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Good News This Week: November 9, 2024 - Dogs, Ferrets, & Woodpeckers

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Tech & Innovation

Equipped with tail lights and crash detection tech, this new helmet could save cyclists' lives

The new helmet integrates smart LED and motion-tracking technology to make cyclists even safer.

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Tech & Innovation

New invention uses animal bones to filter water, promising a nearly 'zero cost' solution to water filtration

Middle schooler Tina Jin was looking for a sustainable solution to clean water filtration and saw potential in the honeycomb-like structure of animal bones.

Animals

Gophers were given one day to revive Mount St. Helens — and their impact on its ecosystem has lasted decades

By unearthing microbes and fungi, these rodents helped save an ecosystem almost decimated by the eruption of Mount St. Helens.

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Animals

Cloned black-footed ferret gives birth in historic first, a victory for the highly endangered species

Meet Sibert and Red Cloud, baby black-footed ferrets that mark the first successful live births from a cloned endangered species.

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People Doing Good

Quincy Jones' most charitable impacts, from the Global Down Syndrome Foundation to 'We Are The World'

World-famous producer Quincy Jones was known for his impact on the music industry, but he also touched countless lives around the world through his humanitarian efforts.

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Arts & Culture

New art exhibit invites people to talk politics at the dinner table: 'If we can’t speak to each other, I don’t know how we have a democracy'

Family meals have taken on a new kind of tension in recent years as politics become increasingly polarizing. Ahead of Election Day, a museum curator wanted to face that problem head on.

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