Feel Good Friday

“In a study published Wednesday in Science Advances, Stanford researchers describe a new method of resurrecting bleached corals. The dying coral, after physically touching healthy coral in the lab, completely recovered within seven weeks.” Stanford discovers way to save ghostly corals from the brink.

+ “The fields brimming with green near the Pacific Coast have produced nearly twice the amount of organic strawberries this year as other plots thanks to steam, he said. The bountiful plots were treated with steam before Koda planted his organic strawberries as part of a project aimed at finding an alternative to chemical fumigants used to kill soil-borne diseases and weeds.” Could steam help California strawberry farmers grow more with fewer chemicals?

+ “Do you have a cool job and a big heart? … Let me shadow you. I’m 16 pls.” The flyer is from high-school junior Avi Lichtenstein, who is so worried about his future that he’s asking strangers if he can follow them to work.” How New Yorkers Rallied to Answer One Teen’s Cry for Career Help.

+ Customer berates teen over 20-cent error. Strangers rally with $5K in tips. (At the ice cream store across from my high school, one of the employees was so high that he often forgot to charge us. No one ever berated him. Hopefully, that can serve as a lesson for young people.)

+ Luna, a small dog missing for over a month in Yellowstone, is reunited with her owners.

+ Black bear steals honey from California library on ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ anniversary.

+ And, yes, I buried the lede. Brewers sweep Dodgers in NLCS, advance to 1st World Series in 44 years.