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Good News in History, August 27
Happy 85th Birthday to Osage-American travel writer William Least Heat-Moon. His debut novel, Blue Highways, (1982) is a chronicle of a three-month-long road trip...
Good News in History, August 26
233 years ago today, John Fitch was granted a US patent for a boat propelled by steam power which used mechanical paddles to propel...
Good News in History, August 17
45 years ago today, Monty Python's Life of Brian was released in theaters. Featuring troupe leader Graham Chapman as Brian Cohen, born in the stable adjacent...
Good News in History, August 12
174 years ago today, Issac Singer received his patent for the improved sewing machine, paving the way for his eventual invention to spread across...
Good News in History, July 26
6 years ago today, Civil Rights leader and Congressman John Lewis' body was carried across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma with a military...
Good News in History, July 23
4 years ago today, China launched the Mission Tianwen-1, or "Heavenly Questions" to Mars, becoming the second nation to have a presence there. It...
Good News in History, July 21
14 years ago today, Turkish-American Erden Eruç became the first person to perform a human-powered circumnavigation of the world, in a journey of 41,000...
Good News in History, July 16
20 years ago today, Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard...
Good News in History, June 28
Happy 53rd Birthday to entrepreneur Elon Musk. Through his ambition, sleepless work ethic, and engineering brilliance, Musk has undoubtedly transformed the world for the...
Good News in History, June 16
12 years/61 years ago today, two ladies became the first women to enter space for their respective nations. 60 years ago it was the...
Good News in History, June 14
98 years ago today, sumptuous singer Nat King Cole recorded The Christmas Song, written by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells, for the first time. It is...
Good News in History, June 8
75 years ago today, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was published for the first time in the UK. This groundbreaking and best-selling novel has...
Good News in History, May 6
70 years ago today Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes—significant because...
PE Coach Pairs Unmotivated Students to Run with Shelter Dogs–Adoptions Soar
A California gym coach who was looking for ways to drum up motivation for the students on his cross-country running team as they went...
Which Cities Will Likely Have Clear Skies as Total Solar Eclipse Moves Across the US in Monday’s Spectacle
As Americans prepare for the wondrous celestial spectacle of a total solar eclipse on April 8, cloudy skies or thunderstorms have been forecast for...
Get Ready for the Solar Eclipse Over North American Coming Soon
A solar eclipse is coming on April 8th, 2024, and unlike when it drifts across the Indian Ocean or somewhere equally remote, this year's...
Good News in History, March 9
50 years ago today, Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese infantryman holdout finally surrendered 29 years after the end of World War II. Operating out of...
Good News in History, February 18
Happy 70th Birthday to John Travolta, star of such films as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Hairspray, and Swordfish. His accolades...
Stem Cells in Menstrual Blood Have Thrilling Potential for Health, Including Diagnosing Endometriosis
(Originally published by Knowable Magazine – written by Sneha Khedkar)
Long overlooked, menstrual stem cells could be the source of important medical applications.
Roughly 20 years...
Good News in History, February 10
84 years ago today, In the Mood, by Glen Miller reached #1 on the charts in the US. It's one of those jazz tunes that...