Tuesday's Positive News
- Editor OGN Daily
- Apr 30, 2024
- 4 min read
Today's bite-sized chunks of upbeat news from around the globe.
Dolphins Join In
This is 22-year-old surfer Gabriela Bryan in action. She just won her first world championship tour event at the Western Australia Margaret River Pro, and her win was made even cooler thanks to a pod of dolphins that joined her for a ride on her final wave of the competition. "That wave was sent to me by someone, the dolphins in it," she said after her victory. "It was magical.”
Source Code
Thirty-one years ago today, the source code for the World Wide Web was released for free to the public. Invented by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while he was working at CERN, a Swiss particle physics laboratory, the system was originally developed as a way for researchers to share information with each other. It’s since gone on to be one of the world's most important inventions, making possible all varieties of communication, education, entertainment, and more - including, of course, OGN Daily.
Global Immunisation
A new report by the World Health Organisation estimates that since the 1970s, global immunisation efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives - the equivalent of six lives every minute of every year. Vaccination against 14 diseases, including diphtheria, measles, polio, rubella, and tuberculosis, has helped reduced infant deaths by 40 percent globally and by more than 50 percent in Africa. "Vaccines are among the most powerful inventions in history, making once-feared diseases preventable. Thanks to vaccines, smallpox has been eradicated, polio is on the brink, and with the more recent development of vaccines against diseases like malaria and cervical cancer, we are pushing back the frontiers of disease," says WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Five Cs
Today, King Charles and Queen Camilla will visit a cancer treatment centre in his first official public engagement since his diagnosis. The King hopes to raise further awareness of cancer as one of his top working priorities, which have become known as the “Five Cs”. The King and his aides already plan his public working life in line with his chosen causes of “climate, community, culture and Commonwealth”. To that, sources have confirmed, they will now add “cancer”.
Cloud 9
Some people aren't fans of public proposals, let alone ones on a plane. But this one's a goodun. Captain Konrad Hanc proposed to his flight attendant partner Paula during a recent LOT Polish Airlines flight, and managed to get it movie-perfect. Along with a bouquet of flowers and, of course, a ring, Hanc delivered a real winner of a speech over the intercom: "Ladies and gentlemen, about one and a half years ago in this job I met the most wonderful person that completely changed my life. You are most precious to me. You are my greatest dream come true. This is why I have to ask you a favour, honey. Will you marry me?” Happily, Paula ran back up the length of the cabin aisle shrieking with joy, to say yes.
World's Rarest Cloud Type Caught on Film: Asperitas Clouds are extremely rare and, only relatively recently, became listed as a cloud type at all. Take a look...
EU Forced Labour Ban
The European Parliament has approved rules to ban the sale, import, and export of goods made using forced labour. If a product is deemed to have been made using forced labour, it will no longer be possible to sell it in the EU market and shipments will be intercepted at the EU's borders.
Unusual Alliance
Who knew that coyotes and badgers go together like peanut butter and jelly? The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service recently posted on Instagram about the “mutually beneficial relationship” the two species share. “These unlikely besties are known to hunt together and can even be more successful hunting prairie dogs and ground squirrels when they work in tandem.”
School Meal Sugar
For the first time, the USDA has put a cap on added sugars in school meals. Starting in 2025, sugar will be limited in breakfast meals for 15 million students and lunch meals for almost 30 million students daily.
"Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself." Shirley Temple Black
On This Day
30 April 1789: George Washington, the first president of the United States, was inaugurated in Federal Hall in New York City, addressing his constituency on “the proceedings of a new and free government.”
Britain's largest retailer has teamed up with Oxfam to try to make the most of 1.6 billion items of unwanted clothing. Initiative...
The Coffer Illusion: This graphic is made up of horizontal and vertical bars - all straight lines. So, can you spot all 16 circles within this illusion? Good luck...
Mood Booster
Bending time and space in slow motion. Intriguing and somewhat mind-boggling 90 second video.
