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Pregnant Woman Learned Her Baby Would Not Live, but She Carried the Child to Term for This 'Remarkable' Reason

Expectant mom Catherine Mornhineway, 30, and her partner, Andrew Ford, were told their unborn baby likely had a condition known as anencephaly during a 14-week ultrasound in June, per the Tampa Bay Times. The condition, which affects 1 in 5,250 babies, meant that their baby’s skull and brain would never fully develop, and that the baby would not survive after birth.

“I came across a Grey's Anatomy clip about a character on the show that had a baby with this condition,” Catherine recalled while speaking to Fox 13. “And she went along with the pregnancy and donated organs [to other babies], and I thought that was … it really touched me.”

The couple donated Haven’s organs through the LifeLink Foundation, an organization dedicated to saving lives through organ and tissue donation, per the Times and Fox 13.
"We don’t often hear stories of women carrying babies to term with the sole intent of donating that baby’s organs to someone else who needs a lifesaving transplant," LifeLink’s public affairs manager, Sherri Day, told Fox 13. "What a remarkable family."

 

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The Providence mayor wants the Reddit tipster to get a $50,000 FBI reward. It might not be so simple:​

His detailed tip helped lead investigators to the gunman behind the deadly Brown University shooting – but whether the tipster known only as “John” will ever receive the $50,000 reward offered by the FBI is still an open question.

For Providence Mayor Brett Smiley, the tip – which was cited in an affidavit and arrest warrant for the shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente – was so important that the tipster deserves all of the $50,000. He argued as much in a letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel.

There’s just one hiccup: Because Valente, a Portuguese national who briefly studied at Brown’s physics department more than 20 years ago but never completed his degree, was found dead, there will never be an arrest and conviction, which the FBI specified in offering the reward.

 

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Protests Spread in Iran, and Crackdowns Escalate

Some videos show security forces firing shots at the crowd; in other videos, gunshots can be heard.

Videos from multiple cities taken by protesters and passers-by showed crowds chanting “Death to the dictator,” and “Freedom, freedom, freedom,” and “Don’t be afraid, we are all together.” In many places protesters demanding the end of the nearly five-decade rule of the Islamic Republic targeted the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, shouting, “Khamenei is a murderer, his rule is void.”

Sadegh Parvizzadeh, a wildlife photographer, posted a video of himself on social media with his face riddled with pellet-gun wounds. With one eye closed and blood oozing from his head and face, he recounted how security forces had attacked him on Tuesday.

“How can you fire at your own countrymen? Killing a person is like a game for them; they think we are prey and they are hunters. I swear to God, we are also citizens of this country, we are not rioters, not separatists, not spies for the enemy. We have pain,” Mr. Parvizzadeh said in the video, which has gone viral.

 

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’Shrooms Lead the Pack in Psychedelic Medicine, but Rollout Is Bumpy

Why China Is Suddenly Obsessed With American Poverty

 

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How sunlight can transform plastic waste into vinegar​

Now, researchers say they’ve found a surprisingly elegant way to deal with some of that waste: using sunlight to turn it into acetic acid, the main ingredient in vinegar.

“Our goal was to solve the plastic pollution challenge by converting microplastic waste into high-value products using sunlight,” said Professor Yimin Wu, who led the research at University of Waterloo.

Certain fungi break down tough organic materials using enzymes in a step-by-step process. The Waterloo researchers designed a synthetic version of that idea.

They embedded individual iron atoms into a material called carbon nitride. When sunlight hits this material, it kicks off a chain of reactions that gradually dismantles plastic polymers. Instead of producing a messy mixture of byproducts, the reaction mainly yields acetic acid.

One important detail: the process works in water. That makes it particularly relevant for plastic pollution in aquatic environments, where microplastics are already dispersed and difficult to collect.

“This method allows abundant and free solar energy to break down plastic pollution without adding extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere,” said Wu.

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