Good News Notes: “Heavy industry has long polluted the air in East St. Louis, but by early next year for the first time in the city’s history, a clean energy facility will also be humming along. Ameren Illinois plans to build a $10.2 million solar field on 17 acres of land across from East St….
Tag: history
Virginia Tech PhD student crowned first-ever Miss Virginia Volunteer
Good News Notes: “A Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech has made history as the first-ever Miss Virginia Volunteer. Breana Turner won the title this weekend in Lynchburg. The 24-year-old earned $10,000 in scholarship money as well as a car and an apartment for her year of service. Turner holds a master’s degree in public health…
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches New Shepard rocket NS-15 test flight
Good News Notes: “Jeff Bezos’ private space company Blue Origin launched and landed the fifteenth test flight of its New Shepard rocket booster and capsule on Wednesday. The mission did not have passengers on board, although the capsule on top of the rocket is designed to carry as many as six people for future flights. Known…
Get a glimpse of southern Brazil’s paleoburrows — dug by prehistoric animals
Good News Notes: “A “paleoburrow” is a tunnel made by a prehistoric animal, likely an armadillo or an extinct, giant ground sloth, depending on the size of the hole. These extinct sloths were huge, some the size of a modern-day elephant. They dug very large tunnels. Almost 2,000 paleoburrows have been found across South America, mostly in…
“Reel Hope” for Kids in Foster Care
Good News Notes: “For as long as Kaycee Stanley ’09 can remember, adoption had always been her ‘plan A.’ When she and her husband, Pete, started sharing their dreams of adoption with others, they received enthusiastic support. But when they explained they planned to adopt from foster care, they were met with skepticism and discouraging…
Community hopes to preserve historic Methodist church built in 1870
Good News Notes: “For Brett Merkley, entering the old Methodist Episcopal Church is like stepping into a frontier church of an old Western movie. The simple one-story brick chapel is lined with wooden pews and hymnals. Light shines through the stained-glass windows. A small pulpit and pump organ stand at the front of the chapel…
Cure For HPV
https://kiisfm.iheart.com/featured/patty-rodriguez/content/2019-02-11-mexican-scientist-cures-the-human-papilloma-virus-hpv/
Toothless Dinosaur Discovered
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6674939/Toothless-species-dinosaur-lived-100-million-years-ago-discovered-Mongolia.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
Stranger Than A Platypus?
https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190203/prehistoric-creature-was-like-platypus-but-weirder
History Under The Waves
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6652257/Divers-convinced-theyve-wreck-German-World-War-destroyer-Scottish-coast.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490