Category: Good News

Australia’s vast wildernesses are famous for many things, but rock art, specifically one of the largest concentrations of rock art known in the world, isn’t typically one of them. West Arnhem Land in the Queensland Peninsula hosts an incredible painted record of Man’s relation to his planet, its changes, challenges, and bounty, but a completely […]

70 years ago today, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC could not refuse to serve black patrons, invalidating “separate but equal” services as unconstitutional. Six years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, it was Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old NAACP activist, who walked into Thompson’s Restaurant, a […]

A pair of giant yellow rubber ducks have been spotted in Hong Kong waters. The bath toys are undergoing sea trials ahead of the exhibition Double Ducks by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman. Since 2007, Hofman has taken his 61-foot-tall monumental rubber duck on a world tour. On the 10th anniversary of its first visit to […]

John Stessel normally performs his A-list magic show to adoring fans and celebrities, but he has found another, equally enthusiastic audience for his tricks. Stessel routinely performs now for shelter dogs at the St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center in New Jersey, where their adorable reactions help to get them adopted. Reactions to magic? Yeah, dogs […]

GNN is pro-fungus. We report on their value as medicines, building materials, and food, as well as the constantly evolving portrait of their interconnectedness with our world, and the organisms of the forest. Their vast network of roots known as mycelia has now been shown hold a third—yes, a third, of the annually emitted carbon […]

Tinnitus, the occasional ringing in the ear representing damage or impairment to the auditory systems, affects nearly 15% of all the adults in the US, but they might soon have the option of a simple at home treatment. Susan Shore, Ph.D. in Michigan Medicine’s Department of Otolaryngology, conducted a trial with 99 patients in order […]

No one sees a Tesla or a Tesla owner and thinks “budgeter” but as it turns out, the total cost of ownership of the new Model 3 is about the same as the cheapest car in America. This is according to the astute arithmetic of Paul Fosse writing for Clean Technica, who compared the most […]

Two security guards are being hailed as heroes after assisting a mother whose infant son was choking. It was just before noon that Joey Madrigal and Niko Nesbeth pulled into a gas station at a busy Beverley Hills intersection and saw a scene unfolding before them. A mother with a baby in her arms was […]

15 years ago today, Iceland enshrined the area surrounding Vatnajökull glacier as a national park, the second-largest in all of Europe behind Yugyd Va in Russia. The Vatnajökull glacier is the largest in Europe outside the Arctic, but the national park includes two areas that were previously protected called Skaftafell and Jökulsárgljúfur. READ what you can […]

140 years ago today, the Orient Express began its inaugural departure from Paris en route to Istanbul. The long-distance passenger train service created in 1883 by the Belgian company Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) operated until 2009, though by then it had ceased service to Turkey, and even Bucharest. By 2007 it was simply a […]