That’s similar to Rehan Staton. He’s a former sanitation worker who went to Harvard Law, and while a student created an awards program for the school’s support staff.
A statue to a rat named Magawa was unveiled in Cambodia. Magawa was an award-winning landmine-detecting Southern giant pouched rat (thus the cute little gold medal) that worked in Cambodia.
From 2016 to 2021, Magawa cleared more than 22.5 hectares (56 acres) of land in Cambodia. In that time, he found 71 landmines and 38 instances of other unexploded ordnance.[
He received the PDSA Gold Medal on September 25, 2020, for his work, and was the first rat to do so.[3][5] Magawa was the most successful mine-sniffing rat in APOPO’s history when he received his medal,[5] and was described by the program’s manager in Cambodia as a “very exceptional rat” upon his retirement.
EDIT: Yahoo article I googled linked because I couldn’t get Discourse to let me post the picture of the statue.
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Sometimes you can post a picture this way: right-click on the picture and choose the option “open image in new tab.”
Then go to that tab and if the URL ends in “.jpg” or “.png,” copy the URL and paste it in the reply box. Depending on the format of the image, sometimes it will show up. When I do this, it works about half the time.
I’m on my phone right now so I don’t know if it would work with this picture or not. I can’t demonstrate.
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Aww! What a precious little rat-man.
Thanks to Karen_Lingel for finding this.
Eight-year-old space lover’s plushie shoots for Moon onboard NASA rocket
I guess this “zero-gravity indicator” works on the Weather Rock principle: “If plushie is floating, you’re in zero g”.
Exactly. Or they might just have taken along a small dog…
Possibly the world’s shortest doctor. He had to go to court to be allowed to attend medical school.
Good for him.
And good for his father.
Gotta love the swagger!
Dr. Jennifer Arnold had to do something similar. I’ve also heard of quadriplegic, blind, deaf, and other similarly disabled med school applicants having to prove that they are indeed physically capable of doing the work, both during and after med school.
If you aren’t familiar with their story, she and her husband, who is also short-statured, had a reality show for many years, which followed their careers and also the adoption of their two children from overseas, both of whom had their own forms of dwarfism. Her one pregnancy turned out to be choriocarcinoma, which was successfully treated but eliminated any chances of having children of her own. She is 3 feet 2 inches tall, and was treated in the pediatric cancer clinic (!) because of her size.
I’ve seen the picture, of course, but never heard the story behind it.
Whoa! You mean that was a real place? Not some made-up virtual reality that existed only in the mind of Bill Gates?
It looks totally AI!
If you don’t want to follow that link, it’s about the guy who took this photo, which was the default wallpaper for Windows XP and is perhaps the most widely seen photograph ever.
Not quite the night out he expected…
I walked over to the neighbor’s house to have a beer with him and talk trash about the president. At the end of his driveway I noticed a little shiny piece of metal. Got to the garage, grabbed a beer and “my” chair and joined him.
I looked at his wife’s VW Bug and the right side running light is hanging out of the bumper like a defeated boxer’s eye. I asked him what happend. He didn’t know, but said, “I’ll fix it tomorrow!” which I know means “Never”. It was going to be taped or glued, I’m sure.
I got up and looked at it. The light housing has 2 little prongs on one end, and a little square thing on the other end. Looks like it should have some kind of retaining clip there…
I walked down to the end of the driveway, found that little piece of metal. One side has an “R” stamped on it. Seems legit… a few moments of fiddly-fuckin’ around, and SNAP! Fixed!
We were both somewhat flabbergasted. Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good, but I felt like both!
Nice. It’s a sweet day when you can help a friend like that!
j
A couple months ago I went over for a beer and he had his lawn tractor in a trailer. Said he was taking it to the shop because it wouldn’t start. I tinkered with it, pulled the plug and cleaned it. Fired right up and been running since.
He gave me the same Stink-Eye today as he did then!
Hah!
j
My cockles were warmed right here.