Facing a critical shortage of N95 face masks that block the coronavirus, researchers from Duke Health research and clinical teams in North Carolina have confirmed a way to use existing decontamination methods to clean and reuse the masks. The process…
[embedded content] A California restaurant has found a compassionate way of keeping their business open while simultaneously caring for hospital staffers fighting the novel coronavirus outbreaks. In addition to continuing their takeout and delivery services, the Tootsie’s restaurant at the…
165 years ago today, Canadian inventor Abraham Gesner received U.S. patents for his innovation called kerosene, a cleaner lamp fuel for indoor and street lighting. His invention of the process to refine a liquid fuel from coal, bitumen and oil shale mostly…
This is the heartwarming moment that a group of English care home residents broke into song to entertain their visiting relatives who were listening from the other side of the facility’s glass windows. The footage from the Elizabeth House in…
CBS reporter Steve Hartman is usually spending his work week traveling the country so he can shine a spotlight on some of America’s most compassionate citizens and everyday heroes. Since the novel coronavirus outbreaks has confined Hartman to working from…
As a means of caring for the hospital staffers in New York City and the UK currently battling the novel coronavirus outbreaks, these hotels are offering up free accommodation during the coming weeks. Ty Warner, the chairman of the company…
It has been more than 30 years since the world banned the chemicals that were depleting Earth’s protective ozone layer and simultaneously triggering some troubling changes in atmospheric circulation in the Southern Hemisphere. Now, new research published this week in…
Twenty Dutch musicians from the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra were forced to stay sequestered in their homes this week amidst COVID-19 shutdowns—but they still came together in harmony to produce a powerful music video for the world. With a full string…
Happy Birthday to Martin Short who turns 70 today. Born in Canada, the comic actor got his break on Saturday Night Live and won two career Emmys—one for comedic writing. Also a fantastic singer, he has won several theater awards…
This installment of the Science of Kindness was reprinted with permission from Envision Kindness. In my exploration of how kindness connects people, it has become pretty clear to me that being kind to someone else uplifts both people and creates…
