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🍞 Supported by the World Food Programme, the largest bakery in Deir al Balah is back open and making bread for families in Gaza. WFP plans to open 30 more bakeries as more humanitarian aid reach the region, despite deadly strikes threatening the ceasefire over the weekend. (Video)
🐸 Inspired by the inflatable frog costume first seen at a protest in Portland, a new organization called “Operation Inflation” is purchasing more inflatable costumes — frogs, chickens, unicorns — with crowfunded money to give to protesters for free.
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Photo: Courtesy of Emory University
A nurse and scientist created a wearable patch to detect heat strain in outdoor workers
A scientist at Emory University collaborated with the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop a biopatch for outdoor workers to wear in order to better track and protect their health.
Roxana Chicas’ “comfortable and unobtrusive” patch uses sensors to monitor many vital signs at once, like skin temperature, hydration, heart rate, and blood oxygen levels, with AI detecting early warning signs of overheating.
After migrating from El Salvador to the U.S. at for years old, Chicas was trained as a nurse, and eventually developed the device after hearing about the work her family and friends did in construction and lanscaping, often helping translate medical information for them.
Why is this good news? Everyone deserves a safe, healthy working environment. People who labor outdoors, especially in the sun and heat, are exposed to health variables that require specific attention and monitoring, and this device helps enable medical interventions before they reach emergency-level.
A nonprofit is rescuing dogs from flooding in a remote Alaskan village
While officials work to evacuate over 1,000 people from remote villages on the coast of the Bering Sea in Alaska, where remnants of Typhoon Halong sent devastating flooding, volunteers are working to rescut their pets, too.
Pets weren’t allowed on the military evacuation flights, so people were forced to flee without them. Bethel Friends of Canines learned that 50 to 100 dogs may be left behind, so it organized a charter plane to rescue them. People donated more than $22,000 to support their efforts.
The nonprofit has already successfully reconnected some pets with their owners, but plans to continue caring for them and reconnecting as many others as they can.
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