🧸 The $20K toy turning terrified kids into MRI pros

When it comes to big machines and little kids, there’s a new tool in the toybox.

Medical miracles tend to come with catastrophic price tags. So when Erik Barnes tells you a hospital shelled out $20,000 for a gadget to help kids with MRIs, you might brace yourself for lasers, AI, or some new exotic drug. Nope. It’s a kid-sized scanner that lets children run practice MRIs on their toys.

Sounds absurd. But letting kids “be the doctor” takes the fear out of lying in a metal tube, and it’s saving hospitals hundreds of thousands of dollars in sedation costs and overnight stays. Like the superhero surgeon we featured who suits up to calm his patients, this is creative medicine at its best.

And that $20K toy? Wait until you see what it looks like and how much it actually saved. Plus, we’ve got expert tips for parents whose hospitals haven’t sprung for a “cat scanner” yet.

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And what did we learn?

Friday, we asked which prestigious award Harrison Ford HAS won. (IMO, it’s a crime he doesn’t have all of these.) Almost 50% of our GOOD readers got this one right. Are you looking this stuff up?

• Academy Award (19.6%)

• Golden Globe (26.2%)

• AFI Life Achievement Award (47.7%) ✅

• Tony Award (6.5%)

On Saturday, we waded into the debate of who took up the mantle of The Beatles in the decades after their split, and we asked you to weigh in on which Beatle-y quality was most important to claim that crown.

• Innovation (revolutionized studio recording) (29.0%)

• Hit-making (absolute chart monsters) (25.8%)

• Cultural influence (cue the screaming fans) (41.9%)

• Bowl cuts (I'll say no more) (3.2%)

🎬 One comedy legend's tearful tribute to another

Catherine O’Hara’s emotional eulogy for John Candy has the internet crying again.

It’s been 30 years since we lost John Candy, but thanks to a resurfaced clip of Catherine O’Hara’s eulogy, it suddenly feels fresh. In the newly viral tribute, O’Hara, Candy’s friend and SCTV castmate, recalls his generosity, goofiness, and ability to make even a failed audition feel like a win.

From bar-hopping in Chicago to behind-the-scenes laughs on Home Alone, the nine-minute speech is packed with warmth. “His movies are a safe haven,” she says, “for those of us who get overwhelmed by the sadness and troubles of this world.”

Ryan Reed pulls the curtain back on a comedy friendship that never stopped giving.

🌲 Logging, lawsuits, and the last wild places: 99.2% of Americans are mad about this Trump plan

The rare issue 99% of Americans actually agree on.

America is divided on nearly everything, but there’s one thing we can apparently still rally around: keeping bulldozers out of our wildest backyards. More than 200,000 people weighed in on a Trump administration plan to roll back the 2001 “Roadless Rule” that protects national forests from roads and logging. An eye-popping 99.2% of them said, in polite policy terms, “absolutely not.”

As Mark Wales reports, the rollback is being sold as “local decision-making.” But critics say that’s code for giving extractive industries the keys to some of the last intact ecosystems in the country, including Alaska’s legendary Tongass National Forest. Tribal leaders, fishermen, and conservation groups are all warning that this could spell disaster for wildlife, carbon storage, and even wildfire risks.

NIMBY usually means blocking a landfill or a prison in your neighborhood. Here, it means blocking bulldozers in the backyard we all share.

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