Feel Good Friday
Twitter as a tool of compassion? It seems unthinkable. But Sarah Silverman actually made it happen this week.
+ “Amid the face-freezing misery, one phenomenon that is a staple of winter has drawn greater attention in an era of prolific social media use: the frozen pond rescue.” The NYT with a collection of frozen pond rescues.
+ How about a blood test instead of a colonoscopy?
+ Someone just donated $100 million to Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, anonymously.
+ A Rockhurst senior who built a prosthetic arm for metro boy is now going to teach other kids how to do it too. And Paralympian Kate Gray caught a ball with a hand she doesn’t have.
+ BBC: Black pudding saves butcher trapped in freezer. (This is an interesting twist on one of the better episodes of the Brady Bunch.)
+ And I might link to this short video of the world’s smallest wild cat every day.