More than 25,000 books are on the way into the hands of underserved residents across New York City and Long Island. They’ll be distributed across the boroughs by Book Fairies a nonprofit that since 2012 has donated 6 million books to Title I schools, educators, and community partners. The donations come via the world’s largest […]

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A small but substantial tweak to the treatment regime of bowel cancer demonstrated remarkable improvements in survival almost 3 years after surgery. Changing the kind of drug and the delivery window showed substantial improvements over the previous pairing, and build on earlier results showing that the drug led to major tumor shrinkage in patients with […]

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Employees at a Lowe’s in Pennsylvania were shocked after they went to retrieve a pallet high on a shelf and heard a chorus of frightened mewling. Atop the boxes the pallet held, they discovered 7 kittens across two litters. The store in Downingtown called Lucky Dawg Rescue shelter and explained their predicament. Lisa Newton from […]

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On April 13th, the world’s oldest gorilla celebrated her birthday with a vegetable feast at the Berlin Zoo. Named Fatou, no one knows how she was taken from her home in Africa, but one story says she was brought to France by a sailor who later had to sell her to settle a bar debt. […]

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60 years ago marked the first Groundation Day, now celebrated every year on April 21st, when hundreds of thousands of Rastafari celebrate the arrival of Emperor Haile Selassie in Jamaica in 1966. The great significance of this event in the development of the Rastafari religion is that, having been outcasts in society, its adherents gained […]

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