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May 12, 2025

Museum Staff Build Disabled Turtle a Custom Mobility Aid Made of LEGO Parts

All animals—big and small—deserve to live their best life. So when a wood turtle named Root showed up at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax, Nova Scotia, missing his right foot, the staff got creative. They built him a tiny mobility aid out of LEGO to help him move around more easily. Root arrived at the museum in September 2024, but he hasn’t lived in the wild for nearly 20 years.

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Funny

May 11, 2025

Dutch Police Playfully “Detain” a Pet Parakeet as an Accomplice in a Robbery

Fighting crime is no joke, but Dutch police in the city of Utrecht had a laugh when they detained a...

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Wedding

May 11, 2025

Bride Honors Dad’s Sacrifices by Arriving at Her Wedding in His Work Truck

Many people are keenly aware of the hard work their parents put in to provide for them.

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Dance

May 11, 2025

Site-Specific Performance Explores Sacred Spaces Through Rice, Dance, and Sweeping

The task of an artist is to transform even the most ordinary material, phenomenon, or object into something laden with significance. For artist Lee Mingwei, this meant revisiting rice, a grain that, though unassuming in shape and size, serves as an integral part of Our Labyrinth.

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Archeology

May 10, 2025

New Studies Paw at the Prevailing Theory of How Cats Became Domesticated

Calling a house cat domesticated could be seen as a stretch.

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Architecture

May 10, 2025

LEGO and Architect Peter Cook Team Up for Colorful Pavilion Celebrating the Power of Play

Renowned British architect Sir Peter Cook has teamed up with LEGO and Serpentine to celebrate the power of play.

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Good News

May 10, 2025

Couple Invited Pope Francis to Their Wedding and Actually Received a Response

When Reverend Ian Anderson and his now-wife Ash sent Pope Francis an invitation to their wedding in 2023, they weren’t expecting a response. The couple had about 25 extra wedding invites in reserve and decided to “make a list of celebrities to send [them out] to” in jest, as Ian told Newsweek in an interview.

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Good News

May 9, 2025

New Mexico Started Offering Free Childcare and Reduced the State’s Poverty Rate

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, families within the median income range spend between 8.

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Environment

May 9, 2025

84% of Coral Reefs Around the World Affected By Worst Bleaching Event on Record

The International Coral Reef Initiative has announced that 84% of the world’s coral has suffered from the worst bleaching event...

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Entertainment

May 9, 2025

Millie Bobby Brown Lives on a Farm in Rural Georgia That Doubles as a Shelter for Rescue Dogs

Actor Millie Bobby Brown is known for her role as Eleven in Stranger Things, as well as the titular character in the Netflix movie franchise Enola Holmes. But while she has made a name for herself by acting, there's a cause much closer to her heart. Since 2022, Brown has been living on a farm in Georgia, where she launched an animal rescue organization called Joey’s Friends.

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