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a veteran's everest ascent rewrites resilience

Hari Budha Magar, a former Gurkha soldier who lost both legs above the knee in Afghanistan, is the first double above-knee amputee to summit Mount Everest. The historic climb was completed in 2023 after years of rehabilitation, adaptive training, and a successful fight to overturn Nepal’s ban on disabled climbers. His ascent, detailed in The Telegraph, is the culmination of a long journey marked by profound loss, fierce determination, and a commitment to showing what disabled veterans can achieve when given the chance.

Hari now uses his platform to advocate for wounded servicemembers, reminding the world that limitation doesn’t define potential. As he continues pursuing the Seven Summits and supporting veteran charities, his story stands as a testament to resilience.

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teens progress the future of lyme care

A team of Atlanta high school students may have discovered a faster, simpler way to detect Lyme disease that could spot signs of infection within days, long before current tests can. Using a precise gene-targeting method (CRISPR) that acts like molecular scissors, they created a strip-style test that revealed Lyme-related markers in simulated blood, highlighted by CBS News 60 Minutes.

The teens also began exploring a targeted method to treat Lyme by aiming this same technology directly at the bacteria that causes it. Their project earned a top-10 finish at an international science competition and caught the attention of leading researchers, who say the approach could eventually help diagnose many illnesses more quickly. It’s a reminder of what’s possible when young people are empowered to imagine boldly and backed with tools that turn ideas into something that can change lives.

HEALING THAT GOES MORE THAN SKIN DEEP

UC San Diego’s Clean Slate program is helping justice-impacted locals remove gang and prison tattoos, offering a tangible fresh start for people rebuilding their lives and futures. The volunteer-run clinic pairs tattoo removal with hands-on training for young dermatologists, creating a model of community care that’s transforming confidence, employability, and belonging for those who served time, shared Reasons to Be Cheerful.

Across steady recurring appointments, clients describe feeling seen and hopeful again, their fading ink mirroring the work they’re doing to change their lives.

WHEN MORTALITY BECOMES MOTIVATION

Jodi Wellman’s TEDx talk explores how acknowledging our own mortality can become a powerful catalyst for living with more intention, clarity, and joy. She invites us to see the finite nature of life not as something to fear, but as a wake-up call that nudges us out of autopilot and back into the vividness of our days.

Wellman argues that when we recognize we have a limited number of weeks to experience, we tend to prioritize what matters, let go of what doesn’t, and make choices that allow us to feel genuinely alive. Her message is both grounding and uplifting: that awareness of death can be the very thing that brings us home to life, urging us to savor the moments we still have and to live them with courage and meaning.

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A FRESH LENS ON LIVING

Many therapists are seeing a shift in how people relate to mortality, and clinical psychologist Eric Jannazzo offers one lens that’s bringing relief: seeing ourselves not as fixed, fragile “things,” but as living processes that rise, change, and eventually cease. Jannazzo describes in Psyche how this reframing of seeing ourselves as verbs rather than nouns helped one client loosen their fears of death and transform them into a gentler and more natural perspective.

When we stop imagining ourselves as statues that vanish and instead see ourselves as a continuous unfolding of memories, gestures, relationships, and breath, death becomes less of a looming state and more a simple stopping of motion. That adjustment softens tough feelings and makes space for presence, humility, and a deeper sense of belonging to the wider flow of life.

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