Wishing all your Thanksgiving preparations are going well. Whether you are traveling, cooking, cocooning, spending it with family, chosen family, friends, or alone set yourself up for having the best day possible.
The holidays can be stressful times when we are in the best of all timelines.
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If nothing else try gentle parenting the relatives or friends you cannot avoid.
And in a world full of strawberries, be a cranberry.
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Free Food Vending Machines Launched in New York
The initiative takes a novel approach to addressing food insecurity amid rising grocery prices, and helps lower-income households access healthy, nutritious foods that might otherwise be out of reach.
Auctioning Bob Ross Paintings
Some reports said it eventually went for $1.5 million.
In other art news
Hoping one of them gives up what happened to the items.
What animals do when we are not watching them.
This means we can save thousands of storks and other birds.”
Detailed knowledge of individual animal behavior also allows his teams to detect outliers, such as the white stork who took a different route from his companions and ended up in the Bavarian Alps in the winter.
Baffled how a stork could survive there at that time of year, one of his ornithologists drove five hours to the Bavarian village where she found the stork happily hanging out near a farmhouse and demanding food by knocking his beak against a window. A traditional folk tale says that storks bring babies, and because the stork’s arrival coincided with her daughter giving birth, the grandmother there named him Hansi like her new grandson, provided him warm baths for his cold feet, and fed him a daily diet of minced sheep liver.
“We were speechless,” Wikelski remembers. “We witnessed that the young white stork had actively adopted a farmer’s family and asked for food from his human friends.”
If you need another gentle parenting break
And a reminder it can be healthy to take a break, this is a relay and you can trust others to pick up the baton when you need to take a moment. And I don’t think this is just for young adults.
Social Media 'Detox' Linked to Better Mental Health for Young Adults
Among nearly 300 young adults, social media "detox" was associated with significant reductions in symptoms of depression (24.8%), anxiety (16.1%), and insomnia (14.5%) (Cohen d −0.37 to −0.44, all P<0.001) -- although it didn't have an impact on loneliness, reported John Torous, MD, MBI, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and colleagues.
Good Environmental News
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For the first time in decades, the world’s emissions are starting to fall.
A new UN report shows global pledges are bending the curve downward, proof that collective action is working.
Like and follow for more good climate news.
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Return of the Puffins
The first encouraging glimpse came in 2024, when five puffins were spotted near the island. The evidence grew even stronger this spring. Cameras installed for the rat eradication project captured two puffins repeatedly entering and leaving a nesting burrow on the cliff ledges.
Even more promising was their behavior. The birds were bringing food back to the burrow, a hopeful sign they were rearing a chick. While researchers cannot yet confirm whether they successfully fledged a young “puffling,” Crory remains optimistic.
“Our hope is that the Isle of Muck will become a thriving stronghold for puffins and, in time, tempt back other lost species like the Manx shearwater,” he said. “For now, we’re waiting with great excitement to see if the first ‘pufflings’ appear on the cliffs next summer. That truly would be the icing on the cake.”
When you have lost Ron Paul?!?!?
Small acts of resistance
Led by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, the protest involved customers buying and immediately returning 17-cent ice scrapers, a move that disrupted sales and led to a chaos of mass returns at registers.
Resistance in the strangest of places
Idahoans United for Women and Families announced last week that the group has collected more than 50,000 signatures so far — out of the nearly 71,000 signatures needed.
The ballot initiative, a power outlined in Idaho’s constitution, allows voters to propose their own policies that carry the power of law — if approved by a majority vote.
The group hopes to qualify the initiative, which would end Idaho’s near-total abortion ban and add protections for reproductive rights, for the November 2026 election.
Prevention of recurrence of skin cancer news.
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Editorial: #Nicotinamide shows significant promise as a chemopreventive agent to reduce skin cancer risk in those with a history of the disease, advocating for its integration into routine secondary prevention alongside sun protection.
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— JAMA Dermatology (@jamadermatology.com) 2025-11-25T19:38:17.619Z
The annual replaying of WKRP Thanksgiving episode
Some words you can use to change the subject during Thanksgiving
If you need a dance party at 2 am, Alexa will oblige
And the dogs were good again this week.
May all who need uppies this holiday week get them
