NIH scientists / employees could not receive financial royalties / perks
By Hicbd
"The nonprofit organization filed the FOIA request last September, receiving 1,200 pages of heavily redacted royalties from 2009-2014 that add up to 22,100 royalty payments to 17,000 NIH scientists. With the redaction, it is impossible to tell how much each scientist received, only the aggregate total of each department, which adds up to $134 million."
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Foster care kids could have nightlights / care packages / suitcases
By Hicbd
"The Benton, Arkansas, native launched her own non-profit, Lisowe's Lights, in 2018, donating 500 nightlights to kids in the Arkansas foster system that year alone. Since, she has expanded to all 50 states (and nine countries!) and raised funds to distribute 15,000 nightlights — with no plans of slowing down."
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Child marriage could not be allowed in the U.S. / world
By Hicbd
"Child marriage is a marriage or similar union, formal or informal, between a child under a certain age – typically 18 years – and an adult or another child. The vast majority of child marriages are between a female child and a male adult, and are rooted in gender inequality."
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New food pairings could be invented
By Hicbd
"The goal of the Foodpairing method is to chart all possible food pairings to help chefs and restaurant professionals create unique dishes. Each ingredient's volatile compounds (aromas) are quantified using gas chromatography and/or a mass spectrometer. The concentrations are then compared with their respective flavor threshold and finally matched with other ingredients that have similar compounds. So you end up with oddball pairings like caviar and white chocolate (invented by chef Heston Blumenthal), or in this case, dark chocolate and Parmesan cheese."
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Tomato sauce could be jarred in the summer
By Hicbd
"It's that sacred time of the year again –when large Italian families gather outside their driveways, garages, or back patios at 6 am in their oldest clothes and old stained aprons (that they’re not afraid to ruin), pulling out their huge steel pots, giant plastic tubs and plastic crates full of mason jars, old bedsheets, and large wooden spoons. It's time to jar tomato sauce! Or as my nonna would say, 'fare le giare!'"
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Oranges could be peeled / eaten in the shower
By Hicbd
"Why shower with an orange, exactly? According to shower-orange disciples, the steam helps release the scent of the orange peel, transforming your bathroom into a gloriously citrusy spa. Some devotees also say an orange tastes nice and refreshing in a hot shower and that the setting circumvents the problem of sticky hands. There are allegedly some mental-health benefits to the act of peeling an orange, which is a popular mindfulness exercise."
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Glass could become sand / rebuild coastlines / be upcycled
By Hicbd
"The company accepts drop-off donations of glass, which is then ground down into varying levels of fineness. Some is transformed into cullet or gravel. These rougher materials are used in restoration projects, eco-construction, and to create new glass. Other glass is turned into sand—the material that glass has been made from for millennia. The fine sand has a special use. It is critical to rebuilding Louisiana's swiftly eroding coastline."
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By Hicbd
"A picture of an environmentally friendly toilet was shared by a social media page named Fascinating on Twitter on Tuesday. The image depicts a Japanese toilet with a sink connected to it. After washing your hands in the adjacent sink, you can use the dirty water for the next flush...On many Japanese toilets, the hand wash sink is attached so that you can wash your hands and reuse the water for the next flush. Japan saves millions of liters of water every year doing this."
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First responders / schools / airplanes / pharmacies / public places could have EpiPens
By Hicbd
"In 2019, Gio's Law was enacted in New York State in honor of Giovanni, which allows first responders such as police and firefighters to carry and administer epinephrine auto-injectors. This was a major victory for us, and it only makes sense that all first responders should be equipped with life-saving medication. I am now advocating for every state across the US to require first responders to carry this life-saving drug. One New York town reported saving two people’s lives within the first year of the passage of Gio’s Law."
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USAID could improve its workforce operations
By Hicbd
"But because of, well, the law, USAID can’t use program funds to hire career government employees, so instead it has had to use a “hodge-podge” (USAID’s words) of more than 20 different hiring mechanisms that all have different benefits, authorities, and management structures."
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