Good News
April 18, 2022

9-Year-Old’s Lemonade Stand Raises Nearly $2,000 for the Idaho Humane Society

It’s the quintessential kid dream to start a lemonade stand in the neighborhood, but not every kid has a charitable goal in mind when imagining their first entrepreneurial venture. For 9-year-old Ben Miller, however, the good he could do with his earnings was the first thing on his mind. For the past three years, the now-third-grader has operated a lemonade stand and donated all of his revenue to the Idaho Humane Society.

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Food Art
April 18, 2022

Japanese Baker Serves Super Cute Cookies Shaped Like Adorable Little Hamsters

We're no stranger to animal-shaped treats. We've fawned over beloved animals taking shape as rabbit cakes, corgi buns, and cat loaves over the years, but it's not every day that you come across confections shaped like hamsters. Fortunately, dessert artist Mocha Mocha is filling that void with her tiny, cream-colored cookies. These adorable biscuits are modeled after adorably rotund hamsters, with oval-shaped bodies and rounded ears, feet, and tails.

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Health
April 16, 2022

Scientists Have Completed Mapping the Last 8% Of the Human Genome

Humanity is a work in progress, and sequencing the human genome has been too. In 1990, the Human Genome Project began working to decode the fundamental building blocks of humanity: our DNA, collected into 23 chromosomes within what is called a genome. By 2003, the project had sequenced three billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA. This phenomenally successful project eventually documented 92% of the genome.

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