A website called Preply added a feature that lets you send notes of encouragement to people in Ukraine, and it automatically translates them into Ukrainian. You can also read what other people have written. There’s a map that shows where all the messages are coming from, and people in 115 different countries have already sent…… read more »
A one-year-old girl in the U.K. was involved in a terrible car crash in December, and doctors thought she was paralyzed. But now there’s a video making the rounds after she walked again for the first time last week. (Here’s the video.)……………..”The L.A. Times” just did a big write-up on a surgeon at Cedars-Sinai named…… read more »
A Ukrainian woman who owns and operates a bakery in San Antonio promised to donate all the money she brought in last weekend to help people in her home country. And in three days, she raised over $72,000. Also, crypto donors have been giving Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and other coins in huge amounts. Over $50 MILLION has…… read more »
Coming March 25, Changeup, the first acoustic album from JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS. “(I’m Gonna) Run Away” is the first release. There’s a hideous LARS ULRICH toilet that has found a new home at the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! museum in Denmark. KEITH RICHARDS quit smoking cigarettes after 55 years. Original KISS members…… read more »
A new study found dogs are medicinal. Researchers let E.R. patients spend ten minutes with a therapy dog, and it significantly lowered the amount of pain they were in…………………In other dog news: A guy in Hawaii rescued a dog that got stuck in a 25-foot hole for two days, and it’s all on video. And…… read more »
Americans are looking for ways to help Ukrainian refugees from across the world. Google Trends says the top “refugee” questions we’re asking right now are: “How to house Ukrainian refugees” . . . “How to sponsor” a refugee . . . and “Where can I donate clothes?” (Europe is handling most of the refugees for…… read more »
METALLICA played its first concert of 2022 on February 25 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Almost 50 years after KISS sang about “Cold Gin”, they’re finally SELLING it. BOB DYLAN is releasing a book this November about songwriting. It’s called “The Philosophy of Modern Song”. ANN WILSON from HEART released a cover of the…… read more »
The LEGO Foundation is donating 600 LEGO sets of miniature MRI machines to children’s hospitals around the world. Getting an MRI can be scary for little kids, so it’s a fun way to make them less nervous about it………………..A guy in Texas named Eric Mercado was in the military for 27 years, and owns a…… read more »
A guy in New Jersey was eating clams at a seafood restaurant last month, and found a pearl that could be worth anywhere from $50 to $100,000. It depends on the body of water the clam originated in. Last we heard, he was still having it appraised (sidebar: I didn’t know clams could make pearls!)…………….A…… read more »
Airbnb announced it’s setting up free housing for 100,000 Ukrainian refugees in Eastern Europe. So now they’ll have a place to stay for at least the next two weeks………………Coors Light is ditching those plastic rings on six-packs, and transitioning to cardboard packaging that’s more sustainable. They plan to do the same for the rest of their…… read more »