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New research identifies the exact spot where Alzheimer’s protein tangles lock in

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Researchers at Northwestern University and UC Santa Barbara identified a specific contact point on tau proteins where the misfolding that drives Alzheimer’s disease begins. The finding, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests…

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Star Clusters in Van Gogh’s Starry Night Matches Taurus Sky From July 1889, Shows Study

The sky painted by Vincent Van Gogh in The Starry Night matches the sky in July of 1889, the year he immortalized the French horizon. The iconic painting has conventionally been dated from a letter the artist wrote to his brother, Theo, around June 18th that year, but experts say the waning…

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Minnesota Youth Jumps Onto Runaway School Bus and Saves 18 Kids After Driver has Seizure

Luckily, this 27-year-old was taking a break at work on a slow Monday in Minnesota—because his actions, jumping on a moving school bus, saved 18 students and their bus driver. Ebro Ahmed, an Eritrean-American, had stepped outside of Ya Bricks Snacks and Tobacco in St. Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff…

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New U.S. National Park Preserves ‘Land of Standing-Up Rocks’ and its Apache Culture in Arizona

The U.S. has designated a new National Park in Arizona, preserving the distinctive landscape known as Chiricahua, the land of ‘Standing-Up Rocks’. Previously a national monument, the new Chiricahua National Park recognizes the area’s rich Apache heritage with its remarkable rock spires and natural…

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Your Positive Weekly Horoscope: ‘Free Will Astrology’ by Rob Brezsny

Our partner Rob Brezsny, whose latest book is Enlightenment for Rebels: Celebrating Our Wild and Sacred Earthly Selves, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He…

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Good News in History, October 24

51 years ago today, Venera 9, the Soviet Union orbiter-lander spacecraft, became the first mission to enter orbit around Venus, and to return images from the surface of another planet. The key design feature of the lander was that it had to remain operational under conditions of extreme heat. This…

1 source▲ PositiveGood News Network · 14h ago

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The Giving Grove: how Kansas City’s free community orchards became a national model

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM It is harvest time in Kansas City, and at Kansas City Academy, students are stepping outside during lunch to pick jujubes straight off the trees. “I feel like a fairy tale princess every lunch,” said Nova Henry, a senior, “because I get to go out and just feast…

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