Texas High Schoolers Create Hand for Toddler It might seem that all they’d have to do is take the adult blueprint and make it smaller, but I suspect the differences go far beyond size.

Random Strangers Freestyle Together, Show us ‘The Power Music Can Have on the Soul’ Some people think this was staged, but I think if it had then the result would have been more varied and complex. This is just some guys who started spontaneously jamming and enjoying the groove.

Possibly the Largest School of Mobular Rays Caught on Film It’s a video heavy day, continuing with this footage of tens of thousands of rays off the coast of Baha. Why not fly?

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Haunting Photos of Polar Ice “Photographer Camille Seaman shoots icebergs, showing the world the complex beauty of these massive, ancient chunks of ice. Dive in to her photo slideshow, ‘The Last Iceberg.’”

A Big Break Realized Amidst Fluorescent Lights and Slurpee Machines Terry Boring said the right thing and the right time to the right person. The punch line is the difference it made.

This fifth-grader raised $200,000 to clean up the Gulf oil spill Twelve –year-old Olivia Bouler asked the Audubon Society how she could use her art skills to help after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Kid with Autism Confronts His Bullies in Front of the Whole Class “I see you guys laughing over there.” That part alone chilled me.

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High School Training Ground (3min) Malcom London’s slam poem about high school. This hits hard. “Homework is stressful, but when you go home every day and your home is work, you don't want to pick up any assignments.”

Today’s posts have consistently long headlines. Is this a result of short attention span, that we have to fit almost the entire story into one sentence?

How a water bottle gave birth to a whole new world of self-healing products A new polymer that’s “super strong, flexible and self-healing.” Could replace aluminum (great for the US, which imports all of ours).

New Mattress Lets You Cuddle Without Your Arm Going Numb This is on the lighter side of “good news,” but might be valuable to those who want or need to sleep on their sides—with or without cuddling partners.

‘Speechless’ Teacher Left Crying After Mystery Patrons Cover Tab For Students With Autism More anonymous goodness. I love it when people essentially say, “You know, we’ve got the money, let’s give it away.”

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Love Letters to Strangers (5 min) “Hannah Brencher's mother always wrote her letters. So when she felt herself bottom into depression after college, she did what felt natural — she wrote love letters and left them for strangers to find. The act has become a global initiative, The World Needs More Love Letters, which rushes handwritten letters to those in need of a boost.”