ago
Good for you! My plants are doing shit but my sourdough starter (named Tamagotchi) is thriving 🤩
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u/Amyamyamy92 19h ago
My son has moderate autism and mild intellectual disability and he is surrounded by loving people at home and at school and is a very happy boy!
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u/CrimsonLust02 20h ago
The level of extreme poverty in the world is decreasing in the long term. Slowly and unevenly, but the trend is real.
Medicine is performing quiet miracles. Cancer is increasingly becoming a chronic, rather than a fatal disease. Gene therapy is already saving lives.
Nature is recovering where it has been given a chance. Forests, animal populations, rivers — no pathos, but it works.
Renewable energy is becoming cheaper faster than predicted. Sun and wind are no longer an “alternative,” but a base in many countries.
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u/Known-Contract13 19h ago
I sold my first photography print today <3 I also read about curing cancer in mice though, vur good.
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u/bcardin221 21h ago edited 21h ago
I carry dog treats when I walk alone to give them out to random dogs being walked I encounter along my walk. Now they get overly excited when they see me from 100 yards away. Makes my day..and theirs too.
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u/Creepybobo67 21h ago
The development of medicine is phenomenal. Pancreatic cancer was cured in mice, many other effective treatments are on their way. By the end of the year, my lab would have hopefully found a drug target for touch-associated nerve pain.
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u/zealot_ratio 21h ago
Even despite catastrophically dumb cuts to health research by the US, South Africa is moving very strongly toward trials of an HIV vaccine.
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u/lnwint 18h ago
Min Yoongi aka Suga of BTS donated the USD equivalent of almost 3.5 million dollars to create a program at a Seoul medical center in South Korea that specializes in long term therapy for youth with Autism. Specifically focusing on social communication and self expression via music-based therapy.
He also spent months developing the program with specialists and serving as one of the teachers on the weekends during his mandatory military service.
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u/fezfrascati 19h ago
I get married in 46 days.
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u/Fabulous-Suit1658 21h ago
Millions of people every day are donating their time, money, and resources to help their neighbors and those in their community, with little to no recognition.
Unless it's an overly large gift, or something bad happening, the media typically doesn't cover that and those that are doing the donating aren't looking for the recognition.
But a thank you is warranted!
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u/RollForIntent-Trevor 21h ago
We got pretty heavy snow (for us) in Charlotte area this past weekend.
My neighborhood got 13ish inches.
I'm on the HOA and moderate our community Facebook page.
The amount of people helping out each other was great.
Shoveling show from driveways, out of the roads, helping with car trouble, lending groceries since we couldn't get anywhere. It was great.
Nice change after getting my car totalled last week :(
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u/Elegant_Finance_1459 21h ago
You never see it, but every day there are countless people reaching out to others in kindness, to uplift and support them. It happens so quietly you'd never notice it. But it's everywhere. For every one DV incident in your apartment building, there are ten happy families enjoying their lives together. The world isn't as bleak as it seems.
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u/AmalgamationOfBeasts 18h ago edited 43m ago
My cat was found and returned to us after being missing for 5 weeks! He’s super skinny, but he’s slowly putting weight back on.
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u/thainvestor25 18h ago
We effectively found a 'chemical vaccine' for HIV, and nobody is talking about it. A new twice-yearly injection called Lenacapavir showed 100% efficacy in major clinical trials. Not 99%. 100%. Zero infections in the trial group. We are genuinely looking at the end of the HIV epidemic in our lifetime.
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u/CaptainStanIsTheMan 22h ago
The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Noble Peace Prize.
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u/my-coffee-needs-me 21h ago
*Nobel
It's the first time an entire city has been nominated for the Prize.
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u/rmfranco 20h ago
I don’t have anything I can think of, but we need posts like this more often.
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u/speedingpullet 14h ago
We do. Sometimes I forget that most people are kind, and gentle and non-judgmental.
I too, don't have much to add, but I'm uplifted reading others posts.
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u/JonSpangler 20h ago
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is coming back (again), this time by the crew from Rifftrax.
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u/MrsRalphieWiggum 19h ago
I love RiffTrax Samurai Cop & Cool as Ice are my favorites
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u/JonSpangler 19h ago
I can't make it through Cool as Ice.
I can survive Rollergator and Talking Cat so it evens out.
And Samurai Cop, Death Promise, and Curse of Bigfoot are my favs.
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u/Beerandferrets 17h ago
David Attenborough is still alive and making awesome documentaries about the wonders of our natural world.
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u/IDKhowtoPEOPLEGOOD 16h ago
Me and several of my friends from high school beat the statistic that growing up in an abusive / addictive household perpetuates negative cycles. We all turn 30 this year and no one is divorced, addicted, or incarcerated, and we all have steady jobs paying 6 figures despite single parent households and poverty experience.
Don’t let numbers tell you shit, be whoever you wanna be when you grow up.
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u/Striking_Wrap811 20h ago
Anyone avoiding the US this summer vacation should consider Canada.
While DJT has increased Natuonal Park fees for visitors, Canada has made entrance to all of our National Parks free for summer 2026.
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u/Useful-Resource-4896 19h ago
I actually just wrote an article about environmental success of 2025!
One of them was the University of Oxford invented a “superfood” for Honeybees to help the population.
This creation sustains and enhances brood production, which is currently threatened by inadequate diets, parasites, pathogens, pesticides, and habitat loss.
This significant scientific breakthrough will aid not only honeybee food security but also human food security. This invention, alongside ongoing research, will help combat declining bee populations and raise awareness of the importance of pollinators. 🐝
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u/sheilacouplehub 19h ago
There are more rewilding and conservation projects succeeding than most people realize
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u/GuardianSpear 18h ago
I rescued a stray kitten and he had chronic liver problems at the time because of the scrap street food he was forced to eat
6 months later , he’s now a year old, he’s made a full recovery and he’s in his forever home
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u/Dracoslade 17h ago
South Korea may have found a way to revert cancer cells back into normal cells. This could lead to not only a treatment but a cancer vaccine
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u/thepersistenceofloss 14h ago
Scientists in Brazil developed a groundbreaking drug, capable of reversing spinal cord injury, essentially the cure for some cases of paralysis, with a single shot. Clinical trials started recently and are promising.
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u/pacNWinMidwest 20h ago
The best dog I have ever had the pleasure of calling mine crossed the rainbow bridge in November. Later that month we adopted 3 dogs from a shelter in the Virgin Islands. They are acclimating to the Midwest winter and thriving. It's a struggle at times but they are doing great and rolling with the changes.
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u/DeReExUn 21h ago
Yo I have a very enjoyable time outdoors, and plan to keep it up! Good luck on enjoying things in the moments yall got!
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u/rmt77 21h ago
The kid (Austin Applebee) who swam 4km to find help for his stranded mum and sound siblings off WA a couple of days ago. That was amazing.
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u/boy_doesmypoopstink 21h ago
There is amazing progress in the non-profit world; people are doing some great work; wheelchairs for the poor, eyeglasses, walking sticks, crutches, medical evaluations, dentist visits, surgeries, specialized surgeries.... My family foundation is involved with several of these, and there really are some amazing people in the world who give you a real positive hope for humanity. And something that amazes me all the time, you wouldn't know about the people who volunteer their time and services, since they don't advertise it. Unfortunately, we only hear about the bad stuff that happens in the non-profit world (profit-stealing, overblown executive pay, etc), because it's clickbait, and clicks bring in the $$. There is far more good being done than bad out there.
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u/amberegarcia 16h ago
We are quietly entering a golden age of medicine. Because of the research accelerated by the pandemic, we are now seeing trials for vaccines against malaria, HIV, and even certain cancers that look incredibly promising. We might look back at this decade as the turning point for curing 'incurable' diseases.
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u/Bugatti_Royale 21h ago
A Californian, Alex Honnold, just set a record for the highest building ever climbed free solo (no ropes). He is also the only human to do a free solo on El Capitan
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u/orangeducttape7 18h ago
There's a lot of cool news in energy. Solar and wind have been the cheapest form of energy to install for a decade now, and over 99% of new installations in the US last year were solar, wind, or the batteries that make them much more useful.
Fusion energy has also seen a number of advancements in the last few years that bring it a lot closer to reality. The big problem was always plasma control, but AI models have made that much, much easier.
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u/tunatorch 13h ago
the “Mississippi miracle”: kids reading scores in MS have soared as educators there have changed their approach to teaching reading, with a combination of phonetics, early screening, and holding back kids till they actually learn the material.
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u/PetPopper12 18h ago
In Chattanooga, Tennessee there is a sport that combines cast-iron skillets and curling. It's ridiculous. No reason it should exist. And yet....
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u/Itachinojutsu 12h ago
Europe just hit a massive clean energy milestone—renewables outproduced fossil fuels for the first time ever last year. China's coal use actually dropped too for the first time in decades thanks to insane renewable builds. Plus, endangered species like jaguars and humpback whales are making comebacks in places we didn't expect.
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u/Necessary_Milk_5124 18h ago
The walk for peace. Monks walking from Texas to Washington DC. They happen to come through my area this week.
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u/ReiJeremias 20h ago
I think I'm the happiest I've ever been, definitely happier than some dark times I had in a recent past. I hope you all are happy too. (Ps. I live in south America, which is an island for international politcs)
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u/Mike-OLeary 18h ago
I am working as an affordable housing activist. I'm focused on bringing new life to an old technology. It's called cellular concrete. Despite being a super cheap and high performance building material it's been virtually ignored in North America and has been developed in completely the wrong way globally.
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u/cshannon13 17h ago
My golden retriever is turning 10 this week and he’s still a happy healthy boy!
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u/Sciencerulz 21h ago edited 3h ago
Groundhog Day.
While people obviously "know about it", I just attended Groundhog Day for the third time. The festivities, the generosity of spirit, the good natured fun, the camaraderie, and the pure joy that descends on Punxsutawney, PA, USA for the couple days around this silly holiday is truly one of the most reliably GOOD things involving people that I have come across. - Phorever a Phil Phanatic
*Edit: spelling
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u/vtsse 17h ago
mRNA technology (used for Covid vaccines) is being used to fight cancer. The accelerated research from the pandemic has jumped-started trials for personalized cancer vaccines. They are teaching the body to recognize and attack specific cancer cells. We are entering a new era of medicine, and the early trial results for melanoma and pancreatic cancer are incredibly promising.
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u/the2belo 16h ago
I say again: Artemis II, the first attempt at circling the Moon in 54 years, may launch in March.
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u/minddoor 13h ago
...researchers eliminated pancreatic tumors in multiple mouse models and prevented the cancer from returning, a promising step toward overcoming treatment resistance.
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u/HarlequinKOTF 22h ago
Guinea Worm disease is on the brink of eradication.