Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
1. Promising new ALS treatment funded by Ice Bucket Challenge donations shows a significant slowing in the phase 2 trial. – Source
2. Sudan ends 30 years of Islamic Law by separating religion, state. – Source
3. Dave Grohl accepts a 10-year-old drummer’s virtual drum-off challenge. – Source
4. Unilever will spend $1 billion to rid the cleaning products of fossil fuels by 2030. The investment is a big step toward reaching the consumer giant’s goal of zeroing out emissions from its operations and its suppliers by 2039. – Source
5. A rescue dog who lost her puppies adopts a trio of orphaned kittens. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
6. On beaches quieted by the pandemic, Lebanon sees sea turtle boom. – Source
7. Mountain lion baby boom: summer is roaring success as 13 kittens born near LA – Births between May and August mark regional record for National Park Service researchers. – Source
8. The world’s first-ever ‘museum of happiness’ has opened in Copenhagen. – Source
9. Palmerston, the Foreign Office’s resident cat, has retired from mousing duties to “spend more time relaxing away from the limelight”. In a “letter”, he says he has moved away from Whitehall and is now climbing trees rather than “overhearing all the foreign dignitaries’ conversations”. – Source
10. Laid-off advertising executive mows lawns for seniors at no charge. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
11. Medical Research study finds honeybee venom rapidly kills aggressive breast cancer cells: Venom from honeybees has been found to rapidly kill aggressive and hard-to-treat breast cancer cells, according to potentially groundbreaking new research. – Source
12. A homeless woman who slept in the grocery parking lot for a year hired by Kroger. – Source
13. Tahlequah, the endangered orca whale that carried her dead calf with her for 17 days in August 2018, gave birth to a healthy calf. – Source
14. California lawmakers approve a ban on popular rat poison that can kill mountain lions. – Source
15. The dog days of the pandemic create a thriving economy for man’s best friend. – Source
