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Son Surprises Dad with Dream Car He Gave up for Diaper Money 41 Years Ago
From Texas comes the beautiful story of love and appreciation between a father and son, and of a man who gave up his dream...
Good News in History, November 11
203 years ago today, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow. Numerous literary critics consider him the greatest novelist in all world history. Most...
Good News in History, November 9
48 years ago today, Gary Kasparov won his first Chess World Championship after overcoming his opponent Anatoly Karpov whom he faced inconclusively the year...
Good News in History, November 6
807 years ago today, the Charter of the Forest was signed in England by King Henry III. This law document is sometimes described as...
Experts Demonstrate How Solar Farms Can Become Hubs for ‘Biodiversity Enhancement’ at Every Level
In the same way that artificial coral reefs can jumpstart marine ecosystems, solar farms, if they're constructed properly, can create more biodiversity than agricultural...
Good News in History, November 4
287 years ago today, the Teatro di San Carlo was inaugurated in the city of Naples with the opera Achille in Sciro. It is the...
Good News in History, November 3
119 years ago today, the prolific African-American painter Lois Mailou Jones was born. With her best works exhibited in a half-dozen fine arts museums...
Good News in History, October 27
62 years ago today, one man in the right place, at the right time, did the right thing, saving the world from probably nuclear...
Sicily Will be Reachable Via World’s Longest Suspension Bridge That Italians Have Wanted for Centuries
Dreamt of since the Roman Empire, the men and women, taxpayers and taxspenders of the Italian Peninsula are preparing for an engineering project unrivaled...
Herd of Bulls Headed to the Highlands to Recreate Effect of Ancient Auroch Oxen on Scottish Soil
A rewilding charity in the UK aims to bring the first herd of tauros to the British Isles in order to replace a lost...
Good News in History, October 18
894 years ago today, Zhu Xi, a revolutionary Confucian scholar of the Song Dynasty, was born. His shifting of the emphasis from the I...
Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to...
Good News in History, October 3
4,481 years ago today, or so it's said, the sky above the Korean Peninsula opened and Hwanung, the mythical progenitor of Korean People descended...
Frozen in Time: 32,000-Year-old Woolly Rhino Found with Skin, Fur, and Organs Intact
Four years ago, someone came across an extraordinary find—a juvenile rhino from the Pleistocene 'mummified' in the Siberian permafrost.
Alerting the relevant authorities, the discovery...
Ancient Mummies Reveal Precise Origins of Kefir in the Human Diet: New Study
The oldest traces of fermented dairy ever discovered were recently found in western China's Tarim Basin, dating back 3,600 years.
A DNA analysis shows that...
He Shares the Happiest Moments in People’s Lives While Traveling Through Every Country
Reprinted with permission from World at Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel.
"It's really just a publicity thing," says Michael Zervos,...
UPS Driver Saves Collapsed Grandmother, Then Brings Her Treats Every Week to Hospital: ‘She’s Family Now’
It turns out that angels sometimes wear brown.
UPS driver Raheem Cooper was passing through his normal route in the Georgian town of Valdosta when...
Good News in History September 17
Happy 80th Birthday to the greatest mountaineer of all time, Reinhold Messner. An Italian climber, explorer, and author from the German-speaking province of South...
Your Next Vacation May Be a Lifesaver, Say Researchers Studying Travel, Aging and Health
Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness.
As July and August come around...
Choctaw Nation Unveils ‘Sister Sculpture’ For Irish People–Honoring the Heart Connection Forged 170 Years Ago
In the Choctaw Nation's territory in Oklahoma, a knotted statue has been erected by tribal leaders to honor a cross-continental connection over 170 years...