The Daily Populous

Tuesday December 12nd, 2017 evening edition

image for Boy, 8, collects more than 1,000 toys for children of Puerto Rico

On Dec. 3, Jayden Perez, a third-grader in Woodland Park, New Jersey, held a toy drive at his home to collect toys for children in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.

On video, she captured Jayden breaking down in tears of joy after being given the tickets.

Rosado said that also around that time, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico.

She said that so far, the drive had netted more than 1,000 toys but that there were more toys coming this week.

She said that a shipping company was also helping them to get the toys to Puerto Rico.

Initially, Rosado said, two of her friends had planned to fly to the island to help distribute the toys. »

An Analysis of Net Neutrality Activism on Reddit

Authored by redditblog.com

The past several weeks have seen multiple surges of activism on Reddit as our users rally to save net neutrality from the FCC’s plans to gut it.

On December 1st, shortly after the admins at Reddit HQ gave Snoo a net neutrality makeover and posted a series of pro-net neutrality banner ads, another round of net neutrality posts from the community hit the front page.

At the peak of these two net neutrality events, over 70% of front page votes went to net neutrality posts!. »

Judge orders Alabama not to destroy voting records in Tuesday's Senate election

Authored by al.com

A judge directed Alabama election officials Monday afternoon to preserve all digital ballot images in Tuesday's hotly contested U.S. Senate special election.

An order granting a preliminary injunction was filed at 1:36 p.m. Monday - less than 24 hours before voting is to begin.

In Alabama, these digital images are destroyed once an election has passed, according to Duncan. »

Insights on fast cockroaches can help teach robots to walk

Authored by portal.uni-koeln.de

This change in gait is similar to the way horses change from trot to gallop.

‘I was particularly surprised that a change in mechanisms stabilizing the animal’s movement goes hand in hand with a change in leg coordination’, Weihmann notes.

‘This discovery not only has far-reaching implications regarding the behavior and ecology of insects and other arthropods’, says Weihmann. »

5 Times Strangers Were Kind on the Reddit in 2017

Authored by time.com

Here are five times redditors showed strangers true kindness in 2017.

Another person thanked reddit for reminding them how to scope out a potentially risky situation at the ATM.

The reddit community was also instrumental in helping a gamer rebuild his wheelchair van, even giving his GoFundMe page a powerful boost. »