3 . In 2018, Danika Whitsett was attending college when she got into a car accident that left her unable to move from the waist down. She was asleep in the SUV she was riding in when the driver lost control and the car rolled just outside of Phoenix, Arizona. At the time, Whitsett said she felt lucky to be alive after being told that only 20% of people survived during the accident.

She learned to use a wheelchair, which she is expected to be in for the rest of her life. Whitsett has been using the same wheelchair since 2018, and sadly, it has fallen into disrepair. The wheels have curved inwards toward her body, leaving open wounds on both of her upper legs. Whitsett is in the process of getting a new wheelchair hut found out that even with her insurance, the cost would be $ 5,200, which is a cost she cannot afford.

So Whitsett unwillingly posted a video on the social media platform TikTok, tearfully sharing her situation with the world. “I desperately need this new chair and I hate ever asking for help or for money but I know sometimes it’s our only option,” wept Whitsett.

“All the while I am trying to save money for my new chair so that I can actually be as independent as possible and it is much needed. Anything helps — literally $ 1 would mean the world to me. Thank you guys for your continuous patronage. I’m so appreciative of you all and I love you guys, thank you.”

Her story quickly spread and she raised the entire $5,000 in just a day! But thanks to the kindness of strangers, the donations have continued rolling in, and have now climbed to almost $ 22,000.

Whitsett is overwhelmed by the generosity. She hopes that sharing her story will help to effect change and make critical medical necessities, like wheelchairs, more affordable and accessible to others in similar situations.

4 . Amy, a day old, was abandoned at a police station in Seoul. Her birth parents couldn’t afford to give Amy the appropriate healthcare then. She spent her first three months in an orphanage before she was adopted. “I always thought, why should I be more thankful to my adoptive parents than the next person?” she says.

In 2011, Amy reconnected with her birth mother in South Korea, her adoptive mum by her side. “My Korean mother took my American mother’s hands in hers and said with tears, ‘Thank you.’ After that, my whole world changed,” Amy says. At the time, she was working in the e-commerce sector and struggling with anxiety, depression and an eating disorder. Reconnecting with her birth family, however made her feel like the luckiest person in the world and she wanted to actively share her good fortune. That year, she quit her job and co-founded the Global Gratitude Alliance, which partners with grassroots organizations to create community-led solutions or social and economic change.

Since then, a reflexive sense of thankfulness has become Amy’s frame of reference for work, relationships and daily life in general. She tried to rethink her world view, appreciate the little things and make connections with others. For Amy, the attitude shift helped her overcome health issues—she didn’t need the drugs any more after she returned from Korea.

Those positive effects inspired Amy to share the experience with others. Through a partnership with a home for orphaned children in Nepal, the Global Gratitude Alliance provided teachers with workshops that concluded with a ceremony of giving thanks. The participants used those techniques to help their students and community after the destructive earthquake of 2015. Children from the school recently visited a local seniors’ home to build relationships with the residents there. “Gratitude creates a cycle of giving and receiving,” Amy says.

5 . Travelling to watch their team play at the World Cup took a little longer than usual for two French fans. Mehdi Balamissa and Gabriel Martin decided the best way to travel from France to Qatar was on two wheels. The friends spent three months travelling 7,000 kilometers by bicycle to reach Qatar 2022 and watch their beloved France defend its title.

“It was a crazy idea, but we’re the kind of people that have big ideas and don’t want to have any regrets,” Balamissa said, as both spoke to CNN Sport a day after arriving in the country. “So, since we are both self-employed, we decided to block off three months of our time and come to Qatar.”

The pair started their mammoth (庞大的) journey at the Stade de France in Paris, home of the French national team, and finished at the stunning Lusail Stadium, the venue that would host the final at Qatar 2022. They would travel on average 115 kilometers per day, taking appropriate rest days when needed. They battled through the heat of the desert in Saudi Arabia as well as flooded woodland areas in Hungary as they made their winding way to Qatar, stopping off at campsites, lodges (乡间小舍) and hotels to sleep.

The idea came about after cycling from France to Italy to watch their country play in the UEFA Nations League last year and they wanted to test themselves with a much longer trip. They hoped their trip would promote the benefits of sustainable travel and said they planned to offer cycling workshops to children from disadvantaged backgrounds when they eventually arrived home.

The two cyclists encountered many problems along the way, including dozens of flat tires, but relied on their infectiously positive attitude to get them through. The pair laugh as they recall the time they had to travel 15 hours to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in order to find a bike repair shop before travelling 15 hours back to the exact point where they had stopped.

“We had many troubles, but we fixed them as we went,” Martin told CNN.

6 . It was more than three decades ago, but chemist Geraldine Richmond still remembers it clearly: the first time she felt like her research had really failed. As a young researcher fresh out of graduate school, Richmond was setting up her own laser (激光) lab. She had spent days on end using a brand-new laser to collect data on a molecule (分子) that a biochemist collaborator had given her to study. It felt like things were finally falling into place. Then, she found out the sample he'd given her had gotten polluted.

“I realized that these weeks of running experiments around the clock, and literally sleeping in the lab, were basically all just studying this false one,” says Richmond. “That was the one day in my career that I didn't want to get out of bed.”

But Richmond did. She dragged herself out of bed went on a long run to clear her head, and marched into the lab. She decided she wanted to change the direction of her research to one where she could control her own samples. She started using lasers to study the chemical processes that occur on the surface of water, work that has since earned her worldwide fame, including a 2013 National Medal of Science.

“I started this whole new set of much riskier experiments, and I've continued in that area of research until today,”   says Richmond. “Looking back, I'm so glad those first experiments did fail.” Richmond says she feels successful if just 10 percent of her ideas work. For scientists, taking risks in their research — trying to break into a new field, develop a new method for doing something or address a question that no one has tried to answer before — makes them more prone (易于) to failure, but also more prone to big breakthroughs.

“Failure in science is only a failure if you stay in bed,”   says Richmond. “If you don't get up and learn something from it.”

7 . How to start running and actually stick with it

Want to know how I went from someone who thought “how on earth do you have fun running when, after five minutes, you’re fighting for your life?” to a marathon completer?     1     You can follow them and make a change.

First, don’t overthink it. Pop your trainers on and head outside-you’re already halfway there. I started small:just like that.     2     I hated it: my legs hurt, my lungs burned. But I finished.

Then, join a running club. I am now part of Run Dem Crew, where I’ve found some of my closest friends. While the pandemic (流行病) has stopped us from meeting up, my weekly runs make me feel closer to them. I log my mileage on an app, checking in with my friends.     3    

And finally, realise that not every run is going to be your best. Just after my 5km I joined LDN Brunch Club, a running collective who meet on Sundays and hunt out the best brunch spots in the capital. On my first day, I leapt out of bed, picked my best outfit and headed to Shoreditch. I was terrified: 20km was the distance. Little did I know my poor inexperienced muscles (and smoker’s lungs) would pack in at 8km. I tapped out, let the group go on without me and sulked.

    4     The following week, I joined the group again, only this time on a shorter route, chatting with the runners along the way. The social element made me forget the pain in my muscles, and helped me not to think about my worries. To my surprise, I actually started to enjoy putting myself through pain. That’s when I went from running once a week to three times a week.     5     See you at the starting line!

8 . An endangered black-footed ferret (雪貂), considered to be the rarest mammal in North America, made a “surprise appearance” in a Pueblo West homeowner’s garage on Monday, according to a Colorado Parks and Wildlife(CPW) news report.

The unnamed homeowner called CPW about the furry visitor, and while waiting for officers to arrive, he tricked the animal into a box. The home is located near the Walker Ranch, where CPW has been releasing black-footed ferrets on a prairie dog colony as part of a major conservation collaboration to restore their populations. Black-footed ferrets rely heavily on prairie dogs, which are often treated as pests by farmers, for food.

Since 2013, more than 120 black-footed ferrets have been released on the Walker Ranch by CPW biologists. By scanning the escaped ferret’s microchip, officers were able to determine it was one of nine black-footed ferrets recently released on the ranch.

With the blessing of the ranch owner, and after examining the animal and determining it was healthy, CPW officers took the box and hiked deep into the prairie colony in the dark, opened the box and watched the ferret hurry into a prairie dog hole.

“We don’t know exactly why this black-footed ferret left the colony,” said Ed Schmal, CPW conservation biologist. “We put them into prairie dog holes but they may not stay. Sometimes they move around the colony to find the right home. This one might have gotten pushed out by other ferrets and it went looking for a new home. We really don’t know.”

Schmal said CPW has only received one other report of a black-footed ferret leaving the ranch, and he had never heard of one entering a structure like a garage. “This is extremely rare,” he said. “Black-footed ferrets are active at night and extremely shy. For some reason, this one left the colony and was seeking shelter. We’re just glad it appeared healthy, not starving or sick, and we were able to capture it and return it to the colony.”

9 . Two of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University’s library have been returned, two decades after they disappeared.

The university said on Tuesday that the manuscripts were left in the library inside a pink gift bag, along with a note wishing the librarian a happy Easter.

The notebooks, which include the 19th-century scientist’s famous 1837 “Tree of Life”sketch on evolution, went missing in 2001 after being removed for photographing, though at the time the staff believed they might have been misplaced. After the staff had searched the library’s collection of 10 million books, maps and manuscripts, but failed to find them, they were reported to police in October 2020 as stolen.

Darwin filled the notebooks with ideas shortly after returning from his voyage around the world on the ship HMS Beagle, developing ideas that would bloom into his landmark work on evolution On the Origin of Species. The notebooks are estimated to be valued at millions of dollars.

On March 9, 2022, the books reappeared, left in a public area of the library, outside the librarian’s office, which is not covered by security cameras. The university’s director of library services, Jessica Gardner, said her relief at the books’ reappearance was “profound and almost impossible to properly express.”

“The notebooks can now retake their rightful place alongside the rest of the Darwin archives (档案) at Cambridge, at the heart of the nation’s cultural and scientific heritage, alongside the archives of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Stephen Hawking,” she said.

The notebooks are set to go on public display from July as part of a Darwin exhibition at the library. Cambridgeshire police said their investigation was continuing,“and we are following up some lines of inquiry. We also renew our appeal for anyone with information about the case to contact us,”the force said.

10 . An 11-year-old Oklahoma boy is being called a hero after his quick thinking saved two lives in a single day.

The first incident occurred during the school day. Johnson jumped into action after one of his classmates at the 6th Grade Academy accidentally swallowed a water bottle cap after attempting to open it with his mouth. Johnson “immediately sprinted over” to the choking child and performed the Heimlich maneuver (海姆里克腹部冲击法). From the account of the witnesses, when he did it, the bottle cap popped out.

Johnson said he learned how to do the Heimlich maneuver on YouTube, and advised others to do the same. “Just in case you’re in the situation I was in, you can know what to do,” he said.

But Johnson’s heroism didn’t end there.

After school, Johnson spotted a woman with a walker attempting to escape a burning home. The boy said the fire began at the back of the building, but it eventually got to the front of the house. That’s when Johnson jumped into action. The sixth-grader quickly realized the woman was “not moving fast enough” and rushed across the street to help her to her truck. “It was a disabled lady and she was walking out of her house,” Johnson said of the incident. “She was on her porch. But I thought, being a good citizen, I would cross and help her get into her truck and leave.”

LaToya Johnson, the boy’s mother, said that her son’s actions weren’t entirely surprising. In addition to the boy’s dream of becoming an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician), LaToya said her brother. Wendell Johnson, is an EMT.

“I’m just a proud mom,” she said.