October is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, otherwise known as Dogtober, and this year we want to shine a bright light on some of our extra special pups! Due to their differences and quirks, pups like these are, sadly, often overlooked in the shelters. But it’s important to know that these dogs are just as […]
Home »
Tessa Is a Very Special Girl Looking for a Very Special Adopter!
Pretty girl Tessa has such a soft and caring side, our staff members just can’t help but rave about her! She absolutely loves to run, nurse on her toys and enjoys getting pets on and around her cheeks and belly. This highly active, loving lady has a great potential to bond with a new family […]
How To Find That Special Link To Connect With Other People
A lot of experiences are universal. Simply put, you are not the first to go through an experience, either good or bad, and you won’t be the last person. More than we even admit, humans have a lot of experiences in common. However, it is very easy for us to forget that fact as we go through […]
Special Report: Insider alleges Eli Lilly blocked her efforts to sound alarms about U.S. drug factory
(Reuters) – On a chilly spring morning in 2019, Amrit Mula arrived in her office at pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co’s factory in Branchburg, New Jersey, to find a desk drawer open that she had kept locked. Her files were missing.FILE PHOTO: An Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical manufacturing plant is pictured at 50 […]
Valentine’s Day “Happy Tail” Special: The Joy of Loving and Being Loved
Frankie, left, and Caiden with Shiloh. French novelist Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin—better known by her pen name George Sand—once wrote, “There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.” For Brooklyn resident Whitney M. and her two young children, that happiness came in the form of two eight-month-old orange-and-white kitten brothers adopted […]
Some Extra Special Kitties Need Your Help to Find Homes!
At the ASPCA Adoption Center, we’re so fortunate to have the pleasure of meeting so many special, unique and completely lovable animals every day. And we work our hardest to help these dogs and cats find the homes they deserve. But some of our favorite furry friends have special needs and require special, open-minded adopters. That’s […]
Live Science podcast ‘Life’s Little Mysteries’ special report: Coronavirus (June 25)
In this special episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we focus on a serious topic that everybody is talking about: SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes, COVID-19. Every day at Live Science, our reporters and editors track the latest coronavirus developments around the world: from global case numbers and quarantines, to vaccine development, to best practices […]
Texas teen with cancer gets wish to graduate high school in special ceremony
Iris Marquez addressed her fellow classmates and urged them to "reach for the sky." (Courtesy of Alief Taylor High School) A Texas teen facing terminal cancer urged her classmates to “reach for the sky, to infinity and beyond,” in a moving graduation ceremony that was held several months early in her honor. Iris Marquez, 17, […]
CDC: Many children with heart conditions have special needs
(HealthDay)—Children with past and current heart conditions have more special health care needs compared with children without heart conditions, according to research published in the Sept. 29 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Meng-Yu Chen, M.D., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues used data from […]
Beauty is simpler, and less special, than we realize
Beauty, long studied by philosophers, and more recently by scientists, is simpler than we might think, New York University psychology researchers have concluded in a new analysis. Their work, which appears in the journal Current Biology, offers a new perspective on the value of aesthetics. “Beauty is famously subjective and supposed to be intractable by […]