3-year-old cancer survivor serves as flower girl in bone marrow donor’s wedding

A toddler who survived cancer honored her bone marrow donor in a special way -- by serving as flower girl in her wedding last month. Skye Savren-McCormick, 3, proudly tossed flowers down the aisle for the bride, 26-year-old Hayden Hatfield Ryals. Skye walked down the aisle wearing a bracelet of pearls inscribed with her name -- a gift from Ryals.
Read more: https://www.ajc.com/news/national/year-old-cancer-survivor-serves-flower-girl-bone-marrow-donor-wedding/BI5zYfH9qHssxqI1sJNf3K/?source=Snapzu

Anonymous person buys $1M worth of remaining toys at Toys 'R' Us to donate

America’s last remaining Toys “R” Us stores will close for good today, after a final Friday of clearance sales. One Toys “R” Us location in Raleigh, North Carolina, however, has shut its doors a little early — and for good reason — after an anonymous patron purchased $1 million worth of the store’s remaining toys …
Read more: https://www.winknews.com/2018/06/30/anonymous-person-buys-1m-worth-of-remaining-toys-at-toys-r-us-to-donate/?source=Snapzu

This Russian Teenager Texted Strangers On Telegram. Now She Faces 10 Years In Prison For “Extremism.”

Anna Pavlikova’s parents believed their daughter was the kind of kid who would make Russia truly great. At 17, she read biology textbooks for fun and was hoping to study biotechnology at Russia’s most prestigious school, Moscow State University. She was devoted to animals — when a big storm struck Moscow, she rescued as many injured birds as she could find. She was breeding parakeets in her room, a family that had grown to about a dozen and would sometimes fly around the whole apartment.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/russia-putin-world-cup-telegram?source=Snapzu

Rule to Allow Hunting Could Doom Rare Red Wolves

The red wolf, which once roamed all the way from Texas to New York, has dwindled to a wild population of around 35, found only in one peninsula in eastern North Carolina. On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed allowing landowners to legally kill those wolves once they leave the confines of a small protected area known as Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. The proposal was panned by wildlife experts.
Read more: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/red-wolf-hunting-policy-animals/?source=Snapzu

Belgian boy off to university aged 8

A Belgian boy has graduated secondary school aged eight after completing six years' study in just a year and a half. Laurent Simons, whose father is Belgian and mother Dutch, and has an IQ of 145 according to his parents, collected a diploma with a class of 18-year-olds. Speaking to Belgium's RTBF radio, Laurent said his favourite subject was maths "because it's so vast, there's statistics, geometry, algebra".
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44668452?source=Snapzu

The overhyped scooter company that raised $400 million in 4 months is an example of everything that’s wrong with Silicon Valley

Electric scooter company Bird has raised so much money so fast that its venture capitalist investors are left defending their investment choice. Despite their exuberance, electric scooters look like a niche transportation choice at best.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/birds-400-million-in-4-months-is-the-poster-child-for-silicon-valley-2018-6?source=Snapzu

How to Raise an Environmentalist

Kids have a natural connection to the earth, as well as a drive to heal it. And that may be our saving grace.
Read more: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/how-raise-environmentalist?source=Snapzu