Tesla to turn 50,000 South Australian homes into power generators, that too for free
Tesla has just signed a deal with the South Australian government to install solar panels and Tesla batteries in 50,000 homes, that too at no cost to the residents. The landmark plan would turn houses into a giant, interconnected power plant. South Australia is already home to world’s biggest battery in an Elon Musk-driven project to provide electricity for more than 30,000 homes. “My government has already...
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Cancer ‘vaccine’ successfully eliminates tumors in mice, human trials to follow soon
Cancer researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have come up with a ‘vaccine’ that successfully eliminated 97% tumors in mice. The vaccine works for many different types of cancers, including those that arise spontaneously. Researchers found that injecting minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors in mice can eliminate all traces of cancer in the...
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Hong Kong votes to abolish ivory trade by 2021
In a historic move, lawmakers in Hong Kong voted to ban the infamous ivory trade completely by 2021, much to the delight of conservationists. The move follows China’s complete ban on ivory sales that went into effect at the end of last year. The amendment will phase out the trade in three stages, a time period some conservationists say could be exploited as a loophole and too late for African elephants which...
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Wild ponies stood guard all night over a mare hit by speeding car
Humans often forget that they aren’t the only species on Earth capable of feeling love for their dear ones. When a 9-year-old mare died after being hit by a speeding vehicle on January 8 in New Forest National Park, England, her friends stood guard over her dead body the entire night – showing that animals feel the loss of a loved one too. Sarah Simmons snapped the photo after passing the scene of...
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Engineer who lived life modestly leaves $37 million to local charity
Retired engineering executive Raymond Suckling lived a pretty modest life in Sewickley, PA. He loved White Castle hamburgers, drove a Subaru and wore Velcro sneakers. No one ever thought him to be a wealthy man – not until he left a $37.1 million donation to the Pittsburgh Foundation when he died in 2013. “Gifts of this magnitude are always very thoughtfully made,” Foundation president and CEO...
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7 years after receiving a kidney from her father, she gets one from mom too!
Azia Hassan was merely 4 years old when she underwent her first kidney transplant, her dad was the donor. Sadly, by October 2017, that kidney almost failed and it became clear Azia needed a new one urgently and only weekly dialysis would keep her alive. That’s when her mom Uzma Asghar stepped forward to ‘gift’ her darling daughter one of her kidneys. She said: “If I can survive with one kidney...
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DPS trooper saves man’s life by dragging him out of a car being approached by a high speed train
Henry (Hank) Roanhorse, an Arizona DPS trooper, is being credited with saving the life of a man who was lying unconscious in his car on a railroad track. Roanhorse managed to pull him out mere seconds before the car got hit by a speeding train. Roanhorse was driving home when he spotted the car. He approached the vehicle and found the 56-year-old driver, Sampson Whitegoat, unconscious behind the wheel. Whitegoat...
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This cafe has helped more than 80 cats find a loving home
The MeowMe Cat Cafe in Parkside, Australia is famous for allowing its customers to play with up to 15 cats while waiting for their orders – and this has helped more than 80 cats find loving homes. “We want to try and help the rescued animals as much as possible,” cafe owner Yvonne Wong says. “In the cafe, we have a lot more traffic than a lot of these adoption shelters so it is much...
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Local people come together for beach clean-up in Mumbai to tackle the plastic waste menace
Versova Beach in Mumbai, India has never looked cleaner – and it is due to the efforts of local people, including children, who have undertaken the task of cleaning a 3-kilometer stretch of the beach every weekend. The good samaritans have already collected more than 12,000 tonnes of plastic waste that gets washed ashore since 2015. While considerable areas of the beach are still polluted by plastic, the...
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By 2040, all short-haul flights in Norway would be electric
Norway is all set to become world’s first country to switch entirely to electric air transport for short-distance flights. The nation’s public operator of air transport hopes to achieve this target by 2040. State-owned Avinor, which operates most of Norway’s civil airports, is aiming to be the “first in the world” to switch to electric air transport, according to its chief executive Dag Falk-Petersen. “We...
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