03 Sep 2023 at 11:56
Because the negative news often dominates NU.nl, the positive news sometimes snows under. That’s why we list cheerful messages every week. This time, a kidnapped Chilean has been reunited with his family, pear trees have grown into a reef in the Wadden Sea and the waiting list for donor hearts is getting shorter.
Chilean kidnapped at birth reunited with family after 42 years
A man kidnapped as a newborn in Chile 42 years ago has been reunited with his family earlier this month. He was adopted in the United States by a family who knew nothing about the kidnapping.
Jimmy Lippert Thyden grew up in a North American family thinking his parents were dead. Until he read something in the media about a California man who was kidnapped from Chile as a baby. It got Thyden thinking: could the same thing have happened to him?
Pear trees grow into a rich reef in the Wadden Sea
Innovative ideas that should advance the flora and fauna in the Wadden Sea are bearing fruit. The initiative to restore reefs with pear trees seems to be a great success.
The wood of pear trees is good for the Wadden Sea. Six pear trees together form a pyramidal reef of 3 by 3 meters. The constructed pear reefs provide a lot of marine life after more than a year. Shipworms are already busy breaking down the wood, but the reefs are expected to last for years.
Homeowners are buying more heat pumps than ever before
Homeowners are likely to buy a record number of heat pumps this year. More than 110,000 units have already been installed this year, the same number as in the whole of 2022. It is expected that 170,000 pumps will be installed by the end of the year.
The hybrid variant is particularly popular, report sector organizations Techniek Nederland and Vereniging Heat Pumps. Such a heat pump works in combination with a central heating boiler and is especially suitable for houses that have already been built and are occupied.
Waiting list for donor heart stabilized by new donation method
The waiting list for a donor heart has been stabilized by a new technique for heart donation. Two years ago, the heart of a deceased person was transplanted using this technique for the first time in the Netherlands
Sixty heart transplants have now been performed with this technique, reports the Dutch Transplantation Foundation (NTS). With the heart-in-a-box technique, a stationary heart is placed in a so-called perfusion machine.
Even more news to make you happy
There was even more good news this week. Among other things, these messages, with big or small news, gave us a smile at the editor:
The number of savannah elephants has increased. The number of African savannah elephants seems to have increased slightly. The elephant is threatened by poaching, deforestation and climate change, among other things. The fact that the population is nevertheless not decreasing is a good sign. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) investigated for the first time since 2016 how the savanna elephant is doing. The NOS and the KNMI give Gerrit Hiemstra, who stops as a weatherman for the NOS, his own storm as a gift. Newsreader Rob Trip reported this on Thursday in the NOS News from 8 p.m. The names are assigned to storms in a European context in alphabetical order. The name Gerrit was frequently suggested by visitors to an open day that the weather institute recently held. An almost completely paralyzed woman can talk again thanks to a medical breakthrough. Doctors have found a way to receive her brain signals and send them to a computer, which ‘translates’ the signals. The brain signals are picked up with electrodes on the parts of the brain that control speech and facial expressions. Comedians Freek de Jonge and Silvester Zwaneveld have their animation film the Ene offered for free on YouTube. The film can be viewed for free on De Jonge’s YouTube channel since Friday. The short animated film has won various prizes at international festivals in recent months. The film by De Jonge and Zwaneveld is about a spider who starts a family in a vacuum cleaner bag. 10:05 Play button
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