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British researchers have discovered one of the secrets behind a traditional Chinese medicine made from an orange caterpillar fungus, and are touting its potential for combating cancer. The mechanism that triggers anti-inflammatory and other health benefits within the compound called cordycepin were not understood in western medicine—until now. New research into the chemical produced by […]
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Congressman Andy Kim won his campaign for the US Senate seat in New Jersey last week—a result that left many GNN fans cheering. The 42-year-old became a fan favorite for his selfless and humble act caught on film four years ago. It was 1:00 in the morning following the gruesome attack on the US Capitol […]
The post The Politician Who Picked Up Trash in the Capitol Wins Campaign For U.S. Senate appeared first on Good News Network.
A new poll shows that today’s parents are reinventing the definition of their “village” when it comes to raising their children. The survey results gathered from 2,000 parents of kids under 7, showed that 86% believe they have a different type of support system today than their own parents did. 78% agreed that the definition […]
The post How Americans are Reinventing ‘The Village’ It Takes to Raise a Child: New Poll appeared first on Good News Network.
A rare pink pigeon has been hand-reared at a UK zoo for the first time, using an innovative method for feeling baby birds. Found in the wild only on the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, pink pigeons have been on the endangered ‘red list’ for both the IUCN and BirdLife. On the […]
The post Rare Pink Pigeon Hand-Raised at UK Zoo for First time – a Milestone After Species Dropped to Just 10 Birds in the Wild appeared first on Good News Network.
There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good—strengthening muscles and bolstering our bones, blood vessels, and immune system—but now, MIT engineers have found that it also has benefits at the level of individual neurons. They observed that when muscles contract during exercise, they release a soup of biochemical signals called myokines. In the presence […]
The post When Your Muscles Work Out, They Help Neurons Grow and Heal 4x Faster, MIT Study Shows appeared first on Good News Network.
Fans of author Kurt Vonnegut are celebrating his original board game finally being brought to life, after it was lost to the world following his unsuccessful marketing attempt in 1955. And the game turned out to be deep and strategic, while still being easy to learn and fun to play. Kurt Vonnegut’s son Mark was […]
The post Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost Board Game Finally Published After 70 Years–It Turned Out to be ‘Deep and Very Fun’ appeared first on Good News Network.
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 enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […]
The post An Inspiring Horoscope for Your Week Ahead – ‘Free Will’ Astrology From Rob Brezsny appeared first on Good News Network.
There’s an old adage that good things come to those who wait. But sometimes, it takes a shot in the dark or a leap of faith. CTV recently shared the story of a Canadian photographer who was able to photograph Taylor Swift on her recent Eras tour—all because when she was in college she cold-called […]
The post College Grad’s Long-shot Email Resulted in Front Row Pass as Photographer During 3 Taylor Swift Tours appeared first on Good News Network.
A couple in Arkansas have emptied their savings and wedding fund to save a 10-month old dog found stricken by the side of the road. Weeks have passed, and their their love has inspired $39,000 in donations to help save the pooch and replace the money they so self-sacrificingly forked over for emergency surgery. It […]
The post Couple Uses Wedding Fund to Pay for Surgery on Injured Dog Found on Side of Road: ‘She Deserved a Chance’ appeared first on Good News Network.
In the Washington county of San Juan, the transition to a 32-hour, or 4-day workweek, has generated a year’s worth of data that has county workers excited. The cash-strapped San Juan had projected that the union-negotiated salary rises would climb above the payroll budget for the year, and the reduction in working hours has helped […]
The post How a Cash-Strapped County Found Success with a 32-Hour Workweek: It’s ‘Life Changing’ appeared first on Good News Network.
Breast cancer patients have been given fresh hope after a new vaccine showed “promise” in treating an aggressive form of the disease. The results came in a clinical trial involving American patients with triple-negative breast cancer who received an experimental drug designed to prevent the recurrence of tumors. The trial, using a therapy designed by […]
The post Hope for Patients with Aggressive Breast Cancer: Vaccine Trial Results in 88% Survival Rate After 3 Years appeared first on Good News Network.
British novelist Samantha Harvey has been awarded the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital, described as a “space pastoral” and written through the perspectives of astronauts. It was the best-selling book on the Booker Prize shortlist, outselling all three of the previous winners combined when measured on the eve of their awards. It’s also the […]
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In Kenya, on the edge of the legendary Tsavo National Park, African honey bees contentedly buzz about near rows of well-tended crops. It’s a scene that’s becoming more common in these rural areas and is driven by an extreme need: to deter elephants from encroaching on farmlands, eating crops, and destroying homes. “The beehive fences […]
The post Farmers Use Bees to Deter Elephants from Romping Over Crops–a Win-Win for All appeared first on Good News Network.
These white dots arranged in five clusters against a black background simulate an extraterrestrial signal transmitted from Mars and deciphered by a father-daughter team on Earth after a year-long decoding effort. The project was organized by some of the world’s top astronomers to run the scenario of a citizen science response in the event of […]
The post Father-Daughter Duo Won the Race to Decode an Extraterrestrial Message–Sent from Mars to Test Humanity appeared first on Good News Network.
When Hurricane Milton recently smashed into Florida’s Crystal River, a peculiar house stood firm even while a neighbor’s was heavily damaged by the powerful winds. Owned by Gene Tener, it is one of 3,000 along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the US built by Deltec Homes, which use prefabricated parts to build hurricane-resistant homes. […]
The post Thousands of Circular Homes Are Surviving Hurricanes Across the US Thanks to North Carolina Company appeared first on Good News Network.
This diminutive yellow bird had a whole country tweeting with interest, and craning their necks up to see it perched in the tree of a local’s front yard. Around 300 bird watchers crowded a road in the northern city of Sheffield, where a scarlet tanager was first spotted perched on a clothesline. It is thought […]
The post Hundreds of Brits Flock to Quiet Backyard After Bird from America Is Blown Off Course by Hurricane appeared first on Good News Network.
One might imagine the hostile environment of space as bad news for any organic molecules. However, Japanese engineers just created a wooden satellite called LignoSat, with preparations for a summertime 2025 launch. The mission is meant as a demonstration of the capacities of this humble material to live long and prosper in the vacuum of […]
The post World’s First Wooden Satellite Aims to Tackle Space Debris Problem with Sustainable Solution appeared first on Good News Network.
A remarkable new sea slug nicknamed the “mystery mollusk” has been discovered swimming deep in the ocean’s lightless zone. The species has adaptations for life in the pitch-black depths including a large gelatinous hood to trap prey, a paddle-like tail, and the ability to light up, say American scientists. The 5.6-inch (14.5-centimeter) hermaphrodite species, given […]
The post Remarkable Sea Slug Found Among Monterrey Bay’s Lightless Depths is Nicknamed ‘Mystery Mollusk’ appeared first on Good News Network.
Attached to the presidential ballots in this year’s elections, Rhode Island had posed question 4: would the voter like to see the state borrow money for environmental preservation? Question 4 passed by a three-to-one margin, authorizing the state to issue $53 million in so-called “Green Bonds” and use the money for farmland and forest preservation. […]
The post Voters Agree in a Landslide to Invest in the Environment–Backing Green Bond by 3:1 Margin in Rhode Island appeared first on Good News Network.
On the night of October 8th, the Earth will pass through a meteor shower radiating from the constellation Draco, an event that stargazers await with great anticipation. That’s because the Draconid Meteor Shower can often display a peak rate of shooting stars of just a few per hour, but, every few years, exceeds all others […]
The post Draconid Meteor Shower Offers Chance to See Hundreds of Shooting Stars per Hour in October Skies appeared first on Good News Network.
The analysis of health records of more than 120,000 adults in the UK with an average age of 57 found that people who are happy with their lives are significantly less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke. They were also less likely to develop coronary artery disease, suffer a heart attack, heart failure, […]
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During an annual half-marathon in Newfoundland, a strange individual was seen among the runners during the final few miles. A goat, seemingly excited by all the motion, was happily trotting along between the sneaker-shod bipedals on the road through Conception Bay South. The occasion was the annual T’Railroad Trek Half Marathon on Newfoundland’s east coast. […]
The post Goat Named Mr. Joshua Runs Last 4k of Local Marathon Winning Medal and Local Adoration appeared first on Good News Network.
A Chicago real estate company has shelled out $1.2 million for a sophisticated suite of decals that will deter birds from crashing into glass windows. McCormick Place was alerted by local wildlife advocates that the glass facade of its Lakeside Center building had, during a single night in the autumn migration season, fatally attracted 1,000 […]
The post After Building Causes 1,000 Bird Deaths, $1.2M Window Decals Shows Chicago How to Beak Considerate appeared first on Good News Network.
Last month, while trundling across the Martian landscape, the eyes of the Perseverance Mars rover settled on an extraordinary rock. Featuring black and white striations like Alpine granite, it has NASA scientists excited that the rover is entering an area where new discoveries about the planet can be made. Sighting it with the Mastcam-Z, NASA’s […]
The post Strange Rock Found on Mars with Zebra Markings Has NASA Scientists ‘Excited’ appeared first on Good News Network.
A 4-year-old has become the first patient known to British medical history to be taken off life-support and proceeded to recover—so much so that he went home with his parents. This story revolves around a sensitive topic about terminally ill patients, decisions around the ends of lives, sometimes young ones, and what roles do parents, […]
The post When Boy’s Life Support Was Turned off He Began Improving–and Went Home with Parents appeared first on Good News Network.
First Ian, then Idalia, now Helene—a special housing development in Florida has withstood them all. Without any doubt, the neighborhood at Hunter Point in Cortez along the Gulf Coast has lived up to its billing of hurricane-proof, as the storm that has ravaged the southeastern United States was endured without issue. Helene made landfall last […]
The post This Hurricane-Proof Florida Development Easily Endured Helene, Ian, and Idalia–Proving Climate Designs Work appeared first on Good News Network.
Since 2016, poaching of one-horned rhinoceroses in India’s Assam state has fallen 86% after a change in government brought determined action to protect them By expanding protected areas and bolstering ranger patrols, the steady growth in the number of rhinos, seen since the late 60s, has now accelerated to the point where 3,000 horns grace […]
The post India’s Rhino Stronghold Sees 86% Drop in Poaching and Five-Fold Increase in Rhinos appeared first on Good News Network.
A black bear born without front legs has been sighted more or less thriving in the mountains of West Virginia. Though not unheard of, it’s wild to be able to see the animal’s natural movement, having been transformed, by consequence of his birth, from a quadrupedal animal to a bipedal animal like us. “The area […]
The post Trail Camera Shows ‘Truly Amazing’ Bear–Born with 2-Legs and Living Large in West Virginia appeared first on Good News Network.
Companies and organizations are descending on affected communities in North Carolina with donations and volunteers as they begin to dig themselves out of a 100-year storm. Hurricane Helene “wiped out whole communities” according to Governor Roy Cooper, leaving over 200,000 people without power and causing exceptional destruction even far inland from the Atlantic. The response, […]
The post North Carolina Sports Come Together to Support Victims of ‘Unprecedented’ Hurricane Helene appeared first on Good News Network.
43-year-old Nikki Banfield says it’s always when she’s not looking for treasures on the beach that she finds treasures on the beach. Recently, she came upon a glass ‘cameo’ about the size of a penny with the depiction of a woman’s face, an object that may be 200 years old, but could also be 2,000 […]
The post Photographer Discovers Ancient Pendant Thousands of Years Old on a Cornwall Beach appeared first on Good News Network.
When an Australian nurse working at a hospital with outdated incubators happened upon a kangaroo rescue center, she realized she could help save lives. Once used to help save premature human babies, the incubators are now mimicking the conditions of a mother kangaroo’s pouch, where her joey will live for the first 8 months of […]
The post Old Incubators Help Save Orphaned Kangaroos by Imitating Their Mother’s Pouch appeared first on Good News Network.
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 turned out to be a 4-year-old woolly rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis) with its fur, skin, and organs intact, offering paleontologists a rare glimpse into the biology of this Ice Age behemoth. […]
The post Frozen in Time: 32,000-year-old Woolly Rhino Found with Skin, Fur, and Organs Intact appeared first on Good News Network.
A rather unique story is sweeping American social media—moms leaving presents for other moms inside baby products. The story began when Nashville mom Denaesha Gonzalez went to Target and saw a strange yet translatable sight—a silver clutch purse placed on the shelf with the baby supplies. A mother, Gonzalez reasoned, had picked out the clutch […]
The post Trending Moms are Leaving Gift Cards in Store Diaper Aisles–For Postpartum Peer Relief appeared first on Good News Network.
Imagine if you were flipping through records at a store and discovered an unreleased single from Jimi Hendrix or Freddie Mercury. That’s what archivists must have felt when they held up 200-year-old sheet music for a composition about 12 minutes long. They realized that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was about to drop a new track, more […]
The post Previously Unknown Mozart Song Discovered in German Library After 200 Years appeared first on Good News Network.
A touching story comes now from North Carolina of a man who saw a reversal in his progressive blindness just in time to see the face of his newborn son. The new father was born with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and knew even from a young age that it would mean a total loss of vision. […]
The post Gene Therapy at Duke Improves NC Dad’s Failing Vision Just in Time for His Baby’s Birth appeared first on Good News Network.
Richard Goodall, a 55-year-old school janitor, became the winner of America’s Got Talent season 19 in a true underdog story that culminated with him claiming a $1 million prize. He beat out a drone light show, and a dog act to win the finale with a belting rendition of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin.'” He made […]
The post 55-Year-old Janitor Cleans Up on America’s Got Talent Winning $1M for Heart-Wrenching ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ appeared first on Good News Network.
For generations, humanity has had to be content with artistic illustrations of black holes as a means to imagine these difficult-to-imagine cosmic objects. Now, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration which gave the world its first real image of a black hole in 2019, has imaged the same object with different frequencies and at the […]
The post Global Telescopes Image Nearby Black Hole in Unprecedented, Triple-Frequency Color Photo appeared first on Good News Network.
In Richmond, a company has opened the world’s first indoor strawberry farm. Plenty Unlimited Inc. says their AI-based system makes it possible to grow produce with peak-season flavor, year-round, almost anywhere in the world. AI analyses more than 10 million data points each day across 12 grow rooms, adapting each grow room’s environment to the […]
The post World’s First Vertical Strawberry Farm Uses AI to Compliment Mother Nature appeared first on Good News Network.
Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel. Depending on where you live in the world, you may be opening this story with every tree in your neighborhood blushing bright yellow, orange, and red, or you could be wondering why all the colors didn’t show up. The […]
The post What Makes the Perfect Forest for the Perfect Autumn? appeared first on Good News Network.
A woman who broke her leg while hiking was rescued by a trio of strapping young whipper snappers, who carried her all the way down the mountain on their backs. Even realizing she’d be alone for the 3.2-mile trek, Ursula Bannister had been confident of getting to the place where she scattered her mother’s ashes […]
The post Stranger Carried a Senior Hiker for Hours on His Back After She Fell and Couldn’t Walk appeared first on Good News Network.
“I can eat sugar now,” said a woman from Tianjing, China, who recently became the first human to have their type-1 diabetes cured through a stem cell procedure. Using the patient’s own stem cells, the results offer hope of limitless treatment options for type-1 diabetes, where special insulin-producing cells were previously needed from a donor. […]
The post Stem Cells Reverse Woman’s Type-1 Diabetes–a World First appeared first on Good News Network.
In a rather unique story from Reuters, the Spanish olive oil market is profiled for what it can do to power Spain’s homes, not just its economy and kitchens. Accounting for half the production of olive oil in the EU, growers are now getting to sell olive pits as a valuable ingredient for biofuel. Hundreds […]
The post Spain’s Olive Oil Producers Turn Tons of Their Pits into Fuel–For Homes, Planes and Industry appeared first on Good News Network.
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 enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […]
The post Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny appeared first on Good News Network.
From the magazine of the Archaeological Institute of America comes the story of an immense discovery 120 years in the making. One of ancient Greece’s most hallowed sites has been found thanks to a determined Swiss archaeologist, a chatty local, and the stroke of luck that brought them together. The story begins with Strabo, the […]
The post How a Chatty Motorist Led to One of the Biggest Finds in Greek Archaeology–the Lost 2,800-year-old Temple of Artemis appeared first on Good News Network.
Concerns over the well-being of teenage users of Instagram have led to its parent company Meta creating the most insulated form of the app seen so far: the Teen account. All accounts registered with teenage users (up to age 15) have automatically been changed to the teen mode, which applies many of the more than […]
The post On Advice of Psychologists, Instagram Just Moved Every Teen into Protective User Accounts appeared first on Good News Network.
Bountiful rains are greening parts of the Sahara that haven’t had a good soak in years. An extratropical cyclone pushed across the northwestern Sahara on September 7th and 8th and drenched large, treeless swaths of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. At the same time, the Intertropical Convergence Zone, a line of rainfall that floats between […]
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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 rather than being cheese, as the physical profile of the sample suggested, it was actually solidified kefir. Kefir is a type of fermented milk that offers a great way of […]
The post Dairy Samples from 3,600-yo Mummies Reveal Precise Origins of Kefir in the Human Diet appeared first on Good News Network.
Now at the London Design Festival, a nifty piece of “street furniture” allows for rapid urban greening with little effort and maximum impact. “Vert” is a simple polygonal assembly of boards, nets, and ropes that will allow climbing plants to scale quickly and easily, bathing an area of exposed concrete in shade and moisture. The […]
The post Vertical Greening Brings Nature to Urban ‘Heat Islands’ Quickly and Easily (LOOK) appeared first on Good News Network.
Regular coffee or caffeine consumption may offer a protective effect against developing multiple cardiometabolic diseases like coronary heart disease and stroke, the most common killers in human society today. Detailed in new research published in the Endocrine Society, three cups of coffee per day were associated with those in the study cohort who had a […]
The post Moderate Coffee and Caffeine Consumption Is Associated with Preventing Onset of #1 Killer appeared first on Good News Network.
A team of student archaeologists in France received an amazing surprise while working on a site dating to Gaulic times. Carried out under the direction of Guillaume Blondel, director of the municipal archaeological service of the city of Eu, the excavations delivered, among other things, a moving and very special testimony from the past. Located […]
The post Researchers Discover 200-year-old Message in a Bottle: A ‘Magic Moment’ appeared first on Good News Network.
In Australia, wild deer that were destroying sea turtle habitat on an island near the Great Barrier Reef have been eradicated. The result is that Australia’s largest flatback turtle rookery is now a safe haven for these ocean-goers once again. It’s just the latest in a string of high-profile success stories from islands all over […]
The post To Save Sea Turtle Population Invasive Deer Successfully Eradicated from Island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef appeared first on Good News Network.
With more visitors than ever before, the new airport terminal in Florence will have a green roof and sport a vineyard. The Italians are passionate about greening their buildings, with the famous Bosco Verticale in Milan being the flagship example. To celebrate its heritage as one of the wine capitals of the world, the Amerigo Vespucci International […]
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Michigan, a state once famous for carbon-heavy automotive manufacturing, is now among the leaders of renewable energy installation in America. A recent report shows that the state added 350 megawatts of solar power in 2023, increasing the total renewable resources in the state by 10%. Combined with an existing inventory of 3,500 megawatts of solar […]
The post Michigan’s Robust Renewable Energy Powered 1 Million Homes in 2023 from Wind and Solar appeared first on Good News Network.
LEGO has announced it will pay out of pocket to increase the amount of recycled plastic in its bricks to 50% by 2026. Estimated to increase the production costs by around 70%, the company’s CEO stated its bottom line will bear the burden as it hopes continued investment by LEGO will allow companies that make […]
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Over the course of the last hundred years, Norwegian forests have tripled in size according to a new report. They have doubled in size in just the last 40 years, which the report claims is because of more CO2 and warmer temperatures in Norway than in previous decades. Published by Statistics Norway, the survey is […]
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Released to a delighted movie audience, My Pengiun Friend tells the story of a man and his long-lasting friendship with a Megallanic penguin. But before the silver screen bore witness to the tale, it arose first on the news—in Brazil, where a retired stonemason named João Pereira de Souza discovered a penguin covered in oil from […]
The post True Story of Penguin’s Annual Return to See the Man Who Saved it From Oil Spill is Now a Feature Film (See Trailer) appeared first on Good News Network.
A little 3-year-old wandered into a cornfield behind his house, determined to catch a kitty he had seen run between the stalks. For anyone who’s enjoyed a late summer/early autumn corn maze, they’ll know it’s an easy micro-environment to get lost in. And sure enough, the boy was in over his head within moments. Deputies […]
The post Toddler Gone Missing in 10-foot-tall Corn Field Is Finally Detected During Nighttime Search for the 3-year-old appeared first on Good News Network.
An innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste plastic items in our society into hydrocarbon building blocks for use in making new plastics. The scientists behind the project explained that the process works “equally well” with the two dominant types of consumer plastic waste: polyethylene, the component of most single-use plastic bags; and polypropylene, the stuff […]
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The satellite internet service Starlink is seeking approval to facilitate 911 calls from wilderness areas to help improve search and rescue efforts and reduce deaths. Elon Musk’s satellite constellation has served a variety of publicized uses, like giving Ukraine the ability to communicate during wartime. The most recent is a Starlink and T-Mobile partnership seeking […]
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A no-kill animal shelter charity was invited to start an inmate dog training program at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility last year—and now joy and fulfillment are being created on both sides of the leash. The ongoing program has helped the inmates to develop compassion and to comply with rules. Their task is to […]
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A dad who interviewed his daughter on the first day of school every year has now shared the final video, as she starts her final year of high school before heading off to college. Ray Petelin came up with the idea to ask his little girl, Elizabeth, a series of questions at the start of […]
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A man is making tiny homes on wheels to provide innovative shelter for unhoused people—inspired after his brother become homeless. Ryan Donais started building the portable homes in July, concerned about the levels of homelessness in his city of Toronto, Canada, where he was seeing a huge growth in the “tent towns” popping up around […]
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Retirees are living lives that their younger selves would be jealous of, according to a new poll of 2,000 Americans who have retired, or will retire before 2029. The ‘Benjamin Button’ effect appears to be in full play, as retirees agree they’re aging backward and feeling more vivacious than ever. 60% of respondents are planning […]
The post How Americans are Reinventing Retirement – They’re Choosing Travel and Hobbies Over Relaxing appeared first on Good News Network.
A determined Lab has found a new home in Georgia after galloping alongside a doggie daycare bus until he won over the driver and found a new home. In Franklin County, the story begins when the driver of the ‘pup bus’ was doing his rounds to bring clients’ dogs to daycare. Coming to a house […]
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Rising sea levels and coastal erosion are threatening farmers on America’s mid-Atlantic coast, but a crop from colonial times may be the future harvest in places like Delaware and New Jersey. The issue is that more and more mid-Atlantic farmland is becoming inundated with salt making crops like corn and soy ungrowable, but a group […]
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Breyana Elwell never liked rodents, but after it became clear the neighboring squirrels were suffering from the heat, she began to warm to them. Living in New Braunfels, Texas, she maintains a sort of “squirrel resort” where the arboreal rodents can stop by, cool down, grab a bite, and lounge until the heat of the […]
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Alongside all the other memories taken home from their stay in Germany this summer to cheer on their national team, 38,000 soccer fans are now certified in CPR. The Get Trained, Save Lifes, campaign was a partnership between the EURO Championships and the European Resuscitation Council to raise awareness of sudden cardiac arrest and the […]
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A 94-year-old Englishman decided to have a go on the world’s fastest zip line to raise money for his local hospice care. Great-grandfather-of-four David Aris lost his beloved wife, June, to cancer five years ago. For the last few months of her life, she had been cared for by St John’s Hospice, which also provided […]
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A remarkable 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic was uncovered during excavations at Wroxeter Roman city, which also uncovered an ancient building and shrine. The Roman presence in Britain is often referred to as the high water mark of the Roman Empire, while the decline and eventual abandonment as something like the receding of a tide. As the […]
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In one of the largest shake-ups in sports broadcasting this century, Turner Sports (TNT) lost out on an 11-year rights deal to broadcast the NBA. But while they may have lost their apex product, they didn’t lose their apex presenter, who turned down a total of $100 million in contract offers from other networks so […]
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An Indian entrepreneur is using sugar, cellulose, and corn fibers to make a plastic-like carrier bag for small Indian businesses. His company Bio Reform has already replaced 6 million plastic bags in the checkout counters of stores all over India. Based in Hyderabad, Mohammed Azhar Mohiuddin first got the idea during the general mayhem that […]
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A young woman who was ‘crippled by a fear of rejection’ says she has cured herself by doing a series outrageous challenges in public. Sophie Jones compiled a list of of dozens of challenges to undertake as therapy for the phobia which she has struggled with all her life. So far, the 22-year-old managed to […]
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Four out of five parents are working to make the back-to-school season “magical” for their elementary school kids, according to a new poll. A survey of 2,000 parents with children aged 12 and under found 86% are trying to bring the “magic” back to school and, for many, their goal is getting their child excited […]
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Researchers from Western University have discovered a protein that has the never-before-seen ability to stop DNA damage in its tracks. The finding could provide the foundation for developing everything from vaccines against cancer, to crops that can withstand increasing drought. The researchers in Ontario, Canada, found the protein—called DdrC (for DNA Damage Repair Protein C)—in […]
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A pair of landscape gardeners were left shell-shocked after digging up an unexploded bomb from World War II, while working on a back garden. Residents were evacuated from their homes in Worcester, England, while police and bomb squads rushed to the scene following the discovery by Paul Probert and James Dobson. The pair had been […]
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It is well-documented that Americans have been paying a lot more for prescription drugs than people in any other developed nation, but this week the White House completed “negotiations” with ‘Big Pharma’ that will finally lower those prices for millions of seniors on Medicare. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which passed in the Senate […]
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A person who doesn’t want kids has donated 41 eggs to help strangers become parents—and celebrates the birthday of her ‘donor baby’ every year. Yasmin Sharman was concerned by the lack of black donors, so signed up with TFP Fertility in London to be a donor when she 18. Since then, the 26-year-old has donated […]
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A new drug for a type of brain cancer, called IDH-mutant low-grade glioma, was approved this month by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration—a promising treatment that stemmed from a genetic discovery made at the Johns Hopkins Cancer Center 16 years ago. The drug, called vorasidenib, is a targeted cancer therapy that works by inhibiting […]
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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 enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […]
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Out from the ash and flames of the wildfires that scorched Canada’s Jasper National Park comes the story of a heroic 18-year-old who saved over a dozen people. Working as a volunteer firefighter and kitchen aide at a lodge, Colleen Knull received an evacuation order on a Monday in late July. Stepping outside she saw […]
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“We’re a tourist attraction on Google Maps now,” local Londener Polly Barker told CBS News, gesturing to her garden hedge—trimmed immaculately so as to depict Henry Moore’s famous sculpture Reclining Nude. CBS was in Barker’s neighborhood to talk to the sculptor himself: a man named Bushe. Tim Bushe has been trimming hedges for 15 years. […]
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A fossil hunter in Mississippi recently unearthed an intact mammoth ivory 7 feet long. Believing it was the tusk of a mastodon, a far more common proboscidean in the area, Eddie Templeton was nevertheless ecstatic to find one that wasn’t fragmented. But it was only after scientists arrived from the Mississippi Museum of Natural History […]
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At the University of Maine, one of the world’s largest 3D printers is using sawdust from the state’s lumber industry to 3D print cozy wooden cabins. It’s part of a move towards making 3D printing faster and more sustainable in a state where the housing shortage that has metastasized in most states around the country […]
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It may have been transported around the coast by sea, or by some sophisticated method the nature of which has not yet been revealed, but whatever the case, the 6-ton Altar Stone at Stonehenge came from Scotland, not nearby Wales. Previous geological research suggested that the slab of sandstone probably originated from the Brecon Beacons […]
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Oregon has recently become the first state in the US to offer free nurse visits to new mothers and fathers statewide. No one can deny that the United States and its citizens have an array of problems and are facing major challenges, but one which isn’t well reported on is the high rates of death […]
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Businesses like to talk about the concept of a closed loop or circular economy, but often they’re trying to close small loops. Releaf Paper takes dead leaves from city trees and turns them into paper for bags, office supplies, and more—which is to say they are striving to close one heck of a big loop. […]
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In China, a landscape architect is reimagining cities across the vast country by working with nature to combat flooding through the ‘sponge city’ concept. But just as the Chinese Communist Party famously describes its policies as “Socialism: China style,” Yu Kongjian has put a decidedly Middle Kingdom spin on this concept which has taken root […]
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Why did the tortoise cross the road? Or better yet, how did the tortoise outpace its keepers for 3 miles before crossing the road? These are no doubt questions that a local ostrich ranch in the Arizona town of Picacho will be asking after state troopers called and asked if they were missing a large […]
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A pair of high schoolers invented a unique water filtration device that uses a wall of sound to hold back microplastic particles from running water. In lab tests, the acoustic force from the high-frequency sound waves removed between 84% and 94% of the suspended microplastic particles in a single pass, and they are using the […]
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The US Women’s Gymnastics team has won 8 medals—which may be down to the excellence of the effervescent Simone Biles, although it have furrier explanations. All throughout the games, Beacon the golden retriever has been within petting distance of any one of the five members who may feel some pre-performance jitters. The topic of mental […]
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Over 11,000 small donors have managed to raise £245,000 ($270,000) to repair a library in Liverpool that was set partially ablaze during a spate of violent acts of disorder that took place in England and Belfast last week. Called Spellow Hub, the library had recently been transformed into a community space with job training and […]
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A doctor who treats children in Ecuador is currently facing a 30-year prison sentence for creating explicit content involving minors—and his prosecution is thanks to Rosco, the electronic sniffer dog. Not a robotic dog, but a dog trained to detect the chemicals applied onto the surfaces of data storage devices, even SD cards no larger […]
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Is the above image the future of medicine? In it, Dr. Luo Qingquan uses a sophisticated control center to guide a set of robotic surgery tools to remove a tumor from a patient’s lung 3,000 miles away. Dr. Luo was seated in the Shanghai Chest Hospital on China’s Pacific Coast, while the patient was anesthetized […]
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England was rocked recently by a spate of riots, vandalism, and violence partly targeting Muslims, but one man went viral on social media for proving that such deplorable behavior is the exception, not the rule, in Jolly Olde England. The mosque in Southport was burned down last Tuesday, but local Bricklayer Tony Hill has been […]
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In 2019, GNN reported that country star Brad Paisley had broken ground on a free grocery store that would allow residents of Nashville suffering from food insecurity to ‘shop’ with dignity and variety. Now, after five years of unexpected challenges, Pasiley is looking to expand by building another location in North Nashville. “We’re going to […]
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A new, socially conscious startup is offering a radically new way for first-time homebuyers to get a foot in the always-challenging US housing market. Called ‘fractional ownership’ it allows prospective homebuyers to work in direct tandem with wealthy investors to secure houses they love fast, and pay a rate similar to a mortgage until they […]
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A bi-disciplinary scientific study has revealed the likely presence of a layer of diamonds 11 miles thick at the boundary layer of Mercury’s core and mantle. It was a remarkable finding, and came from what is the least understood planet in the solar system, despite being one of the closest to Earth. Diamonds are forever—a […]
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Provided that China hawks in Congress haven’t convinced you the Chinese people are all diabolical communist footsoldiers, then the trailer for this documentary will bring a tear to your eye. Mr. Chen Si, known as the Angel of Nanjing, has volunteered to patrol the Yangtze Bridge every day, and over a 21-year career, he has […]
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Just before midnight on Thursday evening, a plane touched down in the US and several Americans got to embrace their families, after they were freed in a historic prisoner swap deal with the Russian Federation. It is quite simply the largest prisoner swap since the end of the Cold War. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan […]
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Inspired by an innovative Chilean forest restoration effort, the English town of Lewes is enlisting the help of dog walkers to rewild a local nature reserve. Heavily degraded by foot traffic, the project co-ops dogs’ tendency to run about in the woods to spread wildflower seed from saddlebags strapped to a harness around the dog’s […]
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The Los Angeles Zoo is capping off its 2024 California condor breeding season with a record-breaking 17 chicks hatched all of which will be candidates for release into the wild as part of the California Condor Recovery Program (CCRP). The 17th and final chick of the season hatched in June and is thriving. The previous […]
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A team from MIT has discovered a fascinating chemical reaction that could allow ships or submarines to power themselves with zero-emissions hydrogen via a combination of aluminum pellets and the seawater through which they sail. Several clever tweaks allowed for this process to generate a not-insubstantial amount of hydrogen gas—the kind being used as an […]
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In central India, a hardworking family man who found himself atop a mountain of debt also managed to find himself a 19.22-carat diamond worth almost $100,000. “Our lives have changed forever” he joyously told CNN, having just opened his first-ever bank account in anticipation of the money forthcoming from the sale of the diamond at […]
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It was an emotional reunion when old sorority sisters Megan and Jess met at the former’s house in their late 30s. That’s because, Megan is scheduled to donate a kidney to Jess, whom she hadn’t seen in over 10 years. After receiving a diagnosis of chronic kidney failure in September 2023, Jess Hause was stunned […]
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When a driver for Uber Eats humbly asked for a little generosity in order to give his wife-to-be the wedding of her dreams, the world responded. TikToker Paul Slobodzian has been driving Uber Eats as a side hustle for over a year to save for his wedding. One evening, Erica Hernandez ordered dinner from Chipotle, […]
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A stunning underwater mosaic dating to the late Roman Empire has been discovered under the sea in the Bay of Naples. Deposited there via seismic activity, it was found near the resort town of Baiae, where it would have lined the floors of a patio in a seaside villa owned by the Roman patrician class. […]
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When Kenyan runner Hellen Obiri takes to the track in Paris this summer to equal or better her previous silver medal, she will be sporting a pair of “spray-on” running shoes. With the support needed to aid in the acceleration and speed of Obiri’s dashing, the shoes are the lightest running shoes ever, perhaps shaving […]
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A British senior who pre-planned his funeral and rehearsed it on TV in 2013, had his final wishes come true after peacefully passing away in June. Malcolm Brocklehurst, who is a renowned aircraft expert, commissioned an orange airplane-shaped coffin ten years ago from Crazy Coffins, an offshoot of a Nottingham-based traditional coffin and urn maker […]
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A recent poll of 2,000 American sports fans revealed just how emotionally invested they are—and how much of a return they get for those investments. More than 22% of all respondents have a pre-game ritual they do each time their favorite team or player competes—but for self-described hard core fans, 32% participate in various pre-game […]
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In January, during a Democratic primary, thousands of voters received a robocall that used artificial intelligence to impersonate President Biden discouraging them from voting. The political consultant responsible is now facing millions in fines and jail time for the 13 felony counts of voter suppression and 13 counts of impersonating a candidate, a misdemeanor. To […]
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An elementary school teacher crocheted a miniature version of all the pupils in her class to honor each individually with a personalized gift as the year ended. Sara Shabir started the project in May and presented the tiny lookalikes to her third graders this month when classes ended at Tyndale Community School, in Oxford, England. […]
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30 years ago today, Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers pitched the MLB’s 14th Perfect Game which also registered as the first and only one in the history of the Texas Rangers franchise, and the last No-Hitter pitched for the Rangers at the time of writing. While perhaps missing out on being remembered as one of […]
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Check out this positively pink full-sized ‘Barbie Dreamhouse’ for sale in New Jersey… The bungalow includes a cinema room, large walk-in wardrobe, a craft room, and a handbag wall—all in bright pinks and calming lavenders. The three-bedroom property on Hughes Drive in Hamilton Township has a unique style that may only be perfect for a […]
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A 52-year-old Parkinson’s sufferer is celebrating a ‘life-changing’ transformation after receiving a new drug treatment—and a video shows the incredible difference it made in just one week. Damian Gath, who previously worked out at a gym four times a week, was diagnosed ten years ago with an incurable brain condition that causes involuntary shaking. He […]
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When the call went out seeking assistance for a puppy requiring special care, a faculty member at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a recent graduate were “all in.” A month ago, a tiny Chihuahua weighing just 2.5-pounds captured the hearts of animal shelter staff even before it became clear that the dog had […]
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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 enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […]
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Despite being just 5 years old and suffering from stage 4 brain cancer, an adorable little boy in the UK is climbing the charts with a new song. Jack Gyde was diagnosed with Stage 4 High-Risk Neuroblastoma earlier this year after his mom Sarah noticed him limping, and a song released to raise money for […]
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A 59-foot-long reproduction of an ancient Near Eastern trading vessel has successfully sailed off the coast of Abu Dhabi. The vessel, called a ‘Magan Boat’ in ancient times after the name of the area encompassing the UAE and parts of Oman today, was built with raw materials described on an ancient clay tablet and using […]
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Famous Alexes for $200: This naturalized US citizen hosted the quiz show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons. Alex Trebek has been honored with a sheet of memorial stamps from the US Postal Service looking like the question board on the show he indeed hosted for 37 seasons. Announcing to the nation in 2019 a pancreatic cancer […]
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Over 200 plants will have their species name changed to remove an offensive South African apartheid-era racial slur after the results of a vote from the International Botanical Congress. In a thoroughly debated session in the recent meeting in Madrid, the vote passed 351 to 205 to rename all current botanical species with the species […]
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In North Carolina, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office received a call that a child was wandering alone on the road on July 7th. Dispatching an officer to the Waxhaw Indian Trail Road, the child was located and secured, but being autistic and non-verbal, the officer had no idea where the boy had wandered away from. […]
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Despite being brought up in the Nuremberg Zoo a young Carpathian lynx named Chapo was born to be wild. Respecting his wishes, the German zookeepers abandoned their intention to raise him to eventually contribute his genes to a vital captive breeding program and release him into the wilds of Germany. Now residing in the forests […]
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A life-saving blood test that can detect sepsis in under ten minutes by squeezing white blood cells could be available in as many as 11 US states by the end of the year. While you won’t hear many news headlines about sepsis, US researchers have hailed the development as one of the most important breakthroughs […]
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A consortium of small firms is creating a renewable revolution within the boundaries of a small city in Northern California, which will be the testbed for a use-and-return concept for fast food drinks. Around 50 billion disposable drink cups are used every year in the US, but in the city of Petaluma, we will see […]
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A woman who rescued a dog from a shelter was amazed and overwhelmed to learn that the Siberian husky returned the favor. Samantha Griffen might have died before the carbon monoxide detector even went off, but the husky, Luna, had other ideas. Moving into a new house on 54th and Prestwick Sq, Marion, Indiana last […]
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The world’s most influential YouTuber has accomplished an incredible feat of crowdfunding after leading dozens of the world’s top influencers to drive donations and volunteering toward the goal of cleaning up the oceans. 34 million pounds of trash and plastic were removed from oceans and rivers all across the globe, with each dollar donated verified […]
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An American company is in possession of a “world-class,” and “mind-boggling” deposit of subterranean helium gas, which has them excited for way more than just the potential to sell it to party supply stores. Despite being the second most abundant gaseous element in the universe, helium is rare on Earth, and in Babbit, Minnesota, a […]
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Every Virginian over 30 you could hope to meet will know someone who has collided with a deer in their car: the state is in the top ten nationwide for deer-related crashes. These two high school seniors have just received a large grant to pursue their research into a device that detects cars and deer […]
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A new drug tested in mice septupled the number of beta cells in the pancreas, reversing the symptoms of diabetes until the disease was gone. This has never been achieved before in drug development, and the scientists behind the breakthrough are calling it a “functional diabetes cure.” It took just three months for the mice […]
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Fromage, Formaggio, Käse, Queso: cheese—one of the Old World’s great romance stories. In the heart of Paris, a new museum has opened dedicated to the ages-old craft of cheesemaking in France, the second most prolific producer on the continent (behind Italy). At the newly-opened Musee du Fromage, visitors can learn about the history of cheese […]
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A first-of-its-kind report has discovered that altering the ingredients list or manufacturing methods of widely used medication can really cut back on carbon emissions. They found a reduction of 26 million tons, enough to cancel out the whole carbon footprint of the city of Geneva for a decade. Best of all, it’s already happening, and […]
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There are over 2,000 bell towers across Catalonia alone, and they all need tolling each half-hour; but it’s actually so much more than that. To better interweave communities and keep long-practiced traditions alive, Spain is witnessing a class graduate from its first bell-ringing school. This strange idea is all about reviving a dying art that […]
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A man living with a facial disease has quit his job to focus on helping children who are bullied for being different. Amit Ghose was born with neurofibromatosis type 1, a condition that causes tumors to grow along nerves. But the 34-year-old took a “leap of faith” recently when he quit his role as a […]
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Two dogs have been trained to sniff out post-traumatic stress by smelling survivors’ breath—with an accuracy success rate following initial training of 90 percent. Scientists say the breakthrough will make post-traumatic stress disorder support dogs more effective. PTSD is a mental health condition that’s triggered by a terrifying event such as a car crash or […]
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I have a pet mouse that I hand raised since she was 10 days old. She was originally supposed to be snake food, but the snake wouldn’t eat her so I decided to raise her instead. I never believed she would actually pull through— she was so small. But she did survive, and became the […]
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An intriguing new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope shows a quasar sparkling in the cosmos. Quasars are the blazing centers of active galaxies, and are powered by supermassive black holes feeding on titanic quantities of gas. Astronomers were able to observe the quasar, known as RX J1131-1231, thanks to gravitational lensing. One […]
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A woman who nearly died after a deadly bacteria ate away the tip of her nose credits baking soda with saving her life. Beatrice Johnson came close to death after falling ill with sickness and an upset stomach six months ago. Doctors at Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Kent, England, discovered the 60-year-old was in septic […]
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Two of the world’s most endangered parrots have been united as part of a breeding program to help save the beautiful species from extinction. The pair of red-fronted macaws have arrived at Twycross Zoo in Leicester, England, with the hope they will “fall in love” and breed—adding to the total number of fewer than 300 […]
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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 enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […]
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Paleontologists recently identified a dinosaur that is believed to have lived at least partially underground—demonstrating that dinosaurs successfully exploited every kind of habitat available to them. Fona herzogae lived 99 million years ago and possesses a skeleton that bears many hallmarks of animals that burrow. Discovered in Utah by paleontologists from North Carolina State University and […]
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Mr. Panikos Panayiotou is attracting diners from all over the world after the restaurant he built in his backyard became a local hotspot. Forking out tens of thousands to bring a slice of the Mediterranean to the industrial heartlands of Walsall, England, all the net proceeds from his delicious Greek menu go to charity. It’s […]
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In what seems to be a never-before-seen phenomenon among the species, a white-tailed eagle couple has skipped this year’s breeding season in order to care for a juvenile who broke a wing. Hatching in April, unseasonably wild weather blew an eaglet from its nest on the Isle of Mull during the July fledging season. Its […]
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Bulgarian archaeologists undertaking routine excavations found something that was anything but routine in an ancient sewer system. A pristine marble statue of the messenger god Hermes, perhaps buried to protect it from overzealous Christianized Romans, was located in the sewers of Heraclea Sintica, a lesser-known ancient site near the border with Greee. The Greco-Bulgarian border […]
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In west England, a series of hills cloaked in heather and wildflowers are the target of a national restoration project that is already seeing success. Similar to the story GNN reported on last week about the rewilding along the south coast and South Downs National Park, Sussex, volunteers are seeding old hay fields with native […]
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Depending on where you live, air conditioning in summertime is a luxury or a necessity. Depending on the size of your bank account and the price of elecriticy in your county, however, that necessity may run the risk of becoming a luxury. Fortunately, humans have been cooling their domiciles for as long as they have […]
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In humans, sauna use is so beneficial that some medical researchers are attempting to add it to the standard of care for those at high risk of heart disease. Well, researchers in Australia have found that this same leisure activity can save certain species of frogs from the ongoing fungal pandemic called chytrid. GNN has […]
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It’s easy to be romantic about trains, but that typically doesn’t grow into a hobby, at least for everyone other than Iain Smith from Aviemore in the Scottish Highlands. Smith and a small group of volunteers have spent the last quarter-century restoring this Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0 engine—serial no. 46464—to working order, and after years […]
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Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Monday a new $1 billion gift to make medical school free at Johns Hopkins University for a majority of students, while also increasing financial aid for students at its schools of nursing and public health. The announcement was made in Michael R. Bloomberg’s (JHU ’64) annual letter on philanthropy in the Bloomberg […]
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While current autonomous robots utilize rangefinders, cameras, and lasers to navigate, the addition of whiskers could be a cheap addition that prevents some seriously expensive collisions. Whiskers aren’t only wielded by cats and mice—hundreds of mammals have them, including all non-human primates, and many marine mammals like dugongs and seals. This biological diffusion can mean […]
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The metropolitan government of Seoul, South Korea, has just concluded a contest to redesign the lower deck of a famous city bridge, awarding first prize to a Dutch firm that wants to turn it into an art gallery and cultural space. Firm Arch Mist provided the most “innovative” proposal for remodeling the semi-submersible Jamsu pedestrian […]
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There’s never been a better time to plan a summer vacation in Copenhagen. 2024 is set to be the largest tourist season on record, with people flooding to popular destinations in Italy, France, and Spain in such numbers that city governments are raising tourist taxes, and even discouraging visitors with strict controls on behavior, tour […]
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A former Hollywood producer turned rancher is rescuing mustangs and wild donkeys from being sold at auction to potentially abusive environments or slaughterhouses. Clare Staples is her name, and when she first became aware that the West’s wild mustangs are rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management and sold at auction, she realized this […]
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Mischief reigns in a small Canada community after a kipnapping left a man’s garden vacant of the ten ceramic garden gnomes that resided there. Kelly Blair, a resident of Kelowna, B.C., woke up on a late June morning to discovery his garden gnomes had been stolen from his yard. Blair was distressed as he had […]
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A video game has raised over $50,000 for aid groups working in Ukraine including the Polish Red Cross and Save the Children. In 2021, a pair of Polish computer game designers produced a free video game based on the works of American sci-fi author H. P. Lovecraft, and it went on to become a “significant […]
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A great-grandmother in Pennsylvania recently won $5 million playing scratch lottery cards, and the timing couldn’t be better. Having just successfully beat breast cancer days before her birthday, Donna Osborne picked the winning scratch card after having to cancel a flight because of consistent delays. “I don’t know what I’d do with myself, I have […]
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Tennessee has just launched a program offering at 22 of its state parks for providing all-terrain electric wheelchairs to visitors. These allow disabled users to explore the beauty of the Volunteer State’s scenery for free to all kids and adults. “We’re trying to extend other parts of accessibility so everybody feels welcome and invited to […]
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At the Univ. of Delaware, materials engineers have devised a chemical recycling method to separate artificial fibers like nylon from natural ones like cotton, promising a potentially breakthrough way to recycle clothing. The fashion and textile industries account for around 10% of all world landfill waste, much of which isn’t recyclable. Polyester, spandex, and nylon […]
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Unfulfilled by his successful career in business, a 47-year-old Nashville man seized an opportunity to finally pursue a lifelong passion, after passing it up during his college days, in favor of something more ‘practical’. Now 47, Wilt is on track to graduate in May 2025 at age 48 with a Bachelor of Architecture, Nashville native […]
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A Virginia family set into motion a heartwarming reunion between a mother and son after 20 years apart—and captured the moving moment on video. Juan hadn’t seen his mother since he left Peru two decades ago. This week his children and relatives pulled off the perfect plan, all wrapped in the guise of celebrating his […]
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An Englishman living with rare locked-in syndrome has completed a 50,000 word autobiography, using just his eyes. Howard Wicks suffered a serious stroke as a teenager in Devon, leaving every muscle in his body paralyzed, except for his eyes. The book chronicles the years leading up to and after his stroke, and was completed using […]
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The global pandemic plunged the entire world into economic free fall and societal unrest. Since then, one notable country has emerged successfully to stabilize global markets and calm fears—it’s the United States, which has maintained the lowest inflation rate of any major nation. Let’s look at measurements from ten major metrics that demonstrate how the […]
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Compulsive eating and obesity may be triggered by a specific gut bacteria, suggests a new study—and the breakthrough may lead to new treatments to address the problem of food addiction. The bacteria identified by an international research team is associated with both humans and mice developing an addiction to food that can lead to obesity. […]
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A Los Angeles man was overwhelmed with emotion after hearing voices clearly for the first time, thanks to a cochlear implant. Aric Hoffmann has lived with hearing impairment since he was a boy, after contracting meningitis when he was just six months old. Up until now, the 28-year-old had to communicate by reading lips and […]
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Imagine if every sound you heard was 30% more acute—that’s what it’s like to be a dog when fireworks start going off. Because of the festive nature of fireworks, many dogs don’t get exposure to them during their critical learning windows as a puppy. By the time they start going off on the 4th of […]
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A UK ag-tech firm is pioneering bacterial batteries that they hope will allow farmers in the future to collect precise data about soil conditions with computing equipment powered by the soil itself. Designed to be installed and forgotten about, the batteries absorb power through bioelectrochemical processes that occur within soil microbes. Collecting these electrons via […]
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Archaeologists examining finds dug up in a Spanish cave network in 1989 found skull fragments of a 6-year-old Neanderthal, which would have been exciting on its own, but the skull carried two major surprises. The first is that an analysis of the inner ear canal showed signs of Down Syndrome, the earliest-known evidence of the […]
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At a famous Buddhist temple in Japan, pots of lotus flowers augment the already breathtaking scenery of the temple—but they’re more than what they seem. The lotus is a foundational part of Buddhist iconography, but the plants sitting in front of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Byōdō-in Temple in Uji were grown from seeds […]
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For thirteen years this poor fellow has suffered from treatment-resistant epilepsy, but thanks to a cutting-edge brain implant, is able to look forward to days without seizures. Oran Knowlson is the first person in the world to receive this implant, part of a human trial pilot study on treating Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a rare form of […]
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“The greatest conservation opportunity on the planet,” isn’t in the Amazon, the Andes, Australia, or anywhere else you’d likely imagine. It’s in South Sudan. In a story that truly demonstrates how much there is left to explore in the world, the world’s largest migration of land mammals is now understood to take place in South […]
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Two Canadians are delighting animal lovers on Instagram with videos of their pet rats driving around in little cars. While they were contemplating a dog, Kendal Crawford and Shaun Stephens-Whale ended up adopting two rats from the local animal shelter in their home in British Colombia. They recall being impressed upon by the ragged rescued […]
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A consortium of Japanese firms has conducted successfully a demonstration of the first ever zero-emissions ship above 20 gross tons. Sailing 30 kilometers between the Port of Kokura and the Shirashima Offshore Wind Farm, the HANARIA was powered entirely by hydrogen fuel cells. An island nation, 10.25 million tons of carbon emissions from Japan’s transportation sector […]
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What started out as a nice weekend fishing trip turned into a massive rescue operation for two colleagues at State Farm Insurance for a pack of hunting dogs that almost drowned in a Mississippi lake. Bob Gist, 61, and his friend had hired a local bass fishing guide named Jordan Chrestman to take them out […]
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Frontier Airlines recently had a special guest on their flight from Florida to Puerto Rico—5-year-old Xavier Rivas who was preparing to ‘graduate’ from Kindergarten. But because the graduation at his school was taking place whilst young Xavier was 35,000 feet above sea level, Frontier attendants stepped in to give him a special ceremony. Calling his […]
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Two months after NASA crews reestablished diagnostic communications with Voyager 1, they just recently received scientific observational data as well. Transmitted via the last remaining instruments still operational aboard the furthest man-made object from Earth, the data provides critical observations on plasma and magnetism in interstellar space. It’s been 46 years and 7 months since […]
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Stanford University’s 2024 graduation ceremony featured a 105-year-old student completing a master’s degree in education—83 years after she started her coursework. Eight decades ago her diploma was put on hold, in favor of the bounties of a husband and children, but Virginia Hislop finally earned the chance to don a cap and gown and grab […]
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Geologists have known for years that from 5,000 years ago and beyond, much of what is today called the Sahara Desert was a lush grassland. Some exceptional evidence of this recently surfaced in Sudan, where a paper published on a survey done in 2018 reveals the presence of rock art that depicts cattle herders and […]
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Despite the UK being the world’s second-largest generator of electronic waste per capita, a flourishing sub-culture of ‘Repair Cafes’ and other social groups is helping to balance out the island’s wasteful side. A featured story from the Guardian reports that 580 such repair cafes are hosting regular events where volunteer fixers and tinkerers spend several […]
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Scientists are puzzling over a bright white rock, of the type never before observed on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted the 14-inch-high boulder starkly standing out in a large field covered with dark rocks in a region named Mount Washburn, inside the massive Jezero crater. Nicknamed Atoko Point by researchers, the boulder is 18 inches […]
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A stunning gold Saxon sword pommel that was unearthed in a field in Leicestershire, England by an 81-year-old woman has sold at auction for $22,000 (£16k). The rare 7th century artifact was found in 2021 while the long-time metal detector enthusiast was searching a field during a local gathering of detectorists. They told her that […]
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A boy who was given life-changing leg surgery as a toddler has returned to the same hospital ship a decade later, declaring he wants to become a doctor himself. Romino developed bowed legs in early childhood which prevented him from walking properly. Doctors in his Madagascar hometown suggested leg massages to correct the issue, but […]
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A remarkable new species of giant horned dinosaur has been unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah, the fifth horned dinosaur ever discovered. First discovered in the badlands of northern Montana in 2019, it’s among the largest and most ornate ever found, with two huge blade-like horns on the back of its frill—a distinctive […]
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Millions of people who suffer back pain can ease their symptoms simply by walking more, claims new research. Adults with a history of lower backache went nearly twice as long without a recurrence if they walked regularly, according to the findings of the first-ever study of its kind. Around 800 million people worldwide suffer low […]
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The greatest feline conservation success story isn’t the doubling of the world tiger population, nor the rescues of the Amur tiger and Northern lion from falling into the abyss of biological history—it’s the comeback of a lynx species on the Iberian Peninsula. This scrawny, mottled cat with characteristic pointed ears and tufts of fur all […]
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A robotic sorting system that mimics the human sense of touch to sort through litter achieved a 98.85% accuracy rate in recognizing various domestic waste items. The inventors believe this state-of-the-art automaton could eventually lead to better treatments for people with hand disabilities aside from better outcomes at recycling facilities. Sorting robots are already present […]
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More than 900 artifacts have been retrieved from two ancient shipwrecks discovered in the South China Sea, the National Cultural Heritage Administration of China (NCHA) said Thursday. Consisting of piles and piles of porcelain, along with other pottery works, copper pieces, ebony lumber, and animal parts, the wrecks are a testament to the vast maritime […]
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Move over McKenzie Scott, there’s a new philanthropic heiress in town. This is Marlene Engelhorn, a Millennial member of one of the richest families in Austria, and the proud owner of several receipts demonstrating how she gave away her inheritance. The heiress, whose forebearers founded the BSAF pharmaceutical company, and who would come to acquire […]
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Engineering students at Johns Hopkins have created a silencer module for the campus leaf blowers, reducing the overall noise pollution of the devices by 37%, while they succeeded in almost completely removing the high-pitched whining that annoyed them the most. The design is patent-pending and Stanley Black & Decker, who sponsored the students, expects to […]
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With lung cancer being the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, news of the unprecedented success of a new drug is sure to be celebrated. The five-year results of a phase III trial present the longest progression-free survival data ever reported when treating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a single targeted intervention. Called lorlatinib, […]
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12-year-old Aubrey Sauvie never let her lack of hands interfere with the pursuit of her interests, whether that was Tae Kwon Do, art, or doing her own makeup. Born a triple congenital amputee and missing both arms from below the elbows and several toes on one of her feet, it was from a very early […]
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Coldplay has a new album announced: Moon Music, and in keeping with both the rise in conscious consumerism and the vinyl revival, there’s a limited edition record made using plastic removed from Rio Las Vacas in Guatemala. The eco-conscious band has collaborated with Dutch non-profit The Ocean Cleanup, who have a mission to rid oceans […]
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At the beginning of 2023, Colorado began enforcing a 10-penny charge on all single-use plastic and paper bags at major retailers in the hope it would encourage the use of reusable ones. This hope sprung into a massive success. A report from 9News claims that Colorado used 1.5 billion fewer plastic or paper shopping bags […]
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A Northern Irishwoman was able to watch her beautiful healthy girl celebrate her first birthday just before receiving expected news: she had just 4 months, give or take, left on this Earth. After experiencing persistent dizziness and eye irritation, Rachel Burns was told she had an advanced-stage brain tumor with a rare and aggressive mutation, […]
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The black man who bagged himself a show on National Geographic after making headlines as the victim of a racial profiling incident has now followed it up with a Daytime Emmy Award. It’s a beautiful culmination of four years of creative work spawned in the wake of the “Central Park Karen” incident, that has seen […]
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Astronomers were thrilled when they received the news that they were expecting twins—stars that is, after their telescopes recorded dramatic jets erupting from a faraway star system. To preface the thrilling discovery, most of the Universe is invisible to the human eye because the building blocks of stars are only revealed in wavelengths outside of […]
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A hunter in Northern California stumbled upon a queer sight while out in the Cache Creek Wilderness—a donkey that had seemingly been adopted by a herd of elk. The video he posted on his Instagram channel marks the first update on the status of Diesel, a local donkey separated from its owners back in 2019. […]
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Happy 82nd Birthday to Paul McCartney. The musician and composer renowned for his groundbreaking work with The Beatles has won 21 Grammy Awards and written, or co-written, 32 songs that have reached No.1 on the Billboard Charts. More than 2,200 artists have covered his song “Yesterday”, making it one of the most covered songs in […]
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A great-great-great grandmother Humboldt pengiun in England’s blustery eastern coast has brought a member of yet another generation into the world after she shacked up with a bird 20-plus years her junior. Windy surprised everyone at the zoo when during the last breeding season she paired with 4-year-old Nacho. A pairing doesn’t guarantee that mating […]
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A startup has found a way to create high-quality plastic products like water tanks, boat frames, and more, all using the power of the sun, and has created a portable factory that can be transported anywhere in the world via shipping containers. The speed and flexibility of the factory system make it an incredible asset […]
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Trudy Veenstar never doubted the possibility of having a life beyond the end of a long marriage after her dearest partner passed away, she just never imagined it would come so soon. 81-year-old Veenstar spent the most memorable moments of her life traveling around the world with her husband, Auke Veenstar, who died at age […]
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Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel. Yet more evidence for liquid water on Mars has been uncovered by a European space probe in the form of thousands of gallons of frost within the calderas of Martian volcanoes. These patches of water frost were described by […]
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Using AI, breast radiologists in Denmark have improved breast cancer screening performance and reduced the rate of false-positive findings. The discovery comes 16 months after a study from the same hospital found that AI could diagnosis cancer in chest X-rays at least as good as a board-certified radiologist, but noted that many radiology departments are […]
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A young man in West Virginia made it into the local paper when news came out that he had graduated from high school with a perfect K-12 attendance record. Wyatt Chesnut graduated from Riverside High School this year with an attendance that read 100% and a GPA that read 4.2—both of which he credits to […]
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In an elaborate announcement video, First Lady Jill Biden broke the news that she’s expecting—the return of giant pandas to the National Zoo. Following a prolonged period of diplomatic tension with China, all but one zoo in the country was panda-less, but after signing a new 10-year lease agreement for the purpose of scientific research, […]
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Across the nation, land set aside for the purpose of possibly destroying the world is now welcoming infrastructure meant to save it. Sites managed by the Dept. of Energy’s nuclear weapons division are now playing host to solar farms that should be able to power thousands of homes. As part of a government program called […]
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It’s not AI… Apparently, this Seattle dog is simply athletic and into sports. (Maybe owns a Subaru?) This amusing video captures three-year-old Dooma copying her owner, Dr. Evan Strahl, working out at an LA Fitness gym in Seattle, Washington. During Evan’s exercise session, the pup begins performing a set of squats. “Dooma is a highly-trained […]
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A substance naturally occurring in pomegranates can improve memory and the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study concluded. Forgetfulness, difficulty finding words, and confusion about time and place are some of the most common symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, and researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that an ordinary fruit can help. Their […]
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2023 saw a record wave of Americans leaving big cities for smaller ones, a trend that grew out of the pandemic when millions of people began working from home. At the same time, small cities and rural counties have begun offering incentives to help attract some of these 22 million remote workers in the US. […]
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Innovative carbon beads, invented by researchers at University College London, reduce bad bacteria and inflammation in animal models, which are linked to liver cirrhosis and other serious health issues. The study, published in Gut, found that the carbon beads were effective in restoring gut health and had a positive impact on liver, kidney and brain […]
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A woman who was facing only a 15 percent chance of conceiving a baby naturally was finally able to give birth to a child–after strangers donated $13,000 for her to undergo IVF. Gem Baker had always dreamed of being a mom, but she never met the right man with which to start a family. Furthermore, […]
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Celebrations erupted in Tel Aviv today after four Israeli hostages were finally rescued from Gaza by Israeli special forces. Hostages held for eight months had been taken from the Nova music festival on October 7 last year—a captivity that added up to more than 240 days. The daytime rescue operation in Nuseirat had been planned […]
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A dad who grew up in public housing has won a stunning home worth 2.5 million in a prize drawing that raised over three million for charity. Chris Milnes scooped up the magnificent 5,000-sq-ft home after entering the latest Omaze charity drawing without telling his wife and kids. The thrilled 60-year-old who lives with his […]
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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 enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […]
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A beautiful white stork was spotted recently flying over the English county of Cheshire, and not only would no one alive today be able to remember the last time that happened, but none of their grandparents would either; neither would any of their grandparents, and probably none of theirs. White storks have been extinct in […]
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In late May, Brazilian President Luis Ignacio da Silva visited São Paulo to inaugurate the world’s largest manufacturing plant for second-generation ethanol. The new Bonfim Bioenergy Park will produce 82 million liters of ethanol per year utilizing a new method that produces 30% fewer emissions. Located in the Brazilian state of Guariba, the nation’s largest […]
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Of the many famous empires and states along the Silk Road’s Central Asian passages, few are more mysterious than the Kangju. But in a stroke of fortune, the section of an ancient burial ground reserved for the nobility of this kingdom escaped the attention of looters for over two millennia, and a recent excavation from […]
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Hundreds of thousands of potential sources of new antibiotics have been found in the natural world using artificial intelligence. An international research team utilized machine learning to identify 863,498 promising antimicrobial peptides, any one of which may be needed in the future to fight deadly drug-resistant infections like MRSA and VRSA. The findings of the […]
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An Englishman has been reunited with a family cat who had been lost for 12 years. Theo-Will McKenna, then just 17 years old, was attending university near the family’s home in Connah’s Quay, Wales when their cat Artie got out and never came home. McKenna remembers staying out for hours with a bag of treats […]
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Rewilding Europe is thrilled to announce the arrival of a small herd of bison in a large valley in Portugal. Believed to be the key to preventing catastrophic wildfires, invasive species spread, and promoting endemic biodiversity, it’s the first time bison have been present in Portugal since the last Glacial Maximum. From Poland to Romania […]
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A phase 2 trial showed that a gel-based male contraceptive is both effective at preventing unwanted pregnancies and quickly reversible. Tests will continue to examine the effectiveness, safety, acceptability, and reversibility of contraception after treatment stops, but the results are a sign that reliable male birth control may not be far away from a pharmacy […]
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The first complete skull ever found of a gargantuan flightless bird that lived 100,000 years ago in Australia is helping paleontologists understand more about the last of the continent’s ‘Thunderbirds.’ Fossilized skull fragments of the beastly bird, which stood 7 feet tall and weighed 500 pounds, were found in 1913, but they provided very little […]
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In Saskatchewan, Canada’s first free grocery store is set to open as a flourishing food bank continues to look for ways to support the community. Located at 1881 Broad St. in Regina, the Food Hub will be stocked like any old grocery store, and unlike similar projects that operate out of churches or community centers, […]
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Classical Egypt was controlled by the Roman Empire for 600 years, and in the excavations of a pet cemetery, archaeologists from Poland are discovering fascinating insights into the lives of the legionaries who lived there. Alongside the remains of beloved animals, letters on papyrus written by Roman centurions, or commanders, detail trade and military organization […]
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The indefatigable Chinese space program continues to enjoy success as its most recent lunar probe touched down on the far side of the Moon in advance of a sample recovery mission. The Chang’e-6 probe touched down on the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin where it will soon begin to drill into the Lunar soil—known officially as […]
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New Zealand enjoys the company of 72,000 Filipino migrants, many of whom are women arriving to fill the nation’s teacher shortage. This pipeline of talented educators seeking better lives to the south has led a pair of women to start a flourishing support group to help navigate the immigration system, get teaching qualifications recognized in […]
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Over the last five years, the Stop & Shop Food Pantry has provided $100,000 in healthy food donations to make sure students don’t come to school hungry. They’ve hit a home run against hunger—and the Boston Red Sox have stepped up to the plate to celebrate the victory. The baseball team’s first baseman Triston Casas […]
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Reprinted via EarthTalk®, From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Could plain old beach sand be the next frontier in renewable energy? In the ongoing quest for sustainable energy solutions, innovative technologies are necessary to implement renewable sources like solar and wind power. One such potential breakthrough revolves around an unexpected but abundant […]
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When a meteorite smashed into Mars eleven million years ago, pieces of the Red Planet hurtled into space—and some of them landed on Earth in the form of meteorites, depositing unparalleled evidence of the planet’s makeup. Now, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have released a report after their detailed study […]
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A groom surprised his bride on their wedding day, when a penguin waddled down the aisle as a ring bearer. Joe Keilty arranged for four special guests for the ceremony where he tied the knot in Chester, England last month. Kerri Parry has always been penguin-obsessed, so she was over-the-moon when she first spotted the […]
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People with spinal cord injuries in the future could be healing their nerve connections with a device that uses red light and near-infrared light pointed at the exact source of damage. The novel therapeutic approach, invented by scientists at the University of Birmingham, involves delivering light directly to the site of the injury through an […]
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An English homeowner described his shock after watching a suspected meteorite burst through the sky and land near his property. Dan Charlton was standing in his back garden in the early hours of the morning when he saw a green light and heard a “whoosh” as the object plummeted to the ground in Wakefield, West […]
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A five-year-old boy born with one hand has become the youngest ever person to be fitted with a bionic arm. Jordan Marotta was left in a state of “pure joy” when he received his Iron Man-themed ‘Hero Arm’ prosthetic last week. And heartwarming footage showed how just hours later, he was able to whizz around […]
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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 enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […]
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Real Madrid’s cathedral of a soccer stadium has just finished state-of-the-art renovations that include a retractable roof and—if it can be believed—a retractable field. You read that correctly. When the 12-time champions of Europe are not in action, the entire natural grass pitch is moved on segmented, hydraulic-powered platforms onto shelves in an underground greenhouse […]
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A reservoir in Utah has been transformed from a pea-soupy mess of harmful algal blooms into a clear blue body of pristine water perfect for migratory birds and boaters. The hero behind the transformation is an extraordinary company called BlueGreen Water Tech which has invented an environmentally friendly algicide that causes mass cell death among […]
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An awesome inventor in Juneau has created a simple way to decarbonize small vessels and houseboats using tidal power, a relatively under-exploited form of renewable energy. The device can deliver 1.6 kilowatts of power from the movement of the tides and is as easy to use as dropping an anchor. Lance McMullan, pictured here with […]
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As with many things, a discovery from ancient Egypt has put a time stamp on the development of something: cancerous tumor removal from the brain. A man living sometime between 2,686 BCE and 2,345 BCE was nearing 40 when he developed malignant brain tumors, scarring on his cranial walls revealed. But scientists studying the skull […]
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It had all the hallmarks of an unremarkable night in East Boston for a couple of police officers before they got a call about a wellness check after a concerned citizen dialed 911. However, once they got all the details they realized that the caller wasn’t so much concerned about his health, but about a […]
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Using nothing other than light, Canadian scientists have developed an organic smart material that can either soak spilled oil out of water, or repel it. The material can be used in this way like a sponge to quickly clean up marine oil spills before the oil reaches the shoreline and mixes with or poisons sand, […]
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US law enforcement and consular officials recently unveiled a massive trove of stolen art and antiquities worth around €80 million set to be repatriated to Italy “where it belongs.” The pieces range from the 9th century BCE to the 4th century CE, and include Roman coins, a mosaic floor, Umbrian bronzes, military equipment, oil paintings, […]
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When a severe water shortage hit the Indian city of Kozhikode in the state of Kerala, a group of engineers turned to science fiction to keep the taps running. Like everyone else in the city, engineering student Swapnil Shrivastav received a ration of two buckets of water a day collected from India’s arsenal of small […]
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The first test trial in Britain’s history of a diesel-powered train retrofitted with a battery took place last Friday. The train’s battery unit, which generates a peak power of more than 700kw, was successfully retrofitted onto a TransPennine Express ‘Nova 1’ train that ran between Sunderland and Newcastle in England’s far northeast. The test is […]
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A class of high schoolers managed to solve the 35-year-old cold case of the Redhead Murders in Tennessee and surrounding states. It started at Elizabethton High School in Tennessee, where teacher Alex Campbell was looking to engage and inspire the students through an unorthodox sociology assignment. What started as an experiment on profiling—how can you […]
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Famous celebrity good guy Chris Martin recently gave a woman with a “dodgy hip” a lift to his show, adding to a string of kind and considerate acts the famous frontman has performed for his fans over the years. Performing at Radio 1’s Big Weekend music festival, Martin was on his way to the artist’s […]
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A young man has won a five-figure financial prize at the nation’s top science fair for his research into a mysterious outbreak of tumors he witnessed among the sea turtles under the waves of his home in Hawaii. Maddux Springer lives on Oahu and spent most of his free time during the pandemic free diving […]
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Using cutting-edge high-resolution microscopy, researchers were able to track the developmental stages of butterfly scales, tracing their formation from caterpillar to butterfly and revealing how they become so vivacious. Their work reveals that actin, a protein in butterfly’s scales, orchestrates the intricate arrangement of the colorful structures. Conducted at the University of Sheffield and the […]
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The Phillies’ superstar slugger Bryce Harper just turned into the ultimate wingman for a teen looking to ask a girl out to prom. Knowing his high school sweetheart to be a massive Phillies fan, Jake Portella reasoned that if he could get Harper to help him deliver the question, she would be certain to say […]
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In 2020, GNN reported that the inaugural class of the nation’s first medical college on a Native American reservation had begun their studies. Well now, they’ve just graduated. The 46 graduating students from Oklahoma State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation include fifteen members of tribes all around the country, including Cherokee, […]
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First prize in the USA’s largest and most prestigious science fair has gone to a 16-year-old girl who found new ways to optimize the components of biomedical implants, promising a future of safer, faster, and longer-lasting versions of these critical devices. It’s not the work of science fiction; bioelectronic implants like the pacemaker have been […]
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For over decade, big pharma has been pouring billions into drug trials for Alzheimer’s disease treatments without progress. But what if there were a neuroprotective compound with better early-stage results than any developed pharmaceutical sitting right on our dinner plates? That’s what Dr. Paul Cox may have discovered after solving the mystery of neurodegenerative disease […]
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The new US-Canada border crossing won’t be ready until 2025, but seeing that only a hockey rink-sized gap remains between the US and Canadian sections, it’s an appropriate place to celebrate the imminent completion of the Gordie Howe Memorial Bridge. With one skate in Detroit and another in Windsor, Ontario, the bridge deck is set […]
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Quick: Where is the most unlikely place to find a fish in the USA? Unless your answer was Death Valley, you were probably wrong. The Devils Hole pupfish holds the official record for the smallest habitat of any vertebrate species. That’s because it lives in a single limestone cave in a Nevada wildlife refuge in […]
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Does your two-year-old need a winter coat for a skiing holiday that they will outgrow before the following winter? What if there’s a cosmic phenomenon that’s taking place you want to see but you have no interest in owning a telescope? Have you ever thought about taking up photography but felt a $1,000 camera investment […]
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A third of your month is bound to be ‘extraordinary,’ according to a new survey. The poll of 2,000 Americans found the average person has 10 extraordinary days per month—that’s 120 every year. And if you live in Hawaii, Idaho, or South Dakota, you can bump that up to 13 days per month. Living a […]
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Cheaper and greener batteries for electric cars and mobile phones could use our common element iron, rather than scarce, expensive ones, shows new research. A collaboration co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher is hoping to spark a green battery revolution by showing that iron instead of cobalt and nickel can be used as […]
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Developers showed how the mobile hospital, named the BHISHM Cube, can quickly fall to the ground and allow on-the-spot treatment for patients during mass casualty incidents and other emergencies. This cube is a part of the broader initiative named “Project BHISHM” – Bharat Health Initiative for Sahyog, Hita and Maitri – and is tailored to […]
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The commencement speaker at a Massachusetts university turned the gray rainy weather into a bright sunshiny day when he announced a surprise gift for every graduating student. Robert Hale Jr., the founder and CEO of Granite Telecommunications, accepted the UMass Dartmouth Chancellor’s Medal for his philanthropy work in the community—and, at the end of his […]
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For most Americans (80%), there is a distinct difference between a ‘trip’ and a ‘vacation’. That’s according to a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults with travel plans this summer. The majority of respondents agreed that a vacation is defined as ‘travel for relaxation’. A trip was defined as travel for a purpose—such as a special […]
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(Originally published by Knowable Magazine – Written by Ula Chrobak) Though studies are still mixed, and products inconsistent, many scientists have hope that cannabidiol can help dogs and other furry patients suffering from arthritis, allergies and even anxiety. A13-year-old Norwich terrier, previously limping and stiff, able to enjoy walks again. A toy poodle with epilepsy, […]
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Scientists have discovered a new Earth-sized planet 40 light years away which could potentially support human life. The planet, named Gliese 12 b, was spotted by astronomers at the University of Warwick who made the exciting discovery using NASA satellites. With an estimated surface temperature of around 42°C (107°F), experts say it is one of […]
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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 enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […]
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If you were asked where the most silent place on Earth is, you might respond Antarctica or somewhere in the Sahara Desert, but you’d actually be wrong. It’s in Minnesota—where among the many buildings of Orfield Laboratory lies the Anechoic Chamber, a place so scientifically configured to absorb sound, that a mere blink becomes deafening. […]
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When a dying veteran’s last wish was to receive a high school diploma, a superintendent teamed up with an American Legion Outpost commander to make it happen. Thanks to their tireless effort on behalf of a man who had given his all and more for the country’s armed forces, his final moments would be those […]
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60 years after passing Air Force selection as a candidate to be the first African-American astronaut, Edward Dwight fulfilled that dream by blasting off with Blue Origin on Sunday for a short trip into space. Riding aboard the New Shepherd rocket from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ private space company, Dwight flew into space for a […]
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18 years after rats were eradicated, Tromelin Island off the coast of Madagascar is a thriving colony of seabirds once again. The same story happened over and over during the age of exploration: Europeans brought rats or rabbits on board their ships and dumped them on delicate, pristine island ecosystems. Hundreds of islands became desolate […]
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A fat cat that weighs more than double his healthy size has been thrown into the deep end on a mission to lose weight by swimming. Moses, who weighs as much as a French bulldog, started the unusual hydrotherapy sessions in a bid to slim down in much the same way that people with bad […]
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In South Korea, chemists have recently developed a way to grow artificial micro-diamonds in minutes, rather than days. Furthermore, the technique doesn’t require high temperatures or intense pressure, and are made “from scratch” with the potential to revolutionize the diamond industry by providing unlimited micro-diamonds for polishing and cutting uses. Gemstones are formed typically by […]
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A father-son pair recently surprised their grandfather by repairing his 70-year-old pickup truck to a fully functioning automobile, and the video will bring a tear to your eye. “50 dollars and a hog” is what Richard Kincheloe’s mother paid for a red, 1954 International Harvester pickup truck, which Richard, now a grandfather, drove around for […]
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The French postal service has released a scratch-and-sniff stamp that will fill your letter room or office with the aroma of freshly baked bread as it honors the classic baguette. The best thing since sliced bread, the baguette was recently honored by UNESCO with the status of ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage,’ or in other words, a […]
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In a charming coincidence, a pair of bee and insect specialists from Washington College are buzzing with excitement about a unique and newly documented population of native bees right on their very own campus. Although the large group of ground-nesting bees has been noticeable on one corner of the campus for years, recent identification of […]
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Three Thai villagers were out looking for mushrooms when they came across this boulder depicting a woman in breathtaking detail. “Went mushroom hunting and found this,” Pramul Kongkratok, one of the locals, wrote on social media according to the Nation Thailand. “I’ve lived here for so long, but just learned we have this around here. It’s a […]
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From Canada’s province of Manitoba comes the story of how dozens of volunteers succeeded when presented with a mammoth logistical challenge: giving away 12 million pounds of potatoes. There are bumper crops, and then there’s whatever happened on Isaiah Hofer’s Manitoba farm last year. Potatoes were coming out of the ground in such numbers that […]
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Australian marine biologists recently captured video of a large, deep-water squid attacking one of their cameras over 3,000 feet below the surface of the ocean. The deep-sea hooked squid is one of the largest deep-dwelling squid species, but rather than the animal’s size, it was the glowing lights on the end of its tentacles that […]
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A Cleveland man is being hailed as a hero for his determination to rescue an infant trapped in a burning house. John Stickovich was on his way to work when the 62-year-old saw a house consumed in fire and smoke, but no fire engines had yet arrived. In front of the house, Stickovich saw who […]
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An ambitious plan to rewild 2,000 southern white rhino into secure protected areas in Africa over the next 10 years has officially begun, with 40 of these majestic beasts on their way to a new home at the Munywana Conservancy in Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It’s the first relocation of a continent-wide effort organized by […]
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A helicopter pilot in Australia recently found a man’s missing dog in the Outback in what the owner called a “needle in a haystack rescue.” For those who’ve never been to cattle country Down Under, it might come as a surprise to know that because the ranches are so vast, farmers will often hire helicopter […]
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In mid-April, Chinese archaeologists announced they had completed the first stage of excavations on a kingly tomb believed to date back 2,200 years to the state of Chu. An integral part of fledgling Chinese history, Chu was a powerful kingdom that once conquered and annexed the state where Confucius was born, and the archaeologists believe […]
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The ‘Airbnb of Pools’ is offering a dream summer job for one lucky and talented content creator: make video reviews of pools in all fifty states and earn up to $100k. Swimply is a company that specializes in neighborhood-driven rental markets of pools, hot tubs and saunas, tennis courts, patios, and other spaces for events […]
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Vanilla, the most widely used flavoring compound in confectionaries and cosmetics, gets its sweet flavor and aroma from the aptly-named chemical compound—’vanillin.’ However, the large-scale production of natural vanillin is essentially non-existent. Now, researchers from Tokyo University of Science have genetically engineered a novel enzyme that can convert ferulic acid from plant waste into vanillin […]
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Winning what’s been called the ‘Green Nobel’ an Indian environmental activist has been recognized for saving a 657 square-mile forest from 21 coal mines. From the New Delhi train station to high-end hotels to the poorest communities, virtually no one in India is free from periodic blackouts. As part of the Modi regime’s push for […]
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A volunteer fire department that had been surviving on equipment from the 1980s just received a half-million dollar gift from a local resident. First reported by KMBC, the 28 volunteers that staff the Calhoun Fire Department have learned that the job requires a lot more than rescue and first aid skills, it requires a knowledge […]
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To help reduce anxiety—and open the way for learning—several elementary schools in Michigan have enrolled service dogs as full-time happiness ambassadors—and it is paw-sitively working. Students are “already seeing a big difference in their academics,” according to a news report from WXMI-TV 17. Priority Health, a Michigan health insurance provider, launched Priority Pups in September […]
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A teacher was left stunned after digging up a stone carved with an ancient Celtic script dating back to the 4th Century while weeding in his garden. Now, the 4-inch stone (11cm) has gone on display at a museum while experts continue to figure out the full meaning of the mysterious relic. During the lockdowns […]
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In a first-ever human clinical trial, an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida successfully reprogrammed patients’ immune systems to fiercely attack glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal brain tumor. The results in four adult patients mirrored those in 10 pet dog patients suffering from brain tumors whose owners approved of their participation. […]
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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 enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […]
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120 years ago today, Salvador Dali was born. Known for his striking and bizarre images, he is one of, if not the most famous surrealist painter in history. Inspired by the Renaissance masters, Dali nevertheless gravitated to the surrealist movements in the early 20th century. He would live in France for the duration of the […]
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A pair of climate-solution firms have just turned on the largest CO2 vacuum in the world, capable of sucking thousands of tons of carbon out of the atmosphere. In 2021, GNN reported on the operation of the Orca facility in Iceland, run by the firm CarbFix in partnership with the Swiss company Climeworks. The company […]
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A food bank in a fast-growing Texas community is building affordable housing next to its bank, to ensure people who have to juggle food and rent are able to with minimal effort. The 51-unit apartment complex hasn’t gone up yet, but planning has begun for facilities that would temporarily house people struggling to afford the […]
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Andriana Green captures the unique patterns and colors of the human iris before transforming the results into beautiful works of art. Stunning macro images show the ‘windows of the soul’ looking like other-worldly planets, as a yin and yang and also connected as wheels on a bike. The colorful new photography trend has increasingly seen […]
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Having spotted peculiar activity on the Sun, a federal agency has issued an advisory that the Aurora Borealis may be seen as may south as Alabama or Northern California. The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)—a division of the National Weather Service—is monitoring the Sun following a series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) […]
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200 years ago today, the National Gallery opened its doors to the public in Trafalgar Square, Westminster. It houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. Unlike comparable museums in continental Europe, the National Gallery was not formed by nationalizing an existing royal or princely art collection. It came […]
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British telecom giant BT Group is now converting curbside cable boxes into charging stations for electric cars, helping Great Britain accelerate its transition to a net zero emissions economy. Many of BT’s existing curbside cabinets are becoming obsolete due to people moving to wireless telephone and cable provision, but the same lines that provide electricity […]
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Construction of the “largest wildlife crossing in the world” passed a significant milestone in April placing the first girders over an 8-lane freeway near Los Angeles to preserve the local mountain lion population. After years of tireless work, erecting the first horizontal section of the 210-foot-long crossing was an historic moment for the National Wildlife […]
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A team of Canadian and US researchers are using X-rays to revive the images that were captured in the 18th century on the earliest form of photography—Daguerreotypes. Their breakthrough demonstrations have taken artifacts tarnished beyond all recognition and turned out stunningly clear images of the individuals whose portraits were captured all those years ago. Tson-Kong […]
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According to a recent federal report, the US seafood industry has never been more sustainable, with the fewest overharvested fish stocks ever recorded. The report, ‘Status of the Stocks’ was published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and it also shows the strength of an industry that’s worth $8 billion a year. 94% of […]
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638 years ago today, the Treaty of Windsor, the world’s oldest international accord still in force, was signed between Great Britain and Portugal. It was signed and sealed by King Richard II of England and King John I of Portugal to cement commercial ties and mutual defense. Subjects of one king had the rights, under […]
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An interesting event happened in the domain of classic English literature recently when a 78-page memoir of Jane Austen’s brother came into the hands of the Jane Austen House Museum, who were having difficulty reading the handwriting. Comparing it to a citizen science project, the museum initially invited anyone interested in helping to email a […]
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A fascinating new discovery offers “tantalizing” evidence for the origin of multicellular development in life on Earth. It seems related to something that had perhaps never happened before, and certainly has never happened since: a near-total collapse of the Earth’s magnetic field. 650 million years ago, there was little going on across the Earth worth […]
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Three years ago, Araba Maze was reading a book to her niece on the front stoop of her Baltimore home in a perfectly ordinary fashion. But as the pages turned, the number of local children gathered around for “stoop storytime” increased until Maze had to take notice. ‘What are they doing?’ she thought. When she […]
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An eighth-grade Wisconsinite is being hailed as a hero after grabbing hold of the wheel of his school bus after the driver lost consciousness. His heroics have earned him plaudits from the mayor’s office, city council, fire and rescue, and the police department, and the young man has said the incident has made him feel […]
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Scientists at Johns Hopkins say that an experimental antibody drug appears to prevent and reverse the onset of type 1 diabetes in mice—and often lengthen their lives. The drug called mAb43 is unique, according to the researchers, because it targets insulin-making beta cells in the pancreas directly and is designed to shield those cells from […]
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Debra Solomon could think of no other gift that would delight her mother more than to reunite her with her favorite kindergarten pupil, decades later. Retired from 27 years of teaching, Karen Solomon was set to celebrate her 80th birthday in April—and her daughter had a great idea, although it was a long shot for […]
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White-tailed eagles nesting and breeding in Belgium has been observed for the first time since Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano became the first European to look upon the island of Manhattan. That means 500 years ago, and while they are not an endangered bird, it’s a sign of a brilliant comeback from a bird that […]
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A new blood-draw device that’s painless but more reliable than a finger prick has been developed by researchers in Zurich to help physicians bypass two major problems with taking blood samples. Needle phobia is a real thing, and can lead to sudden exhaustion, fainting, and dehydration. On the other hand, the classic finger prick device […]
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Visitors to a zoo in China captured the moment a clever elephant returned a shoe using its trunk, after it fell into the enclosure. A video shows the animal stooping to pick up the baby’s footwear and gently lift it back up into the little child’s hand. The elephant is named Shanmai, which means ‘mountains’, […]
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What is the oddest thing you’ve ever eaten in a salad? From marshmallows to meatballs, beef jerky and hotdogs — a new poll has uncovered how Americans are expressing their creative taste buds when it comes to salad toppings. A poll of 2,000 U.S. adults revealed the strangest salad toppings people have used, with answers […]
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Even though there is evidence of certain self-medication behaviors in animals, so far it has never been known that animals treat their wounds with healing plants. Now, biologists in Indonesia have observed this in a male Sumatran orangutan. After sustaining a facial wound, he ate and repeatedly applied sap from a climbing plant with anti-inflammatory […]
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Beyond simply providing entertainment and relaxation, watching sports fosters community and belonging, which benefits both individuals and their society. Despite its recognized positive effects, limited evidence exists on the link between watching sports and well-being. To address this gap, the team of Japanese researchers used a multi-method approach and found that sports viewing activates brain […]
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English couple Margaret Isdale and her husband Robert decided to welcome a teenage girl into their home for foster care back in 1978. Now almost 40 years later, they are receiving a lifetime achievement award, because the octogenarians have fostered an incredible 150 children and teenagers. They’ve seen many dramatic circumstances, including a boy who […]
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Like the mythical Excalibur sword of King Arthur, a relic from 1,000 years ago was recently found lodged upright in a stone in Spain. But while Arthur quested for the Holy Grail and gathered knight-brothers of the church on his holy mission, the sword in the stone in Spain was wielded by a Muslim. Found […]
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In a world-first, University of Sydney researchers have developed a chemical process using plasma that could create sustainable jet fuel from methane gas emitted from landfills, potentially creating a low-carbon aviation industry. Offering the potential to clear two hurdles in a single leap, the scientists believe that if their process becomes cost-effective and widespread, all […]
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In a pair of busts that will end up costing criminals millions, Thai police raided a suspected wildlife smuggling site and saved hundreds of animals. 48 lemurs, 30 primates of various species, several crocodiles, and over 1,000 rare tortoises were seized when a convoy of four smuggling trucks was raided in Chumphon, Thailand, as well […]
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Scientists believe they’ve found a way to make plastics more durable and biodegradable by adding bacterial spores that have been put through evolutionary rigors. This kind of “living plastic” can break down in about five months without the necessary addition of any other microbes. Researchers led by scientists at the University of California San Diego […]
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A Utah housecat was reunited with its parents recently after a nap in her favorite hiding place turned into a 6-day nightmare. Galena the calico was accidentally shipped—in the box she had snuck into—all the way to a fulfillment center in Jurupa Valley, California. Oh yes, epitomizing the internet adage of ‘if it fits, I […]
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Are you in Paris in late May? Well make sure you stay around for Le Grand Pique Nique, or for those of you who chose German, Spanish, or Italian to learn in high school, “The Grand Picnic.” From the Arc de Triomphe to the intersection of Avenue George V, nine ephemeral kitchens will punctuate a journey […]
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Owing to personal interest, GNN is partial to stories of rare bird sightings, and news from Oregon recently broke the story of a ‘mega-rare’ bird never seen before in either the state or the country. It wasn’t made by a birder, but rather an ordinary talented photographer named Michael Sanchez, who was on the beach […]
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Yesterday, a bipartisan collection of Senators introduced the Fans First Act, which would help address flaws in the current live event ticketing system by increasing transparency in ticket sales, and protecting consumers from fake or dramatically overpriced tickets. Today, the artists and Congressmen allege, buying a ticket to a concert or sporting event requires negotiating […]
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An apex predator can be any size really, from the raccoon-sized quolls of Australia to the Bengal tiger: and this is exactly the sort of insight that scientists have just gleaned from a giant dinosaur footprint found in China. The reason it’s giant is not so much because it’s big—they’ve found many that are bigger—but […]
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An Alabama woman broke the odds of 70-million-to-1 giving birth to quadruplets that are two sets of identical twins. Hannah Carmack and her husband, Michael, found out they were expecting a year and a half ago—and were shocked when the sonogram revealed they were having quads. The fact that they were two sets of twins […]
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Here’s a stat most Californians have likely never heard: for every five gas stations in California, there’s now one electric vehicle fast charging station. 105,000 public or shared private electric vehicle chargers have been installed throughout California, which is on top of over 500,000 at-home chargers. The state also recently approved a $1.9 billion plan […]
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Last week, Dept. of Transportation officials celebrated the groundbreaking of America’s first high-speed rail line between LA and Las Vegas. The Brightline West will travel at 320 kilometers per hour or around 200 mph, which for American readers is standard for high-speed rail around the world. Expected to be finished in four years, Brightline is […]
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A statue fragment of the great pharaoh Ramses II has been recovered in a joint effort and repatriated to Egypt. Carved 3,400 years ago, it was stolen from the Temple of Ramses in the southern Egyptian site of Abydos over 30 years ago. Shaaban Abdel Gawad, who heads Egypt’s antiquities repatriation agency, said the piece […]
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A nerve-wracking scene unfolded as Colorado wildlife officials pulled all the stops to rescue two young mountain lions in the path of a deluge of trouble. A worker at the Pine River Irrigation District Dam was about to release a large amount of water down a concrete spillway when he spotted the yearlings at the […]
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A wildlife fan has struck up an extraordinary friendship with a young fox after he noticed she was ill. Bob Dunlop realized the fox had developed mange on her tail after spying her lack of hair on wildlife cameras set up near his home in Littleport, Cambridgeshire. The 69-year-old worked out where the animal’s den […]
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David Bowie would love this! There are spiders from Mars—if you believe these photos. Incredible images taken by the European Space Agency’s spacecraft, the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), shows distinctive arachnid shapes. The apparent creepy crawlies are actually small, dark features that form when spring sunshine falls on layers of carbon […]
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A rubber duck that escaped a failed world record race 18 years ago has been found by a teen washed up on a beach 423 miles away. The record attempt, held in Dublin in the summer of 2006, was part of “World Duck Race Ireland” which corralled 150,000 rubber ducks at the starting line in […]
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A survey of 2,000 travel-loving adults found that one in five people long for another vacation again the day they get back and another 27% said this feeling wells up within a week. Looking ahead, the average respondent wants to spend 15 days on vacation in 2024, after the average said they grabbed 11 days […]
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Jack and Bronwyn were both born prematurely in the same hospital at the same time. After he was born at 30 weeks, and she was delivered after just 26 weeks, their families forged a friendship during the many weeks spent waiting in the neonatal ward in 1994. After finally going home from Queen’s Medical Centre […]
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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 enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […]
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Down Under, there’s a massive campaign to connect 315,000 hectares, or 750,000, acres of coastal habitat for koalas in New South Wales into a single national park. Now, a new logging ban to come into effect will protect 106 “hubs” across 8,400 hectares (21,000 acres) of forest where koalas in the wild are known to […]
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Wind turbine blades set to be landfilled or incinerated, are being turned into footbridges that can hold the weight of a 30-tonne digger. Currently, there are around 11,000 wind turbines in the UK, and estimates suggest that 450 blades will be decommissioned in Ireland by 2030, creating tons of non-recyclable waste. In a bid to […]
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A sketch of Dover Harbor, created by British landscape artist John Constable on a sailing trip in 1803, was found within a smashed frame in a house in Leeds recently. It came to light during a house clearance, and those responsible for cleaning and restoring realized the celebrated artist was responsible for the work when […]
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Maine’s rivers are the only ones left in the US where Atlantic salmon can return to spawn, and the most productive of these rivers is having one of its most productive years. After the removal of the Bangor Great Works Dam on the Penobcot River, ocean-going/river-spawning fish began to return in large numbers. As of […]
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If even half of the lithium that’s estimated to exist in the McDermitt caldera is mined, it would change the world. Full stop. Early this year, GNN reported that massive lithium reserves totaling 5.9 million metric tons were discovered in the Indian mountains near Kashmir which put them among the highest known lithium reserves on […]
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This little nugget went through quite the ordeal after falling down a storm drain near Port Jefferson Station on Long Island, NY. After someone heard mewing coming from the opening of the storm drain, rescuers were called to the scene. Strong Island Animal Rescue then worked with local police to move a 5,000-pound concrete slap […]
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From Australia comes a story of corporate responsibility in the face of personal tragedy as an elderly national bank depositor had nearly AUD$500,000 returned to him out of the bank’s own pockets. He had been tricked by scammers into revealing his banking information, which an inquest at ANZ bank found was something they should have […]
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On Scotland’s Isle of Arran, national archaeologists are abuzz that a new ‘cursus’ has been found that is proving to be the most complete and best-preserved monument of this kind ever found in Britain—greater even than Stonehenge. A cursus is not a stone circle, but rather a massive earthwork, and this one found at a […]
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92 years ago today, the English actor Sir Ian Holm was born. He became a successful actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company before launching a career in film and television which won him several BAFTAs. However, all this is simply a leadup to the career footnote that most people will be familiar with—that Holm was […]
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In Indonesia, the worsening plastic pollution crisis has led young Sam Benchegjib to start Sungai Watch – an environmental organization dedicated to keeping Indonesia’s waterways clean by installing river barriers to prevent plastic and other trash from entering the ocean. An average of 2,000 kilograms (4,400 pounds) of plastic waste per week can leak into […]
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A dazzling and rare cosmic explosion, which outshines most supernovae in the universe, has been spotted by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast. The unusual new blast that has been analyzed by the researchers is as bright as hundreds of billions of stars the size of our sun. But it also has another peculiar trait, it […]
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Bringing a bit of European small-time organization across the pond, a US/Dutch resident of Oregon is launching a startup to allow wine drinkers to bring bottles back to wineries for a refill. Such infrastructure exists in Europe, but in the US, where 765 million glass bottles are used every year in the wine industry, only […]
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China introduced many things to the world—paper, fireworks, gunpowder, zippers, but it’s also in China’s soils that the greatest scientific advancement in paleontology was discovered—that dinosaurs became birds. China has produced more feathered or gliding dinosaurs, or those that share intimate similarities with flightless birds like emu, than any other country, including this one: a […]
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On this day across history, imperial aggression was resisted or rolled back by indigenous peoples in both the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest (9) and the Battle of Stirling Bridge (1297). In the first case, it was one of the greatest defeats in the history of the Roman Empire, and dissuaded them, even commanded as […]
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A Royal Navy warship seized more than a ton of cocaine worth $175 million on the streets in a drug trafficking snare set up with the U.S. Coast Guard in the Caribbean. HMS Dauntless, a Portsmouth-based warship hunted down a ‘go-fast’ smuggling boat with 1,230kg of cocaine, deploying a Wildcat helicopter, Royal Marines, and the […]
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Scientists used a camera aboard a solar orbiter in a new mode which has revealed never-before-seen views of our sun. The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on the European Space Agency probe has allowed them to record part of the Sun’s atmosphere at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths that has been almost impossible to image until now. The […]
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Babies and young children with diverse bacteria in their gut are less likely to develop allergy-related wheezing and asthma, according to a new Australian study. Communities of bacteria, known as microbiota, develop in the human body during the early years of life and are involved in processes that are helpful to the body, such as […]
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The name of a new Iron Age ruler or king has been discovered emblazoned on a 2,000 year-old coin that was uncovered in a field in Hampshire. Dating from around 50 BC and made of gold, the coin is stamped with the name Esunertos, a previously unrecorded Iron Age ruler, according to Southwest News Service. […]
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Happy 84th birthday to Roy Ayers, sometimes called the “Godfather of Neosoul,” who pioneered a variety of off-mainstream jazz and funk genres with his creative compositions and blistering vibraphone solos. His best-known songs are Searchin’, Everbody Loves the Sunshine, and Running Away. Ayers is also a talented producer and session player, collaborating with the lines of Whitney Houston, […]
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Scientists have managed to generate electricity from the deadly E-coli bacteria—a finding that could lead to a valuable by-product from waste water. Bioelectronic experts from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) engineered the bacteria to produce electricity in a variety of settings. The team used a process known as extracellular electron transfer to engineer […]
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A U.K. metal detectorist has worked a near-miracle, reuniting a woman with a beloved chain that held her late mother’s promise, engagement and wedding rings. The 24-year-old was “devastated” when her necklace chain broke while she was swimming at Les Amarreurs beach in Guernsey last month. On the chain hung three of her mom’s rings […]
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The reason exercise can prevent Alzheimer’s disease has been discovered and it could lead to new treatments for the currently incurable condition. Experts have found that a hormone called irisin released during a work-out is associated with the plaques and tangles in the brain thought to cause Alzheimer’s. Physical exercise has been shown to reduce […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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187 years ago today, Ralph Waldo Emerson published his famous essay Nature, in which he attempts to lay out the case for transcendentalism. His chief argument is that god and spirituality are suffused in nature, but that in everyday life, man lacks the ability to perceive it as a whole because we are distracted by […]
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The world’s first piloted flight of an electric aircraft powered by liquid hydrogen has taken place. H2FLY, the Stuttgart Germany-based developer of hydrogen-electric powertrain systems for aircraft announced it has successfully carried out four flights from Maribor, Slovenia, powered by liquid hydrogen as part of its flight test campaign, including one flight that lasted for […]
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A cache of Roman weapons has been found in an inaccessible cave in Israel near the shore of the Dead Sea. Delighting the discoverers, archaeologists believe that they were taken off of Roman soldiers and stored there by Judean rebels resisting Roman imperial incursions. “Finding a single sword is rare—so four? It’s a dream! We […]
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A giant conservation NGO has purchased the largest privately-owned rhino herd on earth to rewild them in secret locations over the next 10 years. More than 2,000 white rhinos had been bred in captivity as part of a project called Platinum Rhino, to flood the East Asian rhino horn trade with sustainably harvested horns in […]
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Researchers have confirmed that opposites do, in fact, attract, as a study commissioned in front of the launch of a UK television show found that one in five couples admit they have nothing in common. The study of 2,000 adults in a relationship found that 24% have totally different hobbies to their other half. But […]
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57 years ago today, the Severn Bridge was opened in the UK to span England and Wales, 140 years after it was first proposed. After the Second World War, plans began to be made for a nationally funded network of roads, including a Severn Bridge. Permission for one had been sought 20 years earlier in […]
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We’ve all heard stories about people finding messages in bottles, but I’ll bet you’ve never heard about someone finding a message in an egg carton before. Emerging from social media, a 92-year-old Iowa resident has had a 70-year dream fulfilled after a message she wrote on an egg at a packing plant in 1951 has […]
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A Florida construction firm is seeing fast adoption of its intuitively-made building blocks that work like real-life LEGO bricks. The interlocking blocks made of a mineral composite and reinforced with glass fiber can be quickly and quietly assembled into walls, floors, and even roofs, with a special adhesive and a rubber mallet being the only […]
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While doing renovations on his property, a Portuguese man stumbled upon a fossilized sauropod that might be the largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in Europe. It all started in 2017. While carrying out construction work, the owner of the property in central Portugal noticed the presence of several fragments of fossilized bones in his yard. […]
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A Michigan woman is being hailed a hero after she rescued a 4-year-old autistic boy who jumped into a lake. Drowning is the leading cause of death among autistic children, but the water would have to make do with frogs and fish after Jessica Bauer and the boy’s Grandma saw him fall in, and the […]
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100 years ago today, INTERPOL was founded. It’s the world’s largest international police cooperation organization, with member states counted at 195. It is headquartered in Lyon, France, with seven regional bureaus worldwide. Pursuant to its charter, INTERPOL seeks to remain politically neutral in fulfilling its mandate and is thus barred from interventions or activities that […]
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By late January of this year, a remarkable thing had occurred in the normally thirsty state of California. Aside from splotches of land on the northern and southern borders, the state’s three-year drought had been entirely cured. Now, as a globally hot summer winds to a close, the US Drought Monitor map for California reads […]
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The ‘world’s loneliest lion’ has returned to his natural habitat after he was abandoned in a private zoo in Armenia for five years. 15-year-old lion Ruben was part of a pride living in the now-closed zoo, but while all the other lions were relocated, Ruben was left behind in a tiny concrete cell for five long […]
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What will be the next great architectural style, the one that shapes the skylines and suburbs of the future? If you’ve never heard of “neoclassical futurism” that’s because it was just invented by an architect with a passion for letting machine learning take up the drafting pencil. These are computer-generated images above made by a […]
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Vitamin B2, or riboflavin, is a key compound in energy metabolism, cellular respiration, antibody production, and in the case of a 1-year-old baby from California, perhaps the reason he was able to recover from Mitchell Syndrome. If that disease sounds unfamiliar to you, that’s because it’s one of the rarest diseases known to medicine. There […]
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61 years ago, Archaeologist James Marsden unearthed the first of the Blackfriar shipwrecks. Dating back to the 2nd century CE. The wreck is dated to a period of great Roman expansion and construction in Great Britain, as empasized by its cargo of building stones. Blackfriars I was 52–55 feet (16–17 m) long, and 6 meters […]
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In the aftermath of the most destructive fires in the island state’s recent memory, donations have poured in to help the thousands of affected residents on Maui. Now, celebrity duo Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson have created a special welfare fund that will provide those directly injured or whose property was damaged by […]
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With the first generation of wind turbines well into a period of decommissioning, questions about what to do with the massive fiberglass blades is a pressing one for an industry that markets itself as green and sustainable. While indeed no fossil fuels need be burned to generate electricity with wind turbines, the mounting landfill burden […]
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In a massive and historic conservation success story, eighteen takahē birds have been released into the wilds of a nature reserve on Lake Wakatipu. This is hoped to be followed by seven more in October, and another 10 in the early months of next year as this rediscovered wonder continues its long road to recovery […]
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Sports are a proving ground where every challenge becomes an opportunity to grow stronger, a fact that for one very unique Michigan sophomore proved true on and off the field. Eric Kilburn Jr. was born a normal 8-pound baby boy, but has grown into a well-spoken giant of a young man with what might be […]
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34 years ago today, the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (ILO) produced the first internationally binding treaty protecting the rights of such peoples to freely choose how much to assimilate into modern society or not. It laid the groundwork for the much more comprehensive Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of 2007. However, the […]
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This summer Connor Halsa reeled in the fishing story of a lifetime when he went searching for walleye and got a wallet. Inside there was $2,000 cash, wet and soggy, but nonetheless cold and metaphorically hard. Still, Connor and his dad agreed immediately they needed to find the owner. Out on Lake of the Woods, […]
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Conversations about artificial intelligence took off in the media after the debut of ChatGPT this year, but AI had already been coiling its industry-changing hands around all sorts of applications for years, from conceptual art and design to these robot trash pickers, Sorty McSortface and Sir Sorts-a-Lot. Working all day long at 80 recycling facilities […]
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While unquestionably quaint and surrounded by gorgeous scenery, Sarsina in Italy’s Emilia Romagna region has never been accustomed to drawing in hordes of tourists. When it formed part of Rome’s defensive perimeter, it was once a fortified outpost at a strategic mountain pass, and also birthed the famous Roman playwright Plautus. Little if nothing of […]
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After matching each other in normal rounds, two Olympic pole vaulters continued to battle it out over three tiebreaker rounds to see who would get gold at the World Athletics Championships. However, the tiebreakers proved inconclusive, with both Australia’s Nina Kennedy and American Katie Moon both making it over the 4.90 meter bar, but failing […]
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A couple with the same birthday is thrilled after their twins were born—on the same day. The entire family now shares the same birthday. Scierra Blair couldn’t believe it when her doctor revealed their babies were ready to be born ten days earlier than their due date, and she was told to go straight to […]
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Last week, The Ocean Cleanup organization that has been tackling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch deployed their System 03 for the first time—nearly three times larger than the previous technology and capable of cleaning the area of a football field every five seconds. This follows testing of their two smaller systems which succeeded in extracted […]
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The best advice to get over a breakup was compiled in a new poll of 2,000 people who have a few opinions on the poignant topic. A huge majority—77 percent of respondents—believe it’s best to consider a breakup as a fresh start rather than dwelling on the past, and 72 percent agree it should encourage […]
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Sufferers living with kidney failure can soon look forward to a future without dialysis or a long waits for an organ transplant, thanks to efforts from the University of California in San Francisco that produced an implantable device that mimics the organ’s daily functions. Their first clinical trial showed that kidney cells, housed within the […]
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A clever graduate has used 80 discarded vape batteries to power his e-scooter—and to make a point about waste. The 23-year-old Brit says disposable vape devices are marketed as expendable, but still have plenty of power—and people need to know that. It didn’t cost any money to pick up 80 discarded vape batteries and he […]
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A kindhearted couple who won £100,000 on the Euromillions is planning to spend their winnings on fostering children. Already parents to three children, the couple in their 40s will now convert their garage into extra bedrooms to begin fostering kids in need, a dream they’ve always shared. Kathleen Reece admits she’s often moaned in the […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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A painting found in a New Hampshire attic could fetch between a quarter-million and three million dollars after the owner had bought it at a thrift store for just $4.00 That’s because it’s a lost work by prolific Maine artist N.C. Wyeth, whose signature was on the painting itself, but which the buyer assumed was […]
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Proving that change is possible if the will to create it is present, Chinese megacities like Beijing that were once famous for their apocalyptic grey skies are enjoying the lowest levels of air pollution they’ve experienced in the 21st century. Falling 42% from an average high in 2013 when Chinese air pollution was higher than […]
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Every so often, it’s the shelter dog that adopts the humans. Scout was a mutt and a stray and was kept at a shelter in Michigan until the pooch with no past decided he was tired of waiting to be adopted and went trotting out looking for someone to adopt, successfully escaping the shelter and […]
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A miniature ultrasound device, fitted to a flexible polymer strap, can be slipped into a bra and detect breast cancer tumors among those most at risk of developing one. The invention is significant for several reasons, and if perfected and developed, could save hundreds of lives. The first reason it could be a major medical […]
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American scientists developed a test that focuses on damage to mitochondrial DNA in the blood linked with Parkinson’s disease. Current diagnoses of Parkinson’s are largely based on clinical symptoms after significant neurological damage has already occurred, and researchers hope this new test could be used to diagnose patients prior to such damage occurring. Parkinson’s is […]
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In July, news media reported that a derelict oil tanker off the coast of Yemen had its more than 1 million barrels of crude removed in a successful cleanup operation. The operation may have prevented a major environmental catastrophe in the Red Sea because the tanker, FSO Safer, was 47 years old and had serious mechanical and […]
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Excavations had begun on two huge vertical shafts for a major upgrade of Auckland’s raw sewage pipeline when the groundworks crew came across something astonishing. Piercing the threshold of an ancient shell bed filled with sea life, New Zealand paleontologist Bruce Hayward likened it to “finding gold right on your doorstep—a once-in-a-lifetime find.” 300,000 individual […]
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From lava illuminating clouds above a volcano to an icy wonderland, these are just some of the over 3,000 photographs submitted to the 2023 Royal Meteorological Society’s weather photo competition. Just in time for World Photography Day, the competition is now in its eighth year, and acts as an observation deck to the vastly different […]
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In an historic first, 16 young plaintiffs sued the state of Montana, and won, after asserting that the U.S. state violated their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment. In the 103-page decision filed this month in Held v. State of Montana, Judge Kathy Seeley of the First Judicial District Court ruled in their […]
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Is this what heaven feels like—puppy love? This adorable video shows a little boy in stitches as four golden retriever puppies shower him with a puppy-bomb of affection. The four-year-old can’t stop giggling as the pack of nine-week-old puppies jump on him until the laughing toddler is helpless to get up. The boy’s 28-year-old mom, […]
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Australian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy by using the low amounts of hydrogen in the atmosphere to create an electrical current. The enzyme in question is called Huc (pronounced “Huck”). It’s made by bacteria, and helps them with growth and survival in soil, in the oceans, in volcanic craters, and […]
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A 36-foot totem pole carved by the House of Ni’isjoohl in British Columbia a century ago is on a sacred journey back home thanks to National Museums Scotland. The repatriation comes after a year-long discussion with the Nisg̱a’a Lisims Government and marks a historic moment for reconciliation between the museum and the Nisg̱a’a Nation, where […]
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Materials that are both strong and lightweight can improve everything from cars to airplanes to medical equipment. Now, researchers have created an extraordinarily strong material with very low density–using two unlikely building blocks: DNA and glass. “For the given density, our material is the strongest known,” according to Seok-Woo Lee of the University of Connecticut, […]
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A young woman who didn’t want to throw away her late grandfather’s shirts has now upcycled them into fashionable tops—and she’s helping others do it, too. The 21-year-old uses a scissors and sewing machine to transform pieces pulled from a bag of her late grandpa’s clothing—rearranging them into cool designs to be worn by youngsters. […]
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A pair of primitive cousins of T. rex that had short, bulldog-like snouts and even shorter arms have been discovered by scientists in Morocco. The two new dinosaur species belong to the Abelisauridae, a family of carnivorous dinosaurs that were counterparts to the tyrannosaurs of the Northern Hemisphere. Living alongside the much larger abelisaur Chenanisaurus […]
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A poll of 2,000 adults revealed the top 20 things that make us feel good—with a good night’s sleep and a sunny blue sky coming in at number one and two. 45 percent said a nice compliment is guaranteed to boost their mood, while laughing until tears flowed also scored high. The average respondent experiences […]
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It seems a bit silly, but merchant shipping which long ago ditched its sails for internal combustion is now switching back, but not to any sail you’ve ever seen. Called WindWings, the large wing sails measure around 100 feet (37 meters) in height and can be added to the deck of commercial vessels. Pyxis Ocean, […]
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“India is on the Moon,” exclaimed S. Somanath, chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) after their lander/rover combo touched down on the Lunar South Pole on Wednesday, August 23. In doing so India became the fourth nation to operate on the Moon after the US, Russia, and China, while also beating Japan to our […]
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Despite being more aggressive in defending their territory, sparrows that live in urban areas find more time to visit the nest and feed their young, a surprise to scientists who believed that more aggression would mean less time with their offspring. Researchers have dubbed them city sparrows, as city life seems to make the males […]
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During a hiking trip in Fundy National Park, New Brunswick, a group of swimmers had the good fortune of being found by some hikers that included an off-duty police officer who ended up saving their friend from a raging edy. The officer, Bruce Lake, was exploring the Laverty Falls area with his wife and friends, […]
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A rather unassuming young man with kind brown eyes is being hailed as a hero for his volunteer efforts to rescue 7 teenagers trapped in a cable car in Pakistan. After two of the three supporting cables snapped, the teenagers were left dangling from an hour before school opened to the darkest watches of the […]
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Irish conservationists report that the magnificent osprey has successfully bred in the wilds of the Emerald Isle for the first time in almost 250 years. Worldwide, ospreys are doing great—listed as “Least Concern” by the IUCN who add they are increasing in population. However their massive brown and white wings have been absent from Irish […]
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This young boy in Seattle is showing that there’s no barrier to entry for disaster relief; that all it takes is a willing heart, a hot summer day, and some ice-cold lemonade. Having recently returned from a family vacation on the Big Island, Ami Juel and her husband were watching the devastation of the Lahaina […]
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A new drug, called Clovibactin, has been created out of “dark matter bacteria” which rather than being a research term, was created by the press to suit the mysterious origins of Clovibactin and potential future drugs like it, which could represent an urgently needed new font of antibiotics. Scientists in the US managed to grow […]
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From Texas comes the story of a girl named Beatrice who was taken to meet the captain on a flight home from Tokyo. Beatrice is an American Girl Doll, and her flight home would see her reunited with her loving owner, 9-year-old Valentina Dominguez who was left devastated after losing the doll on a similar […]
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A UK non-profit has leveraged the special relationship that the British have for trees to create an ‘Ancient Tree Inventory’ to coordinate conservation, environmental activism, and scientific research by allowing anyone familiar with an ancient tree to record and share its existence with the country. Perhaps a lesser-known trait in the world at large of […]
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Horses have incredible sensitivity to not only outward human emotions such as joy and anger, but also inward, low arousal emotions like sadness, a new study shows. This emotional sensitivity isn’t limited simply to facial expressions, but extends to the sounds coming from the individual whom the horse is observing as well. Perhaps even […]
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Across the country, soldiers who came home mangled from the wars in the Middle East are receiving mortgage-free homes as a small measure of gratitude and honor for their sacrifices. In DeForest, Wisconsin, a medically-retired former Sergeant Tory Honda was recently given the keys to a new mortgage-free home. Walking through it alongside television cameras, […]
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A Great Pyrenees who saved his foster family from a fire on their houseboat has been adopted just 1 day later by a secret admirer. The fluffy white dog named Moose alerted Sheila Janes and her husband Chris, asleep on their houseboat, that a fire had broken out on another boat moored nearby which quickly […]
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Apart from a few pieces of debris that washed onto an Indian Ocean island, no trace has been found of the Malaysian Airlines flight that vanished in March 2014, but an innocuous marine limpet could provide clues to its whereabouts, as bizarre as it sounds. Scientists believe they could have the answer to one of […]
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A paralyzed woman has spoken again after her brain signals were intercepted and turned into a talking avatar, complete with facial expressions and sound samples from the woman’s real voice, all in a world first. 48-year-old Ann suffered a brainstem stroke when she was 30, leaving her paralyzed. Scientists at the University of California then […]
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20 years ago, NASA successfully launched the Spitzer Space Telescope. Spitzer was the third infrared space telescope, but the first to use an Earth-trailing orbit (more on that below). The telescope bucked the tradition of being named after famous and dead astronomers and was instead named after the living Lyman Spitzer, an employee at the […]
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After an open-air museum took in an orphaned fallow deer, the little thing fell head over hooves for the owner’s 11-month-old daughter. The deer, named Ziggy, was rescued and taken in by Jeremy Goldsmith who runs Mountfitchet Castle, a Norman castle and museum. Goldsmith and the staff at Mountfitchet care for a variety of orphaned […]
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Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in developed countries, but regrowing the human cells lost to this condition was the feature of a new successful treatment that took advantage of advances in nanotechnology. Regrowing the cells of the human retina on a scaffold of synthetic, tissue-like material showed substantial improvements over previously used […]
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Data collected over the last 40 years at a remote coral reef within the territorial waters of Palau has shown that corals are more adaptable to warming oceans than previously thought In fact, they’ve already adapted—potentially at a rate of 0.18°F per decade, and the researchers say that established models for coral bleaching events should […]
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We’ve all heard of melanistic leopards, albino pythons, and great white whales, but how about this little princess? Born at a zoo in Tennessee, you’d have to go back to the 1970s to find the last recorded instance of a giraffe being born without spots. Born on July 31, she is already as tall as […]
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Happy 50th birthday to the simply hilarious Dave Chappelle. One of the greatest millennial comics, Chappelle was called a genius during his early explosion of fame on basic cable’s Comedy Central with his sketch comedy show, Chappelle’s Show. Born in Washington D.C., Chappelle has won 6 Emmys and 4 Grammys, along with the prestigious Mark […]
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It was called the Yasuní popular consultation, and it asked the people of Ecuador a simple question: “Do you agree with the Ecuadorian government in keeping the ITT crude, known as block 43, underground indefinitely?” At 94% of the vote counted, the answer was 60% ‘yes’. The proposal was approved. The referendum was a popular […]
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In England’s county of Northamptonshire lay a marginal field that was recognized to have no value, as it could not be built on. It’s now been restored to a wetland meadow that will become a haven for biodiversity and an engine for clean water and green recreation. Slade Brook, a small waterway that was diverted […]
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This weekend, the Loch Ness Center is holding the largest-ever search for the mythical monster, and will feature a horde of volunteers wielding hi-tech equipment never-before-used on the lake. It will be the biggest organized search since 1972, and so many “Nessie” enthusiasts signed up for the search they had to close the web portal. […]
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Last Wednesday, India’s federal government approved nearly $7 billion for a nationwide plan to equip the biggest cities in the country with electric buses. The plan aims to help cut down on air pollution from vehicle exhaust, a major factor in Indian cities’ poor air quality. It’s also believed that the buses will help lower […]
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Happy 72nd birthday to Ole’ D.C.’s own Lisa Halaby, famously known to the world as Queen Noor of Jordan. The second-generation Washingtonian married King Hussein of Jordan, becoming the queen of that country. Noor is the longest-standing board member of the International Commission on Missing Persons. As of 2023, she is president of the United […]
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10 years ago, east London resident Hilary Oxley was preparing to turn 80 years old, and her family got the outrageous idea of buying the octagenarian a ticket to go skydiving. Grandmother Oxley had a blast, but this July it was once again time to think of something to get her as she neared the […]
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What do you get when you cross sawdust and polyphenols? A water filter that can remove 99.9% of microplastics; and that’s no joke. The health of effects of ingesting microplastics are, predictably, not good, though the science is in its early stages. We already know that microplastics rain down over the world from potentially as […]
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ABC News Australia recently embedded with a team of ornithologists studying the jaw-dropping vocal ability of lyrebirds in their natural habitat. Deep in the primordial forests of Victoria State’s Dandenong Ranges National Park where there are still ferns as tall as trees, the superb lyrebird Menura (novaehollandiae) can be seen performing elaborate courtship displays with […]
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369 years ago today, Jacob Barsimson stepped off the boat on North American soil at “New Amsterdam” (Manhattan, New York City) on a mission to discover the potential for Jewish immigration to the New World. He was followed by a party of 23 Jews that established the Congregation Shearith Israel, the oldest synagogue in the […]
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80-year-olds Patsy Gregory and Carol-Ann Krause have been swapping letters since 1955 when they became girl scouts on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The pair went on to send and receive more than 800 correspondences, always remembering each other’s birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and Christmas. But they never met in person until Patsy told her […]
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An Austrian ornithologist has pioneered an incredible way of wildlife rehabilitation by fostering chicks of an endangered species before re-instituting their migratory practice by leading them along their natural migration route with an ultralight aircraft. The method was developed to help reconnect the northern bald ibis, a bird that was extirpated in Europe 400 years […]
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People often recommend putting plants in an office to reduce indoor air pollution, but not everyone has the green thumb for the job. Instead, what if we could simply use existing office furnishings? Lampshades developed by scientists in South Korea and which work with both halogen and incandescent light bulbs, actually clean the air of […]
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Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness. It was at the very dawning of civic life among humans that a group of communal Chinese on the northeastern plains invented a sophisticated drainage system to combat flooding in their extremely wet environment. Utilizing their […]
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Happy 35th birthday to Robert Lewandowski, the greatest Pole to ever kick a soccer ball. He is part of a small group of elite European footballers who have scored over 600 goals in their professional careers. Yet further, he has the honor of being the only other player alongside the legend Johan Cruyff, to achieve […]
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A new survey of pet parents looked into some of the most popular myths about pet care—and some may surprise you. A whopping 92 percent of respondents still believe myths about their furry friends, according to the poll of 2,000 dog and cat owners. Contrary to popular belief, 68% of dog parents didn’t know that […]
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New nanofilms could significantly reduce the energy needed for cooling buildings or vehicles. Just like white clothing feels cooler than other colors due to reflecting the sun instead of absorbing it, other colors, like blue or black, heat up when they absorb light. But new colored cooling films inspired from the nanostructures in butterfly wings […]
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After 268 days in his kayak, a 65-year-old has completed his epic ‘Reverse the Bad’ expedition, becoming the first person to solo kayak the Greater Loop across Canada and the United States. The journey of almost 6,800 miles (11,000km) required Mark Fuhrmann to paddle for 1,643 hours—which is the equivalent of paddling 68 days straight […]
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In the last decade since recovering from colon cancer, an elderly woman in Mexico City has opened her doors to sick, injured, or orphaned hummingbirds. Today, you can find dozens of the them flying around her apartment while she nurses them back to health. The video by Gerardo Carrillo shows Catia Lattouf feeding mostly baby […]
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Happy 88th birthday to the former Congressman from Texas, Dr. Ron Paul. Before serving three terms as representative of the 22nd and 14th Congressional districts, the country doctor delivered an average of 1 baby per day, amounting to over 4,000 little ones because he was the only OB/GYN in Brazoria County. READ more about America’s […]
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A Scottish farmer grew a quarter million sunflowers after discovering they would survive in his northern climate—and he created a massive trail in his field that has brought in visitors from as far away as Australia. Crawford Niven first came up with the idea for a flower lined pathway three years ago—and began planning for […]
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Scientists in Australia have identified a molecule that could hold the key to developing peptide-based drugs targeting obesity, osteoporosis, and inflammatory diseases. Researchers at the Victor Chang Cardiac Institute are shedding light on how the small molecule regulates the sensors that are central to many processes in the body—including how nerve cells in the skin […]
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Leonard Fournette may be a Super Bowl champion on the football field, but last week he was a super HERO for kids at a special summer camp, where he stole the hearts of campers and staff. “This is the greatest thing I’ve done thus far,” said the former Tampa Bay Buccaneer running back. Camp Simcha, […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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This daily column features all the good news, anniversaries and birthdays from this day in history—August 19.
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To any government reading, there’s a plant that provides habitat for nearly all the species of the sea, anchors the sediment on the seafloor, dissipates wave energy, regulates ocean acidity, and that holds 35-times more carbon per cubic inch of rootstock than tropical rainforest—and best of all, it’s neither fictional nor rare. Posidonia oceanica, or […]
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A snake new to science has been named after Harrison Ford in honor of his passionate environmental advocacy and for the matter of a small character he played in a small film series called Indiana Jones. Tachymenoides harrisonfordi was discovered by German herpetologist Edger Lehr on Peru’s remote Otishi Plateau, an area prowled by narcotraffickers, and […]
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It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, haven’t you heard? Mister Rogers said so—and now his simple advice on how to be a good person has been backed by sophisticated polling data. As part of the Gallup National Health and Well-Being Index, saying hello to more than 1 neighbor was shown to correlate with greater […]
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From a California high school comes a touching story of family, dedication, and engineering as a mob of students finished restoring a 1969 Jeep that was very special to a nearby family. Shane Porter, husband and father of two fine young men, was struggling with two cancers when he bought a 1969 Jeep Commando as […]
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60 years ago today, James Meredith became the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi, 2 years after his famous challenge on the grounds of his civil rights as decided in Brown vs the Board of Education, and one year after his admission to the college sparked riots so large that 31,000 members of […]
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Economists told CNN recently that Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is becoming such a massive phenomenon that it’s having demonstrable impacts on the US economy at large, but it’s not only stadium venues, record labels, and ticket vendors benefiting. Everywhere she goes, Swift is making big donations to US food banks allowing them to feed hundreds […]
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It’s a wonderful time of the year in Britain, the time to honor the Isles’ Tree of the Year. Organized by the Woodland Trust, one of the UK’s largest nature advocacy, conservation, and educational organizations, this years’ entries revolve around a theme of honoring ancients which dwell among us in towns and cities. The Oak […]
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A team of scientists at the Salk Institute have found that a particular kind of immunotherapy was able to train the brain’s ‘invisible scalpel’ on an incurable form of brain cancer in mice. Glioblastoma is the most common form of brain tumor, and while it’s also the most deadly, our brains come equipped with the […]
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Happy Birthday to Robert De Niro, who was born in New York City 80 years ago today. The actor has appeared in over 100 films and earned 7 Academy Award nominations, winning twice—for Best Actor in Raging Bull (directed by Martin Scorsese), and for his break-out supporting role (at age 30) as the young Vito […]
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Hula dancers swayed to the ocean waves on a South Carolina beach, all paying tribute to a hometown hero who died saving seniors in the midst of the Maui wildfire in Hawaii. Joe Schilling (not the Red Sox Pitcher) had moved to downtown Lahaina recently, where he lived in an apartment building that was caught […]
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In Bordeaux, a British powerlifter with Down Syndrome is a walking, pressing, squatting inspiration to all who watch him compete, and he’s just bagged the 5th gold medal of his career. At just 127 pounds (57 kg) Dan MacGauley took first place in the European Bench Press Championship, posting 154 lbs. (70 kg) classic, and […]
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On July 19th, Specialist Rene J. Rodriguez, an El Paso native and Army combat medic, was recognized for his heroic actions during a Soldier’s Medal award ceremony for saving a woman from a brutal assault. Leaving Schofield Barracks that afternoon, Rodriguez was heading to the North Shore for the weekend, when he noticed a woman […]
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People all around the world are drawn to creating and consuming art, and human emotions are often a central subject in visual artworks as well as in music and performance art. However, the mechanisms underlying the feelings that art evokes remain poorly characterized. Now, a new study reveals how viewing visual art affects our emotions. […]
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A large hexagonal step pyramid has been discovered in the most unlikely place: the grassy steppes of Kazakhstan. While typical of Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Mesoamerican, Nubian, and some South and East Asian cultures, the nomadic horse tribes of the steppe are not known for monumental stone pyramidal architecture. Nevertheless, dating back 4,000 years ago to the […]
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On this day in 2008 and 2009, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt broke the Olympic all-time record for the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.69s, and then the world record at the Berlin World Athletics Championships of 9.58s. On August 5th in 2012, Usain Bolt broke his own Olympic record during the 100-meter sprint in […]
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Ms. Cassidy Beach was recently the latest in a long chain of people to be walking along a beach or a harbor and see a dark green bottle with a letter in it. This one she found on a beach in the archipelago of the Turks and South Caicos Islands, in the Caribbean north of […]
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Humans are hardwired to feel good when performing acts of kindness towards others, an imperative trait in any animal that evolves to live and hunt in social groups. This is such a truism that performing random acts of kindness for other people was more effective in reducing symptoms of depression than specifically planning activities for […]
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The year was 1998, and Malaysian lawyer Ahmad Zaharil was a bit confused when he saw a distressed Indian-Malaysian woman in her 50s being brought into a courtroom to be charged with shoplifting. Zaharil felt compelled, he explained in a TikTok video, to ask her what her case about, to which she replied that it […]
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Exploration and mapping of deep-sea life has come on in leaps and bounds over the last two decades, and the discoveries have been worth their weight in gold—like this new finding from the Schmidt Ocean Institute of life beneath undersea volcanic vents. At a well-studied undersea volcano on the East Pacific Rise off Central America, […]
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838 years ago today, Queen Tamar of Georgia consecrated the holy cave monastery/city of Vardzia in the mountains of Erusheti on the left bank of the Kura River. The caves stretch along the cliff for some five hundred meters and up to nineteen vertical tiers. The monastery was an important cultural center, a place of […]
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Lizards have the ability to shed their tails to escape predators, after which they will regrow in around 60 days’ time. Although it looks like a normal tail, the original bone is actually replaced by softer cartilage. Now researchers at the Keck School of Medicine in the University of Southern California have identified key cells […]
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Citing a profound civic responsibility in the tech-heavy city of San Jose, CEO of Apple Inc. Tim Cook created a corporate fund to advance affordable housing projects in the city four years ago. Now, $1.5 billion has already been spent, and it’s resulted in the creation of thousands of housing units across the city and […]
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With a heart of gold and nerves of steel, an officer in Arvin, California vaulted over a fence and worked amid blazing heat to save a chained dog from a raging fire. Chained just outside a burning mobile home, Officer Calderon comforted the dog with kind words before eventually using hedge clippers to free the […]
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According to officials speaking with Reuters, India has reduced her greenhouse gas emissions by one-third since 2009. The climate triumph was achieved by increased renewable energy production and increased forest cover, leaving the world’s-most populous country on track to meet all her current emissions targets. The measurement of emissions in the report is referred to […]
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86 years ago today, the National Scenic Trail known as the Appalachian Trail was completed by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. Claimed to be the longest hiking-only trail in the world, it stretches 2,198.4 miles (3,538.0 km) and passes from Georgia, through North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, […]
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After 100 years of making hand-trimmed wood-smoked bacon, the Wright Brand wants to help fellow Bacons become their best selves through its first-ever Better Bacons Contest. Wright says it knows a thing or two about making the best bacon. That’s why they’re setting out to help fellow Bacons across America become the best version of […]
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A dedicated grandma has run a week-long summer camp to bring her 11 grandchildren together for daily meals, and activity schedules, with homemade trophies and gold medals. Narnie Shyrel Mack has four daughters and takes looking after her grandchildren very seriously. The kids, aged seven months to 18 years, live hours apart and only see […]
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Inflation may come and go, but bargain hunters are here to stay, with a third of Americans claiming they’re the best bargain hunter they know (34%), according to a new poll. The survey of 2,000 Americans’ shopping habits found that 36% of respondents will always look for a deal even when their finances are doing […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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118 years ago today, the Norwegian people voted themselves out of the union with Sweden that they had been subjected to for centuries following wars of conquest by their neighbor. Just 184 votes were cast to remain part of the union, compared to over 350,000 cast to exit it. Following the vote, the Norwegian Storting […]
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Polyethylene, one of the most common plastics used today, is actually very similar in chemical structure to the chief fatty acid in soap, and a scientist at Virginia Tech has discovered a long-sought-after way to convert one into the other. The compound, called a surfactant, is not being seen as an effective way to upcycle […]
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Now in its fourth year, the Comedy Pet Awards, a photography contest looking to capture the playful, the bizarre, and the hilarious character we all know resides within our fur babies, just concluded in London. The winner this year was Michel Zoghzoghi, who travels the world shooting pictures of big and fearsome cats among other […]
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Officer Ernesto Fernandez knew only that he had to save a life and worry about the rest later as he jumped into a Miami river to save a drowning child. The ‘rest’ in this case was the 10-year-old boy’s Autism condition, and how it would affect the rescue attempt. It wasn’t much of a concern […]
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A spacecraft that gave us our first multiple-perspective view of the Sun is set to flyby Earth for the first time since launch 17 years ago. NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft will pass between the Sun and Earth on Saturday, August 12th, with the agency exclaiming “our teenage spacecraft is visiting home.” The twin STEREO (Solar TErrestrial […]
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173 years ago today, Issac Singer received his patent for the improved sewing machine, paving the way for his eventual invention to spread across the world. The biggest change was that Singer concluded, after being invited to look at some sewing machines at the business of a friend, that the sewing machine would be more […]
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A study recently found a potentially-causal link between habitual daytime napping and total brain volume, which could carry implications for staving off the effects of aging. The difference was not a small one, and it equated to the difference in brain volume between people with normal cognitive function and mild cognitive impairment, or between 2.6 […]
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A collegiate athlete who had won a scholarship to Eastern Michigan University to play football gave it all away to his teammate who was struggling to pay tuition bills. Without a doubt, offensive lineman Brian Dooley would have been extremely proud to have earned a full-ride scholarship to undergraduate and graduate school at EMU, but […]
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In an Ohio public library, one of the most valuable employees can’t even reach the top shelf of books. He provides another service, however, one that’s better suited to paws than hands. Benny the cat is a three-month old attendent at Swanton Public Library in Ohio. Encouraging children to read by visiting them during story […]
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Cast the metaphorical (and metaphorically real) net back into the sea 500 million years ago and you’d pull up a variety of strange creatures like trilobites of various sizes and large armored shrimp with crab-like claws. But you’d also fish up something that looks distinctly familiar—jellyfish, specifically the lampshade-like Burgessomedusa phasmiformis, newly identified by scientists as the […]
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930 years ago today, the foundation stone of the Durham Cathedral was laid by Bishop William of St. Calais. Within the first generation of the Norman control of England, many impressive stone structures were raised, both castles and cathedrals owing to their Christian faith from France. The site at which the cathedral was built replaced […]
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At Pinnacles National Park in northern California, two condor chicks are growing up strong, and our National Park Service is currently reveling in their fluff-ball appearance. After approaching the very edge of existence, it is a beautiful thing to be able to celebrate new condor chicks born in the wild, and their first health checkups […]
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1 million acres of public land to the north, south, and northeast, of Grand Canyon National Park have officially been turned into a national monument after lobbying efforts by Arizona tribal nations. In English, it is to be called Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, based on the translations of the proposed name […]
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120 years ago today, Anthony Pratt was born. Pratt’s claim to fame was his conversion of the popular social party game Murder into a tabletop board game known today as Clue or Cluedo in the UK. Living as an assemblyman in a munitions factory in England during the Second World War, Pratt felt that the […]
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In colorful clogs and a blue hat to match her Walmart team vest, 86-year-old Mary Ruth Robinson is a greeter at the Carrollton, Kentucky location. But to the people shopping there, she is so much more: an infectious personality with the power to turn around anyone’s day. The automatic doors are like the portico of […]
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If a new discovery published by South Korean physicists on a pre-print server is proven through replication, it could be one of the most important discoveries in applicable physics. That’s because the team believes they have discovered materials that act as “room-temperature, ambient pressure superconductors.” That’s the physics term; the layman’s term would be utopian, […]
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Scientists in the Netherlands have shown quite convincingly that the issue of plastic pollution in our oceans is far smaller than anyone believed. Their research highlights a variety of good news tidbits: the first one being that abstract scientific modeling can be more than just wrong, but completely wrong, and the second is that organizations […]
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In the Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver, a small antique schoolhouse that had looked over Maple Avenue since 1912 was slated for demolition. But it turned out that the Squamish Nation needed a schoolhouse, so they and the Vancouver School Board floated it via barge—in its entirety—to the North Shore where it will head to the […]
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101 years ago today, Philip Larkin, the English poet and novelist was born. A beloved if somewhat polarizing figure, his poetry has been described as piquant and colloquial, highly structured, but flowing. He’s been criticized as a misogynist and celebrated as the greatest writer post-war England ever produced. READ some of his verse… (1922) Larkin […]
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A trained radiologist assisted by artificial intelligence was able to spot 20% more breast cancers in mammogram screenings without any increase in false positives, a new study showed. Pitting the man-machine team against two trained radiologists, the authors believe it’s the first randomized controlled trial demonstrating the effectiveness of AI-assisted breast cancer screening. The study […]
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Western Australia is seeing the return of western quolls to the wild after disappearing from the state over 100 years ago. These long-snouted furry mammals are part of Australia’s large variety of predatory marsupials who raise their young in chest pouches, live in burrows and dens, and hunt at night. In the vast 1,305 km² […]
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On one of the British isles of Scilly, the grave of an unknown warrior buried with a sword and mirror had perplexed archeologists for years. Now, thanks to new techniques the interred individual’s identity is finally revealed. She was an Iron Age warrior, likely a raider—someone who specialized in surprise attacks to gain plunder from settlements […]
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A fossil-mad teen in England has discovered a huge tooth from a giant prehistoric megalodon shark. 13-year-old Ben Evans unearthed the predator’s ten-million-year-old gnasher with his dad Jason Evans on Walton-on-the-Naze Beach, Essex, in late July. The schoolboy had previously collected around 100 small shark teeth during trips to the sandy shoreline, which is a […]
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39 years ago today, Nawal El Moutawakel, the Amazigh-Moroccan athlete, became the first Moroccan, and the first woman from a Muslim nation to win Olympic gold when she finished top in the 400-meter hurdle event. A member of the IOC, and Minister of Sport for Morocco, she was a pioneer for Muslim and African athletes […]
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At five years old, Merriah entered foster care after enduring abuse and neglect from parents with mental health and substance abuse problems. For nine long years, she went back and forth between multiple foster homes and her mother’s home, never experiencing the stability of a real family. For years Merriah was afraid she might never […]
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When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. Participants in the study by neuroscientists reaped a 226% increase in cognitive capacity compared to the control group. The University of California researchers in Irvine said the finding transforms the long-known tie between smell and […]
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A crow hand-reared by a couple believes he’s a rabbit—hopping around their hutch and eating their food—after being adopted by their five bunnies. The crow was rescued by Andrew Silverwood in England after he was found in the middle of a busy road with a broken leg when he was around two weeks old. The […]
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Feast your eyes on these original lyrics scrawled by Freddie Mercury of Queen while writing the #1 hit song Bohemian Rhapsody. The small sheet of paper is going under the hammer and is expected to fetch nearly a million at a huge upcoming auction of his possessions. And if you’ll be in London this August […]
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135 years ago today, American inventor Theophilus Van Kannel received a patent for his vision of a seamless and fluid way of entering and exiting buildings: the revolving door. Starting the Van Kannel Revolving Door Company in 1889, his idea was so successful that he was eventually bought out by the International Steel Company which […]
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I wanted to update our loyal GNN readers about a wonderful milestone reached in our partnership with nutrition company LIVEDEN. They make yummy green powder for your daily shakes (containing 12-14 servings of fruit and veggies in each scoop), but they also give back to the world, donating—for every package purchased—10 free meals to children […]
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A postal worker in Scotland saved a vulnerable senior by foiling an attempted scam at the last minute—just before she mailed the swindler over $3000. The scammers contacted her and claimed to be from her bank, saying there was “unusual activity on her account”. They told her she should withdraw all her savings and send […]
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About ten percent of babies born 8-weeks prematurely will develop cerebral palsy resulting from infections that damage nerve fibers deep in the brain. While there is currently no treatment to help these infants avoid the outcome, new experiments using neonatal mice provide a possible roadmap. Researchers at Duke Health in North Carolina identified a fatty […]
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A car fanatic has taken an extraordinary road trip to reunite his vintage motorcar with every owner who had cared for it during its 90-year history. Carl Slater bought the 1933 Austin 10 Saloon last February and became interested in its history. Using its log book, he managed to track down the previous owners of […]
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Happy 40th birthday to one of the finest Dutch goalscorers to ever play the beautiful game, Robin Van Persie. A legend at Arsenal and Manchester United across 11 seasons in the English Premier League, he boasted a goalscoring rate of almost 1 every 2 games, a haul he also enjoyed under the colors of the […]
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A research team from the University of South Florida has discovered a 2,000 year-old house that once belonged to a wealthy family—still in exceptional condition—during an excavation in Malta. They collaborated with scientists from around the world on the Melite Civitas Romana Project, uncovering what life was like 2,000 years ago when Romans ruled Malta, […]
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A question mark in deep space has been spotted inside pictures captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA astronomers had trained their sights on a tightly bound pair of actively-forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47. But, some observers focused instead on a tiny, but intriguing, detail in the high-resolution near-infrared light image produced. Visible […]
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They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky: In a new poll, the Addams family was crowned America’s favorite on-screen family. Morticia and her family of oddballs is followed in popularity by the Simpsons, the Brady family, and Married With Children’s the Bundys. The poll of 2,000 U.S. adults with streaming subscriptions also voted on […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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78 years ago today, Plaid Cymru or the Party of Wales, was founded with the aim of supporting Welsh culture in government as the progress of the 20th century led to fears that the Welsh language would become extinct. From the beginning, Plaid Cymru was stuck between Labor, the Liberals, and the Tories, arguing that the greatest […]
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As another weekend drew to a close and the Monday workday loomed, the manager of a New Zealand hardware store was opening for business when her staff came and told her the strangest thing. Seals found in Bunnings tend to be for windows or pipes, and don’t typically come with whiskers or flippers. At 6:30 […]
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Out in the French countryside of Briey, massive planks of oak wood are being fitted together for a very, very special purpose. They are forming the new spire for the resurrection of the Notre Dame, and by using a marriage of master woodworkers and expert computing, all the pieces of the spire’s central and chief […]
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Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness. With so many of the world’s charismatic tropical animals fighting for conservation dollars, it’s easy for a small primate to slip through the cracks of international attention. The silvery gibbon (Hylobates moloch) has relatively few backers […]
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Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering war, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness. In a fascinating star system 370 light-years from Earth, scientists studying with the James Webb Space Telescope have found water vapor hanging about at exactly the same distance from the system star as Earth sits from […]
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231 years ago today, Percy Shelley, one of the leading poets of the Romanticists, was born. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death. Writing sonnets, long-form poems, dramas, […]
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One day in the Bronx, a first-grade teacher sat down in a barbershop for a trim and one of his students walked in, sat down, and started looking antsy. He thought to himself that it was a perfect opportunity to practice reading, a thought that changed Alvin Irby’s life, and in five years’ time, he’s […]
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Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness. Conducted by two private companies beyond the scope of universities, hospitals, or government agencies, the world’s first trial of pure cannabinol (CBN) revealed a wealth of information on the benefits and limitations of this cannabis-derived sleep […]
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In a win for homeopathic medicine, the nation that discovered penicillin is now opting to use food ingredients as a wound cleaner in hospitals. The UK is trialing, and seeing major success, with using a combination of medicinal-grade honey and food-grade vinegar to clean wounds rather than antibiotics or antiseptics. Known as oxymel, the mixture […]
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Why stop at a 4×4 when you can spring for an 8×8? Finnish company 18 Wheels say they have developed and produced a unique patented suspension for the so-called “eco ATV” that utilizes 18 wheels so as not to overly disturb the soil underneath it. “Our ATV does not destroy the soil, is safe for […]
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Happy 60th birthday to James Hetfield, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of Metallica. The thrash metal kings have featured only 2 permanent members, Hetfield, and the drummer Lars Ulrich, who together co-wrote nearly all the band’s material over the period that saw them rise from heavy metal standouts to global superstars of the highest […]
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It’s not every day one reads that a young black man’s day was made after the cops were called on him. The scene was set for the boy’s day to be succinctly ruined: in the Georgian town of Hapeville, an unnamed fellow was going door to door asking if there were any yardwork that needed […]
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Sometimes, nature just throws you a curveball that leaves you scratching your head. Take a look at the video below and ask yourself, is this a bear, or a man in a bear costume? At first it seems bear-ly believable, but by the end of the video you’re likely not sure what to think. Whether […]
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City of Hope today announced that the first patient to receive its novel, promising cancer medicine AOH1996 is doing well. The Phase 1 clinical trial testing the safety of a potentially cancer-stopping therapy in people with reoccurring solid tumors is expected to continue for the next two years. The investigational pill has been effective in preclinical […]
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When Emily Dickerson lost a ring containing a jewel made of her father’s ashes, an unlikely set of heroes emerged to return it to her. The 17-year-old was out in San Antonio performing with her school choir, when at the end of the week the organizers decided to take some 200 singers and bandmembers to […]
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11 years ago today, Michael Phelps won an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 200-meter individual medley, his 16th gold medal in total, becoming the first man ever to win the event in three Olympics in a row. This win also marked Phelps’s fifth Olympic title in the individual medley, breaking the record […]
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The glory days for some of the most debilitating pathogenic diseases may be numbered thanks to a new class of immunizations that change the gut microbiome of ticks and mosquitoes. Rather than targeting the pathogen that causes a disease, the vaccine targets the microbes that the pathogen requires to survive, and a new study investigating […]
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All of last weekend, Callie Clemons was crawling in and out of storm drains and manhole covers in the Houston heat, searching for abandoned puppies. Saying the area is infamous for “puppy dumping” as she refers to it grimly, she says won’t rest until all three of the black labrador-terrier mutts are located. Clemons, whose […]
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TikTok users tuning into a viral video got to see a brief glimpse into the special relationship between a young woman and her grandmother, with the former teaching herself to sew in order to bring to life fashion sketches made by the latter over 60 years ago. Julia, (@boringbb on TikTok) a content creator with […]
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Palm Beach County has already shattered the record for the number of turtle nests recorded during a single nesting season on Juno Beach, with three months of counting still to come. By Sunday, the 9.5-mile Juno Beach in the northern part of the county had seen 21,872 mostly-loggerhead sea turtle nests, compared to an end-season […]
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58 years ago today, Frank Herbert’s epic science-fiction novel Dune was published. Set in the distant future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which various noble houses control planetary fiefdoms, it tells the story of young Paul Atreides, whose family accepts the stewardship of the planet Arrakis. While the planet is an inhospitable and sparsely populated desert […]
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Governor Janet Mills announced that Maine has, two years ahead of time, surpassed its goal of installing 100,000 new heat pumps by 2025, a milestone that represents significant progress in reducing Maine’s reliance on heating oil, lowering heating costs, and curbing harmful carbon emissions. To continue Maine’s momentum, Governor Mills also unveiled a new target: […]
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On the night of Tuesday, August 1st, a supermoon will rise over the Earth, with 99% illumination occurring during the night. A supermoon is when the moon reaches peak illumination at a time that coincides with its closest approach to the Earth in its orbit, arriving at just over 220,000 miles from the surface of […]
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At nearly 150 acres, the Jardim Gramacho landfill in Rio de Janeiro was one of the largest and most infamous in all of Latin America. Now it’s a mangrove forest teeming with life. Decommissioned 11 years ago, between 1970 and 2012 the dump, bordering Rio’s famous Guanabara Bay, received 80 million metric tonnes of trash […]
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As town after town in Canada receive evacuation orders, one man from the town of Yellowknife drove toward the fires: on a mission to rescue any pets left behind. Square in the fire’s path was the town of Behchokǫ, in the country’s province called the Northwest Territories, and when it received an evacuation order Jason […]
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130 years ago today, Conradh na Gaeilge, or the Gaelic League, was founded in Dublin, Ireland as an association to support the Irish language and encourage the citizens of the island to take a greater interest in their culture. Two years before its establishment by Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill, childhood education of Irish had […]
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People with heart failure who increase their daily step count saw improvements in their health in just 12 weeks, according to a peer-reviewed study published last week. The research suggests that physical data from wearable devices, such as FitBits and step counters, can be clinically significant. Consumer wearable devices to track health status and progress […]
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A seven-year-old boy born without an arm has been able to hold a fishing rod with two hands for the first time. Alex Sparkes spent birthdays ‘wishing his arm would grow’, but now he’s happily casting alongside his dad using a new ‘life-changing’ $16,000 prosthetic limb. The Black Panther-themed arm was a gift from ‘Britain’s […]
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The National Life Insurance Company was founded 175 years ago in Montpelier, Vermont—and, following historic flooding, they are still living up to their motto: ‘Believe in tomorrow. Do good today.’ They were set to hold their annual benefit concert, the Do Good Fest, historically held on the company’s back lawn, when disastrous flooding hit the […]
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Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new infinitely recyclable plastic that could be the answer to the world’s growing pollution problem. They’ve engineered microbes to make the ingredients for a sustainable alternative to the 90% of plastics that can’t currently be recycled, many of which use finite, polluting petrochemicals as the […]
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61 years ago today, the Trans-Canada Highway officially opened, the longest national highway system in the world. The main route spans 7,476 km (4,645 mi) across the country, one of the longest routes of its type in the world. The highway system is recognizable by its distinctive white-on-green maple leaf route markers. READ about its construction… (1961) […]
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A German Shepherd has taken a clutch of abandoned ducklings under his wing and become their ‘very protective’ surrogate dad. The dog named Ben recently had a BFF relationship with an adult duck that flew away unexpectedly, so perhaps he sensed that the newly-hatched ducklings were related. Ben and the fledgling brood bonded immediately and […]
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A commercial pilot project confirmed a record production of geothermal energy in northern Nevada this week. Fervo Energy announced it had successfully completed the well test at its full-scale commercial pilot, ‘Project Red’, accelerating the deployment of next-generation geothermal power. The successful well test confirms the commercial viability of Fervo’s drilling technology and establishes Project […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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Happy 70th birthday to one of the greatest American documentarians, Ken Burns. His gargantuan resume of deep dives into uniquely American topics has stirred the minds of viewers for a generation with his unique blend of still photography and video footage with voice-overs. His widely known documentary series include The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), […]
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Rachel Heinze has an unusual side hustle, on top of her preferred work as a stay-at-home mom of 2. After an exhausting, problem-filled first year of breastfeeding her oldest Lucas, she got a ring set with a pale-white stone made from a powdered form of her own breast milk and thought it was so cool […]
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In May, Airbnb began helping its hosts in Massachusetts afford climate-friendly or energy-efficient home improvements, such as insulation, rooftop solar arrays, or heat pumps. Airbnb is partnering with Abode Energy Management to offer a $2,000 rebate on heat pump installation and $500 for weathering upgrades. The chief aim of Airbnb is to utilize recent legislation […]
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Dancers in a pre-Incan civilization of Peru built specially designed dance floors to honor a nearby god of mountains and lightning, a new study shows. The floor could accommodate 26 dancers, and was hollow underneath with layers of resonant material on the underside of the cavity that would’ve aided in creating a booming noise like […]
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Wounded US Army veterans are being enlisted to restore coral reefs of the Florida Keys, giving them a new mission and purpose. Feeling like they have no purpose is a common despair from veterans of several generations, and the work under the waves is helping combat that sense of listlessness, not to mention putting them […]
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In the northern Pacific Ocean, a powerful ocean ‘gyre’ pulls together several ocean currents into a single region—the site of the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). However, longer before there was plastic waste in these waters, and in spite of it, the Northern Pacific ocean gyre is teeming with specially-adapted marine organisms that drift […]
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In New Zealand, a young boy has become the world’s youngest recipient of the Mountbatten Award after saving his younger brother from a treacherous stretch of coastal water last year. The hero was Kalya Gamage, 14, who must have paralyzed his mother with fear when he saw his brother Kithmi being pulled out to sea […]
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In the south of Paris’ city center, the 14th arrondissement is conducting a neighborhood-wide experiment on deliberate living by consciously choosing to be good neighbors. It’s an effort aimed at combatting the paradox of the big city: millions of people crammed together, many of whom suffer from social isolation as their millions of neighbors take […]
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This flying reptile, found in a German rock quarry, wasn’t fully grown when it was embedded in the sediment, but it nevertheless sported a two-meter wingspan and a neatly-parted pompadour reminiscent of Elvis Presley, paleontologists suggest. In life, it would have waded the shore of shallow seas but might have ventured into estuaries or to […]
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157 years ago, the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable was pulled ashore at Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, having been towed 1,600 miles by Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s steamship. The cable altered for all time personal, commercial, and political relations between people across the Atlantic. Since 1866 there has been a permanent cable connection between the continents. READ more about how […]
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Researchers who studied the lifestyles of 700,000 Americans found men who had adopted all eight by age 40 lived around 24 years longer than those who had none. Women who did so lived 21 years longer, according to the findings. The eight habits are: being physically active, being free from opioid addiction, not smoking, managing […]
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Taking a nasal swab—similar to what we all did a hundred times during COVID—to check for three types of bacteria in youngsters believed to have a sinus infection can indicate whether antibiotics are likely to be effective or not, say American scientists. Sinusitis, which is an inflammation or swelling of the sinuses, can cause congestion, […]
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America’s national parks are more than just places of rest and relaxation or protective zones around our country’s most bizarre, unique, and delicate landscape features, they are bastions of biodiversity. Case and point, Big Bend National Park in Texas, where a species of oak unique to the state’s western mountain ranges was rediscovered having been […]
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In the Australian state of New South Wales, a surfer cut his surf trip short to save a struggling magpie that had somehow managed to dump itself in the ocean waves several dozen yards from shore. Watching it all from an observation deck was Amanda Williams, the only reason the still-anonymous surfer’s good deeds are […]
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Happy 80th Birthday to Sir Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. Born in Kent, England to a teacher and hairdresser, he’s spent more than 50 years as one of the most influential frontmen in the history of rock and roll—and showed the world that old age doesn’t have to mean the end of “cool”. Famous […]
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It’s not correct to tell someone you are what you eat, because you’re also what the trillions of microbes that live inside your GI tract and brain eat. A study looking to see if taking a probiotic could improve symptoms of mild cognitive impairment found that the above refrain is correct—even when it’s related to […]
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Some years ago, a Connecticut dry cleaners realized their store was smack dab in the middle of a turtle migration route, and now every year from May through September, job responsibilities shift from cleaning and pressing clothes to cleaning and pressing clothes and picking up turtles. Pameacha Pond, a 19-acre body of water in Middletown, […]
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From Toronto comes a lovely story about lost and found, and how this nearly universal feature of Western society can bring out the best in people. Dmitry Bondarenko, a Toronto-based artist and lecturer, had spent 10 years filling up a 5×7 black sketchbook of paintings in acrylic and gouache, but lost it while cycling through […]
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In Savannah, Georgia, a female-led non-profit works in hard hats and pink high-vis vests in a gradually growing business of reuse and recycling—deconstruction. Deconstruction is what you do if most parts of a building could and should be used again; because they’re made from heritage materials; because they’re built with boards of high-quality endangered timbers; […]
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148 years ago today, the British hunter, naturalist, and author, Jim Corbett was born. He was often hired by various Indian legislatures to hunt man-eating Bengal tigers and leopards. He became so well-versed in the mysteries and magic of India’s jungles that he helped create the nation’s first national park, renamed Corbett National Park in […]
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In the hands of a capable Ice Age hunter, this simple stick could be used to nail small mammals, or even assist in taking deer and horses. It is supposed that the four-foot-long projectile could be hurled at beasts grazing up to 30 meters away, and with a point at either end, was twice as […]
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Global merchant shipping leader Maersk is launching a bio-methanol-powered container ship this week as part of its fast-track decarbonization strategy. Producing about the same emissions globally as the airline industry, merchant shipping is experimenting with several ways of cutting back emissions, including through the use of methanol gas, ammonia, and hydrogen. While these fuels are […]
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A pair of Australian travelers got the word out from 35,000 feet that the flight attendant aboard their Air Asia flight was singing to them over the intercom. With the inflight entertainment either absent or malfunctioning, the brief trip from Cambodia to Vietnam became a karaoke stage for the steward to demonstrate his familiarity with […]
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While on a fishing trip with some students, hoping to be able to teach them about the habits of sharks, a scientist in Florida landed 13 feet of jagged-faced hope. Up from the depths of Cedar Key came a mature female sawfish, a bizarre relative of the ray with a chainsaw for a nose (called […]
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48 years ago today, Giorgio Armani and Sergio Galeotti founded Giorgio Armani S.p.A (joint stock company) in Milan, Italy. Armani had no education in design, and instead studied medicine in advance of a two-year stint in the army. He got into fashion simply by working at department stores. READ more… (1975) In 1973, Galeotti persuaded him to […]
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A “miracle” cat missing for five weeks was found still alive underneath a neighbor’s floorboards. The Russian blue’s overjoyed owners believe he narrowly survived by eating spiders and bugs and licking condensation from pipes. Arthur lost half his bodyweight while trapped in the English home, and he was only discovered when the neighbors heard distressed […]
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A first-time Pennsylvania mom who was told her baby “wouldn’t make it” because he was born so small, now says he is “thriving” at home following 181 days in hospital. Zaylan was born when Krysten Risbon went into labor 16 weeks early. He had a hole in his heart and needed constant oxygen, but he […]
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A young boy was headed down a neighborhood sidewalk when he made a stop at a random house with a doorbell camera—to leave a positive message of encouragement for a stranger. The video, posted on YouTube by South West News Agency, does not identify the boy or the location, but the youth is an American […]
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A new robotic medic could save lives in places like radiation zones that are too dangerous for nurses and doctors to operate. Human medics can control the vehicle remotely and use the robot’s arms to check a patient’s temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and even give injections. The “game-changing” technology has potential to save lives […]
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3 years ago today, China launched the Mission Tianwen-1, or “Heavenly Questions” to Mars, becoming the second nation to have a presence there. It was the first time a nation-state had ever launched an orbiter, lander, and rover all in the same mission, and the Chinese space program became the first in the world to […]
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A woman had just arrived at the Judge Wickersham House, an historic 1898 home in Juneau, Alaska to get a tour, when she happened upon a high-flying crisis. One of the employees at the site greeted her by immediately asking, “What do you know about hummingbirds?” She explained that one of the tiny birds had […]
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Crowned Miss England, Jessica Gagen is on a mission to become an astronaut, and has just graduated from university with a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering. The 27-year-old became the first ever redhead winner of the prestigious beauty pageant last year in October and, after juggling competitions on the catwalk alongside her studies at the […]
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Whether enjoyed in a latte, Americano, or even a martini, espresso coffee provides an ultra-concentrated jolt of caffeine. But it might do even more for one’s alertness over the long run, according to new research. In vitro laboratory tests shows espresso compounds can inhibit tau protein aggregation, which is one of the processes believed to […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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60 years ago today, Philadelphia’s first heavyweight boxing champion, Sonny Liston KO’d Floyd Patterson in a rematch of the bout that the year before won him the belt. The fight went much the same way, a knockout within the first round, only that the rematch had lasted four seconds longer. Never having a particularly good […]
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The discoveries yielded at a new excavation site at the Roman city of Pompeii have everyone talking—about the undeniably familiar shape in a beautifully preserved fresco. Yes indeed, the item sitting on a silver platter in the depiction looks an awful lot like one of the other things the city of Naples is famous for: […]
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A young woman in Canada’s Saskatchewan Province recently garnered 8.7 million views on a TikTok video of her planting 4,545 trees in a single day. The video’s author, Leslie Dart, doesn’t have a career in forestry, and rather recently entered the workforce in aerospace manufacturing, a field in which she recently graduated at Durham College […]
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At a resort in Honolulu, sport’s ultimate softy Shaquille O’Neil decided to give a swarm of kids the absolute memory of a lifetime by pretending he was drowning and allowing him to ‘save’ him. Although the water was less than waist height for the 7.1-foot-tall man, he flopped over on his side, floating listlessly as […]
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An artist in Portsmouth is creating mosaic portraits of famous figures like Gandhi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Queen Elizabeth II using pebbles. 47-year-old Englishman Justin Bateman first started making abstract art in 2018 using organic materials and came up with the idea of using stone after tracing the outline of his bicycle with pebbles. Since then […]
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170 years ago today, the New York State legislature voted to set aside or purchase 770 acres in the middle of Manhattan Island for a city park. Central Park is now the most visited urban park in the U.S., with 42 million visitors annually by 2016—and more films shot on location here than any place […]
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Is there anything in science more exciting than when an ancient legend is confirmed by modern research? Archaeologists in Mexico were able to experience this exact triumph when they found evidence that a mythical underground city lies undisturbed beneath the altar of a church—exactly where a Spanish legend stated it would. In the time of […]
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Moved by a desire to help people deal with grief and angst caused by COVID-19, Brexit, and the climate crisis, artist Annie Nicholson wanted to create a space where the public can shake out grief and unravel their climate angst. Nicholson is collaborating with The Loss Project, K67 Berlin, and Street Soundsystem to realize this […]
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The crown jewel in a recent revitalization project of a London industrial area is a “rolling bridge” made of squares powered by a hand crank. The bizarre spectacle of two large squares gradually inverting the deck of the pedestrian footpath to allow boats to pass underneath a canal lends the new Cody Docks community in […]
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Scientists for the first time have witnessed pieces of metal crack, then fuse back together without any human intervention, overturning fundamental scientific theories in the process. If the newly discovered phenomenon can be harnessed, it could usher in an engineering revolution—one in which self-healing engines, bridges, and airplanes could reverse damage caused by wear and […]
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50 years ago today, Congress passed the War Powers Act, a bill aimed at reaffirming the mindset of the houses of Congress that it is their responsibility and no one else’s to debate and eventually decide for or against by vote whether to take the sons and daughters of America to war. It was passed […]
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An extraordinary fossil of a dinosaur being attacked and eaten by a mammal has been unearthed by paleontologists. It features the entangled skeletons of a beaked and horned herbivore and the smaller, meat-eating Repenomamus at a prehistoric animal graveyard in China’s Liaoning Province dubbed ‘Dinosaur Pompeii,’ for the number of pristine fossils uncovered there. The […]
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This year’s annual convention for the American Veterinary Medical Association has been turned into a medical care drive for the companion animals of the homeless in the Denver area. In partnership with the Street Dog Coalition and a number of corporate sponsors, the event held over last weekend allowed anyone to bring in an animal […]
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From the Pacific Ocean comes a harrowing and inspiring tale of survival, as sailor Timothy Shaddock, 51, and his dog were rescued after 3 months adrift at sea. Now being treated by the ship’s doctor onboard a tuna trawler that rescued him, Australian news reports that he has sustained no major or serious injuries. “I’m […]
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Perhaps you’ve watched nest cam footage from organizations like the Fish and Wildlife Service that monitors bird nests, and if you’re a fan of that then you’ll surely leap like a humpback at the chance to watch Polar Bears International’s “Beluga Cams.” During the ice-free months of summertime, about two-thirds of the world’s beluga whales—about […]
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On this day 151 years ago, records reveal that the first Men’s Singles championship was played at the All England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon. It would eventually become the world’s most celebrated tennis championship, known as one of the four “Grand Slams” in the international season. A 27-year-old named Spencer Gore was the first […]
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Last Friday, it was believed a young farmer had been caught in the act of leopard poaching in India—a crime that’s easy to believe based on the amount of animal-human contact in rural areas of the country. In reality, the film of the 25-year-old man driving his motorbike with a leopard hog-tied over the rear […]
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Open to skateboarders, BMXers, scooter riders, and rollerbladers, an abandoned Sainsbury’s in the UK has become a community skatepark. The Pitt Street skatepark in Portsmouth, about 75 miles southwest of London, is located in the city center, and is seen as a way to help “unlock long-term regeneration opportunities.” “As a child, skateboarding was my […]
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Get ready to fall in love with the sincerity of this 11-year-old Texan boy who went to a neighbor’s house asking if they knew any kids in the area because he really needed some new friends. The heartbreaking-then-heartwarming interaction between Shayden Walker and his neighbor Brennan Ray was caught via a doorbell security camera, and […]
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When a Philly man with autism boarded the wrong train and ended up lost in the mammoth network under New York City’s Grand Central Maddison, his family had to cut their day plans short to travel to the Big Apple for an emergency pick-up. But before they hit the road, three NYC transit officers who […]
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102 years ago today, John Glenn, the American aviator, politician, and astronaut who became the third American in space, was born. The Ohio-born pilot won distinguished flying crosses during America’s wars in the 1940s and 1950s, and in 1962 became the first American ever to enter orbit around the Earth. He received the NASA Distinguished […]
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Architects and designers of eras past had to adapt to the planet’s challenges long before electricity, air conditioning, and heating were invented, and as modern humans try and find a way to reduce carbon emissions, the ancients have much to teach us. In China, more and more modern buildings are being planned around antique design […]
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With the curtain closing on the All England Lawn Tennis Club’s annual championships at Wimbledon, it’s another successful year in the books for the real king of Centre Court—Rufus the Hawk. For any Nigels reading this, it will likely be a case of heard it all before, but us Yankees might not know that a […]
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In the rolling hills and green fields of Dorset, Dorchester, archaeologists have discovered a polishing boulder, known as a polissoir, which would have been used to make hundreds of axe heads. Identified in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the boulder will be left where it was found—in a spot called the Valley of […]
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Imagine if you could turn a material that costs $100 per ton into one that costs thousands of dollars per pound—it’s the kind of story attached to the fable of the Philosopher’s Stone. At Rice University, a group of scientists started turning coal, an energy source of little value, into graphene, a raw material with […]
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621 years ago, Zhu Di, one of the most impactful emperors ever to take the Mandate of Heaven assumed power in Beijing. Known as “Yongle” the 3rd Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he took the throne via a rebellion against his despotic nephew. Under his mostly-despotic leadership, the capital was moved from Nanjing to Beijing, […]
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Summer’s most coveted family travel gig is back with a $15,000 payday, endless funnel cake, and blue ribbons. Summertime officially marks the return of the Midwest’s iconic state fairs and to celebrate the iconic summer staple, the family-friendly Wyndham hotels are back offering this summer’s best gig: apply to become the AmericInn State Fair Family. […]
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Grateful residents have raised thousands for a popular milkman who is retiring after nearly half a century. They’re helping him out until his state pension kicks in next year. Mick Tutton has been delivering jugs to doorsteps in the neighborhood of St. Michaels in St Albans, a historic town 25 miles north of London, England, […]
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Diamonds grown in a laboratory are becoming more and more popular as newlyweds opt for a more sustainable alternative to mined gems. Some jewelers say interest has grown by more than 2,000 percent in five years, as people find out about the more affordable option. Physically and chemically identical to their natural counterpart, lab-grown diamonds […]
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Sam Farr has snapped a picture of himself in a barber chair every decade since the 1970s. And while the camera model changes over time, it’s the same two good friends—a barber and his customer—just getting older together. In 1973, the newspaper photographer snapped a black and white ‘selfie’ while his stylish barber Joe Pace […]
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254 years ago, Father Junípero Serra, a Spanish missionary, found the Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the second such mission in The Californias. This one would evolve over the years into the city of San Diego. San Diego is the 8th largest city in the country, and lies immediately adjacent to Mexico in what some […]
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A 33-year-old paleontologist is celebrating a mammoth discovery after finding a four-foot-long tusk in a quarry 90 miles north of London. Jamie Jordan spied the 450,000 year-old steppe mammoth tusk last week while on a routine visit to a local quarry where he often leads groups on fossil-finding tours. The incredible find from the last […]
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A new random survey of teachers in grades Kindergarten through high school found that two of three missed their classrooms during the summer. The average teacher in this U.S. poll said they think about the upcoming school year eight times during summer break, with 45% sharing that it comes to mind even more often. More […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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Though not a pilot, on this day in 1939 the fashionable and smashing Clara Adams stepped off her passenger aircraft in Newark, having completed a 25k flight around the world for the first time in history, describing her journey as “beautiful beyond description and sublime beyond the most vivid imagination of the human mind.” Known […]
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After its first-ever left-wing presidential administration took charge of negotiating permanent peace with the socialist FARC rebels, Colombia’s forests are feeling the effects with a 26% reduction in deforestation in the conflict areas. These dense, biodiverse rainforests that are a part of the Amazon in places, and independent of it in others, have been […]
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Arlington, Virginia is like a gateway to the city of Washington D.C. Part of the Metro line, but across the Potomac, it’s nevertheless a busy area and not the kind of place you’d expect to be able to get minutes-old, farm-fresh produce. But Area 2 Farms is growing greens, herbs, and root vegetables in a […]
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Up on the Colorado ski slopes in 2017, a man was suspended from a chairlift by the strap of his backpack coiled around his neck. Nearby, professional slackliner and ski instructor Mickey Wilson knew that there was no one better trained to affect a rescue than he. For those outside of the know, slacklining is […]
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Glioma tumors in the brain have a survival rate of 12-18 months when advanced, but now, a simple urine test which could be administered in routine check-ups can detect the cancer even in its earliest stages. The inventors believe the same technique could be used to spot early signs of other hard-to-detect cancers as well. […]
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40 years ago today, an arcade game designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi featured a pair of Italian brothers—Mario and Luigi, sent to investigate the sewers of New York City after strange creatures began appearing down there. The game, entitled Mario Bros. became a new 4-decade long saga of reboots beloved by two generations […]
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In the UK, the nation’s largest end-of-life service provider is now going to add “resomation” or water cremation, to its offerings. Perhaps the most eco-friendly funeral procedure beyond just illegally burying someone in a forest somewhere, resomation has a lot of work to do in terms of gettings its name out there. Resomation, also known […]
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Spectators of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will be watching the aquatic events from seats made of plastic collected in recycling bins from around the area. In fact, 80% of the 100 metric tons of plastic needed to make the seats came from a single neighborhood—which is also where it’s being processed into new […]
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Rachel Mayta was just 18 months old when her doctor spotted a white glow in her eye which led to her retinoblastoma diagnosis, or cancer of the eye. The cancer was so advanced doctors made the choice to remove her eye in a two-hour operation, but far from donning an eyepatch and feeling sorry for […]
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It’s been a long and successful year for the James Webb Space Telescope, and to mark the anniversary of its entry into service, NASA has shown off Webb’s vibrant picture of a small star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. “From our cosmic backyard in the solar system to distant galaxies near the dawn […]
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100 years ago today, the HOLLYWOOD sign was officially dedicated in Los Angeles. At 44 feet tall (13.4 m), the sign was originally created in 1923 as an advertisement for a local real estate development, but became part of the local culture and was kept in place. The sign is protected and was renovated by […]
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Discovering a whole new species is an exciting moment for scientists; when they determined it was Critically-Endangered it probably induced the opposite reaction. The kipunji was only identified in 2003 living on the slopes and forests of Mt. Rungwe and Livingstone Mountains within Kitulo National Park in Tanzania, after locals gave scientists the news that […]
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A man in Kentucky recently found a buried cache of gold coins from the Civil War period rumored to be worth millions of dollars. Consisting of nearly seven hundred $1, $10, and $20 gold dollars issued by the US Mint between 1840 and 1863, the discovery is being called the “Great Kentucky Hoard.” “This is […]
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Construction of a massive municipal park—over 20 years in the making, is finally underway in the city of Irvine. They say if California became its own country, it would have one of the world’s largest economies. The new Great Park of Irvine is a reflection of the always lofty ambitions of the state, and is […]
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The world’s largest 3D-printed building has been completed by Florida-based Printed Farms—a luxury horse barn spanning 10,100 sq. feet, which they claim is almost 50% larger than the previous record-holder in the Middle East. The firm used the COBOD BOD2 construction 3D printer to create the structure in Wellington in Southern Florida. The building has […]
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On this day 53 years ago, Thor Heyerdhal successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean on Ra II, a sailboat made of papyrus based on drawings from ancient Egypt. The Norwegian ethnologist and explorer wanted to investigate where such a craft could have actually done the Egyptians any good. The crew had spectacular success, and proved that ancient […]
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A freight train driver took a break from his work in the locomotive to play the part of rescuer for a little lost pug which had run away from her owners the night before. Poppy the pug had become frightened by a speeding car in Rutland, UK, and 60-year-old owners Dawn and Ian Bain had […]
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A good, honest mechanic is worth as much as the car you bring in for him to service, and in a small country town of just under five-and-a-half thousand people, a local mechanic’s talent saved the day and gave a wheelchair-bound child the vacation of a lifetime. 9-year-old Cooper Greenwood from Sydney has Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome, […]
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Two museums in the Netherlands have decided to repatriate 472 artifacts to Sri Lanka and Indonesia which the museums claim were taken under duress or by looters. The objects entered the nation during the Dutch East India Company’s near-monopoly in the trade between Europe and what were once called the Spice Islands, as well as […]
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A Dehli police officer who managed to crawl his way out of the city slums as a child is now giving back to poor children who live the lifestyle of skipping school and working odd jobs. With his free school, when class is in session in the parking lot of the famous Red Fort, Than […]
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130 years ago today, a Japanese entrepreneur named Mikimoto Kōkichi created the first cultured pearl and subsequently started the cultured pearl industry with the establishment of his luxury pearl company Mikimoto. He was posthumously awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, and in 1985, the Japan Patent Office selected him as […]
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China’s leading developer of autonomous driving technologies for heavy-duty trucks, today announced it has powered more than 24.8 million miles (40 million km) of accident-free trucking on China’s highways. Tesla has been promising shareholders full autonomous driving for its cars for years, but setbacks have been frequent. Founded by a Chinese engineer who studied in […]
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Most of us know the framework of the Big Bang Theory—the universe began expanding outward from a single point after a large explosion, and as matter began to coalesce into larger and hotter structures, the universe began expanding at greater and greater speeds. This would necessitate that in the earliest periods of the universe, this […]
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Oliver Johnson turned 8 years old yesterday in his home in New Zealand. Lonely by nature, his mother had just the idea of what might cheer him up. Young Oliver is obsessed with trucks. He knows the name of every truck, every truck manufacturer, and every trucking company, and his mom Katherine offered $50 […]
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In India’s Thar Desert, hundreds of poor women are being given cans of solar-reflecting white paint to coat the roofs of their homes. It can cool the living areas by as much as 7.2°F (4°C) by sending the radiation from the Sun back out into space. The program was started by Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) […]
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50 years ago today, the Bahamas became a fully independent nation after 344 years of colonial British rule. The archipelago consists of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and maintains a high degree of natural environment integrity. While not a rich nation, the country flourished from tourism and offshore investment […]
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A man who hunts for pieces of comets that fell to Earth has created a business by making the ancient space debris into jewelry. Emil Davidsson has made a name for himself showcasing his skill for hunting meteorites. The 31-year-old from Buenos Aires, Argentina, documents his adventures collecting meteorites in online videos, then crafts the […]
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A simple blood test for ovarian cancer is on the horizon now that three telltale proteins have been discovered. Scientists captured them from samples using nanowires with a special chemical coating. It offers hope for a screening program that could diagnose the disease earlier—because the symptoms of ‘the silent killer’ cancer usually only develop after […]
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In a sweet wedding day moment, the father of the bride grabbed his daughter’s stepdad and pulled him to his feet so they could both walk her down the aisle. Bride Amy Walkinshaw was raised by both her dad, Andy Collins, and her stepdad, Jeff Bennett, who has been in her life for the past […]
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A new study explored the causal role that music engagement has on student achievement in mathematics—and they found a significant benefit. Researchers believe that music can make math more enjoyable, keep students engaged, and help ease their fear or anxiety about topics like fractions. The addition of music may even motivate kids to appreciate math […]
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Happy 48th birthday to the “coolest, weirdest, and savviest rock stars of our time,” Jack White. Born in Detroit, his run of work with the White Stripes, Raconteurs, Dead Weather, and through to his solo work catapulted him to superstardom in the hearts of angsty teens and aging rockers alike. Much the way his fan […]
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(By Mark Waghorn, SWNS) Bird feathers from 99 million years ago not only shows that modern birds are descended from dinosaurs but might also point to why some of their ancestors died out. The feathers, found preserved in amber in Myanmar, show how molting was the key to some early extinctions. It represents the first […]
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Zookeepers threw a coming-out party for the baby calf of an okapi couple—a rare birth of ‘one of the least known and understood species on the planet’. Known as the forest giraffe, the endangered mammal was born at Chester Zoo on May 12 to a 10-year-old mother and a 20-year-old male named Stomp. The adorable […]
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A 95-year-old veteran became the first person to dance at a newly-reopened nightclub, 74 years after meeting his wife there. Sprightly Kevin Topham took to the dance floor with his caregiver when Club X reopened after more than a decade in Nottinghamshire, last weekend. The grandad-of-one was adamant that he wanted to go back to […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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137 years ago today, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, and Reverends Benjamin Waugh and Edward Rudolph founded the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After five years of campaigning by the London SPCC, Parliament passed the first-ever UK law to protect children from abuse and neglect in 1889. The designation of London would expand to […]
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From a Knoxville fire department comes the bizarre story of a small-world encounter when a high school graduate named ‘OT’ was interning there and thought he was meeting the firefighters for the first time. Unbeknownst to him, some of the firefighters already had had the pleasure of making his acquaintance—when OT was buck naked, quivering […]
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A new examination of dolphin vocalizations found that mother bottlenose dolphins whistle at a higher pitch when talking to their offspring, exactly like human mothers do with theirs. While difficult to confirm in theory, a number of highlights from the study reveal the finding to be a robust one, including that the dolphins only used […]
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By yon bonny banks, and by yon bonny breaks, where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond, the famous song goes. But while the loch may indeed be bonny, the hills around it were in trouble for decades. Now however, invasive plants that outcompeted the natives have been removed, and the hills around Scotland’s Loch […]
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A drug showing promise in animal trials could provide the world’s first method to regrow human teeth, or create normal tooth development in children with congenital anodontia. The breakthrough came from the identification of a gene-protein interaction in mice that resulted in the growth of fewer teeth. An antibody medicine that inhibited the protein’s ability […]
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71 years ago today, SS United States passed Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world, a record which it retains to this day. Designed by American naval architect and marine engineer William Francis Gibbs, the liner’s construction was a joint effort by the […]
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After leaving his IT job, a man from Mangaluru started greening city parks, growing food forests, and saving trees destined for the chop. Describing his former office life as depressing, Mr. Jeeth Milan Roche was so energized by the tree planting that he took on the task of greening an infamous landfill where the stench […]
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For those who have suffered a debilitating stroke, simple actions like tying shoes or brushing teeth can become a major challenge. If, however, the person derived a significant amount of joy from life because they could play the piano, such injuries can become all the more significant to recover from. But hope springs anew with […]
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For those without green thumbs, it’s often a mystery why some plants thrive and others shrivel away. For Des and Allie Brennan of Protective Solutions Ltd in England, it’s become a very, very big mystery. Bringing in a small potted ivy cutting in 2009, they merely wanted to brighten up the workspace. Now, more than […]
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Tiny birds in the UK are being given free tenements from real estate development companies by installing “swift bricks” in new buildings around the country. Over 30,000 swift bricks—essentially a normal building brick with a hollow inside—have been sold in the country, and more than 10,000 homes have been built with swift bricks incorporated into […]
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83 years ago today, the Story Bridge, the longest cantilever bridge in Australia, was officially opened to Brisbane traffic after 5 years of construction. Planning began during the Great Depression, and Kangaroo Point was selected as a suitable selection. Story Bridge would require two piers on the south side, but just one on the north […]
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In New Zealand, Pacific Island scientists have just been given a large grant to run a study trial on the use of the traditional kava preparation and kava ceremony for treating PTSD. Believing it could help treat PTSD and other trauma in soldiers and veterans, police officers, and corrections facility staff, the two scientists want […]
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A 150-year-old house was being restored in a small town outside of Peoria when a construction worker found a message left in a bottle between the walls of the kitchen. Written by a 14-year-old girl in 1975, a video of the note went viral on TikTok and created a mini interest-storm around the life of […]
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When vacationers were trapped in a historic Washington town after ferries were canceled due to weather concerns, they feared they might have to sleep on the streets. That’s when ferry terminal worker William Patterson invited all ten of them to stay at his house for the night. It was in the early evening that 79-year-old […]
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“I want to brag on this young man named Hayden working at McDonald’s at exit 8 on 25E near i81,” Jason Mosier wrote on Facebook last month. Mosier had has mind set on bragging after experiencing what Hayden was prepared to do to help him out of even the most innocuous of jams. Mosier had […]
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14 years ago today, the marvelous, unprecedented hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold was found in Staffordshire, from which it would take its name. Numbering 11 pounds of gold, thousands of garnets, and 3 pounds of silver, the hoard is now the greatest testament to the wealth, power, and reach of the early Britons. Among the most […]
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The number of farmers markets in the US is increasing—as are the numbers of customers and the number of states choosing to celebrate them with an official ‘Farmers Market Week’. The cheeriest place to buy your groceries not only survived the pandemic, they are thriving—despite lockdown policies in many states labeling them as “non-essential”, forcing […]
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China is a big country with big buildings, big cities, big rivers, and a big population. But the nation’s penchant for big isn’t just an artificial one, nature plays along too. If you look up “the tallest tree in Asia” on the internet, it may mention Menara, a yellow meranti tree Shorea faguetiana with a […]
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Attempting to get a grip on the homeless epidemic, homeless shelters are making conscious choices to employ trauma-informed designs to make those who are sheltering feel calm, more autonomous, and safe. For example, at Path Home Family Village in Portland, Oregon, natural bamboo wood roofs sit above a naturally lit area pained in seafoam green, […]
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Ohio resident Molly Jones was worried about the possibility of leaving her 15-year-old daughter behind in the event of her death from autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). She posted an impassioned plea on Facebook asking someone to consider donating a kidney, and a Facebook friend she had never met in person quickly responded: “how […]
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19 years ago today, in quite unbelievable fashion, Greece beat Portugal 1-0 to become European champions for the first time in her history. Several pundits labeled Greece’s tournament win the greatest upset in the history of the European Championship; among these was BBC Sport’s John May, who cited Greece’s record of never having previously won […]
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Waking up from a coma, a man was devastated when he learned his dog had gotten lost, but his luck turned around after the help from a local dog rescue organizer. Bubba Nulisch was hospitalized with a bacterial infection and put into an induced coma on April 18th. After waking from his coma three weeks […]
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Spongy, uniquely green, and allegedly good with directions, Earth’s ubiquitous mosses are more important to ecosystems than they appear. Found in at least 12,000 species living everywhere from snow-capped mountains to red-hot deserts, moss is the oldest living relative of all plants, but despite its age it seem to hold the key to many of […]
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The Iberian Peninsula has unique opportunities for green energy, and its two nations are taking advantage of it by powering nearly their whole society on renewables. Portugal beat a 9-year record when in March 2023, it generated 103% of its monthly energy consumption with renewable sources. This was according to the country’s transmission system operator, […]
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Last Monday, the Blackfeet Nation released 30 wild bison back onto their land, a project 9 years in the making that the tribe believes will also be a momentous occasion for scientists to study the animal in its natural state. The bison, or Iinnii arrived from Alberta, Canada, in 2016 and were placed in a special […]
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95 years ago today, John Logie Baird completed the first color TV transmission by using three light sources at the receiving end, with a commutator to alternate their illumination, and scanning discs at the transmitting and end with three spirals of apertures, each spiral having a filter of a different primary color. The image was […]
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Modern men are nearly as likely as women to openly display a sensitive side, according to a new survey. The poll of 2,000 adults found that 71% of the men reported being in touch with their feelings—compared to 82% of women. Of the respondents who called themselves sensitive, 41% outwardly show it often—or always. One-third […]
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A New Jersey man upended his life by jumping in to drive his family over 1000 miles when their flight was cancelled. Nathan Montanez had just dropped his wife and two kids at the airport to begin their trip to Disney World, but United Airlines cancelled their flight to Florida—and any rebooking meant they wouldn’t […]
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Your doggie heart is going to melt after watching this cute moment inside a Midwestern fur-family. Louie the Boxer sits calmly in the front seat listening to a stern dad giving him a parental ’talking-to’ on a weekend trip to the emergency room following an unfortunate incident with a porcupine. While they were driving to […]
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Rare conjoined twins who survived surgery to separate them, despite just 2% odds of success, have now graduated kindergarten. In her 11th week of pregnancy Heather Delaney learned that she was carrying twins connected at the head—known as craniopagus twins—and the girls were born at 30 weeks gestation weighing just 6 pounds combined. They remained […]
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Happy 34th birthday to the soccer forward and highest-paid women’s athlete, Alex Morgan. As of publication, she has won 206 caps for the US Women’s National Team, and has scored 121 goals. While her career has never seen her stay at the same club for more than 3 seasons, her time with the USWNT has […]
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The landlord of the London pub featured in the Emmy-sweeping comedy series Ted Lasso says tourists have been flocking from “almost every country” to enjoy a pint in the wake of the TV show’s meteoric rise. Reece Kent became the manager at The Prince’s Head pub in Richmond in April 2022. It’s the very pub […]
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A renowned micro-artist has recreated a trio of Vincent Van Gogh paintings inside a watch—each smaller than the gap of a second hand. David A. Lindon depicted three of the late Dutch painter’s most famous works, but in a mind-bogglingly microscopic size, calling it the world’s first-ever wearable art gallery. The fragility of the pieces […]
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4ocean has reached a stellar milestone: 30 million pounds of plastic waste recovered from the our oceans, rivers, and coastlines since the company began in 2017. Operating in 12 locations across two continents, 4ocean has been dedicated to ending the ocean plastic crisis. “4ocean is incredibly proud to have accomplished this record-setting feat” said Alex […]
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127 years ago today, Wilfrid Laurier was sworn in as Canada’s first French-speaking prime minister. Recognized as either the greatest leader Canada has ever enjoyed, or thereabouts, Laurier’s unprecedented and unsurpassed tenure of 15 consecutive years as prime minister was marked by his sincere devotion to maintaining neutrality between English and French-speaking Canadians, as well […]
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This installation isn’t a graduate student’s idea of an art piece, it’s a sophisticated air purifier that could be key to making India’s capital more livable. With the worst air pollution in the world stemming from a variety of factors, New Dehli was recently selected as the home of a husband-and-wife architecture business. But seeing […]
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Researchers found that, like us, the octopus transitions between two sleep stages, a “quiet” stage and an “active” stage that resembles REM sleep in mammals. Their arms and eyes twitch, their breathing rate quickens, and their skin flashes with vibrant colors—which has led scientists to conjecture that they may even be dreaming. Researchers from the […]
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LiDAR has done it again: pyramids, a ballcourt, and columns built by the late Mayan Empire over 1,000 years ago were discovered under the forest canopy thanks to the hi-tech surveying device. The site is located in the largely-unexplored forested region in the Mexican state of Campeche, an area of 1,150 square miles near the […]
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Did you know Claude wasn’t the only Monet? His younger brother Leon’s faithful support of his older brother is partly why Claude became the man we know today. The Brothers Monet and their relationship are on full display at a new exhibit at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris. Curator Geraldine Lefebvre took three years […]
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112 years ago the Indian, writer, poet, and traveloguer Vaidyanath Mishra, better known by his pen name of Nagarjun, was born in the state of Bihar. The cradle of Indian civilization and birthplace of the Buddha, Bihar has produced many great writers, and Nagarjun was certainly one of them. However, his early life witnessed the […]
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It’s the most famous mathematical sequence in biology—the description of a spiral with a particular ratio found in the evolution of plants going back millions of years, and that is seen today in succulents like this aloe, but also in pineapples, sunflowers, and pinecones. Named for the Italian mathematician that discovered it, the Fibonacci Sequence, […]
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At times it can seem that some humans are just born to play the piano or run long distances, but natural talent isn’t limited to beauty or competition, some talent comes in subtler ways. Take 65-year-old Bryan Pfeiffer, a man born seemingly for the purpose of hunting a little brown butterfly the size of a […]
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While modest, this simple table has a special secret—the artisans who crafted it lived more than 400 years ago. The rare rosewood table, standing 31 inches (79cm) tall was made around 1,600CE during the Ming Dynasty. Known colloquially for their vases and porcelain, there was nothing the Ming Dynasty artisans couldn’t craft. British Auctioneer, antiquities […]
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This little fellow is the Burmese peacock softshell turtle, and he’s sitting here in the hands of one of the first humans to ever hatch them in captivity. As one of the most endangered freshwater turtle species on the planet, it’s hoped the 15 hatchlings will go a long way towards preserving these beautiful reptiles […]
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222 years ago today, Frédéric Bastiat, the French economist and writer was born. He is known not only for pioneering some of the most fundamental concepts in economic thought, but doing so with wit, humor, and in such a way as to make it nearly impossible to misunderstand. Those concepts are, the “broken window fallacy” […]
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A Stockholm development company has a dream contract in its hands—the construction of a whole new city borough entirely of lumber that aims to be a sustainable ballast to an unbalanced city. Spanning 25 blocks, 30 sustainable mass timber buildings will add 7,000 new offices and 2,000 new homes, with construction slated to begin in […]
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A suite of studies shows that time spent in nature, particularly around tree cover, improves mental and physical health. The researchers believe that their presentation shows that nature “prescriptions” merit wider use in the medical profession. Suggesting that spending time in nature walking with friends is good for mood and blood pressure will surprise pretty […]
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News oulets, and indeed, GNN, have reported multiple times that smart watches and their ability to monitor heart rate have saved lives. But a Cincinnati woman was having a pulmonary embolism while she slept and the Apple Watch was able to detect it because unlike similar devices it measures heart rate also while the wearer […]
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NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission acquired “stunning views” of Mars in two ultraviolet images taken at different points along our neighboring planet’s orbit around the Sun. By viewing the planet in ultraviolet wavelengths, scientists say they can gain insight into the Martian atmosphere and view surface features in remarkable ways. MAVEN’s Imaging […]
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Happy 52nd birthday to entrepreneur Elon Musk. Through his ambition, sleepless work ethic, and engineering brilliance, Musk has undoubtedly transformed the world for the better with his work at Tesla and SpaceX. With the former, he made electric cars cool and widely desired for the first time, resulting in sales that have removed over 1 […]
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Although popular, his works have never been found as decoration before and they believe the inscription on the bottom of an olive oil amphora is a world first. The 1,800-year-old fragment was found near Cordoba in Spain, the epicenter of the Roman olive oil trade. Although famous for his poem The Aeneid, the 2-inch-long fragment […]
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Last sighted in 1969, a tiny lizard from the Australian state of Queensland has been rediscovered by scientists who now hope to act fast to ascertain its numbers. Not all dragons can be fearsome firebreathers. Indeed, the Victorian grassland earless dragon, Tympanocryptis pinguicolla, is just 15 centimeters long (6 inches). Once commonly found in grasslands west of […]
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Firefighters are famous in society for their lifesaving efforts, but it’s not always by pulling people out of burning buildings, as it turns out. One firefighter was pulling an overnight shift at his station in Ocala, Florida, when he heard an alarm go off. It wasn’t the sign to jump into the engine and rev […]
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In Germany, a small handful of dedicated people are, without any invitation or request, gradually reuniting silver and gold objects with the Jewish families who once owned them. While it’s well-known that fine art was confiscated from Jews living within the Third Reich, what’s less talked about is the assortment of candelabras, kiddush cups, and […]
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On this day 125 years ago, Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation in the world, amazingly, on a sailing yacht he built himself from scratch. His journey began in Nova Scotia, in April, and he wrote a book about the trip as he went, entitled, Sailing Alone Around the World which contains such literary skill […]
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Miracle Messages worked its magic again this year when the nonprofit helped reunite a father and son who had been separated for over ten years. The exciting reconnection happened after Eddie Thompson Ⅲ, who has struggled with housing insecurity for a decade, reached out for help. He spent years longing to reunite with his son, […]
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After Gulf conditions off the Florida panhandle changed rapidly, one resident attempted to rescue three people trapped in a capsized houseboat. Another boat saw what was happening and came to help—and even rescue—the rescuer, demonstrating the diffusion of heroism among the folks of the Florida Gulf community. It started last Friday when Travis Brady and […]
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Scientists have taken pollutant phosphorus from wastewater and infused it into a soil superfood called biochar to really “close the loop” on several widespread agricultural practices. The biochar itself is made from incinerated organic material inside an oxygen-deprived environment, turning it into charcoal that acts like an underground rainwater sponge that also delivers the necessary […]
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After moving to Texas from the East Coast, a family “adopted” a neighborhood senior who jumped in to welcome them. Sharaine Caraballo and her husband Wilson met 82-year-old Paul Callahan in March last year when Wilson began working on their recently purchased home and he offered him a ladder to work with. From then on, it […]
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247 years ago today, the national poet of Thailand, Sunthorn Phu was born in Bangkok. A composer of epic poetry, Phu’s life was strange in that it was characterized by constantly entering into and falling out of favor with the royal family. For example, he began the massive epic poem, Phra Aphai Mani during his […]
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Kirigami, the ancient Japanese art of cutting paper, has been adapted by researchers at Virginia Tech to make sticky tape much stronger, yet easier to remove than current super-adhesives. From quickly fixing household items to ensuring a reliable seal on a package to be mailed, it’s helpful to have tape with a strong bond—but removing […]
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An international team of scientists has recorded a sound that came from the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, stemming from an event around 200 years ago. The sound was emitted during an intense period of activity as the dark hole known as Sagittarius A* (pronounced ‘Sagittarius A star’) stirred […]
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A poll of moms, dads, guardians, and caregivers of children under 13, found that 84 percent consider raising children to be the greatest thing to happen to them—and the best thing may be their cuddles. Other favorite aspects include seeing their personalities develop and laughing often over the youngsters’ quirky questions and funny remarks. Watching […]
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Monarchs are the only insects to attempt such a massive trek as the one from Canada to Mexico—and the success of this butterfly’s 3,000-mile journey may come down to how many white spots are on their wings. A new study by University of Georgia researchers suggests that the butterflies with more white spots are better […]
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113 years ago today, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird premiered in Paris’ Palais Garnier, bringing international acclaim to the Russian. Based on a Russian fable of a magical bird and an immortal wizard. Its debut was heralded for Stravinsky’s “delicious” musicianship, and the ballet’s exceptional balance. The backcloth of the stage was quite old, and lent according […]
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Supermarket carts in Liverpool, England, were fitted with sensors that could identify people at risk of a stroke—and dozens of willing participants were diagnosed. Atrial fibrillation, or Afib, is a common heart rhythm disorder that causes blood clots to form in the heart and can cause breathlessness and extreme tiredness while doing simple of chores. […]
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A couple who hand-reared a one-day-old duckling before releasing her back to the wild were left stunned when she returned to their home six months—and brought a few family members. Phil Garner took the tiny mallard under his wing after finding her abandoned on a fishing lake, before bringing her back to his wife Julia, […]
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Last year, America’s national parks received overflowing record crowds during the summer months. Places like Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Shenandoah, Sequoia, and Great Smokey Mountains were standing room only in some places. But as glorious as these temples to nature’s splendor are, there are 63 (pending 64) national parks in the country, some […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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42 years ago, The Humber Bridge became the world’s longest single-span suspension bridge when it was inaugurated over the waters of the Humber Estuary formed by the rivers Trent and Ouse. Connecting Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Hessle on the north bank, connecting the East Riding of Yorkshire with North Lincolnshire, the building is […]
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Big corporate hotel chains have never lacked criticism and customer complaints, but in downtown Kansas City, one Marriot is honoring a promise that its representatives made almost 40 years ago. Tim and Melinda O’Brien got married in 1983 and wanted to go “where nobody would think to look for us” for a fast honeymoon getaway. […]
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Unearthed by miners in Mozambique last July, a 55.22-carat ruby has just sold for a record-breaking $34.8 million. Dubbed the Estrela di Fura in the country’s official language of Portuguese, it was cut and polished into a symmetrical shape of deep red down from its rough carat count of 101. Sotheby’s, which handled the sale, […]
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The US Postal Service has taken a peculiar interest in its latest commemorative stamp collection—waterfalls. 12 news stamps attempt to communicate the majesty of the nation’s most beautiful cascades, from Virginia to Washington State to Hawai’i. Many may recognize Niagra Falls or Lower Yellowstone Falls, but not all of them are large cataracts. There are […]
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If you have ever taken an interest in underwater archaeology, you’ll know that this is a truly astonishingly well-preserved shipwreck. It must be 200 or 300 years old to look like that right? Try 3,000 years old—the oldest hand-sewn boat ever found in the Mediterranean. Named the “Zambratija boat” because of its location in the […]
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136 years ago today, The Rocky Mountains Park Act passed Canadian parliament, establishing Banff National Park, the nation’s largest and most famous park. It was modeled on the law that created Yellowstone National Park south of the border just a few years before. Before, there had been a small preserve of 26 square miles that […]
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The marks on the wall of La Roche-Cotard cave in the Centre-Val de Loire are interpreted as finger-flutings, or marks made by human hands, at least 57,000 years ago. Research in recent decades has revealed much about the cultural complexity of Neanderthals, but relatively little is known about their symbolic or artistic expression. Only a […]
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A pangolin-inspired small robot designed to perform safe and minimally invasive medical procedures inside of the body was revealed in a study published this week. The untethered, soft robots may one day be capable of accessing hard-to-reach regions inside of the body—such as in the stomach and small intestine—by morphing their shape. When most of […]
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A video captured in Colombia shows a clever baby escaping from his crib—by moving it across his bedroom while still inside. CCTV shows the toddler trying and failing to climb over the side of the cot. Eventually, he figures out he can move the crib across the room by pushing at the wall with his […]
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Denmark is celebrating the opening of its first dinosaur museum by shipping over the largest dino skull ever found. Once, the enormous, 10-foot-long dome belonged to a male Torosaurus that weighed over 6.5 tons. It’s the largest skull of any known land animal ever recorded. The beast, affectionately called “Adam” was found in the United […]
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85 years ago today, Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in a re-match of perhaps the most famous fight series in history. It completely transcended the sport, as taking place in the months leading up to the Second World War, the fight between a black man born in Alabama versus a white German became a […]
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Don’t call it a comeback, blue whales have been here for years, rocking their peers and putting sailors in fear. The largest animals on Earth are returning to the coastal Californian waters in larger and larger numbers, with sightings on whale-watching trips becoming increasingly common. According to a 2014 study investigating the impact of ship […]
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When a thrift store enthusiast found these strange-looking plates that vaguely resembled human faces, she felt they would make a great table set. The price was listed on a sticker at $1.99 per plate—right next to the name “Picasso.” Nancy Cavaliere loves to fill up her apartment with storied pieces, but checked her enthusiasm which […]
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It’s one of the most infamous crime scenes in history. Now, “Beware the Ides of March,” “Why this is force!” “Et tu, Brutae?” and all the other utterances can be enjoyed by you and your friends as Rome has opened to the public the spot where Julius Caesar was assassinated. For decades, the “Sacred Area” […]
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Happy 40th birthday to the heroic whistleblower Edward Snowden, a man who chose to live a life of permanent prosecution by his home government, rather than hold a great and powerful lie in his heart. His revelations of the world’s largest data collection, surveillance, and storage apparatus deep in the bowels of the National Security […]
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At an innovation fair in Germany, a young man might have just found a way to seat more people in an aircraft while simultaneously giving them more legroom and accessibility. How could such a thing be possible? Check out these double-decker airplane seats. 23-year-old designer Alejandro Núñez Vicente presented a revised concept of his original […]
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A 90-year-old master who’s still limber enough to get on the mat every once in a while has just been awarded his ninth degree, or dan, in Judo. Only 6 individuals in the UK hold a ninth dan, and Michael Leigh is the oldest judoka in the country to reach what is the second-highest rank in […]
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During a routine dive to clean the oceans off the coast of Florida, 4ocean CEO Alex Schulze found something that obviously still had value to someone. The brand new iPhone sealed in a plastic bag was in far better shape than most of the smartphones found by Schulze and his cleanup crews, being waterlogged and […]
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It looks fake at first glance—how could 3,400 years of time leave a hunk of metal so untouched? Yet when archaeologists from Bavaria’s State Office for Monument Protection first uncovered the sword, it literally “almost still shines.” Found in the grave of a man near the town of Nördlingen, the sword is thought to have […]
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Cambridge University researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes – or even directly from the air – and transformed into clean, sustainable fuels using just the energy from the sun. They developed a solar-powered reactor that uses captured CO2 and plastic waste (which acts as a catalyst) and converts it […]
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A scuba diver has forged an unlikely bond with a wild fish and the pair meet up every summer beneath the waves for a reunion. Rex Colubra made friends with the small mouth bass while on a fresh water dive in September 2021. The odd encounter ended with the 40-year-old naming the fish Elvis. According […]
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NASA and Boeing have unveiled the plane they hope will save the Earth. The aim is for the experimental aircraft to help reach a net zero aviation emissions goal by 2050 in the U.S. Working with NASA as part of a $725 million agreement, Boeing will build, test, and fly a full-scale demonstrator aircraft with […]
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Meet the 11-year-old boy who fell in love with agriculture during the pandemic, and dreamed of becoming a farmer. Today he rents his own plot of land where he cares for chickens and breeds sheep. Joe Trofer-Cook’s passion for farming was sparked when he planted seeds in a new raised bed that his grandfather built […]
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113 years ago today, the German transportation company DELAG launched the inaugural service aboard the airship, Deutschland. It was the first time a zeppelin-style airship had ever carried paying passengers, and despite its loss 18 days later, the company tweaked the design and carried on building a revenue stream. By the week before World War II, […]
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83 years ago, Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp. Piechowski engineered his escape after getting access to schedules that showed a friend of his was slated for execution. On the morning of 20 June exactly two years after […]
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Jets of light 100,000 billion times brighter than the sun have been captured by astronomers observing a quasar—the most powerful object in the universe. The beams are at the center of a galaxy 9.6 billion light years away—meaning we are seeing them as they were then. They were triggered when clouds of gas fell into […]
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A British grandad has become one of the world’s top arm-wrestlers after taking up the sport just three years ago. Mark Waldon discovered professional arm wrestling during lockdown but has now captured the gold medal at the European Championships representing Great Britain in the International Federation of Arm Wrestling (IFA) Now 53, Mark first researched […]
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To combat learning loss over the summer, Tennessee is funding the delivery of surprise books to keep almost a quarter million kids engaged with reading. The Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation (GELF) expanded its K-3 Home Library program to now include all rising 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade students enrolled in a public school. In collaboration […]
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A baby deer was rescued and reunited with its mother this month after it disappeared into a storm drain along a suburban street. Homeowners near Baltimore, Maryland, said they spotted a distressed adult deer circling the storm drain, and called emergency services after they heard the cries of the fawn trapped below. After prying open […]
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What’s the difference between dad jokes and pizza? Dad jokes can’t be topped. The ‘best dad jokes’ have been compiled after a poll identified what Americans consider to be the top 20 cheesy gags that fathers like to try on anyone within ear shot. The 2,000 adults voted this one to be the most popular: […]
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A police officer was captured on her dash-cam scuttling after a tiny kitten on the side of a busy highway. Officer Estrada is seen in the video below pulling over her vehicle on the Las Vegas, Nevada highway. She quickly approaching the terrified kitty, saying “Hi, baby. You’re OK.” But the Nevada State Trooper had […]
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A medieval artifact bought for $20 at a flea market was initially intended to be used to decorate a garden—but now it fetched thousands of dollars at auction. The thrifters were left stunned after auctioneers revealed it was a 600-year-old medieval hand cannon dating back to the 1400s. The bronze gun powder weapon was purchased […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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90 years ago today, Harry Browne, among the first men to introduce Libertarianism to a national audience, was born in New York. Browne was known as a principled, humble, and very litigious man. Serving in the Army and Army Reserves, he ran as the Libertarian Presidential Candidate in 1996 and 2000, appearing on the ballot […]
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More than 700,000 objects in the universe are available for study as part of a 3D map cleverly produced by scientists looking to study the effects of dark energy. Most substance in the universe is either dark matter, an invisible kind of mass that pulls galaxies towards each other and builds structures, or dark energy, […]
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It’s long been supposed that implants could connect prosthetics to the brain in a way that stimulates nervous system commands with electrical signals. Now, this idea is closer than ever to realization in a meaningful way, as one man paralyzed from the hips down is able to walk unsupported, even up stairs, thanks to such […]
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In the south London borough of Southwark, construction work uncovered a Roman mausoleum containing beautiful mosaic flooring. The “incredibly rare” discovery was confirmed by the Museum of London Archaeology as “the most intact Roman mausoleum ever to be discovered in Britain”. Excavations turned up coins, pottery shards, and roofing tiles, as well as 80 Roman […]
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A collaborative effort of scientists and Hawaiian culture-keepers is preparing to undertake the largest restoration of coral reefs in the island chain’s history. While the scientists work to propagate and study the corals below, a cultural organization called the Kohala Center will work on land to educate how terrestrial activities impact the corals that give […]
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11 years/60 years ago today, two ladies became the first women to enter space for their respective nations. 60 years ago it was the first female Russian, Valentina Tereshkova, who was also the first woman ever to fly into space, while 11 years ago it was the first female Chinese astronaut aka a “taikonaut” Liu […]
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Of South Korea’s countless kilograms of annual food scraps, very few will ever end up in a landfill. This is because of two reasons—the first is that it’s been illegal since 2005, and the second is because they have perhaps the world’s most sophisticated food waste disposal infrastructure. While representing a significant burden on the […]
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When a California woman found what looked like used firewood on a beach, she snapped some photographs of the nevertheless strange-looking object and went on her way. As it turns out, she had stumbled across something remarkable—a mastodon tooth, and after posting pictures of it on Facebook, set off a chain reaction that led to […]
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Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness. This is Part 2 of a two-part exclusive on World at Large. Some sections are taken from Part 1, published in April. Out in the ultra-rural jungles of eastern Madagascar, something is happening that all […]
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A professional Italian fisherman just reeled a 9-foot catfish out of a river that just last year was suffering so badly from Europe’s heatwave that in some places it had dried out almost completely. As long as a U-Haul truck, he released the fish in order to allow such a specimen to continue influencing the […]
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723 years ago today, the city of Bilbao was founded in northern Spain’s Basque Country. It was established by the local lord Diego López V de Haro in a charter approved by the King of Spain at the time. Located about 10 miles south of the Bay of Biscay, its weather patterns bless the city with […]
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Having a twice-a-week yoga practice has recently been shown to be effective at reducing symptoms of fatigue in people with cancer, as well as reducing the likelihood of a beaten cancer from returning. 18 million people around the world develop various forms of cancer every year, and it’s well known that physical inactivity increases the […]
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Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness. Published in April of last year, a study found that older men put on a relatively simple 8-week program were able to reduce their biological age by 3.2 years. It might be surprising to read, […]
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When Amber the orangutan met a visitor called Taylor, her day became focused on a single objective—finding out what was inside her purse. Filmed at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky, the ape’s gestures are simply too human to believe, such as gesturing with her index finger like an overly proud security guard at a concert […]
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Despite the veins in a leaf appearing like a nervous system, our woody neighbors do not have a nervous system—but that doesn’t mean they can’t feel your touch upon their many hands. Quite the contrary, scientists have established using sophisticated microscopy that plants register the beginning and end of every touch by sending slow waves […]
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Happy 64th birthday to the radically cool bassist Marcus Miller. Along with a very successful solo career, he has worked closely with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Stanley Clarke, and Victor Wooten. He has collected a lifetime achievement award, Grammy, and was appointed a UNESCO Artist for Peace. READ who he has played with, and watch him […]
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Researchers have discovered 12,000-year-old miniature flutes that may have been used for mimicking raptor calls. The precise motive of the mimicry is unknown. It could have had religious connotations or been part of some form of hunting strategy. Although the prehistoric site of Eynan-Mallaha in northern Israel has been thoroughly examined since 1955, it still […]
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A new solar system has been found where planets orbit two suns just like on Luke Skywalker’s home planet in Star Wars. It’s the fifth multi-star system ever discovered, and the third one which features two stars. Tatooine, the desert home planet of Luke and Anakin Skywalker was imagined as a desert world with two […]
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Elephants are one of the holiest animals in Hinduism. Also, yoga was invented in India. Is it any surprise then that elephants really like doing yoga? Check out this picture for example—the world’s largest and heaviest land animal doing a headstand. Can you do a headstand? At the Houston Zoo, elephants participate in a static […]
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Since 2015, a mobile museum has been traveling around the most rural parts of India, introducing disadvantaged schoolchildren to the rich tapestry of Indian history—from the dinosaurs to the Mughals. The innovative education idea has so far traveled over 50,000 miles and visited 700 cities in the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, and […]
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52 years ago today, the New York Times begin publication of the Pentagon Papers, released by RAND Corp staffer Daniel Ellsberg. They revealed to the American public the true scope of US operations in the Vietnam War, the bombing of Cambodia and Laos, and the despicable depth of dishonesty which four separate presidential administrations went […]
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In one of Europe’s technical centers for firefighting research, a nimble drone that can carry a fire hose is being tested for quick-response firefighting. Hovering 164 feet above a potential blaze, a pair of symmetrical jet streams can channel the water from a nearby fire engine onto mountainsides where the bulky automobile can’t get. In […]
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Virginia Oliver has already renewed her lobster fishing license for the 2023 season. Unlike other lobstermen however, for this Mainer it’s an almost century-long ritual. That’s because Virginia is the state’s oldest lobster fisherman—at 103 years old, an anniversary that she celebrated with friends, family, news reporters, and lobster-shaped earrings studded with jewels last Tuesday. […]
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A super skilled sniffer dog called Freya is helping to track down highly-endangered great crested newts in an attempt to save the species. The six-year-old English springer spaniel’s powerful nose can sniff out the semi-aquatic creatures even when they are hiding underground, say scientists who found that Freya was able to locate the newts 87% […]
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Four Colombian children from an indigenous community who survived a plane crash have been found alive after being lost five weeks in the jungle. GNN reported two weeks ago about the plight of four Colombian children who miraculously survived a plane crash that killed all three adults on board. At the time, rescuers were hot […]
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372 years ago today, Gian Lorenzo Bernini finished La Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, or the fountain of four rivers, in the Piazza Navona, in Rome. It depicts four representational rivers, the Danube, the Rio de la Plata, the Nile, and the Ganges, to celebrate riverinity. According to a report from the time, an event was organized to draw […]
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Why some people are mosquito magnets might be due to which soap they use in the shower, according to new research, as the pesky insects fly towards or away from specific aromas. “It’s remarkable the same individual that is extremely attractive to mosquitoes when they are unwashed can be turned even more attractive to mosquitoes […]
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A group of scientists were left amazed after the sighting of an extremely rare jellyfish that was only seen once before. The team of experts spotted the animal during an expedition by the Ocean Exploration Trust, a nonprofit dedicated to marine exploration and research. The video below captures the moment and shows the bizarre-looking creature […]
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Dancing or going for brisk walks can slash the risk of diabetes by three quarters, according to a huge new study. Those who managed more than an hour of moderate-to-vigorous exercise per day were 74 percent less likely to be diagnosed, compared to sedentary peers. The protection even applied to genetically-predisposed patients when the disease […]
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In a historic win for voting rights, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday ruled in Allen v. Milligan in favor of Black voters, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the court’s three liberal justices, ruling that Alabama’s congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits racially discriminatory voting practices or procedures. […]
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30 years ago today, Jurassic Park was released nationwide, featuring never-before-seen use of animatronics and computer-generated images to create lifelike dinosaurs that captivated a generation. $912 million worldwide it grossed in its original theatrical run, becoming the highest-grossing film ever at the time, a record held until the release of Titanic in 1997. READ about the […]
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Americans are retiring earlier than they’d expected—that’s according to a new survey of 2,000 retirees. The poll found that, on average, people initially expected to retire at 63.2 years old, but instead did so at 61.5 years old—beating the median point by almost two years. One in three (32%) said that they “would have retired […]
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A year ago, we introduced you to an artist who began transforming an old neighborhood by painting the drab homes with vividly cheerful colors—and now she’s unveiled her latest street of 63 “rainbow homes”. Tash Frootko has been painting houses in Gloucester since 2018, providing free makeovers for entire streets and several squares within the […]
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A real whiff of ancient Rome from 2,000 years ago was unleashed as a sealed vial of Roman perfume has been opened—and a whiff of patchouli oil wafted through the air once again. The stopper, made of dolomite—a type of carbon, and a tight seal with bitumen enabled the contents of the tiny glass container […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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64 years ago today, one of the greatest football managers of modern times, Carlo Ancelotti, was born. With his calm demeanor, raised eyebrow, and tactical nouse, the Italian became the most decorated manager in UEFA Champions League history, having won the trophy a record four times as coach of AC Milan and Real Madrid. There […]
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A young entrepreneur is using 3D printers to create cheap school campuses in rural Madagascar. It takes just $40,000 and 18 hours to build a “Thinking Hut,” as they’re called, and founder of the project Maggie Grout is aiming to get the cost even lower before handing the reins over to local professionals. GNN previously […]
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After scientists identified a link between the risk of cancer and clusters of chemicals in an individual’s cells, a screening program that could detect tumors decades in advance is on the horizon. The chemicals are called circular RNAs, and when they stick to DNA strands in great enough numbers they can cause tumors known as […]
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2 years ago, little Hugo Deans from Pennsylvania found some red-colored seeds on the ground by an ant’s nest in his backyard. Hugo was excited—he didn’t know ants collected seeds, and his excitement grew when he showed his father Andrew, an entomologist at Penn State, who didn’t know they did either. The two bug enthusiasts […]
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Elaborate circles of sand and pebbles have been spotted off the coast of a Japanese island. Prior to 2011, these strange, mandala-like circles found under the shallow sea were a mystery, and the identity of their architects was anything but expected. They are constructed for an annual mating ritual by male white-spotted pufferfish, reports Japanese […]
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50 years ago today, Secretariat and his rider Ron Turcotte won the Triple Crown, the first in 25 years after finishing first at the Belmont Stakes. Only four horses ran against Secretariat including the horse Sham, whom Secretariat had overtaken late on to win the Kentucky Derby and three other horses thought to have little […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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A new animal therapy business using cuddly, wooly neighbors to help struggling kids and adults with their mental health, and the results are unbaalievable EWE Talk was launched by Emma Redman and Pippa Ashton last year after Emma was given the opportunity to buy a unique breed of sheep called a Valias Blacknose. Known for […]
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The first day of summer; June 21st; the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s a time marked by most ancient cultures as the most important day in the calendar, and probably the New Year as well. But there’s no need to spend “Midsummer” buried in your history books, there are several […]
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A man named Michael can thank his lucky stars that when his heart stopped aboard an airplane, there was a healthcare angel sitting just a few rows back. Emily Raines, an acute care nurse at a Baltimore hospital, was flying back from a vacation in the Bahamas with her boyfriend when the flight attendant asked […]
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Conservationists are celebrating the birth of one of the world’s most endangered primates at a UK zoo. The rare Sulawesi crested macaque was born on May 16th at the Chester Zoo to proud new mom Rumple and dad Mamassa. Adorable photographs show the new arrival clinging on to its mother as it made its first […]
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Happy 67th birthday to tennis star and heartthrob Björn Rune Borg, winner of 11 Grand Slam singles titles consisting of 6 French Opens and 5 consecutive championships at Wimbledon. Borg is widely considered one of the all-time greats of the sport. He was ranked by Tennis magazine as the sixth-greatest male player of the Open […]
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Many laymen will not be aware that science has never been able to X-ray a single atom. The best that current state-of-the-art synchrotron scanners can manage is to X-ray an attogram—about 10,000 atoms—but the signal produced by a single atom is so weak that conventional detectors cannot be used. Until now. This landmark feat was […]
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Kenya’s vast Tsavo East National Park is no place for the solitary. It’s easy to get lost in the dense bush, a fact 4-year-old Ayub from the Asa community will remember for the rest of his life. The boy faced a terrifying ordeal, lost for 6 days amid a territory 66% larger than Yellowstone, and […]
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In a “landmark” phase III trial, a skin patch to combat peanut allergies in children under the age of 4 has shown to be safe and more effective than placebo. The patch works like exposure therapy, slowly training the toddlers’ bodies to tolerate proteins in peanuts that may cause an immune response in normal cases. […]
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A Missouri middle schooler was so determined to make it to his graduation, he ended up walking 6 miles. Losing out on an opportunity for a ride there, 8th-grader Xavier Jones asked his friend and brother to walk along with him, remembering something a mentor at Yeatman Middle School had told him. “‘If I want […]
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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 […]
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The original demo tape that landed Prince his first record contract is being auctioned. Boston-based RR Auction calls the sale a “stunning revelation for music enthusiasts and Prince fans worldwide.” The demo tape, recorded on a 1/4″ reel-to-reel tape in 1976, contains unreleased versions of three Prince originals: The catchy pop tune “Just As Long […]
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Reprinted via EarthTalk®, From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Are there any environmentally friendly air conditioners out there? Traditional air conditioning units consume significant amounts of energy and rely heavily on refrigerants that contribute to global warming. The good news is that there are several environmentally-friendly air conditioning options available today. One […]
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People over 60 who take a daily multivitamin pill may be slowing age-related memory decline, according to a new study that amplifies similar findings from last year. More than 3,500 American adults over the age of 60 were randomly assigned to take either a daily multivitamin supplement or placebo for three years. At the end […]
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34 years ago today, in the first modern elections in Poland, Lech Walesa’s Solidarity Party of trade unionists won 160 out of 161 seats in the government, triggering the Revolutions of 1989, and quite simply, the fall of Communism, freeing Eastern Europe to pursue self-government and market capitalism. READ a bit about this momentous occasion… (1989) […]
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Astronomers have found hundreds of mysterious filaments pointing towards the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, which could uncover fresh secrets about the dark abyss at the centre of our galaxy. The strange horizontal strands are 25,000 light years from Earth and have been likened to spokes spreading out on a wheel. “It was a surprise […]
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Expert Chris Sim, who cooks community meals for more than 2,000 people every year, says hosts need to learn to delegate, not sweat the small stuff and create a meal ‘timeline’. He honed his expert know-how for putting on a foodie event by volunteering in the UK with FoodCycle for the last six years. The […]
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A 98-year-old dementia patient and veteran of World War II got to relive his career by riding in a retro ambulance and donning the old uniform—which opened the floodgates of precious memories. Albert Gibbs, who worked on ambulances in London for a quarter-century, was visited by two paramedics in a 1960s ambulance, wearing familiar gray […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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31 years ago, the landmark Australian legal case Mabo v Queensland was resolved in the High Court against the principle of terra nullius, i.e that it was owned by nobody before the British arrived. It was brought by a Torres Strait Islander named Eddie Mabo, and became the first in Australia to recognize pre-colonial land […]
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A smartphone app has been developed that monitors blood pressure by using a simple and cheap 3D-printed plastic attachment that clips in front of the camera flash. High blood pressure is an underlying trigger for many of the world’s deadliest medical conditions, and the new device, which could cost as little as 10 cents, could […]
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A unique opportunity for a fixer-upper is coming by way of the US General Services Administration (GSA)—6 historic American lighthouses. Going up this year via public auction, the federal government has a unique way of ensuring lighthouses retain their historic status which can even involve auctioning them off to private citizens with an affection for […]
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When one is dealing with elephants, everything becomes a bit bigger, a bit more extreme—such as in this video when CPR is delivered via two veterinarians jumping up and down on the animal’s ribs like a moon bounce. Similarly, Chhouk, an 11-year-old Asian elephant living at the Wildlife Alliance conservation organization in Cambodia, walks with […]
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It’s been one of the busiest and deadliest seasons for summiting The Mountain So High No Bird Can Fly Over It, also known as Mt. Everest, and if not for a 30-year-old Sherpa named Gelje, it would have become deadlier still. Gelje Sherpa and a colleague rescued a Malaysian climber who was on the […]
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80 years ago today, Queen Elizabeth II was coronated in one of the first major international events to be televised. Twenty-seven million people across Britain watched the event live on the BBC Television Service, many having purchased or rented television sets specifically for that purpose. There had been considerable debate within the British Cabinet on […]
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While this old parchment page may look like one out of a wizard’s spellbook, it’s actually what scholars believe to be the world’s oldest recorded stand-up comedy routine. In the year 1,480, a household cleric and tutor to a noble family named Richard Heege went to a feast where there was a minstrel performing a […]
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In 2019, an albino giant panda was spotted in a nature reserve in Sichuan, China, and quickly made rounds on the internet as the first and only one of its kind. Based on the footage of the animal, its gait and stature are that of a healthy young adult, GNN wrote at the time, and […]
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In the ultimate pump-up story, a daredevil job seeker landed a new position after jumping out of a plane with a cardboard sign asking for work. Chris Serrano, a creative director living in Florida, filmed himself skydiving whilst holding a piece of cardboard reading ‘Open4Work.’ He posted the clip on LinkedIn with the caption: “I […]
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In California, a little dog was saved from a prowling coyote when his friend, a 10 lbs. Maltese “hero in a fur suit” summoned all his wolfish instincts to chase the predator out of his yard. It happened in a flash; just 10 seconds as Erin Macaluso recounted on Facebook. Coming back from a nighttime […]
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155 years ago today, the Treaty of Bosque Redondo was signed between the US and the Navajo, allowing them to return to their ancestral lands from the squalid conditions on the Bosque Redondo Reservation. No American today should be under any illusion that a steadily growing imperialist streak in America was to give the Navajo […]
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Researchers say this strange, dome-headed, bristle-bristling dino from 68 million years ago has traces of keratin, what fingernails and rhino horn are made of, sticking up from its skull. The paleontologists who discovered the beast completed a CT scan on the partially-completed skull and revealed these keratin bristles, described as giving the animal the appearance […]
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One of the most popular hiking apps has made 27,000 trail maps available for download for free in a bid to increase hiker safety. Most hikers, if they’re honest, will at some point have experienced this situation: they thought they needed to follow one trail, but instead they followed another. Seeking to reorient themselves, they […]
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An experimental cancer treatment developed in Israel has become so effective for an incurable form of cancer, the hospital administering it has a waiting list more than 6 months long. Oncologists at the immunology department at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem used the revolutionary CAR-T, or Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy, to achieve remission […]
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Looking for a cool way to get your kids involved in astronomy? Just show them this picture. These images are composite pieces of technological artwork that would be invisible to the naked eye. Five space-based observatories teamed up with one down here on Earth to color in famous regions of space with X-rays and infrared […]
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445 years ago today, King Henry III laid the first stone of the Pont Neuf or “New Bridge” in Paris, which ironically today is the oldest bridge in France. The irony grows as it looks extremely modern thanks to a recent restoration. It stands by the western (downstream) point of the Île de la Cité, the island […]
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A Welsh photographer incidentally found that a familiar harbor area bore an uncanny resemblance to a dolphin. Photographer Rhys Jones was amazed to see the likeness in the photograph he took with his camera drone over Pwllheli in Wales. Rhys says he has taken his drone over the marina many times but this was the […]
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In 2020, GNN celebrated the hard work of 18-year-old Rehan Staton, who worked for years as a garbage man to support a charge into Harvard Law School via classes at the University of Maryland. Now, after years of a different sort of hard work, Staton has graduated and has a job lined up in a […]
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English media is gushing over the news of the first “de-extinction event” that saw a yellow wildflower unique to northeast England brought back to life. Extinct since 1991, the York groundsel managed to carry on thanks to a handful of seed that was shed from three potted specimens on a windowsill at the University of […]
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Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness. Archaeologists working in Spain’s most famous archaeological site have uncovered a 5,400-year-old tomb that perfectly aligns to the summer solstice sunrise in such a way as to be described as “domesticated sunlight”. That strange term is […]
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48 years ago today, the European Space Agency was founded by ten member states: Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, that united two disparate space agencies into the one entity which today has been instrumental in several giant leaps for mankind. READ more… (1975) ESA collaborated with NASA […]
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A window cleaner has become an online sensation after pressure washing his hometown’s filthy pavement and sidewalks in his spare time. Andrew Carr has been dubbed a hero by TikTok users for his efforts and his videos that have attracted thousands of followers from around the world. Carr, who owns ABC Cleaning Services, says he […]
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There are poisonous books—the Communist Manifesto, or Mein Kampf for example—and then there are books that are literally poisonous. Covered in vibrant green bookcloth, hundreds of 19th-century volumes are actually laced with a toxic pigment, and one researcher who’s used to creating databases of volumes for research, has instead created one as a public health service; aptly […]
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A 153,000-year-old footprint found in South Africa could be the world’s oldest ever made by our species. Older footprints from the Homo genus have been found in Spain, but it’s not perfectly clear which species they belonged to as they pre-date the earliest evidence of neanderthals in Europe. Scientists working in Africa identified the track made […]
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When a struggling Californian attempted to alleviate his financial stress by robbing a bank, Michael Armus Sr. recognized it was out of sadness and not malice. Stepping in with words, and eventually a hug, 69-year-old Michael diffused a situation potentially explosive situation, as the bank robber claimed he was carrying a bomb. Everything seemed a […]
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70 years ago today, New Zealander Edmund Hillary, and Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The Kiwi was part of the ninth expedition to summit Everest sponsored by the British Empire. No climber has ever got to the top without the help of the Sherpa people, a […]
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What makes a vacation truly memorable? There may be a reliable formula, at least for younger people. A poll of 2,000 travelers between 18 and 34 identified some of their favorite ingredients. Traveling with a group of at least four people, enjoying a minimum of four new experiences, and doing something “unexpected” were among the […]
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An extra fertile mother was overjoyed when she discovered she was pregnant again—while already pregnant—after apparently conceiving her ‘twins’ 28 days apart. Sophie Small conceived Holly and Darcy one month apart due to an incredibly rare phenomenon known as superfetation, where a new pregnancy occurs after the first one. Sophie and her accountant husband Jonathan, […]
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Flo is a devoted cow who’s nurtured several calves in her lifetime. But for this newborn, she gave birth too close to the fence dividing her pasture from the nearby highway. The slope of the ground and the small space under the wires combined to form a unique spot that allowed a slippery newborn calf […]
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An antibiotic that could be used to treat one of the world’s most drug-resistant superbugs has been discovered by a supercomputer using AI. Artificial intelligence is proving to be a great tool for combating antimicrobial resistance, which the World Health Organization named as one of the top ten global public health threats facing humanity. In […]
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170 years ago today, the quite magnificent watercolor painter Carl Larsson was born in Sweden. Known for his portraits, Larsson was able to convey both extraordinary detail and extraordinary style at will, with his works looking like a face seen in a dreamy mist or a children’s book. His paintings portray idyllic country life in […]
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More than 5,000 new marine species have been discovered by an English expedition in the Pacific. They include strange shellfish, carnivorous sponges, sea cucumbers, worms, and urchin-like spiny invertebrates. The research published in the journal Current Biology supports the notion that we know more about space than we know about the deep ocean. They were […]
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An American nonprofit is celebrating a huge milestone after helping to unite three brothers at risk of separation—into a new forever family. The Illinois-based Gift of Adoption Fund has facilitated the placement of 5,000 children since its founding 26 years ago—with over $15 million in grants awarded. They provide grants of up to $15,000 to […]
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Nine different lottery victors with winnings that would total $20 million banded together and restored an historic lido to its former glory in West Yorks, England. A lido is an open-air swimming pool open to the public—and Ilkley Lido is regarded as one of the best in the country, but the landscape has been left […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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694 years ago today, Ibn Khaldun, the Tunisian Arab scholar who is recognized as one of the greatest scientists of the Middle Ages, was born in Tunis. He wrote a massive contemporary history entitled Book of Lessons, Record of Beginnings and Events in the History of the Arabs and the Berbers and Their Powerful Contemporaries. It […]
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A totally science-fiction device developed by scientists in Massachusetts would allow people to pull electricity out of thin air. Back in 2020, GNN reported on an exciting experimental technology called Air-gen. It used a protein nanowire film derived from the bacteria species Geobacter sandwiched between two electrodes that could generate electricity via the humidity absorbed within […]
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A woman in Minnesota has been reunited with an anniversary ring she accidentally flushed down the toilet 13 years ago. It was found in a sewage treatment plant just 1,000 feet from the woman’s home, in time to wear it for her 46th wedding anniversary. Mary Strand received the ring from her husband Dave as […]
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Capable of growing 4.5 million pounds of leafy green vegetables per year, a new indoor vertical farm is getting its ribbon cut in the city of Compton. Built and managed by the firm Plenty, one of the US’ leading indoor farming companies, it aims to be a nourishing flood for food deserts. Indoor farms use […]
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It was a surreal sight for Pedro Rivera, a whole house was on the back of a trailer driving down a Detroit suburban road; a house that he and his friends had built with their own hands. “All my friends, we all looked at each other like, ‘Wow, this is what we did,'” Rivera, a […]
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110 years ago, Peter Cushing was born. The British actor became best known as the go-to man to portray lead human roles in more than 2 dozen horror films produced by Hammer Films, including Dracula, and Doctor Frankenstein both on several occasions. He is remembered among the younger generations undoubtedly for his exceptional role as […]
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Tonight, Europe will experience a little resurrection—the first privately-run overnight sleeper train service will take passengers and their dreams aboard a Brussels to Berlin line. Born from a former-train guard’s longing for a historic form of rail travel and a growing demand for low-carbon transport, European Sleeper used crowdfunding and friendly competition to revive this […]
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Britain’s butterflies are bouncing back thanks in largest part to Britons’ gardens providing a safe haven, a new report reveals. The study was the first to look at butterfly trends in UK gardens separately from those in the wider countryside and found that half of the 22 species of butterflies surveyed experienced a faster population […]
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A new study concludes that an extinct volcano off the shore of Portugal could store as much as 1.2-8.6 gigatons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of 24-125 years of the country’s industrial emissions. Doing so would rely on a method known as “in situ mineral carbonization,” which works when the CO2 taken from the air […]
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60 years ago, the Organization for African Unity (OAU) was formed in Ethiopia with 32 members. The founding Chairman was the founding father of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, and the organization went on to attempt to bring recently-decolonized Africa into a body of capable and prosperous nation-states. In 2002, South African chairman Thabo Mbeki officially dispanded […]
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There’s a unique kind of crescent moon in the sky tonight (May 24th,) and possibly the next two days as well. It’s a crescent moon lit by Earthshine, also known as the “Da Vinci Glow” after the main man himself, who finally discovered what this common, yet difficult-to-explain phenomenon was. Though the moon is just […]
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Adorable photos show a newborn litter of 5 Critically-Endangered Scottish wildcat kittens. First-time mom Talla gave birth to the litter at Wildcat Wood in Highland Wildlife Park, on April 2nd, and the kittens are due to receive their first veterinary check soon to determine their sexes. The Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris) is one of […]
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An environmentally clean fuel made from the power of the sun has been devised by scientists which could revolutionize motoring. The solar-powered technology converts carbon dioxide and water into liquid fuels that can be directly dropped into a vehicle’s engine. The researchers from the University of Cambridge harnessed the power of photosynthesis to convert CO2, […]
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Just off the coast of Warrnambool city, Australia’s Middle Island is home to some very small residents, at the center of a big achievement. There one can find the little penguin, also known as the fairy penguin, which as the same suggests is the world’s smallest—standing just 35 centimeters tall. Starting in 1991, sedimentation and […]
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63 years ago today, the first Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland. The ESC is the longest-running annual international televised music competition, and one of the world’s longest-running television programs besides. Annual audiences range wildly from 100 million to 600 million, and the event has come to be a defining event on European […]
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A Nepali veteran of the British operations in Afghanistan has become the first double above-the-knee amputee to summit the world’s tallest mountain. Hari Budha Magar, who lives in Canterbury reached the top at 3 PM last Friday, having started the climb on April 17th—13 years to the day since he lost his legs in an […]
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For no other reason than that she was a working mom with a great personality and an important job making sure people drive safely through the city of Detroit, a traffic control officer was recently on the receiving end of all the goodness social media can wield. It started when TikTok account MDMotivators interviewed Lanita […]
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In a potentially huge development for fashion in tropical countries, an entomologist has come up with a Spandex-polyester weave that’s impermeable to the proboscis of the mosquito. Mosquitos hospitalize hundreds of thousands every year in the tropics by spreading malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and West Nile virus, and every major proposed solution has failed […]
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A pair of dirty windows bought on Facebook during a church demolition is set to sell for $225,000. Antiques hunter Paul Brown from Pennsylvania paid around five grand for a bundle of various items from St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in West Philadelphia. They included these stained glass windows which were discovered to be made by […]
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Happy 51st birthday to Brazilian racing driver, Rubens Barrichello. In Formula 1, Rubens raced notably for Ferrari, Honda (later Brawn GP) and Williams, winning 11 Grand Prix and making 68 podium finishes. Later he raced in Stockcar Brazil, in which he won 18 championships. Driving for Ferrari between 2000 and 2006, he was the teammate […]
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Seeking to find sustainable solutions to low-cost housing in Indonesia, scientists in the world’s third-most-populous nation hypothesized that used diapers could, if one can believe it, replace some of the sand in concrete mixtures. Disposable diapers are usually manufactured from wood pulp, cotton, viscose rayon, and plastics such as polyester, polyethylene, and polypropylene. Because of […]
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A mother in Arizona woke to find she was trapped in the second story of her apartment home as it quickly engulfed in flames. Claudia Jimenez opened the window and called out to anyone who could hear, needing somehow to find a way to escape while the front door was blocked by the fire. The […]
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Fishermen in Mississippi are getting paid to collect derelict crab traps, saving wildlife from getting caught in them. A bounty of $5 is offered for every abandoned trap collected, and in just three years the program, launched by Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United, a nonprofit fishermen’s organization, has collected over 3,000 such traps. Crab traps work […]
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Elizabeth Softky is aptly named: when you hear her speak, there is a soft, lyrical quality to her voice, supported by deep notes of strength. It’s a voice that she used while working as a journalist, as a mother of three, and as a teacher, to calm down an unruly classroom of squirming students. Never […]
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261 years ago today, the Trevi Fountain was inaugurated in Rome. Designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini, it is one of the largest baroque fountains in the world, and probably the most famous. Taming of the Waters is the theme of the gigantic scheme that tumbles forward, mixing water and […]
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The UK’s first ‘bee therapy’ retreat has been launched in Scotland. Apipods—wooden huts with beehives around the exterior—have been popular in Eastern Europe for years. In Ukraine and Slovenia, the scent of honey along with the vibrations from bees are believed to have healing properties for treating respiratory conditions. Charlotte Blacker, a business owner who […]
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If you asked any American what they’d like to do after they retire—and you offered them the chance to go on a road trip to see all 63 national parks—most might consider that a great way to sail into the sunset. Well more than just saying it, a 93-year-old grandmother has done it—all 63 parks […]
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A tipsy crossword enthusiast was caught on camera transforming the ‘gloomy mood’ of delayed train passengers by coaxing them into answering puzzle clues. Damion Francis was traveling back from London to Bath on the evening after day drinking with friends when his pal pulled out an old newspaper crossword. At first the 39-year-old pretended not […]
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When schools partner with local nonprofits like this Albuquerque animal shelter, good news will not be far away. Teachers at Polk Middle School in the Albuquerque’s South Valley reached out to the Bernalillo County Animal Care Center with an idea for how to bring attention to long-term dogs at the shelter so they can get […]
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63 years ago today, American Soprano Leontyne Price broke a sort of color barrier when she sang the lead role in Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida at the Teatro alla Scalla in Milan. In doing so she became the first African American and first African American woman to ever perform the lead role at the famous theater. The reception […]
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The Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has won a competition to design the Hangzhou Oil Refinery Factory Park, transforming a former industrial district that sits alongside the southern end of China’s Grand Canal. With an eye-catching art and science museum at its center, the project includes offices, retail, and a wide variety of cultural experiences set […]
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A new poll has unveiled the top 30 modern ways we remember lost loved ones. The list was compiled from a poll of 2,000 adults and shows that wearing a football shirt from their favorite team, running marathons, and retelling their jokes are three of the best ways. Ticking off items from bucket lists never […]
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From the majestic whooping crane to the smallest songbird, an iconic American landmark in Missouri is making the skies safer for spring migrating birds who follow the Mississippi River to reach their summer nesting grounds. Since 1965 when it was unveiled, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis has punctuated the cityscape at night with lights […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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80 years ago today, the skeleton of the Luttra Woman, or Hallonflickan (Raspberry woman) was discovered in a bog near Luttra, Sweden. Hers are the oldest set of female remains ever found in the country, and they offered a glimpse into the Neolithic Era times and travails. READ more… Because her stomach contents showed that raspberries […]
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A discarded 80-year-old antibiotic may provide protection against multi-drug resistant superbugs, according to a new study. Discovered back in the 1940s, nourseothricin is a natural product made by a soil fungus that contains several forms of a complex molecule called streptothricin. It generated high hopes of becoming a powerful agent against gram-negative bacteria, which, […]
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3 children aged 13, 11, and 4, along with an 11-month-old infant, have reportedly been found alive in the jungles of Colombia after miraculously surviving a plane crash that killed all 3 adults on board. Together, these durable youths stuck it out for over 2 weeks on their own, sheltering in simple hutches made of […]
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Welcome back to Good Gardening! Last week, we received our first updates from our current gardening experts, the Sharing Gardens, and Monica Richards! We wanted to know how was the early season going for our good gardeners and if any early challenges were being overcome. We received emails from our friends on the west coast […]
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A sophisticated app generates shark attack “forecasts” using artificial intelligence. The developers are taking advantage of a deep learning algorithm to compartmentalize over a hundred years of shark attack data to create a sort-of weather forecast for beaches around the US with an 89% accuracy. Called SafeWaters.AI, they hope not only to save lives—their primary […]
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A man who suffered 29 years in prison for the rape of his stepdaughter has finally been freed with the help of a local district attorney—and the victim, who had campaigned for his innocence for 20 years. The case went like this. Patrick Brown, stepfather of a 6-year-old girl, was found guilty of her rape […]
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26 years ago today, the Sierra Gorda Biosphere was established as a protected area through grassroots efforts. The most ecologically diverse landscape in Mexico and centered on a limestone formation called Huasteca Karst, it contains a variety of different forest types, tropical sugarcane areas, semi arid scub and desert. READ about the woman who fought […]
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The Camino del Santiago is the ironing board of the stress of life—a way to find oneself and direction in life through walking, day after day across the Iberian Peninsula. However an American and a Dane didn’t find themselves on a hike across the famous European pilgrimage trail, they found each other. Kjartan Bergqvist, from […]
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In a warp-speed technological advancement, Chinese scientists have developed mid-air ceramic 3D printing. The team from Jiangnan University has enabled ceramic curves to be freely extended in space without support, opening a panoply of additional applications for the already-widely-used technology of ceramic. Ceramics are used at high levels of engineering technology in aerospace, computer, and […]
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A genus of orange and brown butterflies that had been excruciatingly hard to define and separate has been called Saurona after the Dark Lord antagonist from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Any old scientist can name a species—there are tens of millions out there that have needed a name. But naming a genus is […]
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It was a rescue that police said had never been done before: hanging off the edge of a Staten Island ferry boat. They were there because an emotionally disturbed man had inexplicably climbed out of the window onto a railing on the outside of the ship, seemingly ready to jump. Then, after trying to reason […]
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On this day 975 years ago, the astronomy and mathematician of the Seljuk Dynasty of Persia, Omar Khayyam, was born. Most famous for calculating the solar year with remarkable precision such that his calendar is still in use in Iran today, he also contributed to the understanding of the parallel axiom, and cubic equations. READ a […]
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Just in time for Mother’s Day, this week’s Miracle Monday column showcases a heartwarming family reunion for a woman who had been living on the streets for 28 years, and finally got the chance to return home to Wisconsin. “We waited 28 years. Every year, every day, every hour, just wondering where she was and […]
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Christian Bowers has Down Syndrome, but likes to do normal guy stuff like go bowling and play video games. Making friends was never hard for the young man, now 24, until he finished school and found, as many people without Down Syndrome do for that matter, it’s not as easy and straightforward to maintain a […]
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If someone asked you what Rick Fox was famous for, you would have to say the three NBA Championships he won with the Lakers, but the next generation might know him instead as the face of sustainable concrete. Believing that tropical storms are becoming more intense due to carbon content in the atmosphere, Fox went […]
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A European firm is hoping to revive the dream of commercial hypersonic travel with a prototype that will reduce flight times by 75%. Unlike several other supersonic startups that have come and gone, this is their third prototype, with two others having already succeeded in test flights, proving critical systems can work on a design […]
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124 years ago today, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek was born in the Austral-Hungarian Empire. Along with a distinguished academic career in which he held posts at the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago, Hayek published the book The Road to Serfdom, which has sold over 2.25 million copies and has been […]
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A stranded dog’s tail would not stop wagging with joy as fire crews reached his perilous perch, and rescued him from a sheer cliff face. The video below captured the heartwarming moment. Firefighters at Temple Fire Station in Bristol, England, were called out to Yate Quarry after the spaniel fell into the quarry. Assisting was […]
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Brain surgery has been performed on a baby still inside the womb in order to fix potentially deadly damage to vessels and saved the infant from suffering heart failure or stroke after birth. It was the first treated patient in a clinical trial that is underway at Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, […]
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A sheep that thinks it’s a dog simply loves cavorting with a trio of pooch pals. The video shows Rolo the sheep giving chase to the dogs as they play in a farmer’s field—jumping around like a BFF canine companion. The ‘sheep dog’s’ owner, who lives in Entre Rios, Argentina, can be heard laughing and […]
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A handful of walnuts three times a week is enough to boost attention and brain growth in secondary school kids, according to a new study of students in Spain. The nuts contain a type of omega-3 oil that is particularly beneficial to growing brains. Scientists who studied 700 kids aged 11-16 found the cognitive development […]
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37 years ago today, the Canadian Patrick Morrow became the first man in history to climb all of the True Seven Summits when he completed the climb up Puncak Jaya on the Island of New Guinea—the tallest mountain in Oceania. Born in 1952 in BC, his abilities as an adventure photographer led to him being […]
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A research team that analyzed black holes determined they are a bit like a messy toddlers when they swallow up wayward stars—taking a few bites before flinging the leftovers across the galaxy. The protracted and violent meals were unveiled in remarkable detail using computer simulations, because black holes are invisible—and their gravity is so strong […]
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A giant armor-plated fish once so popular King Edward II declared it ‘royal’ is being reintroduced to British waters. Conservationists are bringing back the critically-endangered native sturgeon decades after the ancient species was nearly wiped from UK rivers. A team led by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has launched the UK Sturgeon Conservation Strategy […]
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To mark National Pet Week which begins May 7, a pair of dog experts compiled the top things you should and shouldn’t be doing with your senior pooches—including, keeping them mentally stimulated, but not expecting them to run for more than 60 minutes. A dog’s life cycle runs much quicker than a human’s, so older […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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186 years ago today, the American blacksmith John Deere launched his first agricultural product—a plow forged in steel that was self-scouring, and earned the nickname “The Plow that Broke the Plains.” His inspiration came from memories of working at his father’s tailoring shop in Rutland, Vermont, where he used to polish needles by running them […]
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The Tuscan-town of Laterina is thrilled to see news that an Italian historian has determined a ruined Etruscan-Roman era bridge in their area was the backdrop of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Using drone photographs and historical records of da Vinci’s whereabouts, including those owned by the De Medici family, historian Silvano Vinceti says he […]
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In the town of Hesperia, California, a great aunt watched helplessly as a baby stroller was carried by a gust of wind toward a busy street. It was then that a good samaritan loitering outside a car wash named Ron Nessman reacted quickly to avert the disaster—all the while his heroics were being captured by […]
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With breathtaking views over Table Mountain, the world’s tallest building made of industrial hemp is set to open in Cape Town this June. At 12 stories tall, the Hemp Hotel at 84 Harrison st. used carbon-negative materials that captured more carbon in the walls of the building than it emitted manufacturing them. South African President […]
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50 years ago today, ridden by Ron Turcotte, Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby in 1 minute 59 seconds and 40 milliseconds, the record which stands today. No horse could manage to run the Derby in under 2 minutes for another 30 years until Monarchos managed it in 2007. READ how one writer covered it… (1973) The […]
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It’s been a tough year for everyone, and extra stress always seems to fall on our moms. No matter how old you are, if mom is alive, she’s probably still there for you, and she probably still worries. Well, here’s an inspiring Mother’s Day idea that will make her day. Inspired by the life-changing impact […]
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One of Britain’s last remaining Dunkirk veterans still walks a mile every day after celebrating his 105th birthday. John Hamilton said the secret to staying young was keeping fit, and despite now living in a care home he continues to live an active lifestyle. To wit, the retired army major and great-grandfather spends 90 minutes […]
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A pair of the world’s rarest piglets have been born at the Newquay Zoo in Cornwall. Known as Visayan warty piglets, one of the rarest breeds of pig in the world, there are thought to be as few as 200 of them left in the wilds of the Philippines. The pair of pigs is the […]
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In case you’re planning a trip to the other side of the world’s richest city-state, the “biophilic” CapitaSpring tower in Singapore is now fully bursting with a publically accessible urban forest. In Singapore’s business district, you have to go 17 to 20 stories above street level to find wide open greenery. On CapitaSpring’s “Green Oasis” […]
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The Chinese Zhurong Martian rover recently found evidence of salty liquid water droplets that indicate it may have had snow and frost as recently as 400,000 years ago. To put that into perspective, scientists believe that Homo sapiens evolved around 300,000 years ago, meaning our earliest modern ancestors might have walked at the same time that water […]
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On this day 155 years ago, the world’s largest book was completed in the form of the entire Buddhist canon copied onto 730 marble tablets using chisels and gold ink. The monumental work saw a stonemason chisel out around 16 lines per day in the Burmese script, with each tablet capable of hosting 80 lines […]
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A man who attempted to summit the highest mountains in England, Scotland, and Wales to raise money for charity has now completed the challenge—with a refrigerator strapped to his back. The 38-year-old former soldier Michael Copeland conquered the three peaks challenge in just under 24 hours to raise money for the mental health charity Mind. […]
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May is a relatively quiet month for stargazing, but three events stand out as the best chance to connect with the cosmos, and we start with number 2. On the pre-dawn hours of May 7th, the Earth will pass through the Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower, when 40 meteors may be seen per hour, with those […]
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Over 20 million parrots are kept as pets in American households, and a study wanted to see if these social birds would enjoy video calling each other just like humans. The Birds of a Feather study recruited more than a dozen parrot owners and their birds, to see if parrot loneliness, a real danger to […]
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New shape-shifting antibiotics could fight deadly medically-resistant bacterial infections responsible for more than 1.2 million deaths worldwide every year, according to a new study. The antibiotic can shape-shift by rearranging its atoms, using new “click” chemistry, a discovery that won the 2022 Nobel Prize. The drug’s creator, Professor John Moses at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory […]
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90 years ago today, the Godfather of Soul was born in South Carolina. James Brown, aka “Soul Brother No. 1” aka “Mr. Dynamite,” had a career that lasted more than 50 years, during which he influenced the development of several music genres. Brown was one of the first 10 inductees into the Rock and Roll […]
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Lamar Johnson served 28 years for a murder he didn’t commit—when he was finally released after years of work by an advocacy group, there was one person he knew he wanted to see first. It was a pen pal who wrote to him faithfully through nearly all the years of his imprisonment and came to […]
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The “E-20” highway stretch in Sweden will soon become the nation’s first functioning charging road to juice the batteries of heavy vehicles carrying freight around the nation. E-20, (the E actually stands for Europe, rather than electric) runs between Hallsberg and Örebro in the middle of the country’s three major cities, Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. […]
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So a porcupine, a hyena, and a warthog walk into a burrow… No, it’s not the setup to a bad joke, but the abstract in a scientific paper published in the African Journal of Ecology which found they all were able to co-habit the burrow. Despite the cramped confines of the dug-out den being flush […]
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For the consumer who wants a simple dashboard of buttons and knobs inside their car, the kind that everyone used to have before the rise of touchscreens, a few automakers are turning back the calendar to the days of tactile controls after a steady eruption of consumer frustration. As soon as smartphones became popular, the […]
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Happy 76th birthday to the great modern inventor, Sir James Dyson, who founded Dyson Ltd. and invented the cyclonic separation technology that created the next generation of vacuum cleaners. As a child however, Dyson excelled above all his classmates at long-distance running, to which he attributes his determination. In 2002 he set up the James […]
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A World War II veteran with no surviving relatives celebrated his 105th birthday with more than 3,000 cards from kind-hearted strangers. Ernest Horsfall, who has seen 27 Prime Ministers and five British monarchs in his lifetime, said he was ‘surprised and amazed;’ at how many people wrote to him. He was showered with cards from […]
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Written by Kevin F. Adler, Founder and CEO of Miracle Messages Every person experiencing homelessness is someone’s child, or someone’s parent. And Mark was my uncle. He was the most family-oriented member of my extended family. He was the guest of honor at Thanksgiving and Christmas. He remembered every birthday—like the year before he died […]
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In 2014, the Australian firm AMP Capital launched a bold and bizarre call to action to the architectural community of Sydney—replace their skyscraper headquarters without demolishing it. They wanted their AMP Center, the once-tallest building in Sydney, to become the world’s first “upcycled skyscraper,” and the results were truly inspirational. By grating a second tower […]
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270 years ago today, publication of the Species Plantarum marked the formal beginning of the plant taxonomy, which would later be adopted by the International Code of Plant Nomenclature. The tome was published by Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, who has been called the “Pliny of the North,” as well as “Princeps botanicorum,” and who famous Swedish author August […]
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Medication delivered by a novel gel cured 100% of mice with an aggressive brain cancer, a striking result that offers new hope for patients diagnosed with glioblastoma, one of the deadliest and most common brain tumors in humans. “We think this hydrogel will be the future,” said study leader Professor Honggang Cui of Johns Hopkins […]
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Lager is the world’s most popular beer, and new research shows it was invented by accident more than 400 years ago in Bavaria. The yeast that is currently used to brew cold beer originated in Munich, at the court of Maximilian the Great, after two different yeasts came into contact and mated. Their coupling created […]
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A man celebrating his birthday dressed as Gandalf from Lord of the Rings was on a pub crawl when he suddenly bumped into Sir Ian McKellen. Tolkien super-fan Ben Coyles was out marking his 22nd birthday when he ran into the iconic British actor who played the part. McKellen, who portrayed Gandalf the wizard in […]
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A patient who was left almost completely paralyzed from a rare disease is now walking and talking again, after a music therapist prescribed mindful listening to his favorite song every night—in this case, a tune by The Carpenters. 71 year-old Ian Palmer was struck down with Guillain-Barré syndrome last June, forcing him to spend seven […]
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30 years ago today, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) changed the world forever. Tim Berners-Lee, after creating the first-ever website, announced that the “World Wide Web”—created by using their new HTML protocols—would be available for free to everyone. Thousands of websites were created in the days that followed. By 1995, there were really […]
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It’s time to celebrate American healthcare workers—and Chipotle is giving us an easy way to say thank you. To mark National Nurses Week in early May, the Mexican restaurant chain announced more than $1 million in free lunches for healthcare professionals. 2,000 healthcare workers will win ‘Burrito Care Packages’ which come with 50 free entrées […]
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A great-grandmother who is mad for motorcycles was granted her birthday wish to ride on the back of a Harley-Davidson – a call-back to her youth while celebrating turning 90. Fearless Brit Barbara Morris said she “felt 21 again” during her spin around town on the powerful American cruising bike. She mentioned to her family […]
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Scientists have unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of quasars – the brightest, most powerful objects in the Universe – by discovering that they are ignited by galaxies colliding. First discovered 60 years ago, quasars can shine as brightly as a trillion stars packed into a volume the size of our Solar System. In the […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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Happy 90th Birthday to Willie Nelson, the prolific American music icon who wrote his first song at age 7. He scored his first number-one hit in 1975 with a cover of Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. Nelson’s version of Always on My Mind won three Grammys in 1982 and he collaborated with Waylon Jennings […]
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In an absolutely jaw-dropping change of fortune, a Welshwoman with late-stage renal failure met a kidney donor on the beach who happened to be a perfect match. 44-year-old Lucy Humphrey from Caerphilly has lived her whole adult life with lupus, but it was in 2017 that she heard from her doctors that if she couldn’t […]
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Welcome back to Good Gardening! Last week most of our Good Gardeners were lying dormant still, and didn’t have anything so far to share. Perhaps on the cusp of May, there will be news and pictures—or at least we can start with mine. Since our last post, my garden has sprung to life thanks to […]
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A microbe discovered living on the slopes of an Italian volcano can eat and store CO2 in its body faster than any other species yet known. Scientists hope to be able to harness the creature’s powers to create carbon-capture ponds to aid in pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere. While reducing the input of fossil […]
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Neither the early morning start nor the distraction of a smartphone managed to take a New York train conductor’s eyes off the tracks earlier this week. He spotted a 3-year-old wandering around the tracks dangerously close to an electrified third rail, and slammed on the brakes while going 70 mph before warning all traffic that […]
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In northwest India, an architectural firm cleaned house on the award circuit with a truly sumptuous family home built to stay naturally cool in 104°F (40°C) heat. At nearly 10,000 square feet of interior space, the building houses a family of three generations wrapped in natural stone and wood that bend around fluctuating ceiling heights. […]
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19 years ago, a famous fugitive was apprehended. Shrek the Sheep, a resident Merino “wether” (a castrated adult male sheep) of Bendingo Station, New Zealand, was finally caught and shorn after 6 years of evading capture. Like many infamous criminals, Shrek apparently spent a large amount of time hiding in caves, avoiding the roundup. This […]
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Two so-called “Celtic rainforests” in the UK are to be restored with a mixture of native planting and natural reforestation. The hope is that they will provide rich habitats for dozens of species, improve groundwater quality and flood prevention, and allow residents and tourists to experience an exceptionally rare forest biome called temperate rainforest. The […]
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Some exceptionally-managed drone piloting allowed ranchers in Idaho to capture a video of thousands of sheep being herded along the road. As many as 2,600 lambs and ewes were involved in the crossing in the town of Eagle, just one stop on their way toward the Table Rock area where they would reach the fresh […]
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Meaghan Martin has seen a lot of long faces in her years as a horse trainer, and it was this history that allowed her to turn a potentially-sad story into a happy ending. She was just a teenager when she met the young mare Saxy, a horse that was to be trained for racing. But […]
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Shakespeare once wrote “The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves.” Concurring with the Bard, a recent paper in the journal Human Kinetics shows that the ratio between physical activity and sedentary activity has a greater impact on lifespan and healthspan than our genetic makeup. The study was conducted with 5,446 […]
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5 years ago today, the Panmunjom Declaration was signed by President Moon Jae-in and Chairman Kim Jong-un, declaring the intention to end the Korean War (which has never truly ended). Organized under the initiative of then-President Donald Trump, the summit was remarkable, with both leaders stepping across both sides of the border at the DMZ […]
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An Indian architect was excited about the potential for AI to enhance the creativity of city architecture, and he asked an image bot to generate a vision for the future of cities. All he had to do was enter a series of text prompts, for which he used some like ‘Utopian Technology’ and ‘Futuristic Towers’. […]
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A girl metal detecting in northwestern Denmark discovered nearly 300 silver coins dating back more than 1,000 years ago. The hoard was discovered in a farmer’s field at a place called Bramslev, near to the Medieval fort of Fyrkat built by the famous Viking warlord Harald Blåtand (Bluetooth), and was also found alongside a silver […]
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When a Michigan man went for a routine walk to his mailbox to collect unwanted supermarket papers and publicity, he discovered to his surprise he had some uninvited guests. Two wooden dolls sitting on a miniature couch in the back of the box with a note between them that read “We’ve decided to live here. […]
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Cast a net back 450 million years ago to the Ordovician Era, and you wouldn’t capture anything more than the ancestors of millipedes and worms. However, you might notice tall 29-feet-tall (8 meters) trunks without branches or leaves, towering over a landscape of newly-evolved vascular plants. These trunks, which have been found as fossils all […]
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220 years ago in the afternoon, thousands of small meteorite fragments rained down from the sky over L’Aigle, France. Upon hearing of this event, the French Academy of Sciences sent the young scientist Jean-Baptiste Biot to investigate the spectacular fall of stones. Biot’s paper on the subject effectively birthed the research field of “meteoritics.” READ more… […]
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An art lecturer and collector from Singapore went on the journey of a lifetime to reunite World War II memorabilia with its owner after buying them at auction. The grand adventure begin in 2022 when 39-year-old Wesley Leon Aroozoo bid on a collection of antique stamps, postcards, and articles that included an unmarked set of […]
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Four chimpanzees rescued from a roadside zoo were seen sharing a loving embrace as they set foot in a brand-new sanctuary. Found in Ohio at a zoo called the Union Ridge Wildlife Center, they were kept indoors by an exotic animal keeper whose facilities were subject to repeated complaints on animal welfare, and who was […]
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After shelling out her life savings to pay for her daughter’s breast cancer treatment, a Florida grandmother got a nod from the universe. Buying the last available scratch-off from her preferred lottery game at the store, she landed a $2 million jackpot. Geraldine Gimblet of Lakeland was celebrating the moment that her daughter, Lawrencia Jackson, […]
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In India, a diamond company has its hands on a jewel that is rarer than rare—a large, hollow diamond, inside of which rests another, smaller diamond. Dubbed the “Beating Heart,” there is enough room inside the cavity to allow the smaller diamond to tumble around. Only one other such discovery has ever been made, and […]
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Today, millions of Italians will take to the streets and their backyard grills to celebrate Liberation Day, which marked the victory of the Partisans over the Italian Fascists and their Nazi puppets during the Italian Civil War. The second most important national holiday (as opposed to a religious holiday) in the country, Liberation Day is […]
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Need a gift for an outer space lover at home? Do you want to inspire a love of the cosmos in a classroom? Thanks to the most successful space mission ever completed by a Middle East country, a new atlas of Mars is available for researchers based on 3,000 images stitched together. It’s amazing to […]
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A 2-year-old Chihuahua named Pearl is officially the world’s shortest dog, as confirmed by her vet, and Guinness World Records. Pearl measures 3.59 inches (9.14 cm) in height, meaning she’s shorter than a popsicle stick. She has her head to thank for being longer than a dollar bill, at 5 inches (12.7 cm). She comes […]
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Sometimes there are no limits to what a person will do for their family, and in the case of a NICU nurse that was true, seemingly, for one of her patients as well. Nurse Katrina Mullen cared for a 14-year-old teen mom of premature triplets, named Shariya Small, and feared that the three babies would […]
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On this day 490 years ago, the founding father of the Netherlands, William from the House of Nassau, known commonly as William of Orange, was born. A wealthy nobleman, William nevertheless risked it all to break the Spanish Habsburg’s concentration of power in the Low Countries, launching the 80 Years War that led to the […]
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While tourists visiting Mexican beaches complain about piles of smelly seaweed, one Mexican gardener reckoned it was something like a gift. The governments in places like Cancun have been required to clear away as much as 40,000 tons of sargassum seaweed, which smells like rotten eggs, but Omar de Jesús Vazquez Sánchez is steering it […]
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According to a recent study, researchers found that, for senior citizens, every 500 additional daily steps reduces the risk of heart trouble. Compared to those who took less than 2,000 steps per day, adults who took around 4,500 steps per day had a 77 percent lower risk of experiencing a cardiovascular event such as a […]
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The couple behind one of the UK’s most-booked Airbnb properties says the innovative construction only took ten days to construct. Architect Roderick James and his interior designer wife Amanda Markham, designed and built the AirShip 002 in 2018. The “remote, cozy, compact, aluminum-clad capsule structure” looks like a futuristic air ship and features breath-taking Highland […]
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Criminal justice reforms signed three years ago in the U.S. state of Michigan took effect last week, with nearly 850,000 residents seeing at least one conviction automatically set aside. The bipartisan “Clean Slate” legislation, as advocates call it, triggered an automatic expungement process starting last Tuesday, wiping clean a range of convictions from people’s records […]
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The tell-tale sign of aging—gray hair—is something that many women and men have tried to hide for generations. Now, researchers have found that certain stem cells have a unique ability to move within hair follicles, which could maintain the original pigment in the strands. They found that as our hair ages, sheds, and repeatedly grows […]
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109 years ago today, the first-ever baseball game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Then known as Weeghman Park, it’s original occupants were the Chicago Whales, then known as the “Chi-Feds.” Wrigley Field is known for its ivy-covered brick outfield wall, the unusual wind patterns off Lake Michigan, the iconic red marquee over the […]
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“You make it, you recycle it.” A new poll found that half of Americans believe major companies need to be accountable for the waste their products generate—and five of the biggest corporations on the planet are doing just that. One company leading the way is Apple. Since 1994, Apple has operated its own green gadget […]
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Scientists have discovered extensive, ancient deep-sea coral reefs within the Galápagos Marine Reserve in Ecuador—the first of their kind ever to be documented inside the marine protected area since it was established in 1998. The reef supports a breathtaking mix of deep marine life found at a depth of nearly 2,000 feet below the surface […]
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We don’t celebrate Earth Day by wasting paper, creating garbage, or needlessly using electricity. We do it by supporting our planet—and we make it fun, so it actually feels good. No matter where you live or what your beliefs are, you can do something to honor and enhance the environment. Here are some ideas for […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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299 years ago today, Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant was born in Prussia. This revolutionary thinker saw rationality as inseparable from morality, and Kant’s formulation of humanity, in his famous “categorical imperative,” states that as an end in itself, humans are required never to treat others merely as a means to an end, but always as […]
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A user of the online bulletin board Reddit got hold of a great little video to uplift the heart and remind all parents of those special moments of immense pride. In the video, a relatively new father has a toddler resting in his arms and is attempting to talk with him. Clearly not of talking […]
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An invasive seaweed species from the Caribbean has been turned into a compostable plastic wrap that has the potential for mass production. Furthermore, it may have the properties to transform the whole supply chain of this ubiquitous product used in huge quantities every day in restaurants around the world. The breakthrough comes from the University […]
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When a woman texted an uplifting Bible verse to the wrong number, she couldn’t have imagined what this small mishap would lead to. It was 2009, and Brenda Rivera hoped merely to cheer up her friend with the Lord’s council of “do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit,” but instead cheered up a […]
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April 21st marks Groundation Day, when hundreds of thousands of Rastafari celebrate the arrival of Emperor Haile Selassie in Jamaica in 1966. The great significance of this event in the development of the Rastafari religion is that, having been outcasts in society, its adherents gained a measure of respectability for the first time. With Rasta […]
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Entrepreneurs in Jordan have created a sophisticated machine that pulls water from the desert air at a rate that could cure the country’s water woes. 1,000 units of their flagship device have already been pre-ordered by the Jordanian government, and the success of the invention has allowed the innovators to attract dozens of promising scientists […]
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A lightning strike has produced a brand new phosphorus mineral, similar to that found on meteorites and in space. The bolt created a chemical reaction in a rock, leading to what could be a member of a new mineral group, somewhere between space minerals and minerals found on Earth. And researchers believe strikes like this […]
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A duo of third-generation Boeing engineers aimed a little lower than a 757, and designed the world’s best paper airplane. As one would expect from aerospace engineers, the pair of young men knew what they were doing, and it took 20 minutes to fold the airplane which eventually flew 290 feet—a Guinness World Record. Boeing […]
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For Todd Slatt, a.k.a the “Aurora Hunter” photographing the northern lights is nothing out of the ordinary, but last Saturday, he witnessed something emerging from the darkness of the night sky that shocked and inspired him. A spiral of pale blue light began to form in the distance, growing ever larger and coming ever closer […]
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Happy 51st birthday to Stephen Marley, the second-oldest and Grammy Award-winniest son of reggae legend Bob Marley and his wife Rita. Marley is an eight-time Grammy Award winner, three times as a solo artist, twice as a producer of younger brother Damian Marley’s Halfway Tree and Welcome to Jamrock albums, and a further three times […]
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When a New Yorker received a notice from her landlord about a rent increase after two years of neglecting to fix the washer/dryer unit in her building, she saved money on a lawyer and used ChatGPT instead. Svetlana, who didn’t wish to reveal her last name, used the chatbot to write an email in “legalese” […]
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Perhaps the most astonishing phenomenon ever discovered by astronomers was recently observed “accidentally” by the Hubble Space Telescope. What Hubble saw was a supermassive black hole three times the diameter of our whole galaxy, speeding through the universe so fast that it would pass the Earth and arrive at the Moon in just 14 minutes. […]
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In an incredible story of luck and survival, a Texan was pulled from her submerged car after 3 hours under the water. The woman had been reported missing by loved ones but was only discovered because a fisherman happened to see the faint outline of a car roof sticking up out of the water in […]
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A personalized skin cancer vaccine has almost halved the risk of death or relapse in patients with the deadliest form of melanoma. The trial involved men and women who had surgery to remove melanoma from lymph nodes or other organs and were at high risk of the disease returning. About 1.3 million Americans are currently […]
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Happy 36th birthday to the Tennis ace Maria Sharapova, the only Russian, and one of only 10 women to have won the Career Grand Slam. She managed to earn a No. 1 world ranking at age 18 and spend time as the highest-paid female athlete in the world due to her considerable winnings. She’s also […]
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After 8 years of testing and trials, the long-awaited decision on whether or not Oxford’s R21 malaria vaccine would be approved has been made. Two of West Africa’s biggest economies, Ghana and Nigeria, have approved it for immunization in infants between 5 months to 3 years of age, one of the highest mortality groups for […]
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In life’s equation of work put in vs fulfillment taken out, there may be nothing that beats gardening, but these awesome concrete garden blocks make the equation even more favorable, as they allow for the quick and toolless assembly of raised garden beds. The ageless activity of gardening is backed up by countless studies showing […]
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Off the coast of the far-northern Alaskan town of Nome, and closer to Russia than the US, lies Saint Lawrence Island, where in a town called Gambell, a young girl was recently reunited with her dog who had a month-long meander around the frozen Bearing Strait. Mandy Iworrigan is the mother to three beautiful children, […]
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The major storms that battered parts of the state of California this year were intense, disruptive, and in some cases, tragic; but many people must have remembered back to 2019 and anticipated a spring to remember. Indeed, the new ‘Superblooms’ emerging across the state are so large and so colorful, they can be seen from […]
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On this day 100 years ago, Yankee Stadium opened its doors in The Bronx for the first time with John Philip Sousa playing The Star-Spangled Banner. Slugger Babe Ruth hit a home run to help defeat his former team, the Boston Red Sox, on the spring opening day of Major League Baseball season. Called “The […]
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A hard-working eagle “dad” recently made national headlines after adopting an eaglet, and abandoning the rock he had been caring for. This is the story of Murphy, a beautiful male bald eagle, who, because of a wing injury, resides permanently at a Missouri sanctuary. Recently, keepers noticed Murphy feathering a “very simple nest” and paying […]
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There was no mistaking the tears on Officer Emmanuel Walton’s face for the river water he had just climbed out of—having just watched a child be revived by CPR. Miami-Dade police responded to an emergency call under a bridge where a car was sinking with a child inside. A request came from the first officers […]
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Just before noon on April 8th, a fireball streaked across the sunlit sky and burned up near Calais, Maine. The rare event triggered a flurry of local news coverage, including that the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum in Bethel is offering a $25,000 reward for the recovery of any pieces 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) or […]
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In the 21st-century world of mass tourism, it would be normal to imagine that money talks over all other voices, but the Thai people living on Koh Kradan island close their paradise four months every year, and only welcome tourists who maintain the highest environmental respect. At the beginning of April, the tiny island park […]
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Happy 64th birthday to everyone’s favorite dead man, Sean Bean! The famous actor has enjoyed, or perhaps not, some of the most famous on-screen deaths in TV and film, but he also stands out as the silver screen-standard bearer for the Yorkshire accent for northern England… Read more… Bean has played major roles in some of […]
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This $1 million ‘sliding home’ might have the perfect solution for temperamental weather—it adapts to the changing seasons by exposing its glass structure in summer and closing back up for a cozy winter. The unique three-bedroom property in the English countryside of Suffolk, is covered by a moving ‘wooden casing’ that has been wowing house […]
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Time-restricted eating improved the health of firefighters by reducing the risks of heart disease linked with shift work, according to a new study. Working long shifts, up to 24 hours at a stretch, could be behind a number of health issues, including higher rates of diabetes and heart attacks. But firefighters who stuck to a […]
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A stag was spotted trying out a new football technique in a south-west London park. The lone animal pushed the stray ball in the water toward the shore with its nose, but then tried using its antlers to lift it back on land. Katie O’Lone captured the video as she stumbled across the sporty animal […]
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A man claims he has cured his depression by taking daily dips in frigid water. The 30-year-old was suffering from severe depression, anxiety, and feelings of dread for years, which lead him to attempt ending his life last year. Mitchell Bock was then hospitalized by a crisis team and discharged after 13 hours with a […]
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115 years ago today, Natural Bridges National Monument was established by Teddy Roosevelt, protecting a series of bridges in the Utah desert formed naturally by floodwaters. The three bridges in the park are named Kachina, Owachomo, and Sipapu (the largest), which are all Hopi names, and are truly among the most stunning natural objects in […]
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The Mars Curiosity rover has discovered some bizarre bone-like structures on the surface of Mars. The photographs, released by NASA, appear to show strange protrusions from rocks on the Red Planet. The observations, taken on Martian day Sol 3786 (April 1) by both the rover’s mast camera and ChemCam, shows a slab made presumably of […]
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Three in five Americans care just as much about saving the environment as they do about saving money. As part of a recent survey into the sustainability habits of 2,000 U.S. residents, 64% of those polled said they care about the health of the planet and their wallet in equal measure. 66% of respondents claimed […]
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While prepping for the family meal on Easter, a mom in England had to do a “double take” when she spotted a seal pup in her potato peelings. Corinne Dolman was peeling spuds to roast for supper on Easter Sunday when she spied the uncanny resemblance. “I was up early, prepping before the kids got […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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285 years ago today, George Frideric Handel’s finest opera, Xerxes, debuted in London. The opening aria of the opera, Ombra Mai Fu, featuring the king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Xerxes, singing a thank you to the plane tree in his garden, has become one of the most practiced repertoire pieces. It has become so iconic that it’s […]
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Parisians are beginning to get excited about the idea of swimming in the Seine again. To say ‘again’ is to really turn back the years, because for decades it’s been unthinkable. Once the dumping site of so many houseboats and other creators of sewage and pollution, the race to prepare the City of Light for […]
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This is Shrimp, the rooster, and he’s fallen madly in love with the disabled hen Basil. Shrimp and one-legged chicken Basil live together in their own enclosure made of mats and baby gates at the ‘Here With Us Animal Sanctuary’ in Shermans Dale, Pennsylvania, USA. Basil was taken in as part of a large-scale chicken […]
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In a stunning new picture from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a recently exploded star is lit up in a dozen colors, with each carrying a different explanation. More than just beauty, the image helps scientists understand one of the most important phenomena in space: the presence of dust. Scientists have known for decades that […]
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The ingenious and unique feathers of a beloved African bird could provide the inspiration for space-age water bottles which keep liquid still whilst we move. The Namaqua sandgrouse, or “kilkamaine”— an Afrikaans word for the sound they make, is a desert specialist whose breast feathers can soak up water like a sponge and keep it […]
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589 years ago today, the foundation stone for the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, in Nantes, Brittany, was laid. Like many of the grandest cathedrals on the continent, from the moment that stone was well-cemented in its place, it would be many generations before anyone would see the finished product. That’s because it […]
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has taken steps to practically guarantee the survival of a beautiful pink wildflower in Texas just a month after it did the same for prostrate milkweed, a key food source for monarch butterflies. It’s easy enough to tell people they can’t shoot bald eagles, but it takes serious […]
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A dusty document used on the Moon is set to go under the auctioneer’s hammer for over $500,000. The mission checklist was worn on the lunar surface by NASA astronaut Gene Cernan – and is still covered in moon dust. Cernan wore a glove and the cuff checklist on his wrist for the duration of […]
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An adopted woman found her mother using a DNA site and Facebook after decades of searching, allowing her to meet her grandmother just days before her death. Rachel Ruiz always knew she was adopted. On her 18th birthday, she was given a handwritten letter written by her birth mom for her future daughter, saying she […]
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Feeling happy about getting older can reverse a common type of memory loss, according to a new study from Yale. Older people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) were 30 percent more likely to regain normal cognition if they were upbeat versus those who were down-and-out about aging. Moreover, a cheerful approach to the silver years […]
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324 years ago today, the Sikh religion is formalized by the Khalsa, the Brotherhood of Warrior Saints, by the 10th Guru of Sikhism, Gobind Singh. Guru Singh set down “the Five Ks,” or the five articles of faith that Khalsa Sikhs wear at all times, and is also credited with the Dasam Granth whose hymns […]
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Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness. This is Part 1 of a two-part exclusive on World at Large. Out in the ultra-rural jungles of eastern Madagascar, something is happening that all climate-conscious philanthropists and investors should take note of. A few […]
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Let’s face it, rats aren’t the most popular animal. From the Black Death to the Netflix documentary on New York’s rodent problem, they may be the least-liked mammal on Earth. But down in Kenya and Tanzania, they are utilizing rats to cure disease rather than cause it, and to be a member of society, rather […]
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When Lowe’s employee Dave Urban came across the Getty family in the PVC aisle, he thought he would be helping them find the right fittings or something like that. It was after he heard what was being built, and who it was being built for, that he took the time to do more than just […]
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In Covington, Georgia, a 30,000-ton-per-year recycling facility for batteries and battery scrap just switched on the disassembly line for the very first time. Inside its walls, a Massachusetts-based startup will be harvesting lithium carbonate, cobalt, manganese, and other battery minerals and selling them back to the market, circumventing the huge challenges that come from opening […]
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An Endangered abalone whose blood could hold a cure for cancer has been crowned “International Mollusk of the Year.” Though it’s not much to look at, the Chilean abalone, a large, carnivorous limpet with a heavy shell, got more than 40% of the public vote, conferring them the grand prize—a full genome sequencing. Chilean abalone […]
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116 years ago today, the Burmese poet and writer known by the pen name Zawgyi was born. One of the most famous literary figures of that country, Zawgyi, or Thein Han as he was really named, studied at the universities of London, Dublin, and Rangoon, picking up several awards in his early years. He also […]
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A once-biologically dead river in southern India has been revived to the fullest extent thanks to local dedication and government involvement. A tributary of the Pampa and Achencoil rivers, the 4-mile-long Kuttamperoor River has for centuries been a source of life and drinking water for rural communities in Kerala. Irrigating more than 2,000 acres of […]
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In Alaska, amazing animals are simply part of the scenery—even, as it turns out, in the hospital. Fancying a snack from the foliage in Anchorage’s Providence Alaska Health Park’s cancer center, it was last Thursday that a moose decided to walk into the building. Its hooves were no impediment to the motion-activated door, and soon, […]
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Mathematics is full of difficult problems, and one that had been outstanding for several decades has finally been solved. Is there a shape that could interlock with itself ad infinitum without ever replicating a pattern? Turns out, there is. A 13-sided shape called “the hat” and another one called “the turtle” have both been found […]
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A Kenyan high school teacher is using your old laptop batteries to turn petrol-powered bikes into electric ones. There’s no shortage of MacGyver-like innovations in Africa, and Paul Waweru is a perfect example of that ingenuity, turning second-hand electronics destined to become waste products into something useful. The batteries can cost as little as 0.50 […]
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Happy 36th birthday to Joss Stone, the English soul singer. Stone sold 15 million records over the early years of the 21st century by bringing back a classic soul sound that popular radio stations had been without for some time. She often performs barefoot and has been described as “the white Aretha Franklin” since her […]
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A church destroyed in France during The Somme has regained its holy crucifix lost in the battle. Plucked from the mud in 1916 by a British reverend, it was brought back to Britain and has proudly sat on the altar of All Saints Church in Tinwell since 1936. The crucifix will is due for a […]
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In a national first, the Food and Drug Administration has given Intellia Therapeutics the go-ahead to begin testing a drug that uses CRISPR gene editing in vivo. In biology, in vivo means within an organism, rather than in something like a petri dish, and Intellia’s offering is the first time ever that the FDA has approved such […]
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Some West Midlands cat lovers are planting roots of good merit through a beautiful and unique rescue operation. Shropshire Cat Rescue in Shrewsbury takes in homeless, stray, abandoned, and unwanted cats and kittens and organizes veterinary care for feral felines in the area. But particular to this charity is that it has 17 cats, all […]
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FYI to the non-parents out there, it takes at least 15 pairs of shoes for a child to grow from a toddler to a teenager—that’s a lot of trips to the Footlocker. Fortunately, an Indian entrepreneur from Pune has designed a line of shoes that slowly uncurl as the child ages, intuitively solving the problem […]
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Happy 82nd birthday to American author Paul Theroux. As well as having written many fiction novels, Theroux is credited as launching somewhat of a revival boom in travelogue literature, after traveling from Britain to Japan and back again all on trains. His book on the subject, The Great Railway Bazaar, has sold 1.5 million copies. READ more […]
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A couple gave up life on land to live on a houseboat—and doing so saved them $27,500 every year. Sarah Spiro and her boyfriend, Brandon Jones, spent $23,000 to buy a one-bedroom houseboat and moved in two years ago on Fontana Lake, North Carolina. Sarah said it was a “no-brainer” to move, and the duo […]
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A tiny controllable robot acts as a real-life ‘Pac-Man’—identifying and gobbling up damaged cells in living things. Scientists say the minuscule robot, which is seven times smaller than the width of a human hair, can identify, capture, and transport cells. Another benefit is that it can be navigated and controlled both magnetically and electrically. It […]
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Kids who arrive at this Chicago hospital to get treated for hand injuries don’t expect to leave with a piece of art that’s designed just for them—but thanks to one artistic doctor, that’s exactly what happens. Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Felicity Fishman at Shriners Children’s Hospital is the go-to doctor for children who want a grin […]
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A couple is making award-winning gin and vodka after starting a distillery in a garden shed during the pandemic lockdown. Terri Hudson and husband Richard began experimenting with alcohol flavorings over 12 years ago in their first copper still. The couple has since converted an old poultry shed—also on their land in Taunton, Somerset, England. […]
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Rumble.com user agatabernard posted a video that made our hearts melt from its cuteness. The mother in Argentina captured the moment when her twins responded to their big brother’s effort to make the babies laugh. Evidently he’s their role model, because the two babies immediately mirrored his silly antics. The back-and-forth fun is guaranteed to […]
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Salt marshes on the East Coast have accumulated soil more quickly over the past century—and some appear to be keeping pace with rising waters. The world’s salty, tidal marshes are hotspots of carbon storage and productivity, building up sediments and plant material so they can stay above sea level. Scientists wondering whether it’s possible for […]
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the lifesaving drug Narcan for over-the-counter use without a prescription for the first time. The nasal spray containing 4 milligrams of naloxone hydrochloride can rapidly reverse the effects of opioid overdose and is the standard treatment in such emergencies. The FDA action paves the way for the […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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89 years ago today, the architect Kisho Kurokawa was born. This brilliant mind was the co-founder of the Metabolist architectural movement, which sought to fuse the post-war architecture of the island with organic forms to create structures in harmony with a sort of Marxist vision of humanity in the future. Kurokawa designed and built dozens […]
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Plants are well-established partners that when brought indoors can help alleviate stress, and purify the air, and are well worth the constant watering. However, a new study from Australia found their beneficial properties may not yet be fully established, since it could be that our leafy brethren have the power to remove viruses that cause […]
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The Ocean Cleanup, the only organization currently tackling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), has just reached a milestone of 200,000 kilograms, or 220 tons of plastic removed from the ocean. In recent years, the Dutch non-profit completed the test run of their new system 002/B which can capture multiple tons of garbage in one […]
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When a London family got together to celebrate a dad’s 70th birthday with a family portrait, a precious pooch was determined not to be left out. Despite being outside a sliding glass door, she leaped into the air the moment the shutter opened, enshrining her antics for all time in one of the best photobombs […]
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In the southern Scottish town of Jedburgh, an old neighbor recently received a helping hand from the community. A 700-1,000-year-old sessile oak, known as the Capon Tree, was awarded a grant of £7,000, or around $8,500, for a caregiving regime after one of its supporting limbs collapsed. Oaks that grow without any other trees nearby […]
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Today is the 92nd, and likely ultimate birthday, of perhaps the greatest American whistleblower in history, Daniel Ellsberg. In March, Ellsberg revealed to the media he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer principally by underlying how much he was enjoying eating whatever he wanted to eat again. Ellsberg was the man who leaked the Pentagon […]
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The desert state of Utah is experiencing “a year to remember” in terms of snowfall, with every single part of the state experiencing 130% more snowpack in the mountains than normal. The snows have delivered a ski season for the record books, and an end to all drought conditions in the state for the rest […]
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An unassuming plant and the antioxidants it contains, could be a legitimate health food weight loss supplement, after a landmark trial found it decreased fat absorption. When human fat cells were treated with polyphenols contained in the flower, they inhabited the production of the chief enzyme that converts dietary fat into stored fat in our […]
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Those aren’t giant Lego bricks out there in the grey waters off the port of Rotterdam, they are part of a new seawall that doubles as a home for marine life. A kind of artificial oyster reef to help safeguard populations of mussels, fish, crustaceans, and other animals, the bricks are claimed to be the […]
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One of the London airports has removed the 100ml limit for liquids in hand luggage, as well as the requirements to take out electronics from carry-ons, and travelers are loving it. Unfortunately, it wasn’t down to the fact that airports realized it was a bogus security concern, but rather because they got new tomography machines […]
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375 years ago, Lal Qila, or the Red Fort in Old Delhi, was completed. Commissioned by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan when he decided to move his capital from Agra to Delhi, it is the most iconic architectural relic of the Mughal Period combining styles from the Indian subcontinent with those of Iran. Every year on […]
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In central China, a “stunning tomb” was uncovered dating back 800 years, and built entirely by bricks to resemble the inside of a home. Dating probably to the year 1190 CE, three individuals were found inside the tomb which was also constructed with a skylight of all things, The 11-square-foot chamber was discovered in Yuanqu […]
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In the second-largest greater metropolitan area on Earth, one man’s dedication and love of the common sparrow have the potential to transform a generation of young Indians. Rakesh Khatri, known as the “Nest Man of India,” has always found sparrows a source of “great joy” and even growing up in the bustling streets of Delhi, […]
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A hero skier saved the life of a snowboarder completely buried head-first in a massive snow drift. Francis Zuber was maneuvering around the tops of trees in deep powder on Mt. Baker, in northwestern Washington state, probably without any indication he might end up in the right place at the right time to be a […]
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San Diego zookeepers welcomed the birth of 2 Amur leopard cubs into the world in what is a huge success for the captive breeding of one of the rarest cats in the world. Born on March 28th, the cubs were monitored by remote cameras while they became acquainted with their new world, and their mom […]
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On this day, 25 years ago, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge opened to traffic linking the City of Kobe on the main island of Honshu, to the offshore Awaji island. When it was finished, it boasted the longest central span of any suspension bridge in the world. Between the security of the first tower, the bridge proceeds […]
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Down in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, the sous chef of a beloved restaurant, Philips Seafood, replaced his apron for a cape as he affected a heroic rescue of a drowning motorist. An unidentified man drove straight into the frigid and filthy mid-March harbor water after suffering what reports say was a mental health crisis. Seeing this, […]
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An as-of-yet undescribed species of snailfish was recently recorded swimming about—a mind-boggling 5 miles (8 kilometers) under the surface of the ocean. An unmanned submersible called a lander used a baited trap to record several Pseudoliparis individuals swimming about at a depth of 8,336 meters in the Izu-Ogasawara trench, southeast of Japan. The expedition was organized […]
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How can we cool houses without using A/C? Scientists have now discovered that one way would be to turn the roof and walls into a beetle’s shell. That’s because tiny nanostructures on the beetle’s exoskeleton made of cellulose capture light and send it bouncing around whilst separating it into different wavelengths. This is why they […]
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A South Korean startup has developed an AI-based app that scans your dog’s nose print and places it into a crowdsourced database that anyone can access to identify the owner of a lost dog. It turns out a dog’s noseprints are just as individual as a human’s thumbprint, and the advantage of using it to […]
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180 years ago, a little-known American hero was born. Willian Henry Jackson, with the aid of his camera, presented to many people back east the first-ever photographs of the geysers, animals, and other features of Yellowstone. Presented in Congress alongside paintings by his friend Thomas Moran, the images were instrumental in the creation of Yellowstone […]
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Japanese scientists have made a breakthrough discovery on the effects of ingesting microplastics, namely that our immune system is capable of protecting us from them. Microplastics have been recorded everywhere we’ve looked for them: in the jetstream, at the deepest depths of the ocean, and at the summits of remote mountains. Trying to figure out […]
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On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, a pulse of intense radiation swept through the solar system so exceptional that astronomers quickly dubbed it the BOAT—the brightest of all time. The source was a gamma-ray burst (GRB), the most powerful class of explosions in the universe, and astronomers studying it believe it was the strongest to have […]
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The workers at Wake County Animal Hospital were left scratching their heads when a dog named Felix arrived at their doorstep with a goat named Cinnamon. Dropped off by animal control who had taken them from a house whose owner had been hospitalized and had no one else who could look after them, they recognized […]
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A newcomer to big city life started a Facebook group to make new friends and it grew to 20,000 people in just a few years. The London Lonely Girls Club was founded by 26-year-old Holly Cooke, who arrived from Stoke-on-Trent, a big city in itself, but provincial compared to London. From 2018 to 2022, it […]
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A crack team of university students is just a month away from launching the first privately-made lunar rover onto the Moon’s surface. Slated for May the Fourth, the unofficial holiday of the Star Wars franchise, the rover weighs just 2 kilograms, and the mission objectives include demonstrating its technology and snapping scientifically-relevant images. Called Iris, […]
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50 years ago today, the world’s first-ever mobile phone call was made. In that moment in lower Manhattan, a Motorola employee named Martin Cooper called the Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey while walking down Sixth Avenue between 53rd and 54th streets. The phone was bigger than the bricks used to build the surrounding structures. READ […]
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An Oklahoma mom took a scissors to her old prom dress so that her little girl could wear it to her ‘daddy-daughter’ dance—and the results were fantastic. Lexi Donelson was struggling to find the perfect, yet affordable, dress for 5-year-old daughter Sterling when she suddenly remembered she still had her own prom dress. The 26-year-old […]
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This couple fell in love messaging on ‘Nextdoor’—after 40 years of living in the same neighborhood but never meeting. Chris Place logged onto the hyperlocal online bulletin board to look for bargains when he spotted Michelle Tooby. The 44-year old loved her pic so sent a ‘wave’ notification, and was delighted when she popped one […]
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Researchers have recorded sounds emitted by plants that no human can hear—and their click-like sounds are unique to each species, and varied depending on what exactly is stressing their growth. Similar to the popping of popcorn, they are emitted at a volume similar to human speech, but at high frequencies, beyond the hearing range of […]
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In a great use of vertical space, a woman’s mom built hanging cat beds and walkways for their five beloved felines. “We had 5 Cats but only 2 sleeping places,” explained their owner. “This seriously had to change.” “The only normal thing anyone would do in this kind of situation is building a Cat Ceiling […]
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437 years ago, Italian traveler, author, and musician Pietro Della Valle, was born. Brought up in Rome among noble families, he devoted his early life to music until he began to have suicidal thoughts. A professor of medicine suggested he travel to the Holy Land (a heck of a prescription) which he did—and much more […]
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Paramedic twins whose dad died of a cardiac arrest 21 years ago saved a man suffering the same condition—in a tag-team effort, only a day after the anniversary of his death. Angie Mills and her brother Steve Mills were only working together by chance during a rare joint shift as part of the same ambulance […]
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Have a cough, sore throat and congestion? Any number of respiratory viruses could be responsible. Conventional tests can identify the culprits by relying on chemical reactions—but researchers now want to swap chemistry tests for electrical changes sensed by nanomaterials. They reported using a single-atom-thick nanomaterial to build a device that can simultaneously detect the presence […]
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Using data from several space missions and the Hubble telescope, an astronomer discovered that Saturn’s rings are heating its own atmosphere—something that has never been seen before in our solar system. “The secret has been hiding in plain view for 40 years,” a NASA spokesperson announced on Thursday. “But it took the insight of a […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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50 years ago today, the federal government of India, under the administration of Indira Gandhi, implemented Project Tiger, a comprehensive strategy to try and reverse the decline of India’s Bengal tigers across the country. By 2006, camera trap surveys created an estimate that the total tiger population numbered 1,411 individuals. It was claimed that owing […]
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There’s something deeply comical about suggesting that seagulls are smart enough to wait for you to look away before stealing your french fries, but dumb enough to fly into wind turbine blades. A two-year study on the interactions of several seabird species at an offshore wind farm found that not a single case of birdstrike […]
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A young pilot is thanking her lucky stars there was someone on hand to guide her down into an emergency landing after she lost part of her landing gear during takeoff. Chris Yates, a veteran pilot at the airport, radioed the control tower to alert them of the potential disaster, but the control tower operators […]
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In the urban sprawl of Mumbai, kids have an awesome and surprising new place to play cricket and badminton—under a highway overpass. Built beneath the Sector 15 Sanpada overpass in Navi Mumbai, a video of the kids playing went viral and drew the attention of other city administrators who celebrated the clever transformation of an […]
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627 years ago today, René Descartes was born. The French philosopher contributed vitally to the development of the Western philosophic canon, even if he would later be proven somewhat wrong. His deduction, Latinized as “cogito, ergo sum,” in his book Discourse on the Method has become widely recognized as the cornerstone of thought that launched the […]
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The mainstream media is filled with headlines of how the United States is helping Ukraine, but under the radar is how some Ukrainians are actually returning the favor. Having arrived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as recently as a few months ago, a group of 7 Ukrainian refugees has signed up for a 2,000-mile road trip to […]
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A large trial showed that a single injection of a patient’s own stem cells into their heart was able to reduce inflammation and risk of heart attack and stroke by 58% if they had heart failure. 6 million Americans have clinical diagnoses of heart failure, a condition designated by a lack of ability for the […]
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Concrete is being made in Finland with a carbon-negative replacement for cement, something the company hopes will trap more CO2 than it takes to produce throughout its lifecycle. One of the most ubiquitous of human building materials, concrete is nevertheless one of the most carbon-intensive manufacturing methods in society. Finnish materials researchers at VTT Technical […]
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An Australian gold digger turned up a stone weighing 10.1 pounds, more than half of which is gold, and one of the largest finds in recent times. It’s the kind of photo that one would expect to see from the 1850s, in black and white, with the man wearing breeches, a wide-brimmed hat, and a […]
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Happy 59th birthday to singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman. Her debut album Tracy Champman has been certified sextuple-platinum and received 6 Grammy Award nominations. Her down low voice and the small number of instruments present music perfect for almost any occasion, but the arrangements, much more complex than most acoustic singer-songwriter work, and the deep quality of the lyrics […]
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As we are only a week of waxing away from the full moon of April, it’s worth taking a look at other celestial sightseeing opportunities in the springing month. Around midnight of Wednesday, April 5th, the Pink Moon will fully illuminate the sky. Also known as the Paschal Moon, it sets the date for Easter […]
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A man has turned his lockdown side hustle into a thriving business—which he says has now turned over a million pounds. After the government-imposed lockdowns caused Liam Mchale-Smith’s construction firm to close down and lay him off, he took over the garden shed and began handmaking furniture. His wife Ruth then posted pictures on her social […]
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If you don’t know who Ai Weiwei is, he’s an artist who likes big, statement-setting installations, but in a new exhibition he is throwing it back to the Impressionists, with a massive interpretation of Water Lillies by Monet, made from 650,000 Lego bricks. Titled Water Lillies #1, it’s the largest Lego sculpture the Chinese artist […]
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Nobody likes needles, but they’re necessary for delivering many vaccines and biologics into the body. But what if those could be puffed through the skin instead, with just a little pressure, like being hit in the arm with a foam toy? Today, scientists report steps toward making that a reality. Using powdered vaccines that don’t […]
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Happy Birthday to Eric Idle, who turns 80 today. Member of the groundbreaking Monty Python comedy troupe and author of the hit Broadway musical Spamalot, the actor, singer-songwriting musician, and author was bullied throughout his school years, which he called the perfect comic training ground. Idle studied English at Cambridge University a year behind future […]
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A new study found that having an active sporting hobby offset stress and contributed to academic competence even during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The effect was calculated during the so-called two weeks to flatten the curve, and the researchers believe the observed effect was robust enough to be applicable in future periods of societal disruption. Researchers […]
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With the knowledge that dogs are easier to adopt out than cats, a Kansas City animal shelter took to social media with a simple, yet clever video to even the odds. But Wayside Waifs Hospital and Shelter did more than even them, they managed to get all but two of their shelter cats adopted after […]
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Years ago, climate scientists begin to suppose that methane was the most critical greenhouse gas for humanity to target, but continual advancements in the science of methane show it may actually be harmless. As the planet absorbs heat from the sun, it would naturally radiate this long-wave energy back out into space. The greenhouse gasses […]
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Like the ancients naming constellations after the animals they resembled, scientists at the European Space Agency say they have found a galactic ‘jellyfish.’ The presence of star-forming gas dripping from the disk of the galaxy JW100 in long streamers, over 800 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, was detected by the Hubble Space Telescope. […]
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Happy 81st Birthday to the versatile and renowned bass-baritone, Samuel Ramey. Throughout his career, he has performed numerous leading roles to acclaim, such as Figaro in La Nozze di Figaro, and Atilla the hun in Verdi’s Atilla. He is known for having an accomplished “bel canto” technique that allows him to sing the delicate parts of Handel and […]
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Two New Orleans high school students claim to have solved a 2,000-year-old puzzle in mathematics, which scientists are saying should be submitted to peer review. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson from St. Mary’s Academy presented their findings to a meeting of the American Mathematics Society in which they explain they were able to prove Pythagoras’ […]
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In the far western desert of Texas, a striking 3D-printed hotel with Swedish style will take shape over the coming years to present both the beauty and savings of 3D printing to the country and the world. The architecture is handled by Swedish design architect Bjarke Ingels, while the printers will be supplied by Austin-based […]
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Archaeologists have found that a golden pendant unearthed in 2020 contains the words “He is Odin’s man,” making the object the oldest ever found to bear the name of the chief Norse deity. Dating to the 400s CE, the century of the fall of the Roman Empire, the pendant is believed to have been owned […]
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Happy the cow was never destined for greatness, born as he was a bull on a dairy farm. Yet despite his inability to produce milk, Happy had another valuable skill that began working the minute he dropped onto the grass of Barry Coster’s dairy—making people smile. The Holstein calf was born with a smiley face […]
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Happy 60th birthday to Quentin Tarantino, the 21st century’s greatest cult movie director. Brought up on hyper-expressive Hong Kong martial arts films, the excitable Italian American molded it with exceptional screenwriting and Hollywood’s finest actors to produce many critically-acclaimed movies, including Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, and Django Unchained. WATCH a best-of from his films but beware of spoilers […]
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A brain implant that can restore arm and leg movements has been developed by British scientists to boost connections between neurons and the paralyzed limbs, offering hope to accident victims. The device combines flexible electronics and human stem cells – the body’s ‘reprogrammable’ master cells – to better integrate with the nerve and drive limb […]
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University music students are working with new mothers who are incarcerated to compose heartfelt musical messages for their children—a partnership aptly titled The Lullaby Project. Although concrete and steel bars separate the new moms at Camille Graham Correctional Institution from their babies, students use music to break down those barriers. The musicians studying at the […]
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Scientists have documented plant species for centuries to help us understand and conserve the incredible diversity of flora in our world. But according to new research, many have never actually been photographed in their natural habitats—and Australian researchers say this is a problem. A team from UNSW Sydney and the Australian Institute of Botanical Science […]
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A rugby player shocked his girlfriend by feigning a leg injury during a match—only to get down on one knee and propose. Chris Robinson choreographed a rugby tackle with his whole team in on the elaborate plan that would catch his partner by surprise. Called over to the pitch, Amanda Tuckwell, newly trained in first […]
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Happy 80th birthday to one of America’s great investigative reporters, Bob Woodward. Along with partner Carl Bernstein, the two contributed the vast majority of the research that would expose the Watergate Scandal and force Nixon into resignation, described as one of the finest reporting efforts ever made in America. Author of 21 books on politics […]
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A North Carolina pastor has been helping children in need throughout his county, whether they need clothes, housing, or even a family—with programs like his church’s Foster and Adoption Ministry. A few years ago his City Church in Gastonia started Hope Closet, a clothing giveaway for kids who may be displaced, or kids in schools […]
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A survey of 2,000 Americans delved into their sentiments around environmentalism and found that a significant majority—seven in 10—feel they’ve become more ethically responsible as they’ve gotten older (71%). Over the past year, U.S. adults have also been taking small steps in their everyday lives to do the right thing—such as starting conversations with their […]
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A wedding reception is a great occasion for people young and old to mingle—and things always get interesting on the dance floor. This senior was ready to show who’s the boss of the dance floor, when the DJ started playing Michael Jackson’s Billy Jean. The balding, eyeglass-wearing gent stole the show with his spot-on moves, […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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216 years ago today, the world’s first passenger train service began selling tickets. The Swansea and Mumbles Railway used horse-drawn rail-borne train carriages to transport people from the Welsh city of Swansea to the village known as Oystermouth. Passenger services operated from The Mount, the world’s first recorded railway station. READ a bit more about this […]
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In the oldest and most prestigious young adult science competition in the nation, 17-year-old Ellen Xu used a kind of AI to design the first diagnosis test for a rare disease that struck her sister years ago. With a personal story driving her on, she managed an 85% rate of positive diagnoses with only a […]
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In the 2023 World Happiness Report, a wonderful trend has emerged from the data. Despite a major war in Europe, and all the government shutdowns and totalitarian policing measures in front of the largest pandemic in 100 years, happiness ratings have remained much the same across Europe and elsewhere. The report, which is a publication […]
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There’s been a lot of talk recently about so-called “forever chemicals” and how our society can use new technologies to remove these old toxins from the water and soils of our world. A new solution from the Univ. of British Columbia can both filter out and then destroy these forever chemicals, purifying water resources cheaply […]
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Mr. Pickles, a 90-year-old radiated tortoise and the oldest animal at the Houston Zoo, became a father for the first time last week. Mr. Pickles and his 53-year-old partner, Mrs. Pickles, welcomed three hatchlings that could live for up to 150 years if well taken care of. Native to southern Madagascar, radiated tortoises are Critically […]
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A “mind-blowing” discovery in the early stages of photosynthesis has been discovered by scientists that could help improve the efficiency of renewable energy technologies. While trying to figure out if it were possible to extract electrons from a known process in the early stages of photosynthesis, the scientists instead found an entirely-new electron transfer pathway, […]
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When President ‘Lula’ da Silva took office this year in Brazil, many environmental and indigenous rights groups hoped he would fulfill campaign promises of better protection for the Amazon rainforest and the people who live there. Nearly four months into his tenure and early signs are that Lula was telling the truth, as Brazilian police […]
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In a new study, astronomers describe how extraterrestrial life has the potential to exist on distant exoplanets inside a special area called the ‘terminator zone.’ Despite its frightening-sounding name, it’s better thought of as the “ending zone” and can be found on planets that have one side which always faces its star and one side […]
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Last week President Biden continued the bipartisan executive tradition of conserving historic and scientifically significant lands by designating Spirit Mountain—Avi Kwa Ame, in Nevada as a National Monument. Sacred to several Native American tribes, principally the people of the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation, Spirit Mountain sits at the confluence of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts […]
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Happy 40th birthday to Sir Mo Farah, the world’s most decorated distance runner in history. He is the most successful British track athlete in modern Olympic Games history, which got him a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. The astonishing origins of this mega athlete are that he was born in present-day Somaliland as Hussein Kahin, […]
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A Delhi-based engineer has designed a replacement for polystyrene packaging out of “rice stubble” the dead stalks left over after the rice season in India, millions of tons of which are burned every year. They say wisdom oft comes from the mouths of babes, and Mr. Arpit Dhupar was at first left scratching his head […]
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Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness. In a thrilling sign of recovery for the Critically-Endangered West African lion, camera trap footage and photos of a West African lioness and her three cubs playing, nursing, and feeding in Senegal’s Niokolo Koba National Park […]
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In York, a seemingly normal apartment was hiding a historic secret for centuries until a kitchen remodeling exposed it to the light of day. 29-year-old Luke Budworth received a call from the men putting a new kitchen into his apartment. It read “did you know there was a painting behind here?” It wasn’t a painting, […]
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Europe’s love of train travel is about to transform the continent’s solar energy production as the Swiss are set to begin installing solar panels in between train tracks. The startup called Sun-Ways is waiting for a sign-off from the Federal Office of Transport to start installing their panels between the tracks near Buttes Station in […]
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629 years ago today, the wisest sultan of the Timurids, Ulugh Beg, was born. Taking control of a murderous nation built out of Timur’s (Tamerlane) foolish attempt to re-establish the totality of the Mongol Empire, Ulugh Beg makes an appearance in this history column for his efforts to steer the Timurids from tribes of red-handed […]
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Researchers looking to help students at school have used low-cost materials like theater lighting filters to turn regular smartphone cameras into fluorescent microscopes. The resolution they say is around one-thousandth of a millimeter, but the cost reduction could literally be hundreds of thousands of US dollars. Called the “Glowscope” a team at the biology department […]
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It takes bravery to compete in college wrestling, and sophomore NJCAA wrestler Kendall Cummings needed every ounce of it when he decided he was not going to let a mamma grizzly bear maul his friend to death. Last year, Cummings was out with his friends Brady Lowry, Gus Harrison, and Orrin Jackson in the Wyoming […]
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San Quentin State Penitentiary, one of the most notorious and harsh prisons in the US, is the stage for a radical new method of treating the incarcerated population; new for America that is. That’s because SQ has adopted Scandinavian methods of rehabilitation that aim to protect the California public by turning convicts into neighbors. Whether […]
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Imagine being able to draw moisture from the air through your fingertips and create an electrical current as a result—that’s pure comic book superhero stuff right? Not so, since researchers have been able to use a bacterial enzyme that conducts hydrogen to create electricity, literally out of thin air. The discovery promises to open up […]
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53 years ago today, the first-ever San Diego Comic-Con was put on by organizers Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, and Ken Krueger. Estimated to generate economic value exceeding $180 million every year, Comic-Con is the world’s largest such convention, celebrating pop culture and sci-fi’s enriching impact on our civilization. READ a bit more… (1970) Perhaps unsurprisingly, the […]
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Jay Branson, a self-taught architect, started building a round barn in rural Oklahoma to process his grief. Its beauty draws strangers off the highway in Oklahoma, and a gentle kind of obsession mixed with down-home prairie demeanor saw the barn turn into something more like a cathedral. The story begins decades ago when Branson went […]
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We bring you the uplifting moments when five students in war-torn Ukraine received the life-changing news that they will receive an all-expenses paid college education to study at a college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, thanks to the incredible generosity of philanthropist Sam Rose. The retired lawyer and real-estate developer provided $2 million for scholarships to Dickinson […]
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Out in the wilds of Indonesia, zebra sharks are extremely rare. Overhunted, these striped bottom dwellers were at risk of going extinct. Now though, an international consortium of 44 aquariums in 15 countries is banding together to create a huge captive-breeding-and-release program that aims to reintroduce 500 sharks to their native waters. Such an effort […]
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A new study shows that methods of sucking up atmospheric air and filtering out the CO2 can be improved by adding copper to the filter material, potentially opening up the technology to dozens more uses that could produce a meaningful difference in the fight against climate change. The addition of copper also converts the captured […]
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8 years ago today, no doubt some lucky souls in the path of totality were able to see the 2015 solar eclipse that also fell on the date of the vernal equinox. Those able to watch the eclipse with their glasses would have noticed that the moon was 15% bigger because this cosmic double turned […]
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52% of American adults either snore or have a partner who does, according to a new poll, and 72% of them have resorted to a host of tricks to try and silence the noise. The top strategies to beat snoring include using extra pillows and drinking water before bed – some even attest to putting […]
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A group of English football fans were so thirsty while stuck on a delayed train that they ordered a beer delivery from Uber Eats mid-journey—and gambled on being able to collect it with exquisite timing upon arrival at the next station. Daniel Adams and Jordan Sullivan were on their way to watch West Ham play […]
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The ‘three blind mice’ of song could actually be seeing again after scientists restored vision in breakthrough research that could reverse the condition in people as well. The hereditary condition retinitis pigmentosa is one of the most common causes of blindness, affecting one in every 4,000 people. Now, researchers in China have used a genome-editing […]
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The family of Charles Dickens met the descendants of the real-life Jacob Marley Friday—180 years to the day that the author decided to immortalize him in ‘A Christmas Carol’. Mark Dickens and Lucinda Hawksley from the Dickens family met Christopher Marley, a relative of the late Dr. Miles Marley. Marley’s name was used by Dickens […]
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141 years ago today, the first stone was laid in the Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona, Spain. This history column celebrates this moment rather than the completion because famously the basilica is unfinished. Towering over the Eixample district of Barcelona’s incredible uniformity of building height, the Sagrada Familia is the world’s largest unfinished Catholic church, […]
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It took 75 years but, two sisters who were placed up for adoption at the end of World War II were finally reunited. Annie Ijpelaar and Sheila Anne Fry, both in their late 70s, have Sheila’s daughter-in-law and Anne’s son to thank for the reunion, after they took it upon themselves separated to track their […]
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By Elizabeth Claire Alberts International delegates attending the eighth annual Our Ocean Conference in Panama March 2-3 have pledged billions to protect the world’s oceans. Participants made 341 commitments worth nearly $20 billion, including funding for expanding and improving marine protected areas and biodiversity corridors. Previous Our Ocean conferences have generated more than 1,800 commitments […]
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A great-great grandmother dubbed the ‘Queen of Knitting’ has created a massive six-foot long replica of Buckingham Palace made entirely out of wool. Margaret Seaman spent eight months knitting the model of His Majesty’s main residence in London, after taking up the craft seriously just 10 years ago. Even better, the 93-year-old has used her […]
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99 years ago today, the classic silent film The Thief of Baghdad, written by and starring Douglas Fairbanks, debuted in cinemas. Freely adapted from stories within One Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad. In 1996, the film was selected […]
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Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness. When news broke in 2018 that another Viking-Age ship burial had been found on the shores of the Oslo Fjord, it quickly became one of the finds of the century. Compared to its truly legendary predecessors […]
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The Indian state of Gujarat is the only place outside of Africa where one can hear the roar of a lion in its natural habitat. Now, conservation programs have raised the numbers of these animals so much that the state government will be relocating some to a new wildlife sanctuary to expand their territory and […]
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The popular television drama Yellowstone is producing a spinoff season to dramatize one of the most legendary figures in the Wild West, Bass Reeves. Interest in Reeves as a historical figure with as much potential for film and television as Wyatt Earp, has grown since the turn of the millennium. For those who aren’t read up on […]
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Analysis of neolithic pottery shards shows that in Northern Europe, where poor soils and low sunlight made primitive agriculture extremely difficult, people were making cheese in places like Poland potentially as far back as 9,000 years ago. Examinations of perforated vessels not only found the presence of the dairy protein casein which suggests the creation […]
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A new poll showed the ‘luck of the Irish’ may be a real thing—with residents of Ireland reporting a greater prevalence of good fortune. The survey revealed that those living on the Emerald Isle may actually experience more luck—tallying an average of 40 fortunate moments every year, nearly 10 percent more than people in the […]
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219 years ago today, Mountain Man Jim Bridger was born in Virginia. Known as the most famous figure in the mountain man era, Bridger led numerous expeditions into the wilds of the western interior. He had conversational knowledge of French, Spanish, and several Native American languages, and often mediated between them and eastern settlers. He […]
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A group of friends who took a London double-decker bus 40,000 miles around the Americas have reunited 50 years later at the release of a travelogue of their adventure. Over a hard country cider, the remaining crew members reminisced about how the idea first came to Mr. Roger Poole and his new wife Joan, who […]
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Eating leafy greens and fish, among other potential food items typical of the Mediterranean Diet, was found to be associated in elderly brains with fewer plaques associated with Alzheimer’s. It’s believed that Alzheimer’s is caused by a build-up of tau proteins called amyloid-beta, which block neuron connections. Scientists at the American Academy of Neurology believe […]
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A refrigerator-sized data center is being used as an innovative solution to pool heating, saving thousands in fuel costs in England. The “digital boiler” was designed and implemented by Mark Bjornsgaard, founder of the start-up Deep Green, which charges clients to use its computing power for artificial intelligence and machine learning. It also charges a […]
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An experienced mountain-going photographer got stuck in a snowdrift while trying to rescue another stranded vehicle on a remote mountain road in Oregon. He knew he needed to tell someone of his predicament so he picked up his phone and made a ‘drone call.’ Attaching an iPhone to the underside of his camera drone, Casey […]
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184 years ago, John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and father to famous author William Butler Yates, was born in the County Down. Without becoming world-renowned, Yeats never had issues getting commissions, we know because of the large number of paintings but especially sketches that hang in houses around Ireland, England, and the US. READ more… (1839) The […]
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Patience, bribery, laughter, and a heck of a bicep muscle were all needed to rescue a helpless dog trapped after falling 10 feet into an ice-covered pool. The Michigan animal shelter Pound Buddies received several “frantic” calls on March 7th about a dog trapped in the old water filtration pond. The pond was frozen over, […]
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A young man in The Netherlands recently fulfilled what seemed to be his destiny by finding an “extremely rare” hoard of gold jewelry from the High Middle Ages. An avid metal detective since the age of 10, the 27-year-old is all grown up and now a professional historian. Discovered in Hoogwoud back in 2021, Lorenzo […]
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Countries are always looking for ways to promote their unique culture to attract tourists, and Finland may have just knocked the ball out of the park. Having been named the world’s happiest country by the World Happiness Report for five consecutive years, Finland wants to share its secret to happiness with the world. To do […]
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117 years ago today, Henry Royce and Charles Rolls put their brains and surnames together to form the most iconic luxury car maker in history. Rolls-Royce released the 40/50 in 1908, known as the Silver Ghost which became a hit, and sole offering of the company that had recently set up shop in Derby, before World War […]
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By creating a simulated universe, scientists working in concert with NASA have replicated how we can expect the soon-to-be-launched Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope can study the influence of dark matter on the universe. The simulation will help scientists plan the best observing strategies, test different ways to mine the mission’s vast quantities of data, […]
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The US Postal Service is going to try and reduce its carbon footprint by buying 9,000 new Ford electric vehicles. To support the new EVs, the USPS will construct 14,000 additional charging stations in 75 different counties and municipalities. “We are moving forward with our plans to simultaneously improve our service, reduce our cost, grow […]
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An Afghan refugee living in British Colombia was finally reunited with her dog Lucky after 10 months apart. Sending Lucky and her cat Leo aboard an SPCA International flight from Kabul to Vancouver in February of 2022, Freshta Siddiqui, wasn’t sure if or when she would see them again. SPCA Int. was flying home pets […]
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Happy Birthday to the British film icon Michael Caine who turns 90 today. Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, the 2-time Oscar winner also had 6 nominations for his roles in The Quiet American, The Cider House Rules, Hannah and Her Sisters, Educating Rita, Sleuth, and Alfie. Alongside Laurence Olivier, Paul Newman, and Jack Nicholson, […]
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It’s time for a redux of Spiderman, but this time in Mandarin. A man hailed as a hero climbed the side of a building as easily as if he himself were the web-spinning wonder to rescue a toddler that had fallen out of a building window onto a ledge. In the city of Changzhou, a […]
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An English woman has found her calling and recycled more than 2,000 pounds of trash after setting up a drop-off point in her garden shed for people to leave items that garbage men don’t collect. Liz Pinfield-Wells built the DIY recycling center following the birth of her third child after she learned she couldn’t recycle […]
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To ensure the conservation of species and their environment, a new United Nations treaty on the sustainable use and protection of the High Seas has finally been drafted after a two-week round-the-clock marathon of talks in New York. The agreed framework has overhauled the requirements of environmental impact assessments for natural resource extraction and set a […]
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Hoard Alert! The metal detectives of Europe strike gold once again—this time in Germany as bejeweled earrings and silver coins are turned up in Schleswig-Holstein. The jewelry was all of gold and probably made by the Byzantines. The rings, earrings, and a brooch, all studded with gems, were deliberately buried along with 30 coins minted […]
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123 years ago today, Giorgos Seferis, the Nobel Prize-winning Greek poet and career diplomat was born. Known as the most important poet of Greece in the 20th century, he would spend most of his young and professional life outside of Greece, not only because of his work as a diplomat but because of Greece’s continual […]
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British researchers have filmed endangered mussels squirting their offspring through the air—a never-before-seen tactic believed to increase their lifespan. Experts at the University of Cambridge filmed female mussels—which don’t have a head or brain—moving to the water’s edge and anchoring into the riverbed. With their back ends raised above the waterline, the freshwater mussel (Unio […]
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Taking care of your teeth could help prevent chronic joint pain, according to a scientist who spotted a clue in discarded data. Rice University computational biologist Vicky Yao found traces of bacteria associated with periodontal disease in samples collected from rheumatoid arthritis patients, helping spur research that confirmed a connection between the diseases. Tracing this […]
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This bizarre dinosaur had the biggest claws ever discovered, showing itself to be like an ‘Edward Scissorhands on speed’, say scientists. But the purpose of its terrifying talons have remained a mystery—until now. “Therizinosaurus is famous for its sickle-like claws, each as long as a samurai sword: Edward Scissor-hands on speed,” said Dr. Chun-Chi Liao, […]
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An 81-year-old man survived on croissants, candy, and biscotti after a snowstorm left him stranded on a desolate California highway alone for nearly a week. Jerry Jouret’s family eventually called the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office to report a missing person after the mathematician and former NASA employee never made it to his destination of Gardnerville, […]
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142 years ago today, Andrew Watson was “capped” at international level for the Scottish National Football team, becoming the first black man to ever play international association football. He played three matches for Scotland between 1881 and 1882, after immigrating there from his birth country of modern-day Guyana, then-British Guinea. He played in the full-back […]
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A cat and a rabbit have teamed up as parents of both their litters after they gave birth days apart—and they even feed each other’s babies. The bunny known as Amy became an inter-species nanny more than two weeks ago, after Chrissy the cat moved her kittens into the rabbit hutch. Destiny Hampton had set […]
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A 17th-century gold ring is estimated to fetch at least $12,000 at a British auction, after being found by a retired school teacher in his back garden. The historic gold seal ring from 1620 was discovered by Richard McCaie, whilst he was planting a shrub. The 71-year-old discovered the ring about 10-inches deep on the […]
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Walking at a brisk pace for just 11 minutes a day slashes the risk of a premature death by almost a quarter, according to new research. The team led by researchers at the University of Cambridge showed how one in ten early deaths could be prevented if everyone managed to reach the threshold of 75 […]
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130 years ago today, Wanda Hazel Gág, the famous American illustrator and printmaker was born in Minnesota. Gág won international and domestic honors for her book Growing Pains which consisted of excerpts and drawings from her teenage years, but it was her children’s book Millions of Cats for which she is best remembered. READ More… (1893) Millions of Cats is the […]
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Reprinted with alterations from World at Large, an independent news outlet that covers conflict, nature, travel, health and fitness, and more. The DNA of George Washington will join that of the creator of Star Trek on a spacecraft for launch later this year Hair samples from Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Regan, and […]
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Welcome back to Good Gardening! It is my great joy to restart this community and our discussions for the year 2023. After a mild winter, Italy is moving rapidly into an early spring, yet no doubt some of you are already seeding or starting in warmer climes. For those in America’s northern reaches which proved […]
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Scientists are scratching their heads after large gray circles were spotted on Mars by the Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA reported the unusual sand dunes on the Red Planet, which they say are “almost perfectly circular,” and just another of the strange phenomena that NASA has observed over a decade of thoroughly surveying Mars. The space agency’s […]
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Treatments for deadly bone cancers that mainly affect children may be on the horizon after experiments identified a protein that promotes cell death in osteosarcomas. Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University said the discovery could lead to a cure for all types of skeletal tumors. Osteosarcoma is the most common bone cancer, but it occurs […]
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A pair of geriatric lovebirds tied the knot in their 80s after they fell for each other on an internet dating site. The besotted 85-year-old Tricia Shaw admitted she was smitten “at first sight” when she went online and found her “toy boy” 82-year-old Ian. Ian felt there was “something about her,” and had to […]
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In an effort to renew alternatives to meat in the wake of collapsing shares and sales of veggie meat and their companies, one man is looking at mycelium—the fibrous root structure of a lifeform much more similar to beef than soy: mushrooms. In fact, of the 5 classic taste profiles, umami has really only 2 […]
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Happy 60th birthday to the legendary record producer and all-around guru Rick Rubin. Co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records, Rubin began his career helping to popularize hip hop by producing acts such as the Beastie Boys, Run DMC, LL Cool J, and the Geto Boys. Rubin […]
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In Lebanon’s windy northwest governate of Akkar, a literature student taught himself engineering to build a wind turbine on his grandmother’s roof. With government-supplied electricity more of a nice theory than a daily reality, solar panels have become ubiquitous in the region. However 25-year-old Mohamad Sabsabi used old water drums, steel beams, and a cart […]
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After a few bees figured out how to get a sweet treat from a locked container, the whole hive eventually learned how by watching and learning. The research, led by Queen Mary University of London and published in PLOS Biology, provides strong evidence that social learning drives the spread of bumblebee behavior—in this case, precisely how […]
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Artificial intelligence can help spot early signs of cancer in chest x-rays, according to a new study. Scientists found that a state-of-the-art AI tool can classify normal and abnormal chest X-rays in a clinical setting at least as well as professional radiologists, but as an editorial on the paper pointed out, radiology departments are often […]
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A 36-year Boeing employee noticed at a local grocery store in her home of Auburn Washington that the Powerball jackpot had reached $747 million. In a nod to her place of work, she decided to buy a ticket after the number of Boeing’s premier jumbo passenger jet, the 747. In another coincidence, the jackpot had […]
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115 years ago today, Internazionale Milano was formed from a schism with AC Milan, creating one the most successful, and most-supported football clubs in Italy and Europe. The strange name “International” came because the founding members wanted a football club open to all the “brothers of the world,” i.e. foreign players and not just Italians. […]
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A Cherokee woman determined not to let the pandemic get her down began running or walking a 5K every day for 100 days. Through lockdowns, Alpha, Delta, Omicron, and beyond, Mae Dean Erb kept on running until she completed her 1,000th 5K last Friday, two months short of her 80th birthday. “I don’t know how […]
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When the full extent of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria became apparent, rescuers came from around the world and across political boundaries to aid in the lifesaving efforts; and they brought their dogs too. Trained rescue dogs and their handlers came from the US, Israel, El Salvador, Mexico, Qatar, South Korea, China, India, […]
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Chelsey Brown likes to trawl flea markets and thrift shops for interesting items, but not for decorations or collections. As an amateur genealogist, she enjoys tracking down the owners or the descendants of the owners and reuniting them with their lost heirlooms. The Manhattan interior designer claims to have returned more than 500 objects to […]
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A private space tech firm will become the first entity to launch a 3D-printed rocket, which is technically the largest 3D-printed object as well. Totally reusable, the Terran 1 will launch today from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral at 1:00 PM US Eastern Time, and will be streamed live on this YouTube channel. Built by […]
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1,013 years ago today, the Persian language’s most famous epic poem, the Shahnameh, was completed by poet Abdul-Qasem Ferdowsi. The work is of central importance in Persian culture and language, regarded as a literary masterpiece, and definitive of the ethnonational cultural identity of Iran going back thousands of years. Consisting of some 50,000 “distichs” or […]
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From Beijing, to Bognor Regis, to Buenos Aires, Sandy Hazelip and Ellie Hamby are sending a message to elderly around the world that goes, “if you don’t use it, you lose it.” The 80-year-olds are going around the world in 80 days, like Phillias Fogg and Passepartout, to have advanced fun at their advanced age. […]
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Keen to quit his day job, a West Virginian has built a quaint, beautifully furnished treehouse for Airbnb. It will pair with his other, rather unorthodox listing, a cabin made out of a converted school bus. A treehouse is without question one of the most fairy tale places to sleep, as an adult or certainly […]
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A new corridor measuring about 30 feet was discovered recently in the biggest of the three Giza Pyramids, the Pyramid of Khufu. Images and videos were released to the public after the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities investigated the tunnel using an endoscopic camera. Despite the nearly unlimited intrigue and mystery surrounding Ancient Egypt’s most remarkable […]
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A cemetery manager played Valentine’s Day matchmaker to a lonely widowed goose whose mate passed away. Blossom and Bud lived together for years in the pond at Riverside Cemetery in Marshalltown Iowa, but after Bud died last August, it seemed Blossom would spend the best years of her life alone. General manager Dorie Tammen noticed […]
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100 years ago today, the Robert Frost poem Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening was published in The New Republic. Ending with the famous line “And miles to go before I sleep,” the poem was Frost’s favorite, and the one he called his “best bid for remembrance.” Frost said he wrote the verses based on a […]
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The last 100 years of continental movement have recently been calculated by scientists and illustrated in a 23-second video, down to an astonishing 10-kilometer resolution. The short .gif explains so much of how our world came to be in such a short time span, most notably how Africa has changed over time. There are certain […]
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When a woman struck up a conversation with an Ontario homeless man, she didn’t imagine it would change his life forever. After it became clear that Brian Bannister was a kind soul who had simply fallen on hard times, Danielle MacDuff offered him a job on her farm. Bannister was living in a shed after […]
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A 92-year-old Mumbai man took action to transform his housing society with renewable energy and rainwater catches, saving the residents thousands. In the year 2000, Navin Chandra moved into the Sealine Housing Society but was “appalled” to see how much money residents paid for the delivery of water from large tanker trucks. Expensive and “not […]
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A fledgling energy company looking to develop true zero-emissions aircraft just took a massive leap forward with the first-ever regional passenger flight powered principally on hydrogen. A 40-seat aircraft took off at 8:41 am from Grant County International Airport and flew for 15 minutes, reaching an altitude of 3,500 MSL. The flight, conducted under an […]
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358 years ago today, the longest-running scientific journal in the world published its first edition under the stuffy, yet wonderfully dated name Philosophical Transactions: Giving some Account of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World. In a trick of the English, the word ‘philosophical’ referred to a […]
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A supermassive black hole discovered at the edge of the universe is one of the biggest ever detected, containing over a billion solar masses worth of interstellar dust and forming stars 1,000 times faster than our own Milky Way. The cosmic colossus lies at the center of an extreme galaxy and dates back more than […]
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A disabled, nature-loving grandmother staged a one-woman protest to get a stay of execution for a healthy willow tree about to be chopped down. Workers arrived in the neighborhood on Tuesday, where Virginia Hanley has lived since 2007. When she looked out the window, she was shocked to see workers preparing to chop the tree […]
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This is the incredible moment a missing backcountry skier buried under snow was able to wave down a rescue chopper with only his one arm sticking out. The video, shot by paramedic Mathieu Lambert, shows the man desperately waving with his only free limb as the helicopter hovered above, while shining a light on the […]
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A leading cardiologist has revealed the top 10 heart symptoms you should never ignore—including nausea with chest ache and being tired upon waking. But a recent survey found 54 percent of adults wouldn’t guess these symptoms were related to poor heart health. Dr. Ameet Bakhai, a consultant cardiologist at Spire Bushey Hospital in North London, […]
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977 years ago today, Nasir Khusraw departed from his house on a 7-year voyage around the Islamic World. The man was a poet, philosopher, Isma’ili scholar, and one of the greatest writers in Persian literature. Born in Bactria, modern-day Tajikistan, Khusraw departed originally as part of the Hajj, but soon began to explore all of […]
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A mother who was told her 1-pound-11-ounce baby “would not survive” after arriving three months early now says he’s defied the odds and is thriving. Saniah Poindexter was 19 when she discovered she was pregnant. She was having a normal pregnancy until 26 weeks later, when Saniah came home from college with a stomach ache […]
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An astronaut snapped a jaw-dropping picture of this week’s aurora borealis from space. NASA’s Josh Cassada captured the light display aboard the International Space Station (ISS), while it was 250 miles from Earth. Seemingly at a loss for words, the Minnesota-born physicist and US Navy test pilot commented on Tuesday, calling it “absolutely unreal”. An […]
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Taking vitamin D supplements may help ward off dementia, according to a new, large-scale study with 12,388 participants who were dementia-free when they signed up. To examine the vitamin’s association for participants with a mean age of 71, researchers at the University of Calgary’s Brain Institute in Canada and the University of Exeter in the […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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133 years ago today, The Forth Bridge (not to be mistaken for the ‘fourth’ bridge) was opened for railway crossing over the Firth of Forth dividing Edinborough from Aberdeen. It is considered a symbol of Scotland’s brilliance (having been voted Scotland’s greatest man-made wonder in 2016) and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site for being […]
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With Southern California stuck in a 20-year drought, the torrential rains this winter have given the state’s wood wide web a bumper crop of mushrooms not seen in 26 years. 600% more rain has fallen this year than in any other this century, and when combined with chilly nights and a waxing moon that’s past […]
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An American non-profit is helping bereaved families recover from loss one crocheted sweater at a time. Loose Ends is a niche yet important outlet for those whose mothers and grandmothers left behind unfinished knitting or crochet work. Their volunteer knitters finish projects left behind by those who have passed away. While it seems too specific […]
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An Australian demographic researcher has a fun side gig that has accumulated 225k followers on Facebook. “Simon Shows You Maps” is a simple page that sprinkles your social media with all kinds of tiny eureka moments, all put together and carefully explained by Simon Kuestenmacher. Co-Founder and Director at The Demographics Group, Simon posts a […]
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Cats often get a bad rap for being loners, but one lucky kitty trapped under rubble in the Turkish quakes, will not allow himself to be parted from his rescuer. When the devastating earthquakes hit Gaziantep in Turkey, they struck a country where cats are loved harder than perhaps any other. A viral post on […]
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100 years ago today, TIME magazine debuted having been founded by Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce in New York City. TIME Europe is published in London, and also covers the Middle East and Africa. Editions also exist for Latin America and Asia. TIME set out to tell the news through people, and until the […]
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Birds of a feather really do flock together according to a new study that found flamingos with similar personality traits “form cliques” with like-minded friends. In Chilean and Caribbean flamingos, birds with similar personality traits tended to form cliques separate from differently-wired peers, much like humans. For example, bolder birds were shown to stick together, […]
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Feeling like the 9-5 office life of a software developer was too empty, an Indian man flipped his own script and became an entrepreneur, developed a method of hydroponically growing saffron, and wants to share it with the world. Shailesh Modak didn’t have an easy road to the point where he would make around $12,000 […]
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A home filmmaker has created incredible stop-motion miniature chase scenes using Hot-Wheels toy cars. Director and producer Paul Greer spent six months creating his first stop-motion film in 2013. Stop-motion films are made by taking an image of a scene, before slightly changing the position of the models and snapping another image, which creates the […]
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A US warship has been renamed to honor a Civil War hero with ties to the Navy, who escaped slavery by highjacking a steamship. He joined the Yankee navy, and eventually served 5 consecutive terms in Congress. In 1839, Robert Smalls was born into slavery in South Carolina. He became a skilled sailor and was […]
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124 years ago today, President William McKinley signed into law a bill creating Mount Rainier National Park, the fifth in the nation, in order to protect what John Muir described as some of the finest alpine meadows he ever saw, enveloping the slopes of an extinct stratovolcano that happens to be the highest peak in […]
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In a story that only those who live in the colonial cities of America’s east will understand, a surgeon ran about a mile to and from a hospital to pick up a liver for his patient after a courier’s route was blocked not only by Philadelphia’s strange grid system, but thousands of marathon runners. 66-year-old […]
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Around the US and UK, dozens of animal hospitals have a catch-all when it comes to grieving pet parents who have lost a furry friend: they give them the poem Rainbow Bridge. Yet this poem that has touched millions of peoples’ hearts has remained largely authorless for years until the sleuth work of an art […]
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Showing that scientific work so often disproves intuitive rationalization, a recent study found that video games are not damaging children’s brains, but also that games aimed at helping children build healthy brain skills don’t actually work either. Researchers from the University of Houston claimed that despite parents’ widespread fear, even spending 4.5 hours on a […]
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A minor meteor shower and a few conjunctions offer some great beginner stargazing events this March, but the really exciting opportunity in the heavens is a chance to see all 110 Messier objects, but more on that later. Tonight, Wednesday the 1st, and tomorrow, there will be the best conjunction of Venus and Jupiter since […]
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50 years ago today, Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon, the third most-sold album of all time, and a truly revolutionary piece of music. The Dark Side of the Moon is among the most critically acclaimed albums and often features in professional listings of the greatest albums. Its music is nearly unparalleled in progressive […]
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A 19-month-old girl has become the first person to be cured of a rare and deadly condition, using a new therapy that inserts functional versions of a faulty gene into the patient’s bone marrow. Teddi Shaw is now predicted to live a long, normal, healthy life thanks to this “cure” for metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). “Teddi […]
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In a moment that will bring tears to your eyes and send your jaw to the floor, a packed Istanbul soccer stadium rained teddy bears down onto the field in donation and support for the children affected by the earthquakes. At exactly the 17th second of the 4th minute of the match, which corresponded to […]
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A big research project into endangered species in Australia has found that 29 have recovered enough to be safely de-listed from their version of the Endangered Species List since the year 2,000. Australia’s Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act currently lists 446 species of animals in genuine need of protection, 29 of which—15 mammals, 8 […]
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For a limited time only, a Parison opera house box seat typically reserved for visiting dignitaries is being transformed into an Airbnb and priced for the ridiculously reasonable €37 per night. The Palais Garnier opera house captures all the stunning opulence of La Belle Epoch, and was used as the inspiration for Phantom of the Opera. […]
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119 years ago today, SL Benfica was formed in the Portuguese capital. The most decorated and supported football club in the country, and the second-most supported around the world by the metric of membership in official supporters groups, “The Eagles” have enjoyed several periods of major success and can boast of two European Cups among […]
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It seems like a new Silicon Valley startup could change the face of the battery industry forever by utilizing 3D printers to print solid-state batteries. Solid-state batteries have advantages over lithium-ion because they aren’t flammable, they’re more easily recycled, work in extreme cold, and have greater energy density. Solid-state batteries have traditionally been difficult to […]
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As part of GNN’s continuing coverage of city snowplow naming competitions, the results of Madison Wisconsin’s contest are in, and they are just hail-arious. The city’s chief salting truck will be named “Saltimus Prime” after receiving a total of 1,630 votes. A smaller, agile, bike path-plower will be named “Snowbi Wan Kenobi” after receiving 1,910 […]
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A Japanese aerospace startup is hoping to make space tourism even more accessible with a balloon capsule that hovers up 14 miles above the Earth. With an unobstructed view of space above, and the curvature of the Earth clearly visible below, the capsule is designed to rival existing space tourism flights that cost millions per […]
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High school seniors managed to secure a quarter-million dollars for their sweet, 80-year-old janitor who had to come out of retirement after his rent went up. The money was raised through a GoFundMe, which started out as a simple goal of $10,000, but quickly took on a goal of its own. Several seniors at Callisburg […]
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4 years ago today, the smallest baby boy ever born that would survive to leave the hospital went home in Tokyo with his mom, having been born just 9.45 ounces, or 268 grams. He was born as small as a baby kitten at 24 weeks after doctors discovered he was not growing in the womb […]
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Motorcyclists can soon be safer thanks to a company that produced the world’s first airbag suit. The garment is made from the strongest denim on the planet. Even more unique are the airbags that activate via small CO2 cartridges whenever the rider falls from their bike. The trigger mechanism is a tether connecting the jeans […]
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A farm staff was stunned after it learned that one clever sheep had been unlocking a gate to let herself and her pals roam free. The Whitehouse Farm Centre in Morpeth, England, had no suspects for the rash of break-outs in their barn. They were left baffled when Lucy the one-year-old Leicester sheep and her […]
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A 28-year-old who helps the elderly to re-home their pets before passing away has celebrated her 100th adoption. Angela Rafuse was inspired to create her charity after her 85-year-old grandfather died, leaving his cat, Mackenzie, without a home. None of Angela’s relatives had capacity to take on the responsibility, so she decided to take in […]
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If you are young or old, you can improve your overall health—and probably add years to your life—when you cultivate a full array of good sleep habits. The new research is being presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session next month. The study found that young people who have more beneficial sleep […]
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194 years ago today, Levi Strauss was born in what was then the Kingdom of Bavaria. Moving to Louisville Kentucky in the 1850s, and then to San Francisco in 1871, Levi Strauss began importing all kinds of goods from the east coast, including tents, and eventually jeans. Strauss met Jacob Davis doing this work, and […]
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A boy with autism who could not read or write until his late teens is now the youngest-ever Black professor at Cambridge University 20 years later. As a child, Jason Arday was diagnosed with global developmental delay, which affecting his ability to learn how to talk and read. Speechless until age 11, therapists even predicted […]
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This week, The Home Depot announced that it is investing an additional $1 billion in wage increases for its hourly associates. The raises have already started arriving for all tenured frontline hourly associates. They will also benefit anyone just hired for a new job at the chain hardware store, boosting starting wages in every U.S. […]
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Students at Penn State University have raised a whopping $15 million during their annual 46-hour ‘no sleeping or sitting’ dance marathon. It was an all-time record high—and will benefit Four Diamonds, a national nonprofit fund that covers 100% of all medical expenses for families with childhood cancer at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital. Dubbed THON, […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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74 years ago today, the great Lebanese/French scholar and writer Amin Maalouf was born. His bibliography has been translated into over 40 languages worldwide and contains a mixture of award-winning fiction and non-fiction books. In 1984, Maalouf published what for scholars and historians of the Middle Ages was a huge spanner in the works of […]
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Zoos have “powerful potential” to reverse extinctions, according to a new study that found zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and seedbanks have a 50/50 record at bringing extinct species back into the wild. In other words, thanks to dedicated conservationists, after a species’ chance of survival drops to zero in the wild, they still have a […]
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Six enormous galaxies that formed just half a billion years after the Big Bang have been detected by astronomers. They contain some of the first stars that lit up the cosmos, but the really cool part is that they’re much bigger than anyone thought was possible. The precise-ish date is about 13 billion years ago. […]
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When 3-year-old Waylon Saunders arrived at the hospital, he was already legally dead and had been for a while. Found face-down in an icy backyard swimming pool, the Ontario toddler’s body temperature was so low that paramedics’ thermometers couldn’t get a reading, and he had no pulse. Nevertheless, a team at Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital […]
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Spotting an opportunity to change someone’s life and nab some pretty stunning publicity in the process, Heinz is looking to get in contact with a Dominican sailor who survived four weeks adrift at sea with little more sustenance than a bottle of ketchup. The company wants to give the man a new boat with state-of-the-art […]
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55 years ago today, British astronomers discovered a radio signal in their new telescope outside Cambridge that turned out to be the first pulsar. These highly-magnetized neutron stars spin at incredible speeds, and are one of the most interesting phenomena in space. Antony Hewish and Martin Ryle along with Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Hewish’s research student, […]
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We’ve all found family heirlooms and keepsakes tucked away in our attics and lofts before, but an English couple recently found a lot more than merely their parents’ third-grade arithmetic homework. A couple from Stratford-upon-Avod were left ‘gobsmacked’ after they found a childhood letter that newly-crowned King Charles wrote to his “Granny” Queen Mother Elizabeth […]
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February 4th, World Cancer Day at Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany: it’s a day French-Ivorian striker Sébastien Haller will always remember. Last summer, Haller was diagnosed with testicular cancer just weeks after signing a long-term contract to play for the second-biggest team in Germany, Borussia Dortmund. It was a difficult, scary period for the […]
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Archaeologists in Egypt have just succeeded in completely excavating a small Roman city in the classical capital of Luxor, which contained workshops, homes, and “pigeon towers.” Dr. Mostafa Waziri from the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities stressed the importance of the discovery, as it revealed the oldest Roman residential city on the eastern side of the […]
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When a rescue dog found herself lost in her new neighborhood, she somehow knew just where to go to find help. Back in January, a husky-mix named Bailey adopted by a family in Upper El Paso went missing, and her owners went to social media to try and find help locating her. They contacted the […]
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137 years ago today, an American inventor used electrolysis to extract aluminum from aluminum oxide, a process that eventually resulted in reducing the price of aluminum by a factor of 200, making it affordable for many practical uses from soda cans to the Wright Flyer. As small grains amid clay, it was thought by medieval […]
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Did you know your body actually contains three different kinds of fat? That’s right, humans have brown, beige, and white fat adipose tissues, and a newfound ability to turn one into the other could create a revolution in metabolic disease prevention. By turning a select number of genes in white fat cells off, they reverted […]
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A trove of precious jewelry from Cambodia’s past has been repatriated after surfacing in London. Totaling 77 artifacts from the medieval kingdom of Angkor, they are believed to have been trafficked from the country during the tyranny of the Khmer Rouge and the civil wars that plagued the country during the 20th century. Angkor was […]
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Strangers around the country are rewarding a Michigan woman for her honesty after turning in nearly $15,000 cash to the police that she found at a gas station. It turned out to be the contributions of guests to a pair of newlyweds, who were more than overwhelmed by her integrity. 65-year-old Dianne Gordon has been […]
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A 41-year-old world record in women’s track and field stands no longer after a young Dutch speed demon smashed it in front of her home crowd. Femke Bol took off at the starting pistol at the Dutch Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, and completed a 400-meter sprint in 49.26 seconds, beating Jarmila Kratochvílová’s world record of […]
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74 years ago today, Andreas Nikolaus Lauda, the famous 3x Formula One World Driver’s champion, was born in Vienna. He’s best known for his wins with McLaren and Ferrari, as well as his fierce rivalry with British driver James Hunt. So desperate was Lauda to get into professional racing he took out a £30,000 bank […]
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Australia’s version of the FDA surprised the nation in early February when they announced that psilocybin and MDMA would be considered medicines, and prescribable by psychiatrists for various mental health disorders by July. Psilocybin, the psychoactive component in psychedelic mushrooms, and MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, are two of the most effective treatments for dangerous […]
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In the beautiful West African country of Mali, a huge discovery has a town drawing a flammable gas from the earth that produces loads of electricity without CO2 emissions. The town called Bourakébougou was prospected by Malian energy entrepreneur Aliou Diallo, who believed the mysterious gas which in the daytime shone with a blue color […]
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Secret cameras have captured the amazing moment two incredibly rare tiger cubs were born at a UK zoo. The tiny twins arrived at Chester Zoo on January 7th to proud first-time parents, tiger mom Kasarna and her partner Dash. The births have been heralded as a “major boost for the conservation of these incredible animals”, […]
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Astronomers just finished putting into words the first observation of a “kilonova,” or the merger of two neutron stars. The scientists described it as the “perfect explosion” as it was utterly spherical, and brighter than a billion suns. After the two heavy stars merged, for a few moments they formed a massive neutron star, after […]
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75 years ago today, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) was established in Daytona Beach, Florida. The American racing circuit was incorporated by Bill France who had moved to Florida to escape the worst of the Great Depression. France had the notion that people would enjoy watching stock cars race. Drivers […]
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After teetering on the edge of extinction almost 50 years ago, the wood stork is now widespread across the southeastern US, and is preparing a flight off the Endangered Species List (ESL). It’s all in a day’s work for the ESL, the world’s most successful conservation program in history, and the only stork native to […]
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The “Düsseldorf Patient”, a man now aged 53, is just the third person worldwide to have been completely cured of HIV via stem cell transplantation. As in the case of the other two patients, the so-called “Berlin Patient” and “London Patient,” the transplantation was undertaken to treat an acute blood disease, which had developed in […]
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As part of existing requirements for offshore energy production, 600 shipwrecks have been found in the Gulf of Mexico alone by oil and gas producers, however scientists and historians reckon this number is just a fraction of how many are actually out there. A new proposal to the Federal Register by the Bureau of Ocean […]
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It doesn’t get much older than Sumeria, but even the modern concept of going out to eat was already established 1,000 years before the Great Pyramids were built. In the ancient Near Eastern city-state of Lagash, the foundations of a tavern were recently found by archaeologists that included an open-air sitting area, and a kitchen […]
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146 years ago today, Swan Lake premiered at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater. Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the music for this most famous of ballets for the Moscow Imperial Theatres director for 800 roubles. No one knows for sure who wrote the libretto but when it debuted at the Bolshoi it was heavily criticized as overall […]
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Goffin’s cockatoos have been added to the short list of non-human animals that use and transport sets of tools. In a study publishing in the journal Current Biology on February 10, researchers show that the cockatoos carry multiple tools to their worksite when the job calls for it. This type of behavior has only been […]
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The first ever ‘dancing lemur’ to be bred in Europe was born at a UK zoo in a “landmark moment for the species”. The precious baby Coquerel’s sifaka arrived at Chester Zoo on December 19, weighing just 4oz (119g) following a 130-day pregnancy. Proud parents Beatrice and Elliot, both aged ten, successfully bred after being […]
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The annual Western monarch count to measure the population of overwintering butterflies shared fantastic news for the second year in a row. Motivated by the surprising rebound in 2021, volunteers’ excitement continued to grow when early reports hinted at a consecutive year of improved numbers. Surveying a total of 272 overwintering sites across coastal California […]
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Astronomers have picked up eight mysterious radio signals that could be coming from aliens sending messages with technology more advanced than our own. The electromagnetic waves were detected using state of the art AI (artificial intelligence), or deep learning. The signals were sourced to areas surrounding five ‘nearby’ stars 30 to 90 light years away. […]
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75 years ago today, the first Bollingen Prize for Poetry was awarded by Yale University to Ezra Pound. The University of Virginia describes the award as “among the most prestigious prizes given to American writers.” Established by Paul Mellon in 1949, it is awarded biennially by the Yale University Library to an American poet for […]
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An Englishwoman is turning old leather sofas into beautiful handbags as a way to save them from the landfill. Lisa Crick gets the pre-loved couches donated to her for free, and she upcycles the good parts into totes, messenger bags, and luggage in the space of a week. She tries to use every part of […]
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Three-quarters of people who reached 70 years or older agreed in a new poll that the ‘old age stereotypes’ no longer apply to today’s seniors. In fact, 72 percent of this group feel “years younger” than their actual age and are far more active than they imagined they would be. The survey of 1,000 people […]
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A unique project that brings joy to a Colorado children’s hospital is back this winter—and the best thing about it are the strangers who pull on their boots so they can “Say Hi with a Snowman”. For the third year in a row, kids who are stuck in Children’s Hospital Colorado can draw their version […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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80 years ago today, Sir Bobby Robson was born. Over a managerial career that spanned nearly 40 years and included title-winning tenures in Portugal, Spain, England, and The Netherlands, Bobby Robson was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to football, which also included an 8 year-management of the English National Football Team. READ more […]
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Originally written by Liz Kimbrough. Reprinted from Mongabay on a CC 4.0. License. Up in Tanzania’s Ukaguru Mountains, researchers have found a new-to-science frog species with a unique trait: it doesn’t make a sound. The small, silent Ukaguru spiny-throated reed frog (Hyperolius ukaguruensis) doesn’t croak, chirp, sing, or ribbit. “It’s a very odd group of […]
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Hir Royal Airness himself celebrated his 60th birthday today with the largest donation to the Make-a-Wish Foundation in history. The $10 million fortune will go to “create an endowment to provide the funds needed to make future wishes possible for kids with critical illnesses,” the foundation explained in a release. Witnessing the strength and resilience […]
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It turns out that Saturn isn’t the only married planet in the solar system. A European telescope has found a new dwarf planet right here at home, and it too has a ring. The largest object found to orbit our sun since Pluto was discovered in 1930, Quaoar is the third-largest dwarf planet or planetoid […]
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With persistence, belief, and the amount of sheer dumb luck normally needed to win the lottery, a Portland senior tracked down a Japanese family based on the photos left behind in an album her late husband plucked from the shrapnel-strewn beaches of Okinawa in 1945. Strangers, friends of friends, and non-English speakers all pitched in […]
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60 years ago today, Michael Jordan was born. His biography on the official National Basketball Association (NBA) website states “by acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.” He won titles with the Chicago Bulls in 1991, 92, 93, 96, 97, and 98. As a rookie in 1985, an often-cited premonition of […]
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India’s Jal Jeevan Mission of tap water access continues to be one of the great, unsung stories of human development. Almost 79 million households have been provided with access to a tap water connection since the program’s launch in August 2019, bringing the total to 111 million, or 56% of rural households in the nation. […]
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Newly-graduated ‘Doctor’ Nick Axten said it took him “a long hard think” to get his doctoral dissertation in order, which is probably what most Ph.D. candidates would say. Unlike most candidates however, it took Dr. Axten 5 decades before the 76-year-old student finally graduated with a Ph.D. in mathematical sociology at the University of Bristol. […]
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On February 3rd, a jailbreak occurred in Manhattan—it was a Eurasian eagle owl named Flaco. Investigators don’t know the identity of his vandal accomplice who shredded the netting of his enclosure, and the search for witnesses is ongoing. In all seriousness, Central Park Zoo’s Flaco had lived his whole adult life in captivity, and the […]
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If it still holds that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a virus that kills bacteria might be a good place to start developing medicines. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) creating “superbugs” is the largest threat to individual health on Earth. As many as 60% of the strains of common bacteria that live in […]
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100 years ago today, British archaeologist Howard Carter unsealed the inner burial chamber of Tutenkhamon’s tomb and found his sarcophagus. The tomb was discovered either by workers or a young boy, and by early November Carter’s team was inside the tomb. Work continued, and by February all of the treasures in the antechamber had been […]
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Former Yahoo Finance editor Adam Taggart always thought it was bizarre and unacceptable that financial literacy wasn’t compulsive in high school and college, but the years 2019 through 2021 made him realize that America needed help understanding how to protect their livelihoods from financial dangers. He created Wealthion, the fastest growing, totally-free, online financial literacy […]
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A California start-up has saved thousands of used electric vehicle battery packs from landfills by diverting them into an energy storage facility. BWU Storage Solutions made a million bucks last year selling stored renewable energy to the CA power grid, thanks to 1,300 used battery packs from Toyota and Honda EVs. Worn out over long […]
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A 23-year-old woman just set the Talisker Challenge record for the fastest solo row across the Atlantic. Departing from the Canary Islands on the 10th of December, Mariam Payne rowed 59 days, 16 hours, and 36 minutes, before arriving in Antigua last Friday. The extraordinary feat was accomplished to raise money for the east Yorkshire […]
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Changing attitudes towards conservation in the Indian state of Assam have these women wearing paper-mache hats to support one of the world’s most endangered storks. Once reviled for their foul smell, carrion-filled diet, and unhandsome appearance, the greater adjutant has become a welcomed member of communities where it was once killed as a pest thanks […]
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22 years ago today, the Human Genome Project successfully sequenced the full human genome for the first time in history. The results were later published in 2004, with only 341 gaps in the sequencing representing highly-repetitive and other DNA that could not be sequenced with the technology available at the time. Humanity decided to “go […]
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In a stunning development for the future of technology, India, one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, just uncovered vast reserves of lithium in the Reasi district of the northern union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has recently inferred that around 5.9 million metric tonnes of lithium could be […]
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When 9-year-old Bobbi Wilson heard about the Hoboken campaign to eradicate the spotted lanternfly, she took the message to heart, whipped up some homemade, non-toxic, spotted lanternfly poison out of vinegar, and headed out to do her part. Yale decided to highlight this citizen scientist, as she donated her collection of 27 laternflies to the […]
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Across America, more than 20 state legislatures are looking over proposed laws that would help guarantee citizens’ access to parts, instructions, and diagnoses to help them repair products—from smartphones to tractors—in their own homes. Called the “Right to Repair” movement, it’s been growing in urgency and size since the turn of the millennium, and 2023 […]
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76 years ago today, Phạm Tuân was born in Viet Nam. He became the first Vietnamese citizen and the first person from an East Asian country to fly in space when he launched aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Interkosmos Research Cosmonaut. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Furthermore, he […]
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The Biden Administration is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to close abandoned oil and gas wells across the country, but what if they could solve the problem of renewable energy storage instead? 3,000 feet below the Midwestern state in a geological structure of porous sandstone, researchers from the University of Illinois deposited excess energy […]
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It’s always big news among Britain’s metal detecting hobbyists when a hoard is found, and a new one from Buckinghamshire is the biggest in a decade. 600 Medieval coins, including 12 rare gold “nobles” from the reign of Edward III, have been declared treasure by the British Government, and valued at around £150,000 ($180,000). Seven […]
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In a rare moment of beauty at Guantánamo Bay, detainees managed to win themselves the rights to own and control their own artwork. A recent Pentagon ruling reversed a previous decision that blocked Guantánamo Bay prisoners from exhibiting paintings that were made during their imprisonment. Now, outgoing inmates will be allowed to take a “practicable […]
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There’s something for everyone at the Super Bowl, sport, the halftime show, and of course, the commercials. It started all the way back in 1967 that Super Bowl ads became premium price, and they’ve only gotten more expensive for companies looking to showcase their products. In fact, a 30-second spot costs around $7 million. Today […]
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This daily column at GNN.org features all the good news, anniversaries and notable birthdays from this day in history—February 13.
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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the movie Groundhog Day. Starring Bill Murrary as a cynical Pittsburgh-based news reporter and the brilliant and endearing Andie McDowell as his TV producer and boss, who becomes the focus of his new understanding of love. The story takes place on February 2, Groundhog’s Day, a day marked annually […]
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A giant cat has gotten so big it is now 4.27 feet long, the average height of a nine-year-old (1.3m). The enormous Maine Coon has often been mistaken for a dog, leaving many people stunned. Owner Natalie Bowman adopted Finn in 2017, when he was just three and half months old. The cat’s stupendous size […]
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Can a pigeon match wits with artificial intelligence? At a very basic level, yes. In a new study, psychologists at the University of Iowa examined the workings of the pigeon brain and how the “brute force” of the bird’s learning shares similarities with artificial intelligence. The researchers gave the pigeons complex categorization tests that high-level […]
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The earliest evidence of human ancestors using tools up to three million years ago has been unearthed in Kenya. They were employing some of the oldest stone implements ever found to cut up hippo meat and pound plant material on the shores of Lake Victoria, say scientists. The team explained that because fire would not […]
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147 years ago today, the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso, was born. Recognized as the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama when he was just two, Gyatso was a seminal figure in Tibet’s 19th and 20th century history. He streered his people through turbulent political environments while the last Chinese imperial dynasty, the Qing, collapsed and […]
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A privately-funded program to provide basic income to 100 California homeless people aims to study how the cash—plus one-on-one social support—can be potentially life-changing. ‘Miracle Money: California’ is being funded primarily by a $1.15Mil donation from Google.org and is being evaluated through a randomized control trial led by researchers at the University of Southern California. […]
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Jamie Mohr who was given a 10 percent chance of survival when he was born weighing just 1lb 8oz has defied the odds—and now is a genius prodigy at age 4. Jamie’s mom was told her placenta stopped working at 20-weeks and the baby was no longer getting the nutrients to grow. Doctors warned Lorraine […]
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Researchers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have developed a new AI deep learning model that can predict lung cancer risk up to six years in advance through a single low-dose CT scan. Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the world—resulting in more deaths than the next three cancers combined. It is also extremely […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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65 years ago today, the 1st Party Congress of the PRC adopted the first official system of Hanyu Pinyin—the romanization of Mandarin Chinese, allowing more than 2 billion people whose native language uses the Latin alphabet to learn Chinese. In 1955 the Chinese government placed Zhou at the head of a committee to reform the […]
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Many employees of school systems leave behind important memories with their students, but for bus driver Patty Reitz, she principally leaves behind a memory of friendship, and warm ears. Known as Miss Patty, the Clarence Central School District bus driver has crocheted 7,083 hats over three decades of service for the students and the school. […]
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As massive a project as it would see to be now, once upon a time humanity needed to formulate the theory of plate tectonics. That’s where perhaps the most influential cartographer of the 20th century, and of all human history besides, Marie Tharp came into the picture: hand-combining the hard data collected by colleagues into […]
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What parent could imagine anything worse than hearing their newborn has a genetic mutation that impedes neuromotor development that’s so rare, it affects just 300 infants worldwide? Yet even for something as rare as a CASK Disorder, the miracles of modern medicine can lend a healing hand—as they did for Anna and Bella Burkhart. Bella […]
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The classic British sitcom Fawlty Towers has been recognized for decades as one of, if not the greatest British sitcoms of all time. Now more than 40 years after it ended, it’s getting a reboot. Spinoffs and squeals can be nervous endeavors but with John Cleese at the helm, it’s sure to keep its original […]
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113 years ago today, Fr. Georges Dominique Pire was born in Dinant, Belgium. The Dominican friar won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958 for his work helping the plight of refugees in Europe after the Second World War. During the war itself, Pire served as chaplain to the Belgian resistance, actively participating in its activities, […]
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After a man in Ohio got in a fight with some friends over political positions, he realized the country needed a new method of agreeing to disagree. He created a gathering called Dinner and a Fight, but fight is crossed-out and replaced with “dialogue,” and after 11 such meetings people continue to show up— all […]
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US citizens or lawful permanent residents can now easily sponsor refugees seeking safety in America through a new program called the “Welcome Corps.” Connected with a consortium of non-profits that specialize in the resettlement of Internationally Displaced Persons, or IDPs, the Welcome Corps will allow private US citizens to quickly capitalize on their humanitarian instincts […]
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Equipment manager Carson Watters loves basketball, loves working on his junior varsity high school team, but never imagined he would ever get to play in a game. The Philip Simmons HS freshman has worked hard all year, said his coaches, and deserved to show what he could do on the court. “Seeing him go in […]
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An international cryptology team accidentally discovered a series of coded letters written by Mary Queen of Scots and deciphered them. The contents of those letters that have so far been decoded reveal the thoughts, plots, and emotions penned by Mary while she was imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth I, and were believed to have been lost […]
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100 years ago today, the great Irish playwright and author Brendan Behan was born in Dublin. Famous for the dark, gripping play The Quare Fellow, an outrageous drunken BBC interview with Malcom Muggeridge, and an autobiographical novel which became a world-wide bestseller, Behan was named by the newspaper Irish Central as one of the greatest […]
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An artistic form of recycling has an artist in Belgium creating exceptionally unique sculptures from the bits, bones, and barbs of insects. Joos Habraken creates these insectoid sculptures, measuring from 8 to 15 centimeters tall, out of between 30 and 100 pieces of dead insects. Each sculpture can contain parts from up to 30 individual […]
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A delightful story from northern Ontario saw a 5-year-old girl’s good Karma wait 13 years to reward her. Juliette Lamour won the state’s second-largest lottery jackpot in history, CAD$48 million, on her first-ever try. Local news from her home city of Sault Saint Marie revealed a touching side of the story—that at 5 years old […]
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Preparatory work began this week to restore the sharp spire atop the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris as the destroyed monument continues on track for a late-2024 reopening. Scaffolding has been set up, and custom-cut stones for the spire’s base were recently delivered by barge along the River Seine as they would have been […]
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Always keen to anthropomorphize their robots, NASA put out a social media post of one of their Mars rovers coming upon an exciting discovery. Putting words into the Curiosity rover’s mouth as it lazily dug around in the dirt, the rover said, ‘Rock. Rock. Rock. Rock. Rock. Rock. METEORITE!’ “This one’s about a foot wide […]
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198 years ago today, Henry Walter Bates, naturalist, explorer, and author of one of the finest natural travel accounts ever written, was born in Leicester. The gentleman explorer would send 14,712 specimens (mostly insects) collected during a long career exploring in the Amazon back to England for scientific research. He wrote The Naturalist on the […]
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The co-founder of Airbnb.org has just donated $25 million to support the Dutch nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup as they prepare to assemble and deploy the largest plastic capture system ever developed for use in the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup’s pilot-scale ocean cleaning system, System 002, has been deployed in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch […]
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The threat of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections has been growing across human civilization for years, but a new look at a plant pathogen discovered years ago reveals a potential new method of combating it—an antibacterial agent that works like nothing else deployed in medicine. Called albicidin, it belongs to a pathogen that causes a disease in […]
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An elderly Belgian man was able to meet the descendants of a neighbor who saved him from the Holocaust after his perseverant son and a helpful geneticist managed to track down his grandchildren. The meeting was organized in the same house where a 5-year-old David Rossler was hidden along with his mother. Now 85, Rossler […]
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“People say it’s like winning the lottery; it’s not. People actually win the lottery. When was the last time a crown jewel was unearthed?” Those were the words of Birmingham cafe owner Charlie Clark who after just 6-months of metal detecting as a hobby, found the treasure of a lifetime. Elbows-deep in a field in […]
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50 years ago today, Raw Power by Iggy Pop and The Stooges, was released on CBS records. Acknowledged as one of the most influential records in rock history, The Stooges sowed important seeds for punk rock and the hardcore genres with a new aggressive style unlike their previous albums, fronted by the albums single Search and Destroy. […]
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A large trial investigating the effectiveness of a celery-seed-derived neuroprotectant drug for use in ischemic stroke cases has shown significant promise. Patients given the medicine called butylphthalide had a 70% better chance of improved neurological and general living outcomes 90 days post-stroke, a finding generated from a little over 1,000 cases. Butylphthalide is already approved […]
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No gas is no problem for one Stockton CA inventor who created a solar-powered tricycle that’s really catching on. Milton Butler’s invention uses two batteries and a small electric motor gathered up in a normal plastic storage bin to power three bicycle wheels and is allowing his family to save money on $5.00 per-gallon gasoline. […]
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23 years ago, Thomas Patrick Edward Brady Jr. was signed as a 6th-round draft pick. As of his current official retirement announcement on the 1st of February, 2023, he holds nearly every NFL quarterback record. However, it might, even now, not be the end of the road for the 45-year-old. New England Patriots owner Robert […]
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A kayaker got more than he bargained for when he set off hoping to encounter some beluga whales. His innovative approach of conducting marine biology by singing at the top of his lungs actually managed to draw in a pod of these smaller whales who began to interact with his kayak. After a period of […]
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5 years ago today, the first Falcon Heavy rocket launched from Cape Canaveral carrying a Tesla Roadster with a crash test dummy behind the driver’s seat. The maiden flight clocked in at 5 million pounds of thrust from its 27 engines across two Falcon 9 boosters and was almost a complete success, with only some […]
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Hanging out in a local park, lake, or garden really could be an antidote to ill health for people who live in cities, according to a recent study from Finland. Researchers found lower use of drugs for depression, anxiety, insomnia, high blood pressure, and asthma among urban residents who often visit green spaces—regardless of their […]
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Researchers in Australia, an island nation, have successfully split seawater to produce green hydrogen without pre-treatment. An international chemical engineering team, led by the University of Adelaide’s Professor Shizhang Qiao and Associate Professor Yao Zheng, were motivated by the fact that the only thing emitted by hydrogen fuel is water. “We have split natural seawater […]
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This is the funny moment a guilty dog cowered into the corner of the bed and refused to look at his owner after destroying an expensive pillow. Footage uploaded to social media shows owner Marcella Maioli gently scolding her one-year-old dog after she discovered the bits of the pillow strewn about the room. Frisbee, a […]
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Almost half of adults in the UK admit their fondest childhood memories include school trips. Nearly one-third even reported that their school trip had such an impact that it shaped their future career path. But rising costs are making it harder to make school trips happen, which is why Hyundai launched its “Great British School […]
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5 years ago today at Super Bowl LI, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots complete the largest comeback in Super Bowl history to clinch the franchise and Brady’s fifth Super Bowl title. Due to the comeback, some have nicknamed the game the “28–3”. The game was also the first (and so far only) Super […]
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Cancer-killing vaccines could be made drastically more potent, according to scientists at Northwestern University, who say their new technology would arm vaccines with a “powerful weapon with which to kill cancer”. By changing its architecture, their vaccine was able to double the number of T-cells (a type of white blood cell) available to attack tumors. […]
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Figures released this week showed the U.S. unemployment rate reaching its lowest point in 54 years—the fewest jobless Americans as a percentage of population since 1969. Sustained job growth over the past year pushed down the unemployment rate to 3.4%, according the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Not only that, the median earnings for all workers […]
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If you’ve ever tried gift-wrapping an odd-shaped present like a teddy bear, you can appreciate the challenge that surgeons face when grafting artificial skin onto an injured body part. Now, bioengineers have devised a way of growing skin in the shape of hands to make it easier for surgeons in the future to graft the […]
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1,063 years ago today, Emperor Taizu ascended to the imperial throne of China and ushered in the Song Dynasty—one of the greatest periods of Chinese civilization, and certainly the most powerful, artistic, wealthy, and technologically sophisticated civilization on Earth. Indeed warfare was needed to create the conditions for the period’s flourishing, and that is not […]
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In New England, entrepreneurs have taken an unorthodox path to support local and sustainable agriculture—they started a bank. Encapsulating the spirit of Thoreau, Walden Mutual Bank, newly approved by the FDIC, is reviving the mutual savings bank in order to direct a community’s savings towards supporting local food operations that are trying to grow US agriculture […]
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When a Massachusetts woman lost consciousness at the wheel of her car on the highway, she can thank her lucky stars she did it in view of Adolfo Molina. The tall and powerful Dominican sprinted across a 4-lane highway in the snow to try and stop her car as it brushed against the guardrails while […]
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After a Finnish scuba diver saw how harmful out-of-control algae blooms could be to the marine environment below their green clouds, she founded a refining company that harvests the algae and turns it into all kinds of products. Certain components of algae have similarities to petroleum-based chemicals, and this similarity allows for the replication of […]
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The Japanese penchant for wielding large curved swords goes back much further in time than previously thought, the new excavation of a 4th-century tomb revealed. In the western city of Nara, a tomb inside a funerary mound uncovered a 7.5-foot-long sword and a large bronze mirror, which amount to first-of-their-kind-finds on the islands. The tomb […]
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88 years ago today, Johnny “Guitar” Watson was born. John Watson Jr. was a super-showman electric guitar player and singer in the style of T-bone Walker, who was musically active for 40 years blending blues, funk, and R&B. His biggest success came through a string of singles in the 70s like A Real Mother For […]
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Five minutes slow My wall clock celebrating A new year That was today’s poem for the English-language haiku section on the website of Japan’s oldest daily newspaper, the Mainichi. 365 days a year, the Mainichi publishes reader-submitted haiku in English from readers all over the world. In certain circumstances, the editors will include critical comments […]
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A startup looking to find better ways to mass-produce lumber for construction has swapped trees for grass. It turns out that with sophisticated laminating and molding machines, the fibers of certain grass species can be just as strong as wood, but lighter, and orders of magnitude faster to produce. Entrepreneur Josh Dorfman founded Plantd with […]
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A DNA analysis confirmed that the rare and little-known Pallas’ cat lives on the body of Mount Everest—three miles above sea level. The discovery was made along Sagarmatha National Park on Mount Everest’s Southern Flank in Nepal after a month-long expedition collecting environmental samples. Scat recovered from the two separate sites located 3.7 miles apart […]
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In 2020, China was preparing for its second landing on the moon as part of a sample-return mission of lunar regolith. Dramatic belly-cam footage was captured of the lander’s descent and touchdown. It shows the craft approaching the Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms) region of the moon at high speed and at an angle. What […]
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110 years ago today, Grand Central Terminal in New York City was officially opened to the traveling public. The distinctive architecture and interior design consisting of legitimate works of fine art, Grand Central Terminal’s station house has earned it several landmark designations, including as a National Historic Landmark. Grand Central is one of the world’s […]
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In the future, millions of artificial dandelion seeds carrying pollen could be dispersed freely by natural winds and then steered by light toward specific areas with trees or flowers awaiting pollination. The genesis for such wild imagination is the recent invention of a polymer-assembly robot that flies by wind, is controlled by light, and inspired […]
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Reprinted with Permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet focusing on travel, foreign policy, health and fitness, and more. Workers building a new highway in Romania were forced to call archaeologists when it became clear they were digging straight through the tomb walls of a “princely Hunnic warrior.” Dating to the 5th century […]
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A hiker captured the incredibly rare phenomenon of an ice disk on a mountain walk in the Scottish Highlands. 32-year-old David Brown from Dunoon, Scotland was hiking up the “Munro,” a Scots word for a peak above 3,000 feet in elevation, when he came across the rare sight with his father. “I was hiking Beinn […]
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A vaccine for the lethal Marburg virus has shown huge promise in early human trials with all participants easily tolerating the shot, and showing robust antibody responses. Developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) an additional Phase 1 safety trial is set to be performed in Kenya, Uganda, the […]
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10 years ago today, London’s Shard opened its viewing platform to the paying public, allowing visitors to look out over the city through “tell:scopes” which give additional information about famous landmarks as you pass over them. The tallest building in the city—a set of glass spikes tapering up to the heavens, was originally disliked and […]
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One of the most studied insect repellents in history, DEET has long been the first line of defense against mosquitoes for campers and field scientists alike. Now however, a combination of plant compounds has proved more effective for longer, and less irritative than commerical alternatives like DEET or picaridan. On its own, neither DEET, nor […]
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A three-month-old western lowland gorilla named Bruno recently had his first steps caught on film. He wobbles a bit and leans on his mother Gracie for support before finally dropping back to the ground. Bruno (and what a perfect name for a gorilla) was born at Fort Worth Zoo in Texas in the early hours […]
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A runestone was discovered in Norway recently that jumps back the origin date of runic writing by hundreds of years to a time before the fall of Rome. Based on carbon-dated organic remains, the reddish-brown sandstone block may have been carved as far back as 250 to 1 CE—making it the oldest ever found. Most […]
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A rare Indigenous Canadian jacket believed to be more than 170 years old has turned up at a vintage clothing warehouse in the UK. The brown fringe jacket arrived at the Glass Onion vintage warehouse in Barnsley, South Yorkshire after it was brought to the UK from a clothing bale from America. After the authenticity […]
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61 years ago today, the infamous Tanganyika (Tanzanian) “laughter epidemic” broke out in the village of Kashasha, Tanzania. The first sign was at an all-girls school when uncontrollable giggles began to occur at such frequency that the teachers had a hard time continuing the lesson. Psychologists believe that it was an outbreak of mass psychogenic […]
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A Mallorcan design company has come up with a water-absorbant mortar made from masonry waste on the island archipelago. Not only does this green building material create zero additional waste products, but no additional emissions from transportation, since it’s created locally. But how much construction waste could possibly be generated from a few islands? Sure […]
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Near the Step Pyramid of Djoser, Egyptologists working on an ancient cemetery uncovered what has been called “the oldest and most complete mummy found in Egypt to date.” Located at the bottom of a 45-foot (15-meter) shaft, a limestone sarcophagus contained the remains of a very rich man whom hieroglyphics named Heka-shepas, who was probably […]
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When a plane begins to shake from turbulence, it’s hardly surprising that most people become nervous. However the last few years have been the safest in the history of aviation. Between 2021 and 2022, the fatal rate of accidents aboard aircraft worldwide was 0.24 per million flights. In other words, 1 in 4,240,000. In actual fact, […]
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When a dolphin got lost and swam up a Florida canal, no less than 30 biologists and volunteers formed a human chain to block its passage further up the waterway. Their efforts saw the dolphin flee the canal out into Tampa Bay, saving it from a life of losing its ability to fend for itself […]
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150 years ago today, Around the World in Eighty Days was serially published. In Jules Verne’s 11th novel, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 (equivalent to £1.9 million in 2019) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It […]
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A brave young Black woman who became a pilot in the 1920s—and even walked on the wings of airplanes—has become the latest hero to be honored in the Barbie doll series featuring ‘Inspiring Women’. Known for her daring adventures as a barnstorming stunt flyer, Bessie Coleman broke new ground in the field of aviation. She […]
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Fiction and non-fiction writers alike have imagined life on Mars. Now, you don’t need any imagination to picture the resident as a giant bear. Scientists at NASA have spotted what they say looks like a bear on the Red Planet. The quirky image was captured in December by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from a height […]
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The San Diego Zoo Safari Park announced the birth of a critically-endangered Przewalski’s Horse—sometimes called ‘the Last Wild Horse’. Conservationists say this species of wild horse was categorized as Extinct in the Wild until 1996. The foal is the first Przewalski’s horse born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park since 2014, and is one […]
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A 10-year study of Chinese adults over the age of 60, showed that a healthy lifestyle, in particular a nutritious diet, is associated with the slowing of memory decline in older people. The major new research published in The BMJ, showed that the benefits of healthy living were even seen in those with a gene […]
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50 years ago today, the beginnings of the World Heritage Convention that would ultimately become UNESCO were established through an international agreement to pay for and conserve Borobudur, a 9th century Buddhist Temple in Indonesia. The largest Buddhist temple on Earth, the Borobudur project was the first to have involved the use of modern techniques […]
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Meet the toddler whose best friend is a pet frog. Little Juliana Allon begged her mom for a pet white tree frog from the pet store in Panama City, Florida after it had been given-up by its previous owner. The mother-of-three eventually caved and purchased the frog for $40 last August. “He was so fat […]
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A new survey revealed that seniors are becoming more daring with their hobbies and interests—adding marathons, hang-gliding—and even getting a tattoo—to their bucket list. The poll, of 2,000 adults over 50, found that 62 percent are keen to embrace things now, more than they used to. 47 percent have a new outlook on life. Writing […]
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A meteorite containing the oldest material in the solar system has been discovered in Antarctica. It is one of the biggest ever found—and sheds new light on the evolution of the sun and the planets. The 17-lb cosmic treasure (7.6kg) was easy to find, as its black composition contrasted starkly against the snow-white ground. Wilderness […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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123 years ago, Alice Neel was born. Known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers, her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity, and often portray women through a female gaze. In a fine arts college in Pennsylvania, she rejected Impressionism in favor of, […]
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A hospice care volunteer who sews together teddy bears for patients who’ve lost loved ones recently completed a monumental task of teddy bear sextuplets bearing a loving grandfather’s flannels. Patrice Travis works as a volunteer seamstress at AccentCare Hospice care in Texas, sewing a “memory bear” anytime one of their wards passes away. Thomas Lennon […]
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For 3 years, paleontologists working in Petrified Forest National Park have been unearthing the remains of perhaps the oldest known amphibian. It’s not a frog, nor a salamander, but the early-Triassic version of what today are called Caecilians: a family of legless, salamander-adjacent, burrowing critters. The fossils extend the record of this small, burrowing amphibian […]
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Everyone has their phobias—spiders, elevators, loneliness, but unfortunately for one Delta Airlines passenger, hers was flying. Molly Simonson Lee was flying from Charlotte near her home in Raleigh, North Carolina, to New York when it became clear that a passenger in front of her was not comfortable flying. The frightened woman began to cry, and […]
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Using an ancient solution for a modern problem, a firm successfully tested how a giant kite can be used to tug shipping vessels across the ocean and significantly reduce the amount of diesel fuel they use. It’s tempting to call the product a sail, and the activity sailing. However even the word kite belies the […]
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40 years ago today, a pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel that spans the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido was finally connected when Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone detonated a string of dynamite. It was the longest undersea tunnel in the world upon complettion, and retains that title today with the railtrack sitting about […]
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In May 2021, a new Chief Minister of the Indian state of Assam set out to thoroughly put an end to poaching in the state’s protected areas. Now 20 months later, the forestry and police departments of the state have reported that 2022 saw no rhinos lost to poaching, the first time that’s happened since […]
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In the historic Italian city of Vicenza, Veneto, a typically-Italian family business of artisans is handmaking not-so-typical solar panels. Designed to be indistinguishable by the naked eye from regular terracotta roof tiles, “Invisible Solar” tiles are made to improve the energy efficiency of heritage buildings without compromising their historic appearance. They make each tile out […]
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Nearly 100 years ago, the Chicago Field Museum acquired a bronze sword from Europe, but it was thought to be a well-made replica. Now a new analysis has revealed that the sword is the real deal, dating back 3,000 years to the Bronze Age, and likely belonging to a warrior in the upper strata of […]
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Derek Burgoyne puts the phenomenon at 1 in a million. He accidentally found a bull moose with his drone and clicked record 16 seconds before the great beast, shaking the loose snow from its body, shed its antlers on the spot. “Never in my wildest dreams would ever imagine catching this on film,” Burgoyne told […]
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108 years ago today, Congress signed into law a bill creating Rocky Mountain National Park. Protecting over a thousand square kilometers of the Front Range of the mountains, the park was designated among the first UNESCO Biosphere Reserves due to the amount of undisturbed and unspoilt land. Indeed the park bridges a space of two […]
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Recent surveys of the composition of an asteroid as old as our solar system has revealed a key strength that humanity must work around if it should ever need to defend our planet from a possible impact. “Rubble pile” asteroids are immune to impact weaponry, the study revealed, and shows that instead planetary defense programs […]
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Scientists have found that higher levels of physical activity measured by steps taken per day and hours spent playing sports reduced young children’s susceptibility to upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs.) A secondary finding of note was that the study also took into account whether the house had smokers, pet hair, which vaccines the children had […]
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In Stillwater, Minnesota, the hometown team of snow sculptors just walked away with 1st place in the World Snow Sculpting Championships, beating several nations and winning $4,000. Siblings Dusty and Kelly Thune and friends made up the team, monikered the “House of Thune,” who carved a raw expression of adversity and challenge called “Journey.” The […]
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Indian paleontologists recently uncovered a find of titanic proportions—a series of sauropod nests or “clutches” that contained 256 dinosaur eggs in total. The eggs yielded a trove of insights about sauropod reproductive strategies, and turned up 6 new species of dinosaur in the same dig. Located in the sedimentary bed of the Lameta Formation in […]
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138 years ago today, one of the most influential modern poets in Japanese history, pen name Hakushu Kitahara, was born. The man published over 200 books of children’s stories and poetry in his life, as well as worked as editor for several literary magazines. There was no slow grind for Kitahara; his first two books […]
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A Welshman decided to donate his kidney to an unknown patient after his daughter received a donated one in a potentially life-saving procedure. When Arfon Jones’ daughter Seren became seriously ill and had to have both her kidneys removed, he did what any father would do and signed up to be a donor. However the […]
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An oil sketch done by Dutch Master Anthony van Dyck is going up for auction soon, after being found discarded in a farm shed covered with bird droppings. Bought on a hunch for $600 in 2002 from an estate auction, it’s predicted to sell for $3 million when it goes up at Sotheby’s. While it […]
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An aviation start-up just set a new world-first for the largest hydrogen-powered aircraft flight in history—a 19-seat aircraft called the Dornier 228. Designed by ZeroAvia, the start-up is developing hydrogen-powered engines for regional flights, and over the last 12 months has really taken off. This most recent flight was a 10 minute affair from the […]
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Animal rescuers in Connecticut received word that a seagull was tangled in wires at the top of a power line. The Dan Cosgrove Animal Shelter in Branford went to the location of the call and, sure enough, found a seagull stuck dangerously close to the live power lines. Shelter personnel were able to get in […]
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159 years ago, Marguerite Durand was born. The journalist and women’s rights advocate wrote for numerous publications during the suffrage movement in France, and ran for public office during which she made repeated use of her pet lion as a sort of mascot. Her activism raised the profile of feminism in France and Europe to […]
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In an effort to come up with a renewable, biodegradable design material that also eliminates a landfill waste stream, French designers are proposing to cover the walls of your home with fish scales. In reality the idea is an elegant tile made from fish scales. It’s called Scalite, and it separates then combines naturally-occuring minerals […]
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Famous more as a cultural feature than as a natural one, the pace at which the River Mersey is recovering to a fishy wonderland has ecologists stunned. Splitting The Beatles’ home city of Liverpool in two, a recent survey found 37 different species of fish, more than two-and-a-half-times as many as were found in the […]
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Upon the occasion of the funeral for one Hody Childress from Geraldine, Alabama, it was revealed that for a decade this quiet and humble gentleman was a sort of guardian angel for the town’s poor and sick. A farmer and U.S. Air Force veteran, Childress began his covert charity campaign when he visited the local […]
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It was Christmas day, and young Molly was jumping for joy having unwrapped a pair of insulated waders and a sifting basket. They were exactly what the 9-year-old wanted—and needed, because as it turned out they helped her get her hands on a “once-in-a-lifetime” find of a megalodon tooth from a 50-foot shark that swam […]
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39 years ago today, Arjen Robben was born. One of the greatest Dutch footballers in recent memory, and probably the best right winger in the world during his prime, he won league titles in England, the Netherlands, but particularly in Germany where he collected 8 Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich, and won German player of […]
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“An enormous printer weighing more than 12 tons is creating what is believed to be the first 3D-printed, two-story home in the United States.” That’s according to a new video from Reuters News, highlighting the 4,000-square-foot home in Houston, Texas. The huge printer erected on the site requires 330 hours of printing to create the […]
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Railroad workers were able to rescue a stricken male raccoon after it became frozen to the tracks—stuck fast by the hair on its private parts. The animal was seen facing the oncoming train carriage as it straddled one side of the track. Neil Mullis was out on the job when he came across the poor […]
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Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black hole’s gravitational grasp violently rips it apart and sloppily devours its gasses while belching out intense radiation. Now, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have recorded a star’s final moments in […]
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If you wake up feeling more exhausted than when you fell asleep, you’re not alone. A new survey of 2,000 U.S. adults about their sleep found the average person doesn’t get anywhere near the quality or amount of sleep they want. On average, Americans only get six hours of sleep on any given night, and […]
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92 years ago today, Clyde McCoy the jazz trumpeter recorded Sugar Blues for Colombia Records. The song was originally written in 1919 by Clarence Williams with words by Lucy Fletcher, but the wah-wah trumpet clams that Clyde applied made it practically his theme song. The single recorded on that day would sell 14 million copies worldwide. LISTEN […]
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This 101-year-old woman says the secret to keeping herself young and healthy includes daily ballet moves on the barre. Dinkie Flowers is one of the oldest women in the UK and is eager to offer her tips for longevity. “I couldn’t live without dancing and I think it’s what’s kept me young and happy.” “It […]
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An amateur scientist has decoded the meaning of cave markings used in Ice Age drawings—a communication system of early ‘writing’ dating back 14,000 years earlier than any previously known. Ice Age hunter-gatherers were using mysterious markings alongside their drawings of animal prey to store and communicate “sophisticated” information about the behavior of species that were […]
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A part-time baker creates epic 2-D cakes that look like drawings straight out of a cartoon. Amy Bicknell was inspired to create her own cartoon cake after spotting a picture of one online. Her first attempt at the cake proved challenging as she doesn’t normally work with fondant icing, made of granulated sugar and water. […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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88 years ago today, The Wilderness Society was formed by an “organization of spirited people who will fight for the freedom and preservation of the wilderness.” Fast forward to modern times and the society has successfully aided in the establishment of 111 million acres of wilderness in 44 states. READ about their early years… (1935) By the […]
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(Note: Children or sensitive individuals should avoid this article.) Across Europe, it’s not uncommon to find museums of torture stocked with black cast iron pieces of the most unimaginable cruelty. However a clever internet snoop and aspiring historian Spencer McDaniel presents the case that several of the most famous torture devices were actually invented in […]
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There aren’t many willing to voluntarily go out to spend the day on Skid Row, and even fewer with the goal of giving away free stuff, but Dr. Kwane Stewart, also known as “The Street Vet” is nearly famous because of it. Kwane runs the 501(c)3 non-profit Project Street Vet, that takes donations and volunteers […]
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Most people imagine robots at work in a factory, but there’s no less innovation going on at the farm—take this spoke-wheeled robot plant nurse who can inspect 50 acres of row crops for disease, pests, or other issues. Trundling through fields a little like a tumbleweed, the SentiV scouting robot is currently just a prototype, […]
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In a major archaeological discovery, a team of Peruvian and Japanese researchers have discovered 168 new geoglyphs in the ancient Nazca Plain in Peru, near to the enormous glyphs that remain as mysterious as they are famous. Found during 2 years of aerial surveys, their discovery led to the creation of a new archaeological park […]
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15 years ago today, Breaking Bad premiered on AMC. Created by Vince Gilligan and starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, the show became for basic cable television what the Sopranos had become for premium cable—a smash hit crime drama that created a massive following and several spinoff series. Since its conclusion, the show has been lauded by […]
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This Sunday will be the Chinese, or Lunar New Year. Departing will be the celestial sign of the Tiger, as we enter the year of the Rabbit (tù (兔). An earthly-branch zodiac sign, its associated element is wood, though this year is the year of the water Rabbit. For the mercifully-uninitiated, there are 10 heavenly […]
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Scientists working in techno-agriculture have found that by covering crops with canopies of translucent solar panels, they can separate the light which generates energy from the light that leads to photosynthesis in plants. This not only means a farmer could generate solar energy and crops at the same time, but better crops, and more energy […]
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2022 saw major advances, and even victories in the efforts to combat several diseases, from industrialized to tropical ones. Starting at home, a study last year found that US cancer deaths had declined by 33% since 1991. This is equivalent to around 3.8 million people alive thanks to various efforts to combat the disease family. […]
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A man from Luck, Wisconsin, population 1,191, just won the highest Megabucks lottery jackpot in 8 years after picking up $15.1 million. Mark Cunningham bought the big winning ticket at Wayne’s Food Plus on 151 Butternut Ave. Luck. Cunningham came to the Wisconsin Lottery office in Madison on Monday to claim his winning ticket, saying […]
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215 years ago, the heroic American legal scholar and abolitionist writer Lysander Spooner was born. Famous for his work The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, Spooner took on disunionist, pro-slavery figures in the intellectual arena by challenging their flawed notion that the Constitution protected their right to enslave black people. Fredrick Douglas, who originally saw the Constitution as a […]
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A study looking to find the bare minimum of physical activity required to prevent the well documented ill effects of continuous sitting determined that 5 minutes of walking every half hour was enough. By looking at blood sugar levels and blood pressure, two important metrics of heart disease, the scientists were able to determine how […]
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For the first time in 400 years, beavers are back in the wilds of Hampshire, southern England. Once hunted to extinction, this toothy engineer is now in high demand, and it’s hoped their building of dams will restore much of the local fresh water features that have suffered in their absence. Given the names ‘Hazel’ […]
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A man who may have saved the lives of 24 people by breaking into a school in Cheektowaga, upstate NY during the ‘worst storm in a generation’ has been given Super Bowl Tickets by his hometown team. Jay Withey, the 27-year-old mechanic and hero, received the reward for his live-saving actions from the Buffalo Bills […]
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Poised to become one of the largest libraries in China, the new Wuhan Central Library takes inspiration from its geographical positioning at the confluence of two rivers. Just as the waters at the confluence of the Yangtze and Han rivers are pulled into a central channel, visitors are swept into the library as if into […]
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Happy 52nd birthday to Josep (Pep) Guardiola. Arguably the best manager in world football over the last 20 years, his tenures managing Barcelona, Bayern Munich, and Manchester City have yielded dozens of major trophies. He has produced some of the most frighteningly dominant and effective teams ever seen in British football, and his tactics and […]
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A device that can harvest water from the air and provide hydrogen fuel—entirely powered by solar energy—has been a long-held dream of scientists, but it’s now close to fulfillment. Chemical engineer Kevin Sivula and his team have made a significant step towards bringing this vision closer to reality by developing an ingenious yet simple system. […]
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An empire which lasted 500 years was famous among writers for making a place in its society for animals, and the “bird palaces” of Istanbul are testament to that testimony. Dating back as early as the 13th and 14th centuries, the bird palaces reflected an Ottoman Empire policy of compassion towards all living things, created […]
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A woodcutter who built his own Hobbit house revealed he has never watched Lord of the Rings, but nevertheless lives in it almost off-grid despite being nearly 90. Great-grandad Stuart Grant moved into the cottage he bought as a wreck with no roof and no doors in 1984 while he was renovating a house, but […]
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119 years ago today, Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard debuted at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov described his final play as a comedy, with some elements of farce, though its first producer Konstantin Stanislavski treated it as a tragedy. Since its first production, directors have contended with its dual nature. It is often identified as one of […]
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The Lesson: Expressing genuine interest in learning, in a job, in what other people have to say, in showing up even when you aren’t necessarily needed, this is a behavior which boardrooms around the world will want to vacuum up, as long as one makes certain they see it. Notable Excerpt: “One of the things I’ve […]
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Gardening could help reduce the risk of cancer, boost mental health and bring communities together, according to new research. Scientists say it leads to eating more fibrous fruits and vegetables, exercising more and building social connections, which together can ease stress and anxiety and lower the risk of various illnesses. “No matter where you go, […]
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With the debut of a Moroccan-born test for breast cancer and leukemia, the continent has achieved its first domestic cancer test, one that could reduce cost and wait times significantly. Most diagnostics kits are imported from Europe or North America, and as such require time and money which many hospitals in poorer countries may not […]
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Across America, cities are choosing to upcycle their felled urban trees into valuable products rather than chipping them, burning them, or dumping them into the landfill. Along with being more generally favorable to the environment, it’s a trend that’s leading to entrepreneurial innovation, as a network of urban woodworkers has coalesced around municipalities looking to […]
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A bright green comet is passing through our solar system and has astrophotographers elated for the chance at a once-in-a-lifetime image. Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF) is its name, and the last time it passed close enough to Earth it would have been seen by human and Neanderthal alike—around 50,000 years ago. On January 12th it […]
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115 years ago today, President Theodore Roosevelt established Pinnacles National Monument in California. Pinnacles is part of the Neenach Volcano which erupted 23 million years ago near present-day Lancaster. The Pacific plate moving westward created the San Andreas Fault, which is thought to be the creation method of the park’s unique rock formations and talus […]
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A singing bus driver has become an unlikely Youtube sensation after a feel-good music video he made about his job racked up tens of thousands of views. Ranjit Singh wanted to show his family in India what he did for a living so he made the film with the help of his colleagues at National […]
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Most of the items within the average American household arrived there secondhand, a new poll suggests—with 66% reporting that more than half of the items in their home were previously owned by someone else. In the survey of 2,000 respondents, three-fourths of people (77%) reported forming emotional connections with the items in their home, regardless […]
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Compounds that could stop coronavirus and flu viruses from infecting human cells have been discovered in sea sponges. Researchers unearthed 26 such compounds found in nature, including in plants and fungi. The international research team say their discovery paves the way for new “natural” medicines and antivirals than can help treat contagious viruses. They claim […]
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The evolution of dinosaurs into birds is a transition that encompasses such dramatic morphological changes that paleontologists are still scratching their heads to understand how the fantastic event occurred. Now, a new 120-million-year-old fossil of a creature in China, called ‘bizarre’ by scientists, shines fresh light on the mystery with its T-rex-like skull attached to […]
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63 years ago today, the Derveni Papyrus was found in Greek Macedonia. It is a philosophical treatise that is an allegorical commentary on an Orphic poem, a theogony concerning the birth of the gods, produced in the circle of the philosopher Anaxagoras. The roll dates to around 340 BC, during the reign of Philip II […]
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Meet the 32-year-old who became a professional puzzler and now competes in jigsaw championships. Karen Kavett has always loved puzzles and she turned her hobby into her job, after sharing videos of her skills over the last five years. The Los Angeles-based content creator likes to try her hand at jigsaws with a twist—such as […]
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Reprinted via EarthTalk®, From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: The Endangered Species Act has been around for five decades. How successful has it been in protecting and restoring threatened and endangered species? – A.J. Munson, Bern, North Carolina The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been successful in preventing the extinction […]
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Scientists at Cambridge University just completed a successful trial of their artificial pancreas that helps Type 2 diabetes patients better manage their blood sugar levels. In fact, researchers say the device and app, powered by an algorithm, doubled the duration of time that patients’ blood sugar levels were on target. It also reduced by 50% […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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Happy 54th birthday to Dave Grohl. The charming rocker fronts the Foo Fighters, after making his name as a drummer for Nirvana. He also lent his drum kit to the rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures. In 2010, he was described by Classic Rock Drummers co-author Ken Micallef as one of the most influential rock musicians […]
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A man who has spent years helping disabled people find homes has won a £2.5million country house in a raffle. Grant Carson scooped up the five-bedroom farmhouse complete with eight acres of the Lake District after entering the Omaze Million Pound House Draw. The 58-year-old windower said that he can now get a dog, which […]
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A pioneering set of “wearable muscles” with a profile similar to a shoulder sling could increase mobility and strength in the arms of people who have lost it. As algorithmic intelligence advances, more and more engineers are attempting to design different prosthetics to replace lost mobility, but many are large, bulky, complicated, or extremely expensive. […]
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The world’s largest flower encased in amber has recently been re-examined by scientists who discovered it was producing pollen at the exact same time it was covered in the tree resin which forms amber. This remarkably lucky discovery allowed the scientists to study the pollen grains and assign the ancient flower to its still-living cousins. […]
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238 years ago today, The Times of London published its first ever broadsheet. Originally founded as The Daily Universal Register, The Times used contributions from significant figures in the fields of politics, science, literature, and the arts to build its reputation. For much of its early life, the profits of The Times were very large and the […]
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In the UAE’s Sharjah Mountains, a concept resort spans a vast mountain gully with floating tents hanging in the air. The ultimate in mountain “glamping,” the so-called Floating Retreat is the brainchild of Dubai-based design studio Ardh Architect, who were tasked to investigate a new kind of hospitality that blended environmental awareness and appreciation for […]
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Astronomers have identified 208 different stars just under 1 million light years from the center of the Milky Way, placing a pretty convincing stellar road sign for the end of our home galaxy. With the reveal photos of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomy headlines tend to involve the universe at large, but studying our […]
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Archaeologists working in Denmark’s Jutland peninsula have discovered the foundation and remains of a great hall from the high Viking Age. Structural features and remains date to between the late-9th to 11th century, but mostly from the era of Denmark’s king Harald Blåtand Gormsson, known colloquially as Harald “Bluetooth” from which the modern technology derives […]
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Rory McCarty was shocked to find an 82-year-old Navy veteran and widower still “grinding” out 8-9 hour shifts at a Walmart. He realized at that moment he could put his social media influence towards a good cause. Helping raise $108,000 in just a few days, McCarty gave it all to help the man finally retire. […]
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128 years ago today, The UK’s National Trust was formed. The Trust was founded by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley to “promote the permanent preservation for the benefit of the Nation of lands and tenements (including buildings) of beauty or historic interest,” and given the power to do so under the National […]
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In an effort to combat flooding, a Yorkshire woman realized that thousands of wasted Christmas trees every year could be used as natural flood protection, and started a unique business to do just that. The Rooted Christmas tree rental delivers a potted Christmas fir, pine, or spruce to a family for the festive season. When […]
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8 years after Arctic researchers discovered the lost wreck of HMS Erebus, the team has finally been able to see it with their own eyes and recover hundreds of artifacts from its ill-fated search for the Northwest Passage. Setting sail from Great Britain in 1845 and captained by the famed polar explorer Sir John Franklin, […]
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In a few days time, four brothers will set a world record as the first rowing team made entirely of brothers to cross the whole of the Atlantic. While many siblings find being stuck under one roof challenging, it’s a testament to their endurance that the four of them have shared two rowing benches and […]
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A team of New Jersey police officers went “above and beyond” to rescue a stranded man who nearly died from the cold. Tom McHugh was reported missing by his daughter on December 17th, 24-hours after she had last seen him—when he left for a ride in the mountains of rural Sussex County in his side-by-side. […]
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24 years ago today, comedian Jon Stewart took charge as the host of the satirical late-night talk show The Daily Show, on Comedy Central. Stewart took over from the original host, Craig Kilborn, and developed a distinctly political style to the humor. He retained the position from 1999-2015, during which time the show won 23 […]
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Las Vegas Animal Foundation was delighted to learn that Frontier Airlines is offering free travel vouchers to anyone who adopts one of three newborn kittens the hospital just received. The three kittens are just two weeks old, and their eyes aren’t fully open yet. They were found in the north of Las Vegas and were […]
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A recently-completed scientific survey found that plastic on Australian beaches has fallen by 29% since the last survey in 2013. The authors state it is a result of well-executed and locally focused waste control strategies, as well as an example of what Australians can do when they band together. Organized by the Australian national science […]
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Europe isn’t the only place that’s experiencing unusual winter weather. California’s snowfall in the mountains this year is nearly double the seasonal average, giving the drought-stricken state hope for a moist 2023. Last Tuesday, the state performed its first formal snow survey up in the Sierra Nevadas. Currently it’s 174% of the historical average […]
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High in the Atacama Desert where the skies are clear, a 67-million-pixel camera imaged a far away star nursery in infrared light, revealing a level of detail that the James Webb Space Telescope would be proud of. Astronomers working at the VISTA telescope in Chile zoomed in on the Sh2-54 Nebula, around 6,000 light years […]
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185 years ago today, the first tea leaves from the Indian state of Assam arrived on a ship in Great Britain, with the effect of bringing tea into the public dietary lexicon. It would transform forever social activities around the West, and dramatically increase the health of Londoners, as a city that had been drinking […]
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A never-ending treasure hunt in a small New South Wales town has given new lives to thousands of books, and new smiles to as many children. In the town of Braidwood, a tradition of hiding children’s books in plastic bags in unlikely places has grown out a pandemic tradition of hiding painted rocks. Hidden in […]
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When it comes to explaining Roman engineering, people looking to demonstrate their genius have a variety of use cases, but the secret to why their concrete has remained when even modern buildings crumble after just a few years of disuse has eluded scientists. However at MIT, scientists have cracked their concrete code to show that […]
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Queen Victoria’s miniature mailbox which she used to send letters and cards during her reign 140 years ago has been unearthed. The 30 inch tall box, which was carved into the style of a Royal Mail’s ‘pillar box,’ was recently discovered in a cottage in Surrey, intriguingly with an undelivered Christmas card inside. The beautiful […]
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They’ve sold a hundred million records, performed over 2,500 shows in 67 countries, but Iron Maiden’s recent commemorative stamp collection issued by the Royal Mail had the truly legendary heavy metal band “astounded.” Eight of the stamps are images of the band members playing different shows, while a variety of album covers and thematic images […]
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120 years ago today, Wind Cave National Park was established by Congress as the 6th U.S. National Park. It was the first cave to receive government protection of any kind in the modern era. The cave is recognized as the densest cave system in the world, with the greatest passage volume per cubic mile. Wind […]
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A group of whale watchers off the coast of Southern California had the rare privilege of witnessing the moment a grey whale gave birth. Passengers aboard Capt. Dave’s Dolphin & Whale Watching Safari enjoyed the extraordinary event off the coast of Dana Point, between Los Angeles and San Diego. A company spokesperson said the crew […]
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A biotech company announced this week that the USDA (Department of Agriculture) granted them a conditional license for their honeybee vaccine. The vaccine boosts the bee’s immune system to fight against American Foulbrood disease, a bacteria-based condition known to attack colonies that is caused by Paenibacillus larvae. Critical to our food supplies, honeybees have been […]
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Lost fish find their way home thanks to how their brains are wired, according to new research. The neuronal circuit evolved up to half a billion years ago—and could have been passed onto humans. It enables our slippery ancestors to get back on course, even after being swept away by fast flowing currents. The discovery […]
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Proving that our vast planet still harbors unexplored places with never-before-recorded plants and animals, 146 new species were added in 2022 to the scientific database of biodiversity. The new species reported by researchers at the California Academy of Sciences include fish, rays, lizards, spiders, scorpions, and plants. The new branches added to our tree of […]
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200 years ago today, Alfred Russel Wallace was born. This geographer, naturalist, explorer, and illustrator is not well-known enough considering he conducted a neck and neck race with Charles Darwin over who would be entered into the history books for the first proponent of natural selection. Wikipedia sources say that Wallace’s 1858 paper on evolution […]
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Younger millennials are the most likely to be careful with their cash—and the most likely to take action in their households to reduce monthly expenditures. A poll of 2,000 UK adults found that those who were between 25-34 were almost twice as keen to make these changes as Gen Z adults, aged 18-24. 12 percent […]
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Scientists have just debuted a new way to see how cells organize themselves, shedding modern light on the building blocks of life. In a new database of 200,000 images, scientists captured details about the rich variation in their shapes—even among genetically identical cells grown under the same conditions. Published in the journal Nature this week, […]
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Engineering might be boring to over half the country, but this government agency got creative in imagining the purr-fect way to engage everyone. The new 2023 calendar highlighting the achievements of the US Army Corps of Engineers features giant cats superimposed in photos of their engineering successes. The Portland District of the Corps needed an […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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126 years ago today, the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil, held its first performance during the heyday of the city’s rubber boom. It was voted by Vogue Magazine as the most beautiful opera house in the world, despite being built straight in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest. To debut the theater, celebrated tenor Enrico […]
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A family in Australia had a lovely Christmas despite the second half of 2022 bringing enough medical misfortunes for a whole lifetime. Danual Rutledge discovered in July he had a brain tumor, which would have been difficult enough, had he not suffered a stroke in his brain stem after surgery, and fallen into a coma […]
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New Holland’s brand new tractor runs on liquified methane, allowing farmers to decrease their emissions and save money on expensive diesel. But that isn’t the only reason it’s more efficient, as the company says the fuel can easily be produced by methane from cow pies, allowing for a more circular economic model in the most […]
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This summer, a pair of strap-on shoes will be available that allow you to walk at the speed of a run. Aptly titled, “Moonwalkers” a set of eight wheels per shoe move your feet as if you were on a moving walkway at an airport. The obvious question is, ‘how is that different from a […]
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After our own Christmas dinners had long been finished, some British llamas and alpacas finally got to enjoy their own festive feast after their farm received a glut of donated Christmas trees. Mary Harvey, who runs CHAT (Chy Lowen Alpacas Tregaswith) in Cornwall, revealed the camelids ‘love’ to munch on Christmas trees in an appeal […]
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Folks struggling with obesity might wonder that with all the medical miracles modern technology has produced, how come there isn’t a more sure-fire way to get rid of excess body fat? Well now, researchers at Columbia University have found that a positively charged nanomaterial called P-G3 interacts with negatively charged fat cells in obese mice […]
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Without clocks or modern tools, ancient Mexicans watched the sun to maintain a farming calendar that precisely tracked seasons and even adjusted for leap years. In the early 16th century, the largest city in Spain had a population of less than 50,000, whereby in contrast the land the Spanish were on the verge of conquering […]
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A startup in Kenya is growing minerals by capturing CO2 from the air and storing it deep underground in volcanic basalt. Far from the fertile grasslands of Tsavo or Amboseli national parks, northern Kenya is a more barren land owing to its volcanic past. When the basalt rock 1,300 feet underground comes into contact with […]
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In Boston, a potentially-revolutionary treatment for deadly brain cancer is showing promising early signs in mice both for the eradication and prevention of tumors and individual cancer cells. A vaccine in the true sense of the word, the method involves repurposing living cancer cells to destroy the tumors which spawned them. Cancer cells have very […]
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436 years ago today, the great Chinese geographer and explorer, Xu Xiake, was born. Traveling over ten thousand miles through his native Ming Dynasty China, Xiake documented an extraordinary number of natural and cultural features, compiling them into The Travel Diaries Xu Xiake, written in 404,000 Chinese characters. READ more… (1587) Xiake traveled on foot, arriving as far […]
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The Lesson: Everyone can make an impact if they give 10%—effort, time, money, etc. to ensuring that across all dimensions of life they are making a positive impact rather than a negative one. Sometimes it takes a hard look in the mirror, but it’s always worth it in the end. Notable Excerpt: “[Do] an audit of your […]
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For many, running a marathon is an accolade of life, a culturally-fixed way of proving athletic ability and determination—but for Gary McKee, it’s literally just another day in the office. McKee ran a marathon every day of 2022 to raise money for cancer treatment, and a simple multiplication problem of 26.2 x 365 will reveal […]
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Evidence of life on the icy Saturnine moon of Enceladus could be uncovered by a robot spacecraft sampling plumes of methane jetting out of its liquid interior, scientists suggest. All NASA needs would be a robot that can either sample these plumes, or punch through the planet’s icy exterior to what we now know is […]
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Researchers studying the Mayan Empire have discovered that hidden under the rainforests of Guatemala were more than 900 habitations including at least 4 large cities and thousands of yards of raised causeways connecting them. Together the research reveals the true scope of territorial reach and technological sophistication of the Maya like never before. The revolutionary […]
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The state of California remains 4 citizens richer after an incredible stroke of luck saw four people including two children rescued after the Tesla they were traveling in plunged 250 feet off a cliff on the coast. Witnesses called 911 after the vehicle went over the cliff on State Route 1, at Devil’s Slide, between […]
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On this day 375 years ago, perhaps the greatest physicist the world has known, Isaac Newton, was born. Widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, he invented his own calculus when he was 26 years old. An English mathematician, astronomer, and theologian, his book Principia, “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, formulated our understanding of the mechanics of motion and gravity, which dominated scientists’ view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. This farmer’s son also built the first practical reflecting telescope, and made pathbreaking observations in optics, figuring out that white light is really made of multiple colors. WATCH a cool video... (1543)
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NFL fans and players are sending thoughts and prayers to the family of Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin, who collapsed on the field during the Monday Night Football game yesterday. Reports say the player is currently in critical condition after his heart suffered cardiac arrest during game play. Eventually, he was taken away in an […]
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A woman who struggled with depression found a way—actually, more than 300 ways—to improve her mental health by doing something new every day for a year. Jess Mell says she’s now the happiest she’s been in a decade after trying new things for 365 days, including a try at hot yoga and beekeeping. During the […]
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When it comes to keeping time, an unassuming species of songbird is on a par with professional musicians, according to an audio analysis. The study is the first to investigate natural time-keeping ability of an animal in the wild, rather than under observation in the lab—and scientists have hailed the song abilities of the scaly-breasted […]
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A group of more than a dozen panda cubs made a collective appearance in China to wish fans a happy New Year. Video footage shows the moment the panda cubs, carried by staff members, were brought out to a colorfully decorated playground for their first romp in public. The cubs explored their custom enclosure, while […]
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2,129 years ago today, Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman lawyer, orator, and statesman was born. If the infallible Cato was the greatest champion of Roman republican values, than his occasional colleague Cicero must be the second greatest. Credited in some ways as having launched a mini revolution in public affairs, law, and statecraft during the […]
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Incredible time-lapse footage shows a 12,600-ton bridge being slid into place across a highway in a world-record-setting engineering feat. Around 450 people spent 40 hours over the Christmas week slowly positioning the gigantic structure over the M42 in Warwickshire, England, at a speed of around 15 feet per hour. The method involved building the entire […]
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Fascinating images have been released that show a winter wonderland on Mars of cube-shaped snow, icy landscapes, and frost. It’s not any winter wonderland in which you’d like to be walking, as the snapshots of the landscape reveal temperatures of -123°C. The photos of Mars’ coldest season were taken by the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging […]
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Typical of science fiction is the scene wherein a space warrior sustains an injury and some kind of medical spray instantly repairs the damage. This could soon be science fact, thanks to a medical science breakthrough. Researchers at the Univ. of California San Francisco have engineered molecules that act like a “cellular glue” for direct […]
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17 years ago today, Stardust, the NASA spacecraft flew past the comet 81P/Wild and collected samples of rock and comet dust which were returned to Earth 14 days later. The craft wielded a tennis racket like tray coated with synthetic aerogel to collect the comet dust. READ what the dust contained… (2004) In 2006, seven papers […]
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A remarkable story from the Christmas blizzard blanketing the Northeastern United States featured the kind of ‘smash and grab’ we all need to hear about. The school’s alarm went off at Edge Academy on Christmas Eve, but due to the ‘worst snow storm in a generation‘ the local police near Buffalo, New York, were unable […]
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A new U.S. law that will allow the Federal Communications Commission to regulate prison phone calls needs only President Biden’s signature to put an end to a largely unknown, yet famously predatory, prison practice. Telecom companies that specialize in providing phone service for inmates have long made the process of signing up for their service […]
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This year, don’t set inflated goals to make up for every choice you didn’t make in 2022. This year, I want you to cultivate a power and presence within you that allows you to choose your good all the time, in every circumstance of your life. You are worth so much more than one year […]
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Despite recent setbacks, a new survey suggests that Netflix is still a heavyweight contender in the television world. More than 2,000 American adults were surveyed by OnePoll, and each chose their favorites from among all the television series they watched in 2022. In addition to securing the No. 1 choice with Season 4 of Ozark, […]
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251 years ago today, the hym that would become Amazing Grace, then known as “1 Chronicles 17:16–17”, was first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire. It is unknown if there was any music accompanying the verses; it may have been chanted by the congregation. It debuted […]
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“It’s like a Christmas present from Mother Nature,” exclaimed one onlooker. She stood among rows of birdwatchers and photographers who flocked to a California neighborhood for a rare glimpse of a beautiful snowy owl. These huge white birds rarely make their way to sunny Orange County. In fact, the frozen Minnesota tundra, thousands of miles […]
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When three employees of a New York McDonald’s were forced to accept the fact that they weren’t going home during the Christmas storm that blanketed the northern US, they opened up the store to stranded motorists—and ended up hosting 50 people over Christmas weekend. Amherst, like neighboring Buffalo, received upwards of 40 inches of snow—and […]
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An act of kindness is like lighting a candle in a dark room, reminding everyone that such a point of light will always penetrate the darkness. They happen every day all over the world for a variety of reasons, and while they don’t always make headlines, they do make heartlines—and these ten stories are like […]
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5 years ago today, China officially banned the importation and sale of ivory. Being the largest market for illegal and once-legal ivory products in the world, the PRC’s decision was critical in helping reduce the poaching of elephants in Asia and Africa. Conservation group WWF, who called it a “historic announcement… signalling an end to […]
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There are a lot of animals far easier to love and care for than bats, but that didn’t stop Houston Humane Society from rescuing nearly 1,600 of them from freezing to death. On Thursday a cold snap in Texas caused these tiny winged mammals to plummet from the sky onto the cold pavement where they […]
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An Italian motor company has unveiled a supercar that will run on garbage. Italian supercars tend towards the polluting side of the spectrum of manufacturing, with massive 12 cylinder engines that care little for miles per gallon. Bertone are known for iconic designs such as the sharply angled “Italian Wedge” shape of the Lamborghini […]
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Japanese oncologists have used artificial DNA in a whole new way to naturally kill cancer cells by helping the immune system identify them. The whole reason cancer is as lethal as it is is because the immune system doesn’t act upon cancer cells and tumors, disguised as they are to look like normal cells. By […]
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The iPhone 14 has saved several lives this winter with some pretty impressive safety features that are worth noting as the U.S. continues to be battered with one of the worst winter storms in memory. A tech news outlet reports that the iPhone 14’s SOS call which connects via satellite rather than through telecom towers […]
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132 years ago today, the American author, recordist, and expatriate Paul Bowles, was born. Living in Tangier, Morocco for 47 years, Bowles would publish several books, including the critically-acclaimed The Sheltering Sky set in French North Africa through which he traveled extensively. He was just one of so many Europeans or Americans who saw the vast […]
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In a pilot program to address the homelessness problem in Kansas City, the state gave them part-time work which helped many of them secure the housing they desperately needed. Kansas City Missouri has seen a decrease in litter collection as the pandemic created a slowdown in court cases and community service clean-up programs. By putting […]
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Two men wrongfully-imprisoned for more than two decades were able to spend Christmas with their families after a podcast and non-profit advanced evidence of their innocence. Darrell Lee Clark and Cain Joshua Storey were just teenagers when they stood trial for a murder of their 15-year-old friend he died of gunshot wounds at a party […]
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Utter tragedy was avoided recently in Michigan when a good samaritan found a cat frozen to the ground during a winter storm. The savior’s name was Kelly, the cat’s Elliot, and together they flew to the Big Lake Community Animal Clinic in Muskegon for life-saving veterinary care. “When he arrived at the clinic, his body […]
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Certain hyper-efficient microbe species in our guts could be the reason why some people gain weight and others don’t, proving once again how much influence the microbiota has in our lives. Unfair as it is, some of us seem to put on weight just by looking at a pizza while others can munch away with […]
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On this day 80 years ago, a decade and a half after the Irish War of Independence and its treaty-induced interim government, Ireland was born when it adopted its own Constitution. A document committed to democratic ideals that enshrined the people as masters, it also provided the right to every child for a free primary education provided by the State. (1937)
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For the first time since the species was discovered, baby Galápagos pink iguanas have been seen in the wilds of those majestic islands. First described in 2009, the species was immediately recognized as facing a serious risk of extinction. Only between 200-300 iguanas are thought to exist on Wolf Volcano on Isabella Island. But after […]
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Some Florida kids got to see their favorite garbage man again after a four year absence when city officials saw an old video of them all playing together. For years Tony Parker from the City of Orlando garbage collection would arrive in front of the Wierenicz household and there’d be three tawny-haired youngsters waiting for […]
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Headache-inducing plastic waste such as printer cartridges and plastic bags are being turned into aggregate material for asphalt road mixtures around the country. Plastic roads have built up a head of scientific steam recently, with scientists and regulators seeing roads as a decent place to reutilize plastic that is difficult to recycle in a cost-effective […]
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While many were enjoying their Christmas holiday, 10 skiers in Austria were feared dead after a video went viral of an avalanche overtaking them on the slopes. News came out the following day however that all 10 are alive and well. The Austrian Press Agency reported that 4 of the skiers were injured, one seriously […]
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The Lesson: Numbers don’t speak untruths, and for a female minority in a bro-business like Hollywood movie production, they’re sexy that way. Saga Elmohtasen has produced hundred million dollar productions, but regardless of how successful she is, she doesn’t let it go to her head, remembering that it’s her roots and natural attitude that lead her […]
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Recent excavations in Israel will soon open to the public a tomb that’s venerated as the resting place of Jesus’ midwife, Salome. Found in 1982 by antiquities robbers, excavations have always been ongoing, but recent breakthroughs have proved the site to be far more grandiose than previously expected, and much of the tomb will soon […]
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Good News Network’s top animal stories and moments from 2022 is a celebration of the majesty of our planet, the incredible four-legged or winged pals we share our homes with, and of the heroes who dedicate their lives to ensuring future generations can connect with endangered animals the way we can. Whether featuring a snapshot […]
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A group of South Korean tourists narrowly avoided a ruined vacation, with good fortune swapping it for an unforgettable experience waiting out a blizzard and cooking with a New York family. Traveling from Niagara Falls to Washington DC, a tour group of 10 South Koreans got stuck in a blizzard near Buffalo. Two of the […]
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56 years ago today, the western world became aware of the Sótano de las Golondrinas, or the Cave of Swallows, when locals showed T. R. Evans, Charles Borland and Randy Sterns the mammoth cave. Known by the Huastec people from the area located in the modern state of Lan Luis Potosi since ancient times, the descent to […]
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Residents of a senior home got a flippin’ good surprise last week, after two charming feathered guests arrived to deliver some Christmas cheer. Seniors at the Colne View facility in Halstead, Essex, woke up to find two penguins outside. Accompanied by introductions using their adorable names, Pringle and Widget waddled through the halls, exploring the […]
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Polaris the black shepherd dog had 30 people lining up to sign adoption papers and give him a new home after he was left at San Francisco International Airport. The airline industry has had one of the most disrupted years on record, and customer service departments have been pushed to the absolute limits. But when […]
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54 years ago today, Led Zeppelin played their first concert in North America—as the back-up band for Vanilla Fudge and Spirit when their renown debut album hadn’t been released yet. Set as the opener at the Auditorium Arena in Denver, 2 years later they would return to headline in front of more than 10,000 cheering […]
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A radio station in Canada surprised a nurse with the best holiday gift of her life. The young mother of two—with a third child on the way—heard the news through her phone while a colleague captured her reaction on video. The station in Ottawa known as Hot 89.9 chose Nicole as their Guaranteed Giveaway winner […]
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This daily column at GNN.org features all the good news, anniversaries and notable birthdays from this day in history—December 25.
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Archaeologists have uncovered weapon points that are thousands of years older than any others previously found in the Americas. Researchers from Oregon State University have dated the “projectile points” discovered in Idaho to around 16,000 years ago. Rather than outfitting arrows or spears, they were likely attached to darts, which were “deadly” hunting weapons, despite […]
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This little boy was overcome with excitement after being able to play in the snow for the very first time. Dominic laughs with excitement in the video posted by his parents—running and discovering all the joys of a thin layer of snow on grass and sidewalk. Dominic and his parents Candice and Fidel were visiting […]
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Half of Americans anticipated that it would be “harder than ever” to find the perfect gifts for people in their lives this holiday season. A new poll of 2,000 US adults found 65% compare looking for the right gifts to hunting for treasure. 71% said it’s exciting to hunt for the right gifts, with 52% […]
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83 years ago today, beginning in the year of his election, Pope Pious XII gave a Christmas Eve radio broadcast with a passionate plea for peace on Earth, while denouncing the ideologies that had led to the outbreak of the Second World War. While mentioning none in particular, the targets of his statements were clear. […]
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A new space-based surveyor that will help catalog millions of near-Earth objects is now ready for budgeting and building after passing a rigorous technical review. This year NASA completed its first-ever mission organized entirely for the purpose of planetary defense, when the DART probe slammed into an asteroid to see if it could be redirected […]
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A LEGO-loving couple have created a bit of festive cheer by making an entire wall, fireplace and tree from the plastic blocks in their living room. For the last 28 years Mike Addis and his wife Catherine Weightman have built amazing LEGO sculptures each Christmas. Previous creations include a 21-foot London Bridge and a 12-foot […]
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The astronauts of the Apollo 17 mission left a Christmas gift under the tree for all of humanity as they traveled on their way to the Moon. “The Blue Marble” is still one of the most inspiring images of our Earth ever taken, and it was 50 years ago on Christmas Eve that they did […]
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A rogue protein that fuels the deadliest brain cancers has been identified by scientists in a breakthrough that opens the door to bettering what is normally a 10% survival rate. The scientists used gene editing to deactivate the protein, which stopped the tumor growth in its tracks—a hugely encouraging sign. Glioblastomas have one of the […]
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101 years ago today, Visva-Bharati University was founded in West Bengal by the Indian poet/polymath Rabindranath Tagore. The brilliant Nobel Prize winning humanist imagined a university in the town of Santiniketan to make it “a the connecting thread between India and the world [and] a world center for the study of humanity somewhere beyond the […]
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New camera-equipped drones are giving Australian lifeguards an eye in the sky on the lookout for sharks. For decades, Queensland has used baited hook drumlines and nets to protect surfers and beachgoers from sharks, but these more indiscriminate methods can also kill and injure marine life such as dolphins, dugongs, and turtles, as well as […]
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Twitter was the scene of a fond farewell from NASA’s InSight Mars lander as recent communications disruptions lead to an official end to the mission. The dusty robotic fellow had Twitter users tearing up at goodbye, with one commenter noting, tears in his eyes, the absurdity of crying over a robot. “My power’s really low, […]
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Every Christmas, Mike Witmer gets out his colored lights to weave a very specific message out into the night. Witmer says passersby are sometimes confused by his lights, which read ‘Hi Kevin’ across his roof, but it’s to honor the memory of a young boy who passed away from cancer in 2010. For the past […]
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An electric car has made a record-breaking 621 mile (1,000km) trip on a single charge powered by the sun. The solar-powered Sunswift 7 averaged nearly 53mph (85kph) in under twelve hours to set a Guinness World Record while completing 240 laps of a track to represent the distance from Sydney to Melbourne. Sunswift 7 is […]
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162 years ago today, Giacomo Puccini was born. Considered as the greatest composer of Italian opera in history alongside or perhaps just behind Verdi, his work includes many of the most-performed spectacles in Italian opera, including La Boheme, Tosca, Turandot, and Madame Butterfly. Often regarded as a romanticist who honored 18th century Italian tradition, Puccini would go on to […]
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A dog is making the internet bounce with joy and virality, in part because she’s extremely cute, and in part because she has a peculiar shape. Mohu is a spherical Toy Poodle and his nearly 100,000 follows on Intsagram all of whom obsessed with her unexplainably round shape. The six-year-old from Osaka, Japan, has become […]
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On St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a Critically Endangered gecko little bigger than a paperclip has been saved by diligent conservationists. Known for jewel-like markings on its hide, the Union Island gecko has nearly doubled in numbers from 10,000 to 18,000 individuals in just four years. Discovered in 2005 in a 123 acre swath of […]
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It looks like a scene from a horror movie, but eerie research shows plants breathing in close-up detail. A new study reveals biologists are gaining new insight into the intricate process, with big implications for how to feed the world in the future. Researchers from UC San Diego, Estonia, and Finland, funded by the U.S. […]
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Every year, the more than €1 million in coins thrown into the Trevi Fountain in Rome are hoovered up to feed, clothe, and house the city’s poor. Completed in 1762, the marble marvel is one of the Eternal City’s most popular attractions. Commissioned in the 1730s by Nicola Salvi, it depicts the taming of waters. […]
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Today is the magical Winter Solstice, bringing the longest night of the year to the Northern Hemisphere, and marking the start of more daylight every day for the rest of the season, until June 20. The ancient cultures knew the Sun’s path across the sky, length of daylight, and location of the sunrise and sunset, […]
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In 2019, prospectors found a meteorite in Somalia while looking for opal which has now revealed three never-before-seen minerals that originated off-Earth. Since minerals are a little like recipes, their formation can inform us as to the history of their making, and these are no exception; with scientists positing that they came from the surface […]
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In a gangland part of London, youth are being recruited into the revitalization of historic stone buildings to keep them from getting into trouble. Queen Mary’s Hospital for the East End was built to serve some of the most deprived London boroughs, and saw its fair share of history before being demolished in 1983. What […]
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From Messi’s twilight triumph to bountiful showings of hospitality by the Qatari people, there was plenty to smile about during this year’s World Cup. As the curtain came down on the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, most fans of the sport will immediately look forward to enjoying the return of the domestic leagues, which […]
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A “soft robot” can move its way through the human body solely by the changing of temperatures, and could be an excellent way to deliver precision doses of key medications. These “gelbots” aren’t really robots at all, but little capsules filled with a water-based gel that through expansion and contraction, pushes the tiny robot along […]
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20 years ago today, Gangs of New York premiered in theaters. Martin Scorsese’s colorful and gritty depiction of gangland violence among the poor immigrant residents of New York City’s Five Points received 10 Academy Award nominations. While winning none, Daniel Day Lewis’ mesmeric portrayal of street gang leader Bill the Butcher won him several other awards. Grossing […]
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The Lesson: What if donanting to charity was as simple as walking your dog? Oftentimes when things become easier, more people can participate, but it also drives greater enthusiasm among those already impassioned. Notable Excerpt: “One member didn’t just go across the United States, but he started in Key West and went to the northwest tip […]
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Every one of the 105 Kansas residents in a town called Tampa were invited on a free trip to visit the sunny city with the same name in Florida—so they can experience ‘the other Tampa’. Most of the group of 95 Kansans had never been to Florida, and most of the children had never flown […]
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A woman who hated exercise took up powerlifting to help combat her arthritis and is now slaying it as a commonwealth gold medalist in the sport. She says she’s now fitter than when she was in her 20s, and has now won gold, silver, and bronze medals in weightlifting. Arthritis prevented 58-year-old Kelly Clark from […]
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An EMT continued his heroic work into his day off, when during a ski trip he located a man buried by an avalanche, dug him out, and spent 8 hours by his side on the mountain waiting for search and rescue. Wild amounts of Utah snowing last week left the slopes in Neffs Canyon ripe […]
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The skipper of a scallop trawler became an unlikely hero after a dinghy filled with refugees attempting to cross the English channel in wintertime broke apart. His vigilance and mariner skill saved 31 lives of men and children that night from the freezing water. It was dark and cold in early December after a cold […]
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On this day in 1861, Italo Svevo, a pioneer of Italian literature, was born in Trieste. Considered alongside James Joyce as a father of the psychological novel, with his modernist classic, Zeno’s Consciousness. Svevo wrote two other books, which along with Zeno’s were considered flops. Nevertheless, he remains considered one of a united Italy’s finest ever authors. READ more… (1861) The […]
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Archaeologists have uncovered an “astonishing” 1,300-year-old necklace in Northamptonshire, England, discovered during excavations for a housing development. Researchers from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) say the necklace is the richest of its type ever uncovered in Britain—with a staggering 30 pendants and beads made of Roman coins, gold, garnets, glass and semi-precious stones. It […]
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Nothing says ‘Happy Holidays’ like a healthy dose of nostalgia—and what better way to feel the spirit of the season than watching a holiday classic. A new poll of 2,000 Americans who celebrate the festive season found it was the top tradition—with 72% choosing the tradition of watching Christmas movies, beating out decorating the tree […]
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A man who quit his mechanical engineering job and is now earning thousands of dollars by creating stunning sand art portraits. James Sun was going through a difficult breakup in Toronto, Canada, when he began looking to make a new start that could reduce the stress. “I was heartbroken. I needed something to heal my […]
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With the need for critical battery minerals growing, a company has proved that sustainable ocean mining is possible with a discriminating robot miner. Below the waves, seafloors are covered in “polymetallic nodules” a fancy word for stones with many different metals in them. Impossible Metals recently proved that it’s possible to harvest these nodules with […]
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There’s no substituting the need for family, and one young man raised in the foster care system hoped to find one in a pair of perspective car buyers he met last year. Video shows the Wilkinsons family, who walked off the lot with a car and a new friend in April 2021, reacting tearfully to […]
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In the latest CRISPR success story, a 13-year-old girl whose leukemia had not responded to other treatments now has no detectable cancer cells. She received a dose of immune cells that were genetically edited to attack the leukemia, a method that’s been used with other cancers. A form of cancer in the bone marrow tissue, […]
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Turkey will soon host the world’s largest tidal power station—a 77 megawatt system of large pier-like machines that generate clean energy from the sea’s endless rhythm. Swedish firm Eco Wave Power (EWP) entered into the agreement for the potential construction in Ordu, Turkey, starting with a small pilot project. EWP said that if it proves […]
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232 years ago today, the Aztec, or Mexica Sun Stone was discovered under the Zocalo in Mexico City; a national icon, symbol of the nation’s past, and continuous mystery. Weighing more than 50,000 pounds and spanning 141 inches in diameter, the massive carving depicts animals, perhaps cosmological details, and orientation such as the cardinal points. […]
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A photographer captured a magical moment when he looked up and snapped the snow-capped Stirling Castle shrouded in mist at sunset. Brian Smith was leaving work on Tuesday at 4.30pm when he saw the historic Scottish castle frosted with snow. Fog and clouds parted above the building which is on a steep hill, so the […]
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A 27-year-old PhD scholar finally cracked the riddle which has defeated Sanskrit experts since the 5th Century BC—by decoding a rule taught by “the father of linguistics” Pāṇini. The discovery makes it possible to ‘derive’ any Sanskrit word—to construct millions of grammatically correct words including ‘mantra’ and ‘guru’—using Pāṇini’s revered ‘language machine’ which is widely […]
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Monumental U.S. legislation sparked by the exploitation depicted in the TV series Tiger King was passed this week by the U.S. Senate to ban public contact with lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, jaguars, and cougars. The Big Cat Public Safety Act, which will prohibit keeping big cat species as pets, along with the practice of ‘cub […]
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105 years ago today, Sir Arthur C. Clarke was born in Somerset. Known as one of the “big three” of science fiction along with Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov. Clarke co-wrote 2001: A Space Odyessy, as well as Childhood’s End, and The Songs of Distant Earth. After a career in science and academia, he moved to Sri Lanka to […]
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A man who was paralyzed from the neck down has made an incredible recovery and is back in the gym just six months after becoming ill with a potentially deadly immune disorder. Actor Cody Hively was just 27 when he received a diagnosis for a severe form of the Guillain-Barre syndrome, a lethal condition in […]
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During the first COVID-19 lockdowns in England the late army captain, 99-year-old Sir Tom Moore, attempted to raise money for NHS Charities Together by walking across his garden 100 times. Now, believing that people need more positive and hopeful news in their life, his family is following in his footsteps by launching a Christmas campaign […]
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Across the whole history of paleontology, which has identified more than 700 species of dinosaurs, there’s never been one found with aquatic features—until now. Natovenator or “swimming hunter” was a foot-long, streamlined, distant cousin of Velociraptor with a slender neck and a mouth filled with sharp teeth, leading to one scientist to call it a “Cretaceous […]
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End of year bonuses are always a welcomed sight, but these smiles bear witness to an extraordinary act of corporate generosity. Ruppert Landscaping gave bonuses of between $7,000 to $200,000 to all employees with a tenure of over one-year, “as a thanks for the role they’ve played in the company’s growth and development.” A total […]
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9 years ago today, China became the third nation to land a rover on the moon with their Chang’e-3 orbiter and rover. The soft landing it achieved was the first on the moon since the Soviets in 1976. Landing in a molten crater called Sinus Ilium, it was to carry out some surveying and geology, […]
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As part of a debt-for-nature refinancing program, the island nation of Barbados is set to unlock $50 million in funding for conservation of its entire marine ecosystem. Barbados committed at last year’s COP to protect 30% of its territorial waters but lacks the funds to do so. The Nature Conservancy announced it will work with […]
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A re-examination of a hominid jawbone found over 100 years ago in Spain may have just back-dated the presence of humans in Europe by an additional 25,000 years. Found in 1887 near a quarry in Banyoles, the bone was thought to belong to a neanderthal, who were known to inhabit the area before Homo sapiens. […]
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The manager of a Minnesota liquor store was surprised to come back from lunch yesterday to find his counterhelp walking around in her socks. That’s because security camera footage revealed she had just given her favorite shoes—a pair of purple retro Jordans, to a homeless man she saw strapping boxes to his feet. Brooklyn Center […]
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A small army of community volunteers worked over a week to locate and rescue a lost dog on Vancouver Island. The mastiff-retriever named Luna chased an animal out of the yard of Highlands area resident Saryta Schaerer, before getting lost and falling down a steep slope onto a two foot-wide ledge. Rescuers and neighbors kept […]
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60 years ago today, the U.S. completed her first flyby of another planet when the Mariner 2 probe passed Venus. It took readings of the Venusian atmosphere and gathered the first planetary data of its kind to be enjoyed by scientists. It wasn’t the first craft to perform a flyby of Venus; the Soviets managed […]
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A woman who needed help fostering a blind dog named Beau ended up finding both it, and a forever home for him after the help she found fell in love with the dog over video calls. Samantha Hillstrom thought her own blind dog Finn could use the companionship of little Beau, a Pomeranian poodle mix […]
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Today the U.S. Department of Energy announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion where more energy was gained from the process that was needed to heat atoms to temperatures hotter than the sun. The electricity generated was only enough to boil 10 kettles of water, British fusion energy experts told CNN in anticipation of the release, […]
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Football isn’t coming home for England, but the Three Lions are adding a fourth, albeit a small one, for the journey home. The English National Football team is brining Dave the Cat home from Qatar with them. The cat began to appear in players’ social media feeds, as the stray had taken to eating with […]
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On December 10th, teammates and fans of Northwestern State sounded their applause when their new freshmen basketball player scored his first points for the team. It was an extra special applause for the point guard, since Hansel Emmanuel has only one arm. A minute later he added to his total with a thunderous dunk in […]
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667 years ago, the Moroccan traveler, writer, pilgrim, and jack of all social trades, Ibn Battuta, completed his monumental travelog, often shortened to “The Travels,“ detailing a span of time from the moment he left his home in Morocco and didn’t return to settle down for nigh on three decades. He traveled 79,000 miles of […]
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A pair of Japanese researchers have launched a startup that turns food waste into cement with 4-times better bending resistance. The potential applications are endless, and as well as being potential building material, the cement can produce any kind of simple object like tea cups or chairs; but it’s also edible, and aromatic, and biodegradable. […]
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An evolutionary “missing link” species was just discovered, and it was a very big and scary link in a very big and famous chain. The newfound species, Daspletosaurus wilsoni, is thought to be the direct ancestor of Tyrannosaurus Rex, and had a unique set of facial features like a set of ridges called “hornlets” above its eye socket. […]
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The most astonishing display of atmospheric variability came as giant ocean waves of clouds drifted over the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming last week. The incredible scene was captured by photographer Rachel Gordon, who shared them on the Wyoming Through The Lens Facebook group, and is a textbook example of “Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability.” KHI results from differences […]
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California just granted the first ever state license for Unicorn Husbandry, provided the young applicant can find one, and ensure it has appropriate exposure to sunlight, moonbeams, and rainbows. Department of Animal Care and Control added that its horn needed polishing every month with a soft cloth. “Dear LA County, I would like your approval […]
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10 years ago today, Maddison Square Garden hosted a benefit gig for the victims of Superstorm Sandy, featuring a star-studded lineup of The Rolling Stones, The Who, Michael Stipe, Chris Martin, Bruce Springsteen, Roger Waters and others. Paul McCartney, members of Nirvana and Dave Grohl also performed. In total the benefit raised $30 million for […]
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In the 1998 comedy Waking Ned Devine, a multi-million dollar lottery jackpot is split between the stunned residents of a tiny Irish village. Well, last week, the film’s storyline became a reality for the small Belgian village of Olmen, near Anterp. 165 Olmen residents divided up an unbelievable $150 million dollars won in the Euromillions […]
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Laser light therapy has been shown to be effective in improving short term memory, according to a new study. Scientists demonstrated that the therapy, which is non-invasive, could improve short term memory in people by 10%, and even up to 25 percent. Scientists at the University of Birmingham in the UK and Beijing Normal University […]
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An English fossil found in a museum’s storeroom has shifted the origin of modern lizards back 35 million years, according to new research. The specimen, retrieved from a cupboard at the Natural History Museum in London, has shown that modern lizards originated in the Late Triassic period, and not the Middle Jurassic, as previously thought. […]
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It’s the most popular photography competition in the world—because the winning photos are some the funniest moments of mirth on Earth. Some of the most famous photographers from 85 countries submitted their most spontaneous snaps, capturing the amusing side of nature, in a bid to win the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. The contest was founded […]
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On this day in 1931, the Statute of Westminster was signed, granting total legislative, executive, and judicial independence to the Commonwealth realms of Canada, New Zealand, the Irish Free State, Australia, Newfoundland, and the Union of South Africa. It created free nations across hundreds of millions of square miles, and was often adopted as principal […]
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According to a new survey, more than half of adults would welcome a pre-owned gift this Christmas—especially to save people money and act more sustainably by extending a product’s life. The poll of 2,000 people who celebrate Christmas, showed 19 percent expected to receive a second-hand gift this year—with 29 percent expecting the practice to […]
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A team of neighbors, firefighters, and animal control officers worked for hours in the freezing weather to rescue four horses that fell through an icy pond. The South Kalispell Fire Department responded to the scene near Patrick Creek in Montana, after the four horses fell through the ice, and were stuck up to their necks. […]
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A mom discovered that her son’s ‘Elf on the Shelf’ had mysteriously lost a leg while he was in school—so she spent hours concocting an elaborate back story to keep the magic alive. Lauren Weir introduced the elf toy to her 4-year-old son Tommy for the first time on December 1st, but that evening she […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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60 years ago today, Lawrence of Arabia, the great film on the life of T. E. Lawrence, debuted at the Odeon Leicester Square. Widely regarded as one of the best films ever made, Peter O’Toole and Alec Guinness star in the struggles of rebellious Arabians during the First World War, in particular with the battles of Aqaba […]
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A clever recycling dog is helping clear the streets of litter by collecting hundreds of plastic bottles during his daily walks. Scruff, a 13-year-old border collie, has been dubbed “the eco dog” by local residents who love watching him do his part for the environment. Owners David Grant and Yvonne Faulkner-Grant adopted Scruff from a […]
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For the third year in a row, Minnesota is opening the now-traditional “Name a Snowplow” contest to residential voting. The contest, held by the MN Department of Transportation, has included past winners that include Betty Whiteout, Plowy McPlowFace, Ctrl Salt Delete, Snowbi Wan Kenobi, “Ope, Just Gonna Plow Right Past Ya”, and The Truck Formerly […]
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Data from Denmark has shown that as more and more Westerners shun the humble potato for other vegetables, its reputation as a carb-heavy diabetes risk is unfounded. There are many different ways to prepare potatoes, and the data indicates that this is why they are looked at unfavorably from a health perspective. “In previous studies, […]
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A determined mother’s positive thinking got her daughter home when her flight was canceled by helping to organize other stranded passengers to pitch in for a rental car. Alanah Story was set for a 7:00 PM flight from Orlando to Knoxville when like so many others this year, it was delayed, then canceled. Alanah’s mother […]
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130 years ago today, Newcastle United Football Club was formed. The storied club has spent all but three seasons in England’s highest divison, and enjoys one of the most loyal and committed fanbases in the country. They have won four league titles, and six FA cups, with the most recent comming in 1997, and 1999 […]
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New author Chelsea Banning tweeted to being “a little embarrassed” after the first book signing of her first book was attended by no one but her two friends. A blessing in disguise it was, as her tweet somehow attracted a large crowd of authors ranging from successful to legendary, sharing their own stories of book-signing […]
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Some of the best conservation stories in history begin by properly organizing and regulating the hunting of that animal, and the “pirarucu” or arapaima, of the Amazon River Basin is a perfect example. It used to take fishermen five days or more to land one, but sustainable fishing laws have have quadrupled their adult populations […]
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Human beings have a well-known urge to leave marks of our passing on things we interact with, and a new state-of-the-art 3D scan of a Medieval manuscript has shown just that. “Eadburg” was her name; an 8th century scribe translating the Acts of the Apostles during the Monastic period in England from Latin into Old […]
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796 years ago today, construction of Daitoku-ji Buddhist temple was completed in Kyoto. This collection of 23 temples, as well as being enshrined as a National Treasure of Japan, played an important role in the country’s religious and political past. It hosted a grandmaster of the Japanese tea ceremony, and is the final resting place […]
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The Acoustical Society of America is 3D-printing violins to make the instrument more affordable for hundreds more children and adults who want to learn how to play. Learning how to play music with a poorly built instrument can lead to poor technique, but quality violins are thousands of dollars. The society’s AVIVA Young Artists Program […]
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The world’s first solar car has begun production—a 4-5 passenger EV that hails a new chapter in automotive history. The Dutch company Lightyear officially commenced assembly of its first vehicle, aptly titled ‘Lightyear 0’, becoming the first automotive firm to manufacture an electric vehicle that generates a realistic amount of charge via sunlight. Taking advantage […]
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As remote as they were beautiful, the coral reefs around the 5 volcano tips making up the Southern Line Islands dazzled National Geographc explorers in 2009 during a visit. Remarking that they re-painted the image of what a pristine coral reef looks like—bursting with color and life—the team of the Pristine Seas Expedition had been […]
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If you don’t mind the nip of the cold, this month’s celestial phenomena are ones to watch, and include a Nutcracker ballet between the Moon and Mars, and the king of the meteor showers. Mars is at its brightest this December between the 7th and 8th, when an occultation occurs. This is the passing of […]
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1,119 years ago today, the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi was born in modern-day Iran. His brilliant illustrations of Hellenistic constellations were made by both translating linguistically, but also systematically, since the Hellenistic star charts were made in Alexandria, Egypt. He was the first man to identify the Andromeda galaxy, describing it as a “small […]
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47 years ago, a Minnesota man walked into his local library and took out a book that subsequently got lost during a move. Now, nearly half a century later, he returned the book with an apology letter and a donation to cover the cost of a new book. He returned it anonymously, and over the […]
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Did you know that parrots know when to use the phrases they mimic from their owners? That’s just one fascinating discovery that has come out through a large crowdsourced dataset on mimicry among parrots. In a project entitled “What Does Polly Say?” 900 parrot owners answered a survey about the speaking habits of their […]
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Two plants that live on California’s Channel Islands and nowhere else on earth have reached recovery thanks to Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections. The Santa Cruz Island dudleya and island bedstraw are now recommended for delisting after the Fish and Wildlife Service restored their population to flourishing levels with the help of partners like the […]
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488 years ago today, Quito, Ecuador was founded by Sebastian de Belalcazar. Inhabited by indigenous peoples for millennia previously, Quito was one of the two co-announced first World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, and today remains one of the most prestigious cities in Latin America. It’s very unique geographically speaking as well. Sitting just 1 kilometer […]
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The Lesson: Newman’s Own brand pizzas, pasta, lemonade, salad dressing, etc. has raised $600 million through its for-profit operations and its purpose-driven foundation, in what is now its 40th year of operations since Paul Newman first bottled up his homemade salad dressing, caused a market craze, and then gave away all the money he earned that […]
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Leprosy has appeared in medical literature as far back as there has been medical literature, but its latest appearance doesn’t involve talk of a treatment or cure, but rather a unique ability the parasites that cause leprosy have to regenerate livers. The findings suggest the possibility of adapting this natural process to renew aging livers […]
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For all those roo-ting for Australian wildlife, there are reasons to jump for joy as several endangered marsupials begin the road to recovery in their native habitats. Starting with the world’s most-endangered marsupial, 4 male and 2 female Gilbert’s potoroos were released into the great southern region of the state of Western Australia. After being […]
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Cutting edge analysis of tin isotopes has shown that tiny tribes of pastoral nomads from modern-day Uzbekistan supplied a third of all the precious tin needed to make the bronze which fueled Ancient Mediterranean commerce. Getting the tin from Uzbekistan to the Med involved a vast multi-regional, multi-vector trade network that bears comparison with our […]
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90 years ago today, Richard Wayne Penninman, better known as “Little Richard” was born. Sometimes called “The Architect of Rock and Roll,” his uptempo style of music helped cement the foundations of several kinds of electrified genres such as R&B, rock and roll, and funk. READ a little about Little Richard… (1932) Young Richard Penninmen was inspired […]
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Half of Americans said there’s not enough time in the holiday season to do everything they want to do, according to a new poll—but it all puts them in a good mood. The survey asked 2,000 adults about how they spend time during the holiday season and found that 52% try to fit in as […]
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A twin saved her sister’s life while still in the womb, by sending out distress signals prompting doctors to deliver them early—which turned out to be critical for the other twin’s survival. Preemie Poppy McBride’s heart rate began to waver on the monitor at 31 weeks and five days into the pregnancy, which doctors say […]
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The world’s oldest pen pals have both turned 100 years old, and are celebrating 80 years of letters sent across the pond. Geoff Banks from Devon, England, and American Celesta Byrne from New Jersey started writing to each other in 1938, when they were just 16-years-old. They were paired by an educational project that sought […]
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A 15-year-old is being hailed as a hero after lifting a truck that had fallen on his father’s chest. The brakes on the truck that Matthew Wilkinson uses for work needed immediate repair last Monday and, fortunately, his son had come out to the garage and agreed to help his dad. As Mr. Wilkinson tried […]
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Happy Birthday to actor Jeff Bridges, who turns 73 years old today. His portrayal of ‘The Dude’ in the 1998 cult classic The Big Lebowski earned him legions of fans and he won an Oscar ten years ago for Crazy Heart, which showcased his skill as a musician and singer. (Have you caught one of […]
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A tortoise which is the world’s oldest living land animal is celebrating its 190th birthday. Jonathan was born nearly two centuries ago, in the early 1800s, which makes him not only the oldest tortoise ever recorded, but the oldest living land animal. For 140 years, he has resided on the remote island of St. Helena […]
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Artwork that can exist only in outer space came to life aboard the International Space Station after it was delivered by the first ever private mission to arrive there. A doctor of physics worked with an artist to devise the work ‘Impossible Object’, but they would not see the results until the AX-1 mission reached […]
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Two childhood best friends who were ‘joined at the hip’ as kids were reunited over a half-century later—when they least expected it. Irene Gresty and Janet Henderson were neighbors in the 1940s, growing up in Linlithgow, West Lothian, England, but, like so many friendships, they lost touch over the years. Irene got married and moved […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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8 years ago today, the Japanese national aerospace agency (JAXA) launched the lander Hayabusa2 to find the asteroid 162173 Ryugu, deploy two small rovers onto it, take samples, and bring them back to Japan. Those samples arrived back recently, and are currently unveiling their mineral secrets. The particulars of the mission boggle the mind, but […]
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A pair of talented agri-scientists have developed a strain of exquisitely-tasty, melt-in-your-mouth strawberries that are putting a foodie spotlight on the capabilities of vertical hydroponic farming. Hiroki Koga and Brendan Somerville are the masterminds behind the Oishii fruit company, whose flagship “Omakase” berries have become all the rage among foodies and New York City chefs. […]
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A baker in the English town of Guisborough, pop. 17k or thereabouts, is reviving an ancient tradition to help his neighbors endure high energy costs. Thousands of years ago, societies built one oven in town where everyone went to bake their bread, and now Ed Hamilton-Trewhitt from Brickyard Bakery is offering to bake Christmas cakes […]
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For years scientists have been demonstrating the therapeutic potential of gut microbiota transplants in mice for a variety of medical conditions; now the FDA has approved this procedure for the first time to treat a murderous bacterial infection. The exact method may make someone squeamish, as its technical term is a “fecal matter transplant,” which […]
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Locals are discovering all kinds of weird things preserved in the mud of a drought-stricken Mississippi River, but the mandible and canine of an extinct American lion may be the most astonishing. In October, Wiley Prewitt found something black sticking out of a sandbar on a stretch of the mighty river in Rosedale, near the […]
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62 years ago today, Olduvai Hominid 9, or the Chellean Man, was found in the Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania. A fossilized skull cap from the cranium of a homo erectus, the fossil was found by paleoanthropologist Louis S. B. Leakey and originally named after him as a new species. This has subsequently been revised, and “OH-9” […]
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A recent deep-sea expedition off Australia’s Cocos Islands has revealed dozens of wild, wiggly, and wonderful sea creatures never seen to science. Wonderful could also be construed as terrifying, if not for the fact that most of them are very small, and live at such depths as to permanently remove the possibility of our toes […]
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Australia have advanced to the knockout rounds of the World Cup for the first time since 2006, with coach Graham Arnold hailing his boys as a new “golden generation.” They now face a stiff test against one of the tournament favorites in Argentina this Saturday on just three-days rest. It would have been the safest […]
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Rolls-Royce and easyJet yesterday confirmed they have set a new aviation milestone with the world’s first run of a modern jet engine on green hydrogen fuel. The ground test was conducted on an early concept demonstrator using green hydrogen that was created by wind and tidal power. It marks a major step towards proving that […]
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55 years ago today, Axis: Bold as Love was released by Track Records in the UK where it peaked at number 5 and spent 16 weeks on the charts. Despite average sales in the UK, it was certified platinum in the US. Jimi Hendrix’ second album ony accelerated his meteoric rise, and proved that as well as […]
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Over the last 40 years, small-holder farmers in Bangladesh have, using very simple methods, turned the dry Bengal Basin into one of the richest croplands on Earth where two to three rice harvests can be had per year. They created a climate-resilient water system dubbed “The Bengal Water Machine” that has kept an underground reservoir […]
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In order to keep their little island the pristine Aegean paradise it is, Tilos has gotten rid of their landfill, and replaced it with a circular system that has reduced total waste by 86%. After being implemented this May, the island of around 750 inhabitants quickly saw progress, after they transformed the landfill into a […]
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Enchanting footage captures a magical practice run for Dartmouth’s Train of Lights 2022 as it passes through the countryside. Footage shows the Dartmouth steam railway train covered from front to back in vibrant LED lights to celebrate the imminent season of Saint Nicholas. Professional photographer Scott Williams was joined by his three-year-old daughter Kerkyra to […]
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In one of the most biodiverse countries on Earth, ecologists have found 32 species of the ever-divergent Harlequin frog, all of which were thought to be extinct. It’s one of the largest cataloged rediscoveries of animals in the history of science, and has shown that there is still plenty of hope these amphibian “gems” can […]
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146 years ago today, the golden funerary “Mask of Agamemnon” was pulled from the remains of a tomb on Mycenae by archeologist Heimlich Schliemann in one of the most famous archeologial finds in history, not least because a debate on the authenticity of the mask remained heated for most of the 20th century. Today, the […]
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For years, people have been visiting a museum built in the house where the famous American holiday classic A Christmas Story was shot in Cleveland. That house, where Ralphie Parker nearly shot his eye out with his Red Ryder BB gun, is now up for sale to anyone who loves the film enough to keep the […]
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A terrifying predator that lived 340 million years ago has been dubbed “the T. rex of its day.” Named Whatcheeria deltae, it had huge razor sharp teeth, and as well as being one of the first creatures ever to hunt on land, it had growth patterns rather more like humans than reptiles, amphibians, or fish. […]
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Next week a revolutionary new form of energy storage will debut in Switzerland after 14 years of engineering and installation. With a storage capacity of 20 million kilowatt hours, enough to store the energy from wind, solar, nuclear or hydro and channel it to nearly 1 million homes, the Nant de Drance hydro-electric plant is […]
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An unborn baby was treated through her umbilical cord for a rare genetic condition—the same disease that killed her two older siblings—and the pioneering procedure prevented the infant’s death. It’s the first time in history Pompe disease has been treated in utero, and it could represent a life-saving new standard of care that’s safe and […]
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123 years ago today, FC Barcelona was founded by a combination of Spanish, Swiss, and English footballers. It has grown to be perhaps the most iconic football club on Earth, with a die-hardest fan base, a mountain of trophies and awards, and a memory bank that contains the on-field artistry of many of the greatest […]
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The Lesson: Wellness isn’t just about getting enough sleep and exercise. Some maladies need our permission—our precise focus, attention, and sympathy, in order for our biological tools to do the work of healing us. Notable Excerpt: “I believe if I give myself permission to receive what you (God) are giving me, then I’ll have predictable peace, purpose, […]
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The Galapagos Islands are famous for their marine iguanas, their giant tortoises, and their seabirds, but they also host the world’s most northerly-dwelling penguin. Even though their populations have suffered greatly from the influx of invasive species like feral cats, a determined conservation effort is seeing their numbers rebound. No one quite knows why or […]
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A decade ago, CAR T-cell therapy changed the face of cancer research and treatment. It’s now been applied in a small trial to lupus patients with total success. Four female patients and one male whose lupus had been untreatable were given an infusion of genetically-engineered immune cells called T-cells, which attacked another group of cells […]
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In the Willamette Valley of Oregon, the long study of a butterfly once thought extinct has led to a chain reaction of conservation in a long-cultivated region. The conservation work, along with helping other species, has been so successful that the Fender’s blue butterfly is slated to be downlisted from Endangered to Threatened on the […]
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552 years ago today, Wen Zhengmin, one of the Four Masters of Ming painting, was born in modern-day Suzhou. Born to a military family, Zhengmin opted instead to take up the brush, becoming a talented painter, poet, and caligraphist under the Wu School which originated in the area around modern-day Nanjing. He regarded nature and […]
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We’re always looking for books that inspire us to feel optimistic and positive about the world, and we are loving this one: HumanKind: Changing the World One Small Act At a Time. Author Brad Aronson was inspired to write HumanKind when his family went through one of the most difficult times of their lives. His […]
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Danielle Gletow might be the most famous foster parent of all time. 16 years ago she became a foster mom, saying, “I wanted to be a mother to all these kids who might not feel like they have one.” Within a year she adopted one of the children, a two-week old baby girl. During the […]
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A young man who started a window washing business has been cleaning road signs for free in his spare time to give back to his community. Liam Wildish started scrubbing signs in Maidstone, England this year, after launching his new window service—and he’s already become a notable local figure. “Some of the signs in Maidstone […]
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448 years ago today, the Selimiye Imperial Mosque opened in Edirne during the Ottoman Empire. Built by one of the most famous Islamic architects in history, Mimar Sinan, the building is considered among the highest achievements in Islamic architecture, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. So impeccable was its design that during […]
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These three adorable white reindeer calves are getting ready for Christmas as the UK’s only herd. The three babies, named Mr. Whippy, Vanilla, and 99, were born in the summer and are now ready to join the rest of the herd on a tour around the country in the run up to Christmas. During the […]
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A poll of 2,000 adults found that two-thirds will tell friends and family they are ‘fine’ over the holiday period, even when they’re not. Half of the respondents believe others don’t want to hear about their troubles because it dampens the mood, so they keep the conversation light-hearted. But the study, commissioned by British snack […]
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A man was overjoyed when he discovered a diamond ring worth $40,000 on a beach in Florida last month, and soon became a metal detector angel. Joseph Cook found the ring buried in the sand at Hammock Beach in St Augustine and immediately posted a video he shot while digging it up to his social […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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157 years ago today, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published in America. Since that day, the founding book of the “nonsense genre” has never been out of print, and been translated into 174 different languages. Its legacy covers adaptations for screen, radio, art, ballet, opera, musicals, theme parks, board games and video games. Carroll published […]
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Last year, GNN reported that many towns across Italy were selling houses for $1.00 in order to stem the tide of migration to the major cities. Now in Puglia, the region of Italy’s heel, the town of Presicce is doing one better—it will pay you $30,000 to move there. In this picturesque and near-the-sea town, […]
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A very peculiar decorative ornament was found in an archeological dig last year in Spain—a bronze amulet shaped like a hand that would lead researchers to a fascinating discovery. Just recently however, the restoration of the artifact revealed strange words believed to be part of the precursor to the modern Basque Language, also called Euskara. […]
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An American family that decided to sell their house and travel the country in a motorhome say they have no regrets, as well as a savings per year of more than $30,000. After renovating a 300 square foot motorhome in March 2021 they hit the road, homeschooling their kids, working remotely, and exploring the country. […]
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A woman has found a new career in her 60s as a chart-topping musician just 2 years after teaching herself the guitar in lockdown. Kym Vincenti has since signed with a label and released three singles, one of which topped the blues charts on Apple Music. Vincenti had never picked up the instrument before April […]
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Happy 70th birthday to the American writer Crescent Dragonwagon. Indeed that is her real name, which has appeared on the front of over 50 published works, including a poetry book, more than 20 children’s books, several fantasy novels, and 7 cookbooks, including Passionate Vegetarian, which won her the James Beard Award. READ the fascinating story about her […]
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Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel. Chris Kresser, MD is one of the most influential doctors in the health field, informed by a 15-year career of diagnosing and treating nutrient deficiencies. Co-director of the California Institute for Functional Medicine and Director of the Kresser Institute […]
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Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel. They are one of the most unique and fundamental types of forest on our planet, and for a few decades they were being lost at a rate that seemed soon-to-be-fatal. But with the 2022 State of the Mangrove report, […]
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With 50 spray nozzles and a sophisticated computer system, tractors out in California’s central valley are towing artificially-intelligent robots behind them that look set to launch a fourth revolution in agriculture. Passing over a field they can specifically target individual weeds and crops at a rate of 20 per second, before blasting them with either […]
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A 94-year-old retiree still hits the gym twice a week to fit in a two-hour workout, and has no plans to stop. “Super” Mario Sanna considers the gym a “second home,” and the gym rats there his “second family.” The former railway engineer said his job laying train tracks kept him in good shape, but […]
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13 years ago today, Project Avdhela was launched to create a digital Library of Alexandria-style archive of everything related to the culture of the Aromanians, the Aromanian-speaking ethic group of the southern Balkans. Launched in Bucharest at the Bucharest Peasent Museum, it has gone on to catalogue hundreds of works of literature, song, and poetry. […]
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A whopping 780,000 years ago, early humans sat down in front of a roaring fire for a BBQ of carp fish in what’s modern-day Israel. The remains of their meal, now discovered by archeologists, pushes back the confirmed date of the first known use of fire for cooking by 600,000 years, back into the earliest […]
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Millions of sharks could be saved from being caught on fishing hooks with a recent invention that acts like a car’s hazard lights. Called SharkGuard, the device fits onto the longlines used by fishermen and creates an electrical field around a baited hook, which sharks and rays pick up with their electroreceptors. Tests have shown […]
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Out in the Klamath Mountains of northern California, fires are rushing through the underbrush, lighting everything they touch between the trees ablaze. However these aren’t a danger to the rich hardwood forests, they are deliberately set by the Yurok and Karuk tribal nations—as a wildfire prevention strategy of all things. As strange as it might […]
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Out in Austin, a 3D-printed neighborhood is taking shape, where 100 homes are being simultaneously made to start next year for around 30% less than comparabley-sized homes. They will be built between 2 and 4 bedrooms and to much higher codes, and in addition will include solar paneled roofs. Lennar, one of the nation’s largest […]
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Happy 69th birthday to Rick Bayless, perhaps the finest Mexican chef who isn’t Mexican in the United States. Holding a Michelin Star, the inaugural title of Top Chef Master, and 7 James Beard Awards, he has remained a very influential chef in America for many years. Bayless is best known perhaps for a docu-series he made with […]
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When you’re out with your friends, how often do you want to share an experience by saying something like, ‘Wow, look at that’? Now we know that chimpanzees do this too—a behavior once thought unique to humans. Scientists recently observed a young chimp nagging its mom for attention for the sole purpose of showing her […]
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It’s been twenty years of advocacy and legal challenges, but the decision was made to carry out the largest dam removal in history to return the Klamath River in California to its natural state. Led by the Yurok, Klamath, and Karuk tribal nations, the demolition of four hydroelectric dams will allow wild salmon from the […]
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57 years ago today Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees, a National Geographic film special, premiered on CBS and brought the young primate ethnologist Jane Goodall international acclaim for her work in Tanzania. It transformed our understanding of our closest relative as no piece of media had ever done before. READ a bit more, or watch […]
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The Lesson: Making friends and influencing people, as Carnegie described it, can be approached in several ways, but Zoe Chance feels that the modern influential person is the person whom people want to say yes to—achieved in part by influencing others, and in part by influencing the self; influencing our inner dialogue between the intuitive mind […]
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Far out in Western Australia, the tranquil wetland forests are about to shake with the footsteps of giants. That’s because a Danish artist has built a community of giant trolls out of recycled natural material for an exhibit that weaves Aboriginal tradition, modern eco-consciousness, pure childhood creative expression and joy together. Thomas Dambo is the […]
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Besties JoAnn MacQueen and Marlisa Mercer won a million dollars playing the lottery, and immediately decided to keep the good vibes rolling by giving heaps and heaps of it away to the community. Identifying several causes and charities in their hometown of Orillia, in the Canadian province of Alberta to give fat checks to, local […]
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The skin off the legs of a mushroom could potentially offer a sustainable alternative to insulative substrates in computing chips. As production of electronic devices continues to increase, scientists are looking to insert a bit of nature and biodegradability into common components like the microchip, and believe it or not, peeling the skin off the […]
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This daily column features all the good news, anniversaries and birthdays from this day in history—November 21.
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A Utah man’s heroic decision to jump into a freezing river has saved a woman after she attempted to end her life on the morning of November 12. Dane Entze and his wife were returning from a weekend getaway to celebrate their anniversary. They were crossing John’s Hole Bridge in Idaho Falls, Idaho—the very spot […]
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The mission of the James Dyson Award is simple: Design something that solves a problem. No one will be surprised, then, that the Polyformer machine won a grand prize because it expertly solves two problems at once. The young co-inventors, Reiten Cheng and Swaleh Owais, designed the Polyformer to achieve two goals: to tackle plastic […]
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Planting trees destined to live long healthy lives is believed to be a good way to save the planet, but what about ourselves? 30 years after a mass tree-planting event in Oregon, research has shown those who live near them are at lower risks of death from cardiovascular disease, as well as other non-accidental […]
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71 years ago today, Snowdonia National Park was created by British Parliament as the third national park in the country after the Lake and the Peak districts. It protects a mountainous region in northern Wales of the same name of 827 square miles of myth-shrouded mountains and valleys. Much of the park is undeveloped, but […]
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A major discovery of underground tunnels has been made in Egypt, and archeologists believe they could be part of the lost tomb of Cleopatra. The tunnels were described as an “engineering marvel” and run for 4,281 feet (1,305 kilometers). They connect with three religious sanctuaries and a sacred lake, where so far 1,500 artifacts have […]
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A video of a recent Cuban immigrant celebrating his first paycheck as a UPS driver has gone viral in celebration of his accomplishment, and of the American dream at large. Yoel Diaz kissed the perforated paper in an Instagram video shot by his wife, Marissa Diaz, who has been documenting some of Yoel’s experiences since […]
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Two golfer pals are celebrating a sporting ‘miracle’ after both getting holes-in-one in consecutive shots on the same hole—beating odds of 17 million to 1. Neither golfers had achieved a hole-in-one in 15 years of playing together, and the feat left themselves and fellow golfers John and Roger gobsmacked. It was 69-year-old Jaswant Sidhu, stepping […]
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In the final hours of a month long search through rugged jungles swarming with mosquitos, scientists confirmed the sighting of a bird that hasn’t been seen in 140 years. A picture of the ground-dwelling black-naped pheasant-pigeon was captured via camera trap, and felt to the team “like finding a unicorn.” Documented to science in 1882 […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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On this day in 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived at the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first European Americans to cross the whole of the west. By the finish line, they had mapped and established American presence for a legal claim (in European courts) to the land. They established diplomatic relations and trade with […]
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A grandmother was filmed taking notes during a Marvel superhero movie marathon, which at this point includes 30 films, all so she can be closer to her grandkids and talk to them about their interests. Cheryl Skiados, who is in her 70s, was filmed by her grandson Jackson King, partway through her Marvel movie-fest. Whether […]
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After more than three years of work, the Tetiaroa Atoll has been declared rat-free following a massive effort to poison off two invasive species devastating the ecosystem. The mission required the cutting of some 160 miles of trails across 1,250 acres of tropical atoll forest, and a team that were willing to suffer the bugs, […]
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Swedish archeologists have unearthed two Viking swords from a burial mound in which they had been buried vertically, as if resting on their points. As well as marking the rare discovery of a sword, the vertical placement reflects a deliberate symbolism that has the archeologists ruminating over what it means, and suggestions include honoring the […]
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Newly discovered protein changes in the blood could pave the way for a new test to catching breast cancer up to two years early. On Wednesday, researchers revealed they found the levels of six proteins in people’s blood changed before they were diagnosed with breast cancer. They claimed this could form the basis of blood […]
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Happy 47th birthday to David “Big Papi” Ortiz. The Dominican-American slugger spent nearly his whole career at the Boston Red Sox where he played a key role in breaking the 86-year World Series drought. He was elected into the MLB Hall of Fame in 2022, at the first year of his eligibility. READ some of […]
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A paraglider out for a routine flight spotted a woman clinging to her submerged vehicle in a canal—and swooped in to her rescue. Cristiano Piquet was filming his motorized flight near Homestead, outside of Miami, Florida, when he spotted the woman ‘holding on for her life’. Video shared by Piquet shows the woman in the […]
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Norwegian Cruise Line commemorated a new ship by awarding 100 teachers from the U.S. and Canada with a free voyage that included an exclusive concert by Kelly Clarkson. Norwegian’s Giving Joy awards ceremony also recognized the teachers with $170,000 for the top three Grand Prize winners and their schools. The contest was launched during National […]
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A good night sleep really can make us happier—because the brain triages emotions, solidifying the storage of positive emotions while dampening the negative ones—according to a new study. Mental health issues can be squashed during sleep, including chronic stress, anxiety, depression, and panic. Researchers at the Department of Neurology of the University of Bern and […]
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A remarkable archive of 42 hand-written love letters by Bob Dylan to his high school sweetheart are up for auction today. The music icon—known as Bob Zimmerman in those days—sent Barbara Ann Hewitt over 150 pages of notes to her home at Silver Lake Road in New Brighton, Minnesota. Wide-ranging in scope and content, the […]
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A November 8th referendum legalized possession and use of psychedelic mushrooms in Colorado, making it the second state after Oregon to do so. However with no recreational sales component to the Natural Medicine Health Act, there are some Coloradoans who will no doubt be looking up guides on how to identify a mushroom containing psilocybin […]
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60 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy inaugurated Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) serving the nation’s capital and northern Virginia. The gorgeous facility is named after John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), the 52nd U.S. Secretary of State who served under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Dulles main terminal, with its peaked officer’s cap roof of […]
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I announced last month that Good News Network was giving away 2,500 free books for our 25th anniversary—and it took many weeks to read and assess the hundreds of requests. But all the books have now been packaged, and I wanted to share the wonderful list of groups that are receiving them. The paperback—And Now, […]
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Parks departments across the country are beginning to offer free all-terrain wheelchairs at their visitors centers for disabled people to explore their states’ treasures of nature. Such programs have already cropped up in Colorado, Michigan, and South Dakota, and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, a National Park Service unit, has also added off-road wheelchairs to […]
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300,000 years ago, children were playing on the shore of a lagoon while their parents hunted in the shallows nearby These are the stories contained in what were once believed to be 100,000-year-old foot prints, but which are now confirmed to be much older. A state of the art scanning technique has now dated them […]
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British scientists have grown human red blood cells in a lab for the first time, and conducted a clinical trial to give it to patients. The blood is grown by encouraging stem cells found in a blood donor’s sample to become new red blood cells, and opens the door to transfusion treatments for those with […]
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After 185,000 hours, 8 years, and 45 iterations, Heinz has redesigned their superior plastic tops to be completely recyclable. Why so much? Why’d it cost them $1.2 million in R&D? The top was not easily recyclable before, which resulted in as many as 1 billion of them every year going into landfills. For years […]
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30 years ago today, the Hoxne Hoard was found in Suffolk. The Hoxne Hoard is the largest collection of late-Roman gold and silver found in Britain, and the largest collection of gold and silver coins of the fourth and fifth centuries found anywhere within the Roman Empire. In 1993, the Treasure Valuation Committee valued the […]
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At a recent event, Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos named Dolly Parton as the latest winner of his Courage and Civility Award. The award recognizes leaders who “aim high, find solutions, and always do it with civility”. Each awardee receives 100 million dollars to invest in the charities of their choice. In Dolly’s case, the mega-donation […]
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A wide majority of Americans, 81%, are willing to put aside disagreements with others in order to work on a cause they hold dear to their hearts, according to a new post-election survey. The poll of 2,000 adults revealed that when it comes to supporting a cause four in five are willing to put their […]
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In February, the US Department of Veterans Affairs established a new goal to prevent and end homelessness among military vets, after seeing progress towards earlier goals stall out in 2016. The new goal to house 38,000 veterans this year is close to being realized—and could bring that number to near zero, based on the government’s […]
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Drones can be crucial during natural disasters by transporting supplies to people in need, but they can only carry about 30 percent of their mass as payload. What if the delivery drones themselves were made of food? Now, researchers have developed a small flying craft with wings made of rice cakes. The team at the […]
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77 years ago today, Gabriela Mistral became the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The poet, educator, and Chilean icon was also consequently the first Latin American woman, and the fifth woman overall, to claim the prize. Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother’s love, sorrow […]
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The Lesson: Listeners will know that Tony and Tobias feel that blending professional, personal, and spiritual passions is the key to aligning them to your purpose. The lesson here is that this benefits yourself and others, but it also makes you feel alive—it is the way that all aspects of yourself can communicate with each […]
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A coalition of groups are envisioning the former jails on Rikers Island as the hub for green energy generation, enough to power 45,000 homes. They also see it as a potential hub of green energy job training, and as a replacement for at least several of New York City’s gas-fired power plants. Since New York […]
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A pilot has captured the jaw-dropping spectacle of St. Elmo’s Fire from his cockpit. Airbus captain Luis Andress was flying from Miami to Denver last month when he encountered the scene. It was part of the overall effects of Hurricane Ian when it hit the gulf coast of Florida this year. St. Elmo’s Fire occurs […]
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Australian conservationists have released 10 juvenile turtles into the wild, which they had saved from becoming charred omelets during the 2020 bushfires. The Manning River turtle is one of Australia’s most endangered reptiles, but a conservation program put into place years ago to stop the loss is now coming good. Capable of living only in […]
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The humble beaver could hold the key to saving our water, according to new research that found how their dam building skills protect rivers threatened by climate change. If rivers should come under pressure from drying up, beavers’ tendencies to build dams under such conditions will help sustain the water flow and quality. The research, done […]
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Happy 70th birthday to Johnny Antonopoulos, aka ‘Johnny A’. The virtuoso guitar player from Massachusetts who makes the guitar look like the easiest instrument in the world to play, didn’t take off until after he began his solo career around the turn of the century releasing his acclaimed debut album Sometime Tuesday Morning in 1999, and […]
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It’s the most wonderful—and disorderly—time of the year. With so many people flying home this holiday season, flight delays and cancellations are inevitable, leaving down-on-their-luck travelers looking for hotels in unfamiliar cities. Well, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has teamed up with Lowes to offer a free stay in a room decked-out with holiday cheer and […]
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A fairytale rescue saved an experienced diver from drowning when a trio of mermaids suddenly showed up off Catalina Island in California. Pablo Avila lost consciousness while scuba diving with his son and a friend on Oct. 23, which coincided with the second day of a mermaid training course nearby. A 33-year-old mermaid performer and […]
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A 14-year-old in San Diego, California, was named the grand prize winner of this year’s 3M Young Scientist Challenge, the nation’s premier middle school science competition. Leanne Fan developed Finsen Headphones, a low-cost headphone device that uses machine learning and blue light therapy to detect and treat mid-ear infections in children—potentially preventing up to 60% […]
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166 years ago today, Big Ben made its first big bong outside the Palace of Westminster. The colossal bell struck and reverberated, as a London Times reporter, wrote “like a potent poison that penetrates every vein in your body.” Commissioned by Sir Benjamin Hall from which it took its name, and built by John Warner & […]
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To celebrate Veteran’s Day this week, a dedicated 50-year volunteer for Disabled American Veterans was gifted a new van so he could continue his labor of love. Former US Marine Len Johnson drives to other veterans’ homes in Philadelphia to support them in any way he can—so people at the TrueCar website saw an opportunity […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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Michael Balderson thought it would be fun to reveal his newly-shaven face to his baby during a little game of peek-a-boo. The 42-year-old had worn a beard for the entirety of little Theo’s life, so the shock was evident on the child’s face. Mom captured the moment on a video that shows the 11-month-old baby […]
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The first sentence ever discovered that was written in the Canaanite language turns out to be a plea to eradicate beard lice. Unearthed in the area of an ancient city in Israel by a team from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Southern Adventist University from Tennessee, the ivory comb dates back 3,700 years. The inscription […]
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Happy 69th birthday to Baaba Maal, the Senegalese singer and guitarist, who is one of the most important musical exports from the country. Pop culture knows of Maal likely through his provision of the music for Marvel’s Black Panther, but Maal has worked with artists as varied as Mumford & Sons, Taj Mahal, and Peter […]
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An intermediate-mass black hole lurking undetected in a dwarf galaxy revealed itself to astronomers when it gobbled up an unlucky star that strayed too close. The shredding of the star is known as a ‘tidal disruption event’ or ‘spaghettification’—and it produced a flare of radiation that briefly outshone the combined stellar light of the host […]
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A cat traveled more than 280 miles to its old home before being reunited with her relocated owners and taken back to her new home—a whopping 13 months later. Laëtitia De Amicis moved with her family and their three cats because of work reasons a year ago, leaving the Orne region of France. The family […]
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A guided mindfulness-based stress reduction program was as effective as using ‘the gold-standard’ antidepressant drug—escitalopram—for patients with anxiety disorders, according to a first-of-its-kind, randomized clinical trial from Georgetown University Medical Center. “Mindfulness meditation currently is reimbursed by very few (insurance) providers,” says Elizabeth Hoge, MD, director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Program and associate professor […]
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A baby born weighing less than a loaf of bread at just 535 grams has finally returned home to sleep in her own room. Lauren Ormston’s pregnancy was initially smooth sailing. All her scans came back healthy—even the one at 20-weeks—and she expected to welcome her baby on July 1st. But on March 4, she […]
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201 years ago today, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow. Numerous literary critics consider him the greatest novelist in all world history. Most of his major works are considered masterpieces, and are given out to students in literature classes all around the world. Dostoevsky’s books have been translated into more than 170 languages, and […]
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Volunteers carved a 100-foot mural of poppies onto a beach in a poignant tribute to the fallen ahead of Remembrance Day, November 11, which commemorates the formal end of the First World War on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. Retired doctor and beach artist Claire Eason led […]
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A new survey shows that most people wish they had asked relatives more about their life while they were alive—after discovering interesting stories once they had passed. In the lead up to Remembrance Day (11/11), when people honor war heroes on November 11, the poll of 2,000 adults found that 53 percent had learned something […]
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A South Carolina community came together this week to make 10,000 sandwiches in one day to give away to local food banks, schools, soup kitchens, and shelters. The 200 volunteers in Greenville were also honoring the amazing legacy of Eugenia Duke, a local woman who bucked every norm 100 years ago to start a business […]
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“It’s time for poor, working-class, and young people to have a seat at the table,” said Maxwell Alejandro Frost while campaigning for the US House of Representatives in Orlando, Florida. And, his time will start in January when he’s sworn in as the first Generation-Z member of Congress, the month in which he turns 26. […]
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94 years ago today, the Roman composer Ennio Morricone was born. The trumpeter, composer, and conductor scored 400 films across his career, including 70 award winners. He provided the music to all of Sergio Leone’s films, almost all of Giuseppe Tornatone’s, and many of Clint Eastwood’s westerns including A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars […]
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A young father’s recovery is baffling doctors after he awoke from a coma and discovering he had artistic talents like never before—and now he’s a professional carpenter and model builder. Moe Hunter was struck down by a rare form bacterial meningitis and tuberculosis in his brain that left him fighting for his life in 2004. […]
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A truck driver from Greenville, Texas, was named a ‘Highway Angel’ for stopping his travels to administer aid to two injured drivers after witnessing an incredible crash. One morning two weeks ago, Tony Doughty was driving eastbound on Interstate 40 near Albuquerque, when he witnessed a red car ram into a Jeep while going around […]
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The Phase 1 trial has begun to test a novel pill that was effective in pre-clinical studies against reoccurring solid tumors from breast, prostate, brain, ovarian, cervical, skin and lung cancers. City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the U.S., announced last month that the first patient to receive […]
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A mom claims pumpkin helped save her dog’s life, and veterinarians were stunned when he miraculously recovered from ‘terminal’ cancer. Martha Haslett assumed it was hopeless when vets predicted that her family’s beloved dog Koda would have less than 12 months left to live after a mass was found on his intestine in October 2019. […]
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108 years ago, Hedy Lamarr, the Hollywood megastar and telecommunications expert, was born. Lamarr is one of the most remarkable women of the 20th century, and has been described as one of the greatest actresses of all time. Alongside George Antheil, a musical composer, Lamarr developed a radio-wave guidance system that was hoped to allow […]
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In a daring rescue, New York City Firefighters saved two women’s lives by rappelling down the side of a burning building. The flames in a midtown Manhattan high-rise apartment building had a resident literally hanging by her fingertips from the windowsill, when a team of firefighters rappelled down in time to rescue her and are […]
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Panda diplomacy worked well in Taiwan this week, when a pair of Chinese giant panda specialists visited Taiwan to help with the treatment of a giant panda named Tuan Tuan. It’s a rare moment of warmth between the cross-Strait neighbors, amid a recent rise in tensions, and the Chinese veterinarians will be there for some […]
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All of Switzerland’s threatened frog species’ populations ‘exploded’ when scientists began a simple pond-building campaign. Particular among the web-footed beneficiaries were the European tree frog, whose numbers have quadrupled since 1999, as have the numbers of areas they can be found. While protection laws in the Swiss canton of Aargau for their suite of frog, […]
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These are Macon County Kennels, the largest no-kill rescue shelter in the U.S., and newly opened in Alabama to help combat a pet overpopulation crisis in the southeastern United States. It was renovated from an old greyhound training center into a facility that has the capacity to save, rehabilitate, and adopt out up to 5,000 […]
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420 years ago today, the Bodleian Library was re-opened (permanently) in Oxford University. It’s the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. It derives its name from its founder, Sir Thomas Bodley. With over 13 million printed items, it is the second-largest library in Britain […]
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A different sort of great pyramid was just erected in Egypt’s Western Desert, which rather than enshrining a pharaoh’s glory, draws attention to the issue of plastic pollution. Constructed at the onset of what the builders hope will be a century of plastic cleanup, it also acts as a striking visual ahead of the annual […]
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Marine biologists working in the Azores have recorded the largest sunfish ever at 6,049 pounds (2,740 kilograms). After towing it ashore and availing themselves of the help of a forklift to hoist the behemoth bony fish onto a hanging scale, they found it broke the Guinness World Record for heaviest bony fish, and weighed more […]
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Villagers are celebrating the reopening of their local pub after spending ten years raising 500K to buy it. Locals have spent a decade fighting to save The Rising Sun from being converted by property developers into new homes. The community group ‘Save Our Sun’ worked tirelessly with fundraisers and events to raise half the half […]
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A historic English garden recently became home to a fungus so rare in the UK that a gardener erected a cage to protect it from knowledgeable foragers who claim it can help fight dementia and cancer. Spotted by a volunteer at The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, they identified the big shaggy ball as […]
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119 years ago today, Konrad Lorenz, the father of modern ethnology and Nobel laureate, was born in Vienna. In 2002, he was ranked as the 65th most-cited scholar of the 20th century, largely because of his work on several foundational behavior patterns in animals, particularly birds. While he held membership in the Nazi party, his […]
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Briefly exposing social media users to the tricks behind misinformation boosts awareness of harmful online falsehoods, says new research—and Google is set to deploy an anti-disinformation campaign based on the findings. Short animations placed in YouTube’s Ad slot gave viewers a taste of the strategies behind misinformation, according to the huge online experiment led by […]
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Using research from 18 countries, a new study concludes that adults with better mental health are more likely to report having spent time playing in and around coastal and inland waters, such as rivers and lakes as children. The findings were replicated in each of the 18 countries, say the authors studying ‘blue spaces’. Mounting […]
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One of the most popular posts this week on the massive Reddit community website evoked all the feels that come with a simple act of kindness—especially when the compassion is shown by a homeless man. The spontaneous helping hand was captured in a photo by a Reddit user who described the incident for folks on the […]
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Just in time for Halloween, NASA released a photo of the sun “smiling”. Their Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the cheery image, sharing it in a Tweet in late October. The ‘smile’ we see here are made up of three coronal holes, solar fluctuations during which fast bursts of solar wind are released, NASA explained. “Seen […]
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805 years ago today, the Charter of the Forest was signed in England by King Henry III. This law document is sometimes described as the sister of the Magna Carta, and granted rights of free men to use the forests of England once reserved for King William I and his descendants. Many today learn from […]
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The Lowe’s hardware chain presented an Angel Award to employees in California who rallied around a customer that took a bad fall in the parking lot. Deborah Hayes told GNN that her elderly mother was shopping in the Modesto store when the accident occurred, and called the incident a “wonderful story of people helping others.” […]
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Shopping in actual stores is en vogue again as 43% of Americans admit they miss the chaos of picking up in-person Black Friday deals. A poll of 2,003 U.S. adults found 95% plan to participate in Black Friday and/or Cyber Monday events this year, with a third planning to shop both online and in stores. […]
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A woman loves cleaning so much that she gave up her job and is now traveling the world scrubbing homes for free, helping women who need a huge hand. Auri Katariina was a service manager at a cleaning company in Finland in the summer of 2021, when she decided to quit and follow her unique […]
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415 years ago today, a remarkable woman was born. Anna Maria van Schurman, was a Dutch painter, engraver, poet, hyperpolyglot, and scholar who was the first woman to attend a Dutch university. A fierce defendant of a woman’s right to education, she remained celibate her entire life in order to protect her reputation as a […]
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By splitting a single laser beam into different wavelengths of light, engineers have been able to transmit data at a rate of almost twice the combined internet traffic of the world per second. This head-scratching achievement was made with just a laser and single optical chip. Engineers from Chalmers University of Technology and the Technical […]
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Data collected by mobile phones could be used to assess the structural integrity of bridges, suggests a new study, informing potential maintenance requirements and keeping them in action for 30% longer. Using the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco as an example, researchers showed that smartphones can capture the same kind of information about bridge […]
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A bizarre cross between a bird and a dinosaur had blue, brown and grey feathers, a long tail, and small teeth. What’s more, their brain morphology is perfectly transitional between bird and reptile, with a brain likely built to smell like reptiles, but also to see well in daylight like birds. Jeholornis lived 120 million […]
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A unique patient who has survived a dozen different types of cancer tumors over a lifetime could provide the key for researchers to develop new early detection and immunotherapy treatments, say scientists. A cancer diagnosis can change someone’s life, but 12 is nothing that any of us could probably comprehend. The course of this individual’s […]
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100 years ago today, British Archeologist Howard Carter and his team opened the entrance to King Tutankhamun’s Tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Carter found tomb KV62, and reckoned that luck had preserved it from robbers for centuries due to debris from a nearby tomb falling over its entrance. This resulted in the first […]
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During recent renovations to a clinic and office space in the second largest teaching hospital at Harvard Medical School, construction crews uncovered remnants of a historical operating room—the OR believed to have hosted the world’s first successful human organ transplant. While removing walls, workers at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital were surprised to find what […]
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A retired police officer who was heartbroken when thieves stole his Exemplary Service Medal last year was stunned when kind strangers tracked him down after they pulled it from a river in a “one-in-a-million” catch. 82-year-old Geoffrey Barron was devastated when burglars entered his home to steal valuables—and took the treasured medal that he’d been […]
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A new species of owl has joined the tree of life after having been documented as unique this year—and its Latin name was christened after a local wildlife caretaker who used to sell parrots to the pet trade. Researchers believe the Principe scops owl is found exclusively on Príncipe, a tropical island off the west […]
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Girl Scouts of the USA will need to give MacKenzie Scott a badge for philanthropy after her donation last month of $84.5 million—their largest gift ever from one person. The generous grant will help make up for the absence of funds raised from cookie sales and membership during the pandemic. The former wife of Amazon […]
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77 years ago today, “Der Bomber” Gerhard Müller was born. Simply one of the greatest goal scorers to ever play, the rather un-imposing 5-ft 9-in German from Nördlingen would go on to become the striker to which all German strikers are compared. At the club level, he played almost all his professional years at Bayern […]
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A sheep herding dog is still running circles around his favorite animals despite losing a leg this summer. The border collie named Boss went missing in July while out working, rounding up sheep, and despite an extensive search—even using a drone—the pooch was nowhere to be seen. Shepherdess Anna MacKinnon was sick with worry until […]
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At Children’s Health of Orange County, California, you need to be on the look-out for tots getting lab tests—because they’ll be tooting the horn at the wheel of their new electric Honda, which is bringing laughs and comfort to sick children. Designed by Honda engineers to ease the stress and anxiety of hospitalized children, the […]
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A driver who took a wrong turn was able to save the lives of four people after miraculously driving down their street and seeing their house on fire. A doorbell camera video captures the moment the young man from Omaha, Nebraska, ran around the house to start banging on windows, and calling 911. Brendan Birt […]
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Remember the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’, when Captain “Sully” Sullenberger’s jet flew into a flock of geese and lost both engines, shortly after take-off in New York City? That was 13 years ago, but now researchers have designed a way to get flocks of birds to disperse using a cleverly-disguised drone. Besides the safety factors, […]
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This daily column features all the good news, anniversaries and birthdays from this day in history—November 2.
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A woman who waited 24 years for a first kiss with her childhood best friend is now engaged to be married to him—after keeping her feelings a secret for over two decades. Kate MacNeil and Paul Damon were tied at the hip when they met as young teens in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1997. Despite the […]
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Astronomers have found a planet with the average density of a marshmallow. Along with being a big softie, scientists found that the Jupiter-sized exoplanet would also float if it were hypothetically put in a giant cosmic bathtub. Astronomers using the Kitt Peak National Observatory telescope in Arizona, observed an unusual planet in orbit around a […]
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A new study shows that a substance found in pomegranates significantly boosts the immune system to fight cancer—triggering a constant supply of endless rejuvenated T cells. German scientists studying therapies for colorectal cancer discovered that a metabolite in the red fruit, known as urolithin-A, rejuvenates immune T cells to make them better at fighting tumors. […]
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While on a seed gathering trip atop a Hawai’ian mountain in 2021, conservationists found a tree species believed extinct in the wild since since 1992. This month, teams from the organizations that found it went up to the same area and planted 30 seedlings born from the fruits of the plants they found, growing hope […]
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125 years ago today, The Old Lady, Juventus F.C. was founded by a group of sporty high-schoolers in Turin, Italy. Juventus is the juggernaut of Italian football, and holds the records for all domestic titles including Serie A (36), Coppa Italia (14) and Supercoppa Italiana (9). “She” has also won the UEFA Champions League/European Cup twice, and […]
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Birds have self control—just like humans, according to new research that found Eurasian jays can resist a tempting snack when they know waiting will bring an even better one. The study was actually inspired by the 1972 ‘Stanford Marshmallow’ test in which a US psychologist offered children a choice of one immediately—or two if they […]
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In April, archeologists working in the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh which had been destroyed by the Islamic State, uncovered a pulse-quickening discovery—a sealed gateway unknown in any previous excavations or surveys of the site. Carefully opening the door, the archeologists’ eyes fell on a hallway lined with dust that had not been disturbed for […]
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Would you ditch the Courtyard Marriot in order to sleep inside a giant flower pot? What about a nuclear missile bunker, a giant triceratops skull, or a pig sleeping under a quilt of grass and flowers? These are just some of the ideas that came out of the $10 million OMG! Fund from AirBnB, a […]
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For the first time in 8 years, the orphan-elephant heard in Kenya’s Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is welcoming a new infant, and the response was inspiring to witness. All elephants celebrate a new baby with great fanfare, but Sheldrick’s herd of former orphans took it to the next level. It has become a time-honored tradition for […]
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435 years ago, the Leiden University Libraries’ doors were opened after its founding 13 years earlier. Considered one of the most important moments in the history of European scholarship, it was one of a few cultural centers in Europe at the time that attempted to disperse knowledge during the early days of the Enlightenment. READ about […]
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The number of carbon capture and storage projects in the pipeline is exploding, thanks to worldwide efforts to cut emissions. A new report from the Global CCS Institute, which studies carbon capture and storage-(CCS), shows an impressive growth of 44 percent over the past 12 months. The CEO of the climate change think tank, Jarad […]
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Presidents come and go from these grounds outside the White House, but the beloved members of their staff—like Dale Haney—stay behind to serve the next First Family. The Bidens this week surprised this longtime groundskeeper who has cared for the White House Rose Garden, hundreds of trees, and more, for a half century. Befitting Haney’s […]
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The exact location of the tomb of the Roman-era saint who inspired the gift-giving of Santa Claus has been uncovered by archeologists in the town of Myra in southern Turkey. Saint Nicholas (‘Santa’ is Italian for saint) was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent who was beloved for his legendary habit of secret gift-giving. […]
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A crafty dad has transformed his family’s home in England with epic Halloween decorations, all handmade, including a lifelike giant spider—all to raise cash for charity. Kieron King has packed the outside of the house with massive spiders, demons, and webs, to create the ultimate spooky and memorable experience. The Halloween cogs start turning each […]
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49 years ago today, the Bosphorus Bridge was completed, linking mainland Europe with Anatolia over the Bosporus Straits for the first time. It’s a gravity-anchored suspension bridge with steel towers and inclined hangers, and upon its completion was the 4th longest suspension bridge in the world. READ more… (1973) The idea of a bridge crossing the Bosphorus […]
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Drinking black tea may reduce the risk of dying young from heart disease, according to a new observational study that used data on nearly half a million people, ages 40-69. People who drank two or more cups of per day were found to have a nine to 13 percent lower risk of an early death […]
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Photos are shedding light on the painstaking rebuilding of Stonehenge by Victorians in 1901—depicting engineers trying to move the tallest stones back into their intricate prehistoric positions. Britain’s most famous ancient monument on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire was built around 2500 BC, but after thousands of years some of the stones had fallen out […]
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An Australian woman got the ride of a lifetime after discovering a replica of her grandfather’s World War II plane—and traveling 9,000 miles to recreate her favorite photo. Courtney Dohnt was never able to meet her Australian grandfather who fought alongside the Brits and Allied Forces, flying in a Hawker Hurricane. The plane—called Pegs after […]
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On this day 80 years ago, Bob Ross, the famous television painter was born. Ross hosted The Joy of Painting, on PBS television in which he instructed viewers how to paint landscapes using minimal supplies in a short period of time. Ross became famous for many of his colloquial phrases, such as painting “happy little trees,” or […]
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Being around birds make people feel ‘chirpy’ boosting mental well-being, according to a new study. Seeing or hearing birds provides a lift to mental health—with the boost lasting for up to eight hours, according to the findings. Researchers used a phone app called Urban Mind. People were asked three times a day whether they […]
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When it comes to exercise, intensity is everything, and while a brisk daily 15-minute walk is enough to cut the risk of heart disease, a leisurely 30-minute stroll is not. Scientists studying data from heart-rate wearables say doing more exercise doesn’t do much to reduce your risk from cardiovascular conditions unless it is of at […]
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An old courthouse in London is set to host one of the largest rooftop forests in all of Europe, as it welcomes 125 trees and more than 10,000 plants in total. Access to the public will be provided to those seeking to immerse themselves in this forest in the sky, and green-thumbed Londoners will have […]
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Zookeepers in England were thrilled to watch their resident rhino give birth to a calf, who was up and charging around within hours of accommodating herself to the world The birth was captured in the late afternoon on the Chester Zoo’s video cameras. The calf was born already weighing a hefty 120 pounds (50 kg) […]
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60 years ago today, the whole world breathed a sigh of relief as the Cuban Missile Crisis ended with Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev agreeing to dismantle his missiles in Cuba in exchange for Kennedy’s promise to remove NATO missiles from Turkey and Italy. With the current risk of nuclear war in Ukraine, it’s important […]
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Workmen have uncovered a suspected Roman road in a field dating back 2,000 years that could be the only one of its kind in Britain and of ‘world importance.’ Archeologists say the cobbled ford uncovered in Worcestershire could be the finest Roman example of its type in the UK. In fact, the only existing roads […]
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New carbon dioxide ventilators could turn fumes into fertilizer to bring vegetable patches to high rise rooftops, suggests a new study. It wasn’t just suggested, the study included an experiment that found spinach by the new air vents grew four-times larger than the other plants. The breakthrough is a promising development for healthier city life, […]
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Everyone knows your family can be a pain in the neck sometimes, but regular family dinners can be the key to reduced stress levels in the household. This was found in a survey by the American Heart Association (AHA), who research chronic stress which can increase rates for all manner of non-communicable heart diseases. Of […]
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Many countries have monuments to their fallen soldiers, but the French have recently inaugurated a sort of “Tomb of the Unknown Canine,” to honor the contributions of dogs to the civil, police, and military service of the nation. From lending their noses to counter-banditry operations across the Sahel, to tracking down the perpetrators of the […]
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60 years ago today, one man in the right place, at the right time, did the right thing, saving the world from probably nuclear war. Vasily Arkhipov is known as the “man who saved the world,” during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis when he stood down the other two officers aboard the Soviet submarine B-59 […]
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Trying to distract himself from his PlayStation during COVID lockdowns, a London high schooler self-published a fantasy novel that’s now selling as far away as Australia. 16-year-old Dylan Brennan started writing Noble: Betrayed in April 2020, after recognizing he was spending too much time playing video games. The aspiring lawyer said he had long dreamt of […]
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The “Classic Tourist City” of Chaozhou is going to build an offshore wind farm so large that it could power all of Norway. Detailed in the city’s recent 5-year plan, the 43.3-gigawatt windfarm will grant significant amounts of green energy to the two-and-a-half million inhabitants. Located in Guangdong Province, and neighbor to the largest inhabited […]
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A small book store is a wonderful place—that’s what Russell Crowe thought when he surprised Bookbugs and Dragon Tales Book Shop with a large donation to help its survival. Leanne Fridd and her husband Dan “squealed” when after launching a Crowdfunder campaign to do more school literacy outreach and give the business “breathing room,” they […]
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Taking the lead to fight the homelessness epidemic in America, the Salt Lake City council has moved forward with a plan to lease 8 acres of city land to build a village of tiny homes. Described as “recovery housing,” the 430 units would provide an additional transition between total homelessness and total stability. The plan […]
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Happy 60th birthday to Ivan Cary Elwes, the British actor who will forever be memorialized as stable hand turned swashbuckler, Wesley, in The Princess Bride. Although a modest success at the box office, the film became a cult classic, and is considered nearly perfect by numerous rating agencies. On the DVD’s 2001 release, Elwes said in an […]
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A breakthrough in electric vehicle fast charging battery design from Penn State has enabled a 10-minute charge time for a typical EV battery. The record-breaking combination of a shorter charge time and more energy required for longer travel range came from heating the battery to a Goldilocks Zone which has proven difficult for engineers thus […]
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A significant drop in the rates of suicide among active military members that was observed over 2021 has continued into the first 6 months of 2022. Driven chiefly by sharp drops among the Marine Corps and Air Force, the declines come as a result of increased attention to the issue among high ranking officers and […]
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An ag-tech startup is spreading basalt rock dust on farmers’ fields as both fertilizer and an ingenious way to not only capture carbon, but remove it from the global carbon cycle forever. At its maximum output, 3 tons of rock dust can capture 1 ton of CO2, a return on investment that if done at […]
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Quick, what animal has a terrible memory? Goldfish of course, everybody knows that. Sticking to the nautical theme, this is actually as big a myth as the Lost City of Atlantis, and researchers have been proving for decades that goldfish not only have good memories, but are even among the smarter fish in the ocean. […]
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On his day in 1868, the Uspenski Cathedral was inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland. The main cathedral of the Orthodox Church in the country, it was designed by the Russian church architect Alexey Gornostaev, who also designed the Sviatohirsk Lavra in Ukraine. Uspenski took its name from a native word for the Dormition and another connection […]
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The James Webb Space Telescope has been a heck of a software update. Just look at this iconic space feature, the Pillars of Creation. The left side image was made by the Hubble telescope, while the right-side image was taken with Webb’s near-infrared camera (NIRCam), revealing so much more celestial activity. Newly formed stars pop […]
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The past quarter century witnessed an unprecedented decline in child poverty rates in the United States. Today roughly 1 in 10 children live in families whose economic resources are considered below the poverty line, a 59% drop over the last 26 years. In 1993, the beginning year of this decline, the numbers were more than […]
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An American firm called Solar Cycle is transforming broken solar panels from landfill waste to valuable raw materials—perfect for making more solar panels. Copper, aluminum, silver, and silicon are all recovered from panels at the end of their lifecycle, with the company’s new recycling method reducing them to just 2% of their material weight. A […]
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Jeff Bezos’ former wife MacKenzie Scott has donated $15 million to provide hundreds of thousands of people with eyeglasses. It’s believed to be the largest private donation towards assisting uncorrected blurry vision, and will help mainly low-income tea, coffee, cocoa and artisan workers in India, Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda. While it might not be […]
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Happy 37th birthday to Wayne Rooney, former Manchester United talisman and captain of the England national team. Part of a golden generation that helped to cement the English Premier League as the best in the world, Rooney made 559 appearances for Manchester United, scoring 253 goals from a variety of forward positions. Rooney is the […]
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A man who spent three years building a floating suit made from 1,150 corks has finally debuted his creation. Kerry Haulotte crafted the one-of-a-kind suit in total secrecy until it was ready for its maiden voyage where “it performed flawlessly.” The 64-year-old said the suit was meant to be a silly gag for the family […]
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It’s not uncommon for reunions to take place within a few years of the initial event—or maybe ten to twenty years after the first meeting. But a reunion after 75 years is truly astounding. That’s exactly what took place recently between immigrants Lena and Yolanda, who were young girls when they first met during a […]
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[SWNS] – Volcanoes were erupting on the moon a billion years more recently than previously thought, according to new research from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Scientists had previously believed the moon became “geologically dead” three billion years ago. However, new lunar samples collected during China’s Chang’E-5 mission […]
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4 years ago today, Chinese president Xi Jinping officially opened the Zhuhai Bridge from the mainland to Hong Kong and Macau—the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge in the world. To call the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge a “bridge” isn’t entirely accurate. In total it consists of three cable-stayed bridges, an undersea tunnel, and four artificial islands, together […]
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A woman built her brother a little house in her back garden and says it’s been a “game-changer” to give him the independence he needs. Tiffany Chou moved back to Hawaii from New York City to look after her 33-year-old brother, who has autism, after hearing that he was unhappy in his residential home. The […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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A team of researchers from Japan studying the processes of hair growth has successfully generated hair follicles in cultures. Their in vitro experiments add to the understanding of hair follicle development, which could lead to useful applications for treating hair loss disorders. Scientists grew the fully mature hair follicles with long shafts using a technique […]
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The first wild bison to be born in the UK in almost 6,000 years has been announced just months after a small herd was brought to Kent in England. The Wilder Blean project near Canterbury only released the bison into the wild in July—and organizers got the surprise of a lifetime, because one of the […]
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On this day 211 years ago today, Franz Liszt was born in the Hungarian Kingdom. Liszt was considered a piano virtuoso, and left behind a dense body of work replete with new forms of musical composition that changed classical music forever. The largest and best-known portion of Liszt’s music is his original piano work, with […]
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Ancient genomes of 13 individual Neanderthals show they ate, slept, loved and died in the company of their kin and were connected to other groups that made up a region’s Neanderthal population. An international team mapped DNA from the bones of eight adult males and five children to shed fresh light on our ancient cousins. […]
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An opportunity to meet Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a once-in-a-lifetime moment, but charity superhero Yuri Williams got so much more than just a handshake when The Rock decided he wanted to do something special for him. Soon to hit the silver screen as a superhero himself, The Rock surprised Yuri on live TV, brought […]
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No-fishing zones are successfully restoring tuna while at the same time boosting the fishing industry, according to new research. It’s well-known no-fishing zones can help sedentary marine life such as coral or lobster, and now scientists at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa have shown for the first time that they are also helping migrating fish […]
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Alongside Captain James Cook or Winston Churchill, a new statue in London’s iconic Southbank honors a British hero who is not likely known, even by Brits themselves. Unsung hero Jo Newby has fostered an astounding 92 children over the course of her 2 decades of volunteering. The statue was commissioned by the snack bar brand, […]
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Happy 63rd birthday to Ken Watanabe who has carried the flag of his native Japan in Hollywood for the last 20 years more than any other Japanese actor. Staring in tales from the land of the Rising sun such as The Last Samurai, Letters From Iwo Jima, and Memoires of a Geisha. Born in a small mountain village in the […]
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Scientists have puzzled over the origin of Namibia’s fairy circles for nearly half a century. It boiled down to two main theories: either termites were responsible, or plants were somehow self-organizing. About 50-90 miles from the coast in the Namib (80-140km), there are millions of so-called ‘fairy circles’ – circular gaps in the grassland, each […]
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42 percent of Americans said that going on a vacation with their partner has rekindled the spark of love again, according to new poll. A survey of 2,000 adults looked at the potential of vacationing with others and found that three-quarters of respondents said vacations are great for those looking to keep love alive in […]
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A stunning mosaic unmatched in Syrian art history was unveiled last week after excavations in Homs, the war-torn country’s third largest urban area. The Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums dated the 65-foot-long (20 meter) decorative flooring back to the Roman era, some 1600 years ago. A large circle in the middle of the mosaic, which […]
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A 15-year-old experienced the wildlife moment of a lifetime while on summer vacation. Ethan Becker was snorkeling with his dad Chuck when they spotted a sea lion heading straight toward them. Chuck got out his underwater camera and began recording after he realized his son was in no danger and the curious animal seemed simply […]
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Happy 61st birthday to the Survivorman, Les Stroud. The Canadian primitive living expert, Chief Scout, television producer, documentarian, and renowned musician became famous across America and Canada for his 4 season show, Survivorman, that launched the incredibly popular genre of wilderness survival TV series on Discovery. On it, he demonstrates real survival skills that have […]
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There’s something strange in the neighborhood, and it’s up for rent. Sony and vacation rental company Vacasa are taking bids for the holiday rental of a fully-furnished, fully-functional, and fully-frightful Ghostbusters headquarters. A group of friends can win a three-night stay at a recreation of the building set used in the famous 1984 movie in […]
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Four years after Congress passed bipartisan legislation requiring the FDA to allow over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids, President Biden issued an Executive kick-in-the-butt Order that gave them 120 days to act. Now, this new category of OTC hearing aids, are enabling consumers with mild to moderate hearing impairment to purchase them directly from stores or online […]
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121 years ago today, the Pomp & Circumstance March by Edward Elgar premiered in Liverpool. In Canada and the U.S., the Trio section is often known simply as “The Graduation March” and is played as the processional tune at virtually all high school and college graduation ceremonies. It was first played at such a ceremony […]
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A California bakery created ‘Pan Solo’—a 6ft replica of the Star Wars hero frozen in carbonite out of bread. Sci-fi fanatic and expert baker Hannalee Pervan spent 100 hours on the life size sculpture. The head chef and co-owner of One House Bakery in Benicia, California, grew up watching Star Wars with her mom Catherine, […]
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Powerful space satellites that can identify individual whales from their markings have been used for the first time to track a Critically Endangered species. Scientists are using the tech, which is powerful enough to map a 15 square centimeter area in a single pixel, to follow the North Atlantic right whale to keep them away […]
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An eagle-eyed pooch has become an expert at finding lost golf balls in London, so much so that he’s helping provide golf charities with the balls they need to teach kids around the world. Charles Jefferson must have felt he hit a hole-in-one when one day his dog, a cavapoo named Marlo, emerged from the […]
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To mark National Hemorrhoid Day October 19, we’re reposting this original GNN article from June, 2016… Why didn’t my doctor warn me about this? For decades, I have accepted as inevitable my protruding hemorrhoids. The problem began in the 80s when I was working a stage spotlight and freelancing as a TV news camera operator—and […]
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275 exotic parrots are now on their way to a new wildlife sanctuary after their heroic caretaker pulled all of them up into his stilted house like Noah’s Ark to ride out Hurricane Ian. There’s no question in Will Peratino’s mind that if he had not done so, the waves which crested his 5-foot high […]
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A company has shrunk the wind turbine from being as tall as the Statue of Liberty to a 10-foot bladeless box that provides more power than 15 solar panels. They are designed for small-scale, commercial use, as they’re noise free, and incapable of killing birds. Because they sit on the edge of roofs, they pair […]
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Happy Alaska Day, which celebrates the moment when, 155 years ago after, the U.S. purchased the entire Alaskan territory from Russia for around $7.2 million, or around twenty-one thousand pounds of gold reserves. The Tsar out in Moscow was worried about the exposure and defensibility of a remote Alaskan outpost to a potential attack from […]
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A new study found that 24-month-old children who spent less than 60 minutes looking at screens each day and those who engaged in more physical activity had better executive function. The toddlers’ program was designed according to the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for physical activity, and their executive function was measured against a second […]
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Picture it: you and your spouse are on your honeymoon in Europe, you see a burning building, you decide to be heroes and run inside through the smoke and you end up in a room with panicking nurses, 20 sleeping infants, and no one speaks English. Incredibly, that was the situation Rhode Island honeymooners David […]
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A kind-hearted 11-year-old boy used his own birthday money to launch a foodbank service which he runs from his garden shed. Isaac Winfield fills bags of groceries which have been donated and hands them out to the needy around his hometown. Since starting the foodbank in 2020, the service has grown so much that Isaac’s […]
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It became known recently that a Japanese anime icon risked all his fame and fortune to try and save a pair of drowning snorkelers. Kazuki Takahashi, creator of the manga, anime, and trading card game Yu-Gi-Oh! was found to have died on July 4th from drowning during a rescue attempt off Okinawa Island, which did […]
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63 years ago today, the comedian Norm Macdonald was born in Quebec. Wielding an outstanding dry delivery and exceptional lack of concern for other people’s feelings, Macdonald was a force to be reckoned with. His long career which touched film, TV, radio, and always live stand-up, was punctuated by repeat scandals over the offensiveness of […]
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Two female Cinereous Vultures flew into the wild skies of Bulgaria—the culmination of a 7-year project that successfully completed its mission on September 3rd, “World Vulture Day” At the end there were only two of them left in the conservation aviary in the Vrachanski Nature Park in the western part of the Balkan Mountains in […]
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A New Zealander taught both his parents how to play the drums and the bass so he would have people to jam with—and now they have an album out. Ryan Stokes couldn’t have his friends over to jam during lockdown so he decided to teach his parents how to play instruments. Inspired by The White […]
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The world’s first car-powered bed-and-breakfast has opened to the public—with all power supplied by electric vehicles for a true off-grid experience. Situated outside of London in Essex, England, the secluded accommodation offers a quiet escape for two to the countryside—and the luxury stay is free for whichever winners are picked at random. Guests will enjoy […]
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54 years ago, Yasunari Kawabata became the first Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. In awarding the prize “for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind”, the Nobel Committee cited three of his novels, Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, and The Old Capital. LEARN a little about […]
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The humble potato, which contains a natural antibiotic that destroys harmful bacteria, could hold the key to beating hospital superbugs in the future, according to research from a multinational team of researchers in Europe. The compound, called solanimycin, combats a host of fungi that wreak havoc on crops. In these recent experiments, it killed Candida […]
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2,000 years before Pompeii, an Early Bronze Age village was almost perfectly preserved— then hidden for centuries—after Mount Vesuvius erupted one autumn day. Uncovered during the construction of a high-speed railway near Naples, Afragola offers a rare glimpse into life in the Campania region during harvest time. Like Pompeii, Afragola was encased in many feet […]
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Truck driver Gary Wilburn was named a Highway Angel for offering aid to an injured Arkansas state trooper who was pinned inside his vehicle after a serious crash. The Truckload Carriers Association bestowed the honor and shared the ‘incredible story.’ On the afternoon of October 4, near Forrest City, Arkansas, Wilburn was driving very slowly […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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33 years ago today, Wayne Gretzky became the highest-ever points scorer in the NHL in a wild game between his team the Los Angeles Kings, and his former-team the Edmonton Oilers. He tied the record held by Gordie Howe of 1,850, after scoring in the first period. READ how the game ended… That 1-0 lead was […]
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Welcome back to Good Gardening! In our Week 11 discussion, we wanted to know what the absolute must-have gardening tool is for our Good Gardeners. We got a lot of submissions. Here are some we liked… Esther Colwell must have read my mind when, on the Sunday following Friday’s post, I began clearing the molding remains […]
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Meditation could protect older people against Alzheimer’s, according to new research. The practice of ancient religions and modern mindfulness heightens awareness and emotional health—faculties that decline with dementia like Alzheimer’s. A strong point of the study was that the control group, meaning those who were used as a comparison to the meditators, were given another […]
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The Hubble Space Telescope is falling, but amid always-tight NASA budgets, SpaceX is volunteering to help see if it’s possible to give it a push back into space. Hubble has been in orbit around the Earth for a very long time, and it experiences a constant slow-motion re-entry of the atmosphere. It has already been […]
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Welcome back to Good Gardening! In our Week 10 discussion, we wanted to know how our Good Gardeners tidy up after a busy harvest season or prepare for the next spring. As always we took the conversation to social media to see what the response was like… Verna Korkie from Alberta takes the cake this year, […]
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In a stunning piece of accounting, solar, wind, and hydroelectric power supply was found to have met 100% of new power installations globally during the first half of the 2022. This prevented a 4% increase in fossil-fuel generation, avoided $40 billion in fuel costs and 230 million tons of CO2 in emissions. This was […]
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On this day, 137 years ago, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr was born. In his long and distinguished career, he made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr founded the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen, now known […]
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A truly astonishing story of war-time goodwill to mend a 10-year-old’s broken heart will bring a tear to almost anyone’s eyes. Nearly a dozen people, most of whom never met little Agnessa, all took turns helping to get her cat Arsenii travel-ready, out of Ukraine, across Europe, across the Atlantic Ocean, and all the way […]
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Joining the United States and a number of other countries, Australian officials have committed to preserve 30% of the continent’s landmass in a natural state for conservation. The news was announced Tuesday from Environment Minster Tanya Plibersek, as part of a program called the Threatened Species Action Plan: Towards Zero Extinctions. By prioritizing 110 species […]
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A British woman of Indian heritage thought a bit of ancient instruction might help her son tackle a modern problem. Growing up in India, a young Dr. Rashmi Mantri used an abacus to help her visually comprehend mathematics. After noticing her son Dhruv was struggling with math, she started employing that same ancient tool to […]
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Every autumn in Oregon, motorists traveling down the route 18 receive a “beaming” smile from the hills above the roadway. That’s because years ago, Hampton Lumber company logged the trees on that hill, and decided to replant early-changing larch in the shape of a smiley face. Surrounded by evergreens, it stands out like an emoji […]
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470 years ago today, Matteo Ricci was born. Leader of the Jesuit Missionaries in China, Ricci’s interfaith dialogue resulted in the first Confucian works to be published in Latin, the first Chinese-Portuguese dictionary, and the first introduction to the Imperial Chinese court of the existence of the New World. Ricci established the Cathedral of the […]
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In the heart of Amsterdam’s business district, a lush green valley emerges from the rocky canyon walls of a new office building. The dramatic, geology-inspired, plant-covered “Valley” stands out in Amsterdam’s Zuidas neighborhood with its three towers of 219, 265, add 328 feet tall (67, 81, and 100 meters), and its spectacular cantilevered apartments. Named […]
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The smiling face in the middle on the right side of the raft in this picture belongs to a woman who has managed to find two ancient Native American canoes in the same lake, within 12 months of each other. In November of 2021 Tamara Thomsen, a maritime archeologist and member of the Wisconsin Historical […]
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An adopted man discovered his biological family after 20 years when his brother tracked him down on Instagram thanks to his unusual first name. Iverson Poff, 20, was adopted from birth and raised by his adoptive parents—but always wondered who his biological family were. Iverson, who grew up in Portland, Oregon had a few baby […]
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Even as two million Floridians lost power during the recent Hurricane Ian, one unique community survived intact. Despite being located around 20 miles from Fort Myers, the heart of the devastation, Babcock Ranch’s blend of solar power, native flora, and built-to-code construction has meant that apart from ripped up pool coverings, broken fence posts, and […]
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When learning a language, the more foreign accents a child hears the faster they learn words. This was observed using some clever science and shows that it wasn’t bilingual children, but children in a language class with multiple accents who learned and remembered new words at an accelerated rate. Today more and more kids are […]
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When Zac Efron signed up to play a still-living person, he knew there would be challenges. What he didn’t know was underneath the heroism of that real-person, there was a kind man honored to have his story told, which made Efron all the more honored to portray him. The movie The Greatest Beer Run Ever, […]
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The James Webb Space Telescope recently made its debut with the “Deep Field” image, but as we are absorbed by the beautiful colors of near-infinity, scientists have used the data behind the shot to identify a very old and fascinating object in space. Named the “Sparkler,” it’s a “globular cluster” nine billion light years away. […]
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A cat performed the most head-scratching stunt in Wales recently on class picture day, leaving a group of proud moms “in floods of laughter.” 10 and 7-year-olds Meghan and Chloe Roberts were all dressed up and excited to have their picture taken at Drury Primary School, but their excitement couldn’t compare with that of Ziggy, […]
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Happy 66th birthday to Austro-German actor Christoph Waltz. For American audiences he will be remembered well for his breath-holding acting as SS officer Hans Landa in the Quentin Tarantino Film Inglorious Basterds. He had a long and prosperous acting career before breaking into Hollywood; in Europe, where he acted in German and English language films including […]
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Across the English speaking world, men are learning that the easiest way to cure a bout of social isolation is not by talking face to face, but shoulder to shoulder. When Phillip Jackson moved back to England from Australia, he was 67, and immediately felt like a stray dog in his native town of Barnsley. […]
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It’s been more than 70 years since Cheetahs sprinted across the hot plains of India, and now that they’re back, the Indian government is taking no chances on their safety. That’s why they’re hiring specialists—six German shepherds to patrol the grounds of the 80,000 acre Kuno National Park for signs of poachers. Asian News International […]
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In keeping with the Singapore government’s initiative to enable ‘aging in place’, a dementia-friendly wayfinding solution was devised for Khatib Central and Chong Pang City, which were identified as residential estates with aging populations. The project’s objective was to create a system that assists seniors and those afflicted with dementia in navigating around their neighborhoods […]
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An expedition team in northern Haiti has rediscovered a magnolia tree that has been lost to science for 97 years. The team used the tree’s telltale features to find it: beautiful alabaster flowers and uniquely shaped glossy emerald leaves. In a country stricken with widespread habitat destruction, this rediscovery has given conservationists hope that Haiti’s […]
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On this day 103 years ago, American Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan was born in Tennessee. Known for decades for developing public choice theory, for which he won the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Buchanan’s work initiated research on how politicians’ and bureaucrats’ self-interest, utility maximization, and other non-wealth-maximizing considerations affect their decision-making. READ More… […]
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When most people think of penguins, they usually think of icy Antarctica, yet only 7 of the 17 known penguin species live there. This small Galapagos penguin actually lives and thrives near the hot equator—and these swimmers were delighted when they came to play. With their scuba fins, the humans were diving in the waters […]
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What began in 2008 as a single life jacket loaner booth for boaters to borrow any size preserver before going on the water, has now turned into the world’s largest life jacket loaner program. And, they crossed a huge milestone last month, setting up location number 1,000 at the beach in Clearwater, Florida. The program […]
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American biotech company Biogen announced the results of a phase 3 clinical trial that showed a new Alzheimer’s drug slowed the rate of cognitive decline for early onset patients by 27%. The Alzheimer’s Association (AA) called the robust study of lecanemab, which is a monoclonal antibody designed to clear clumps of amyloid protein from the […]
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Happy 31st birthday to Roberto Firmino, who along with Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah, plays in one of the most effective attack trios in recent European memory. Born in Maceió, he was discovered by a dentist, Marcellus Portella, and picked up by the youth team of top tier Brazilian soccer club Figueirense. But it was […]
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Being given an illicit drug called ketamine and then looking at smiling faces could help end depression, according to a new study. Researchers found that reading happy words and looking at happy faces, including one’s own, can prolong ketamine’s antidepressant effects for months. Besides its use as an illicit party drug, ketamine was approved by […]
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Complimenting a stranger in the street is the top thing adults would most like to do in public, but don’t have the guts, according to a poll from the UK. The poll of 2,000 adults found 40 percent ‘consciously limit’ themselves in life because they fear being criticized when doing things more freely. Well over […]
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A nature-lover’s well-trained ears led to the discovery of a new species of frog, after the Costa Rican man searched for six months to find the source of a mysterious sound. The tiny green frog was discovered by Donald Valera Soto, a naturalist and co-owner of Tapir Valley Nature Reserve, a cattle ranch that he […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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161 years ago today, the illustrious Mrs. Beeton published her Book of Household Management, a tome with everything to know about the running of a Victorian British household. In the first year of print, Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management sold 60,000 copies, and has remained in print in various editions up until present day. It was used as […]
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A mother dolphin was seen carrying her deceased calf on her back in the middle of the Mediterranean sea. The tragic and rare moment was captured by 29-year-old Margarita Samsonova, an environmental content creator. Margarita, who lives in Lisbon, believes this is the only time this behavior has been witnessed in Europe, and represented an […]
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Welcome back to Good Gardening! In our Week 9 discussion, we wanted to know how many of our Good Gardeners had a big fall harvest coming up. As always we took the conversation to social media to see what the response was like… This week’s discussion represented my own autumn experience: barren. Evidently the droughts […]
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The great-great niece of legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton has been granted permission to name her café boat Endurance, after the ship Ernest sailed and lost during an expedition to Antarctica. Be it salty or fresh, no English water has moored a boat by the name Endurance for more than a 100 years, but when the […]
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116 years ago today, the Royal Galician Academy was established in Galicia, Spain, to provide exceptional instruction of the Galician language in that most Celtic region of Spain. La Real Academia Galega is dedicated to the study of Galician culture as a whole, but especially of the Galician language; it promulgates norms of grammar, spelling, and […]
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After the Juno spacecraft used 3D rendering to process some images it took of clouds covering Jupiter, they appeared like the flourished frosting atop of queenly cupcake. What’s more, JunoCam’s renderings came in the visible-light spectrum, so the animations of the relative heights of the cloud tops in the our solar system’s largest planet are […]
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An incredible hybrid high-speed yacht-seaplane vehicle has completed successful flight tests and is ready now for production. Designed for sustainable maritime travel, the fully-electric seaglider operates a few meters off the water’s surface on hydrofoils until it needs to fly. Rhode Island-based company REGENT say it couples the high speed of an airplane with the […]
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American actor and WWE superstar John Cena has set a new record for the most wishes granted through the Make-A-Wish Foundation with 650. The Make-A-Wish Foundation helps fulfill the wishes of children who have been diagnosed with a critical illness. As the most wished-for celebrity, nobody else has ever granted more than 200 wishes in the 42-year […]
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Scientists recently spotted a hot bubble of gas orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way at 200 million miles an hour, or around 1/3 the speed of light. The observations suggest that not only can these gas bubbles be imaged in X-ray and infrared wavelengths, but also radio waves, which […]
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141 years ago today, Ludwig von Mises, the most influential economist of the 20th century was born in Lemberg. Today, Mises is remembered as the not the founder, but the master of “praxeology,” a study that forms economic theory based on human actions as the fundamental units of analysis. He published several seminal economic treatises […]
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A revolutionary treatment that could repair spinal cord injuries has been developed by scientists which regrew nerves in paralyzed mice within three months. The medication triggers cells of long spindly parts of the severed nerves called axons to regenerative themselves. Currently, spinal cord injury does not have any effective treatments that involves a repairing of […]
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The greenback cutthroat trout, Colorado’s state fish, is reproducing in the wild again after a period where it was actually believed to have been lost. Presumptively listed as extinct in the 1930s, small populations were found in various parts of the state’s river systems, though they were thought of as hybrids. In 2012 along a […]
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This was the moment when NASA, including science mission chief Thomas Zurbuchen, celebrated the complete and utter destruction of one of their spacecraft. While that sounds like a strange thing to celebrate, it was humanity’s first real-world test to see if we could alter the path of an asteroid if ever one were discovered heading […]
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A recent report found that the number of youth arrests for violent crime continued to decline in 2020 and was down 78% from its peak in 1994. Analysis of the data from the FBI found that people aged 17 and younger accounted for just 7% of all arrests for violent crime like murder and robbery […]
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42 years ago, the thirteen part astronomy series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage debuted on American Public Television. Hosted by Carl Sagan, it was the most watched TV series in America until Ken Burns’ The Civil War ten years later. Cosmos covered a wide range of scientific topics such as the solar system’s place in the galaxy, the origin of […]
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A Turkish botanist is learning how to cultivate what some believe to be the closest living relative to a Classical-era kitchen staple written about by Romans and Greeks. The golden-flowered “Silphium” was reported by Pliney the Elder as growing in modern-day Libya, and has been translated as being a prescription for everything from “stomach pain […]
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Located near a hillside in dreamy rural Sussex, in a field full of the fluffy farm animals, a “sleep dome” is offering the chance to dose off counting real sheep. The small glamping outfit created by a sleep technology company will host two guests and feature a luxurious double-bed with views of idyllic surroundings from […]
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A little girl with a debilitating lung disease is running around freely again thanks to what her mom is calling a miracle drug. 7-year-old Harriet Corr has cystic fibrosis (CR) and has had to endure coughing fits and a weakened immune system all her life. CR is a condition that disrupts the body’s ability to […]
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Wolves could be man’s best friend too, a new study reveals, or at least that wolves were man’s best friend before we turned them into dogs. Scientists from the cold north proved that wolves can distinguish between strangers and people they know, and show much more affection to those familiar to them. What’s more, the familiar person […]
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300 years ago today, the Founding Father Samuel Adams was born. Born in Massachusetts, he was at the center of colonial non-cooperation against the British in America, beginning with his Circular Letters. He was actively involved in colonial newspaper publishing before heading to Philadelphia to guide the issuing of the Colonial Association, the Declaration of […]
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A new cancer blood test is being described by British physicians as a “game changer” and “a new era” as a trial has turned up dozens of early-stage, undiagnosed cases. It’s called the Galleri test, and it looks for multiple different kinds of cancer DNA in the blood, which can not only identify cases in […]
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It’s time to come together as humanity and welcome the newest island on the face of the Earth. After an underwater volcano in the southwest Pacific Ocean awoke on September 10th and began oozing lava out of its cone, the new land slowly built up until 6 acres of volcanic rock had solidified. Home Reef […]
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A Chinese petroleum company just obtained an airworthiness certificate for their new biological jet fuel made of used cooking oil. It will be the first time that large scale production of bio jet fuel will serve the aviation industry in China after the first patch was sent to Airbus Tianjin on September 19th. The airworthiness […]
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While the summers may be getting hotter, there have always been people living in the deserts and the tropics, and some of their architectural designs from eras past could hold the key to keeping cool in today’s changing climate. Emissions from buildings are the largest sources of anthropogenic CO2 in society, and a large chunk […]
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53 years ago Abbey Road the Beatles’ final album, was released in the United Kingdom, and on October 1st in the United States, reaching number one in both countries. Although it was an immediate commercial success, it received mixed reviews. Some critics found its music inauthentic and criticized the production’s artificial effects. By contrast, critics today view […]
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A dog owner recalled her shock after finding out that her beloved pet is the brother of one of the Queen’s corgi dogs. Nadia Smith got her corgi puppy, Wilbur, in February of 2021—and learned later that he had a special connection to Queen Elizabeth II. She spotted a post on a Facebook group about […]
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Even super spy James Bond might need British Intelligence help to escape this Quantum of corn. An incredibly-detailed maze was planted on an Illinois farm to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the iconic agent’s first film, Dr. No—and it’s quite the SPECTRE. Hailed as the world’s largest corn maze, the trail stretches 10 miles and […]
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A young boy with a crippling condition that is so painful it’s dubbed the ‘suicide disease’ has taken his first steps in almost a year after traveling across the pond for pioneering treatment in the USA. Dillon Wilford was in so much pain from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) that he even begged his mother […]
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A police dog that saved 38 lives during an eight-year career has been honored at the Thin Blue Paw Awards gala last week. The 10-year-old German Shepherd retired in June—and celebrated with her handler by going on her first-ever vacation, enjoying playtime on the beach and swimming in the sea. Scottish police officer Linda McBride […]
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On this day, 132 years ago, Congress established Sequoia National Park in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. Since that day, the protected area in which the park can be found has now grown much larger, to include the nearby King’s Canyon National Park, Giant Sequoia National Monument, and Sequoia National Forest, protecting a total of 404,064 […]
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Three in four Americans are usually stuck in their ways and always go on vacation to the same places, according to a new poll—but these suggestions might encourage them to step outside of their vacation comfort zones. The survey of 2,000 adults found many who are willing to change up their vacation pattern, however, with […]
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A photographer has captured the mesmerizing sight of thousands of birds flying in Britain. Photographer and guide Paul Goldstein says he has visited Snettisham Nature Reserve literally hundreds of times, yet is always intoxicated by the spectacle. The Wimbledon-based cameraman says several times a year “vast murmurations of waders, particularly knots,” perform magical formations and […]
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A University of Cincinnati grad student has invented an adjustable brace for young patients who need to reposition their curved spines—winning a prestigious award for her design genius. Impacting 7 million Americans every year, scoliosis is a curvature in the spine that often occurs before puberty. Despite the large number affected, advancements in braces that […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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76 years ago today, Honda Motor Company was founded. With a founding principle that “the purpose of technology is to help people” they have motorized 4 generations of working class and poor citizens across Asia, Europe North America. This is largely because Honda has been the world’s largest motorcycle and scooter manufacturer since 1959, reaching […]
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Every year, a wonderful event celebrating the beauty of component nature and humanity’s connection with it takes place over a weekend in Scotland. The European “Land Art” Festival and Stone Stacking Championships were held for the fifth time in Dunbar on the shores of Scotland, and the photos are something to behold. Organized originally as […]
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New mother Lily Fleet posted a cleverly-edited video dressing her son Ari that happened to be spotted by optometrist Laura Brown. Noticing Ari’s left eye had a cloudy appearance and an outward squint during a short few seconds of the video, she messaged Fleet suggesting she get the eight-week-old checked out. The tests revealed he […]
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Imagine a truck that only emits water vapor, produces its own electricity onboard and has a range of up to 600 miles. Volvo have made it possible with fuel cells powered by hydrogen, and during this summer they started to test a new line of trucks using this technology. Volvo Trucks is beginning series production […]
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Welcome back to Good Gardening! In our Week 8 discussion, we wanted to know how many readers and gardeners saved their own seed for the following season. As always we took the conversation to social media to see what the response was like… Tima Priess wrote in, literally on the way to a seed-savers exchange in […]
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Cold water immersion has long been known to the northern Europeans as a fortifying activity, but the science behind this bizarre cultural/medicinal practice is actually way cooler. In a recent review of more than 100 studies, scientists determined that one of the most significant changes that occurs in the body during exposure to cold […]
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133 years ago today, the Nintendo company was founded in Kyoto. For lovers of Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Zelda, and all other contributions from the third great pillar of console video gaming, it might be surprising to know the company, founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi, essentially predates home electricity. They did however open shop selling entertainment—in […]
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A dynamic duo from Wall Street has just passed a huge milestone in charitable history, completely paying off the medical debt for some 3.6 million Americans—a do-good revolution from two guys who used to be debt collectors themselves. It was the Occupy Wall Street movement that first stirred the hearts of Jerry Ashton and Craig […]
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The James Webb Space Telescope is showing off its capabilities closer to home with its first image of Neptune, revealed on Wednesday. Most striking about the new image is the crisp view of the planet’s dynamic rings—some of which haven’t been seen with this clarity, since the Voyager 2 flyby in 1989. Webb’s extremely stable […]
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A team consisting of architects and engineers are cleaning up on the homebuilding award circuit with House Zero, a 3D-printed house that seamlessly blends traditional and futuristic design. A demonstration project found in Austin, the 2,045-square-foot, midcentury modern, three bedrooms and two-and-a-half baths ranch house was designed with natural wood, plentiful daylighting and views to […]
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In North Yorkshire, England, young nesting ospreys recently-produced two chicks. In America this would not make news headlines, but for Yorkshire they were the first ospreys born in the county in over 200 years. It’s a sign of changing winds, as the osprey is recovering across several areas of England, having been hunted to extirpation […]
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Main crop plants thrived when their soil was soaked in ethanol alcohols even after two weeks without water, report scientists. Climate change may be affecting production of corn and wheat by 2030, and scientists believe the solution is learn more about plants’ biology to find inbuilt resiliencies. Genetically modifying plants so that their stomata—the pores […]
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A regional train operator in Germany is becoming the first company to utilize 100% hydrogen fuel cell trains on their lines. But if almost all train travel is electric now, and even those few diesel trains that still operate produce a mere third of the CO2 per passenger as a car, what’s the need for […]
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Welcome back to Good Gardening! In our Week 5 discussion, we wanted to know how our Good Gardeners manage a drought, seeing as most of the world is in one. We took the conversation to social media and shared anecdotes. Lucy Becker shared the Al-Baydh project in Saudi Arabia where permaculturalists are restoring dead streams to […]
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Meet the friends who have saved more than 1.05 million gallons of paint from landfills by rescuing used cans—refilling and remixing them to give each one a new lease of life. Cat Hyde and Kate Moree had the passion and drive to make a difference by repurposing waste material, while making money at the same […]
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50 years ago today, the first episode of The Price is Right premiers on CBS. It would go on to become the country’s longest-running television game show, with its combination of endless surprises in terms of prizes, and unique retail-price guessing challenges. Bob Barker became an iconic game show host after debuting alongside the show, and […]
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A new survey of 2,000 Americans revealed the nation’s favorite and least favorite barbecue foods—and tradition ruled the day. Burgers, hot dogs, and chicken wings have been given the official “God tier” status according to BBQ fans – proving the classics have withstood the test of time, despite the rise of alternative menus across America. […]
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The White House ruled this week that scientific research which is taxpayer-supported must be available to the American public at no cost—addressing the expensive paywalls that block online viewing of studies in many journals. The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) delivered guidance for agencies to update their public access policies as soon as […]
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Stargazing typically demands that people pry themselves out of bed at 4:30 AM, as the conditions tend to be better. But in this period anyone can witness a once in 70-year phenomenon merely two hours after sunset. Jupiter, the solar system’s largest planet, is now the brightest light in the eastern night sky by a […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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Happy 65th Birthday to Sadhguru Jagadish Vasudev, the yoga-teacher, speaker, proponent of regenerative agriculture, and other social causes. Born in the Indian state of Mysore, he has been teaching yoga in southern India since 1982, but it was in the 90s that his talent for inspiring collective action was realized with the foundation of his […]
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A new program under President Biden’s infrastructure bill is set to plug up more than 10,000 wells of oil and natural gas that have since been abandoned. Once sources of energy, these derelict wells now act merely as exhaust pipes that emit methane from the basins into which they were drilled, increasing America’s emissions with […]
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50 years worth of conserving the tern and puffin populations in Maine has created a stable colony of thousands of breeding birds. Located on Petit Manan and other small islands off the coast, the birds have absorbed the worst of climate change during the 2000s, and are returning just as before to large numbers of […]
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A small device brought recently to Mars just created breathable oxygen out of the Red Planet’s carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere. While the Perseverance Rover’s search for life has capitalized most of the headlines, additional equipment brought along like “Moxie” (Mars oxygen in-situ resource utilization experiment) and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, have both been totally successful. Sustaining […]
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Thousands of people flocked to a little English village to see homeowners decorate their properties with comical creations as part of an annual scarecrow competition. Resident have been turning heads with their weird and wacky scarecrows placed outside their homes in Brinklow, Warwickshire. More than 80 incredible displays have been erected throughout the picturesque village, […]
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On this day in 1548, Vincenzo Scamozzi, one of the Venetian Republic’s greatest architects was born. His fingerprints (and blueprints) are to be seen all over the modern-day province of Veneto, in what was previously the Republic of Venice, and he designed and oversaw the building of the Procuratie Nuove, the three linked buildings with […]
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Leaders of teacher groups who were thought of as humble helped improve professionalism and collaboration among team members, new research has shown. In the study done in China, groups of teachers were more willing to share their knowledge and expertise when they rated the leader of their meeting group as being higher in humility. The reason […]
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An Englishman has organized a replay of a school football match after 50 years of feeling guilty for scoring ‘foul’ goal. Graeme Jones admitted to shoving a goalkeeper who had the ball in his hands, “ten yards” over the goal line in the dying seconds of a match to earn a “dubious” draw in September, […]
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Credited with peacefully bringing about the end of the Cold War, former Soviet President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev has died at age 91 after a long illness. Trying to imagine an alternative history of humanity without Mikhail Gorbachev is almost scary. That’s because without Gorbachev, the Cold War would very likely have escalated into more dangerous […]
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877 years ago today, the alter at Lund Cathedral, at the time seat of the archiepiscopal see of all the Nordic countries, was consecrated. Dedicated to Saint Lawrence, it is one of the oldest stone buildings still in use in Sweden, and has been called “the most powerful representative of Romanesque architecture in the Nordic […]
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A Los Angeles-based non-profit is helping reroute perishing produce to communities in need of more fresh fruits and veggies all over the country. A combination of inflationary governmental fiscal policy and the centrally-planned response to COVID-19 has really damaged the ability of rural or food-desert-based communities to buy fresh produce. Since 2009, Food Forward has […]
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American criminal records are filled with non-violent cannabis possession charges, but in New York, that could soon go from being an employment hinderance to a lucrative employment opportunity. New Yorkers with past cannabis conviction charges will be the first to have the opportunity to obtain a Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary licenses. Once the center of […]
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State utilities in California are preparing to launch a pilot project to cover California’s irrigation canals in solar panels. The decision was influenced by a landmark 2021 research paper, where scientists at Univ. of California Santa Cruz crunched the numbers and figured that the panels would save 63.5 billion gallons of water from evaporation annually […]
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A man has been reunited with a ring he lost while picking fruit over 50 years ago. It was gifted by his late mother for his 21st birthday, but slipped off his finger as he picked strawberries in 1968. Retired train engineer Dave Radley spent several distraught hours trying to locate the ring among the […]
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And, on this day 25 years ago, the Good News Network made positive news available on the web for the first time. Geri Weis-Corbley, the founder, worked in TV news, freelancing for CNN and other media companies, until the advent of the internet when she created what is now the #1 source for inspiring news. […]
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A discovery which paleontologists are calling the find of a lifetime was recently turned up by a school teacher in Canada. It could be 300 million years old, and is probably at least a prehistoric species new to science, and at most a “once-in-100-years” find that could go so far as to rewrite the fossil […]
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When a father and son’s fishing boat hit rocks out from Boston Harbor, their lives were saved in part thanks to their desire for some liquid libations on board. While the headline sounds like a barrel of laughs, 15 minutes of frigid Atlantic waters almost caused the pair to enter hypothermia. Two officers from the […]
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Georgina Brough and Christian Allen get daily visits from a group of wild lorikeets—birds that broke in a year ago and now want to hang out constantly. The new feathered friends first visited the young couple in early 2021. They flew in through their balcony door hoping to score some lunch at their apartment in […]
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30 years ago today, Michael Schumacher’s rein of excellence began after taking the first of what would become 91 1st place finishes throughout his illustrious career. Described as “by far and away” his favorite track, Schumacher won the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps circuit, the same track on which he made his official debut with […]
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A company is seeking to target the worst aspects of wasteful fast fashion and demonstrate and economically-profitable circular economy with that most standard of garments—the t-shirt. Utilizing the second-largest source of cotton on Earth, Teemill’s business model is making mass-produced t-shirts from mass-produced t-shirts. These days, if you’re having a corporate event, a good idea […]
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Polystyrene (Styrofoam) has been turned into a valuable chemical found in seaweed by exposing it to sunlight. Broken down, it produces DPM (diphenylmethane,) a molecule in the aquatic plant used in drug development, polymer manufacturing, and even fragrances and other cosmetics. Polystyrene is the indestructible plastic is found in everything from takeaway containers to TV […]
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A Velcro sleeve fastened around the leg has been designed with electrodes that help stimulate the muscles of those who experience difficulty getting around due to nervous system conditions. It uses artificial intelligence to detect walking gait, and sends that information to the electrodes to ensure each leg is moving as much in sync as […]
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On this day 189 years ago, Britain’s 1st Factory Act became law “to regulate the Labor of Children and young Persons in the Mills and Factories of the United Kingdom.” Born out of a series of legislative acts passed before, and acting as a foundation for more to come later, the 1833 Factory Act written […]
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Bodies lose their vigor with the passing of the years, but in the emotional realm, older people seem to rule supreme. For the past 20 years, Susan Turk Charles, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, has been monitoring the shifting moods, the sense of satisfaction, and the outbursts of anger and sadness in […]
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A student smuggled lightsabers into his graduation ceremony—and challenged his principal to a fun impromptu duel on stage. Star Wars fanatic Hunter Wark-Pantoja had an elaborate plan to combine his favorite film with one of the most important moments of his life. The 18-year-old walked to the stage and after receiving his high school diploma […]
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Nearly two-thirds of dog owners want to get their pets involved in their wedding day—acting as ring bearers, bridesmaids, and even the best man, according to a new poll. Of 2,000 dog owners, 60 percent already knew someone who included their dog in their wedding. The most popular roles for dogs on the big day […]
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Keanu Reeves was spotted having “a couple of whiskies” and chatting with a wedding party in the UK this week—continuing his reputation as the nicest guy in Hollywood. Reeves met the groom on his wedding day at the bar of a 4-star hotel in Daventry and promised to come to the reception. James Roadnight and […]
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233 years ago today, German astronomer William Herschel discovered the sixth largest moon of Saturn, the icy, 500 kilometer-wide Enceladus. The 19th largest moon in the solar system, its surface is covered with fresh ice, giving it a radiant appearance and a surface temperature of a nippy −324.4 °F (−198 °C). Enceladus has a wide […]
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A man rescued a dying bunny that was drowning in his pool after spotting a strange reflection out of the corner of his eye. The Arizona resident noticed the rabbit while walking back inside from his backyard. He found the bunny just as it had stopped moving, clearly exhausted, and began dropping its head underwater. […]
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A long awaited update to a 2020 medical breakthrough could have a natural knee-cartilage replicant on deck for replacement surgeries by 2023. Knee pain comes from the progressive wear and tear of cartilage between the knee joint known as osteoarthritis, which affects nearly one in six adults—867 million people—worldwide. For those who want to avoid […]
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A little boy finally got to play in the sea, thanks to the use of a beach wheelchair—and his laughter brought his mom to tears. Joey has quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which affects both of his arms and legs, and sometimes his torso and face. The two-year-old suffers with very bad sensory issues and cannot stand […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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67 years ago today, the first-ever edition of the Guinness Book of World Records was published. The brainchild of a South African businessman and engineer, the book was a hit in England by Christmas. Today, the rise of digital media has seen the book become simply the Guinness World Records, but the yearly edition is […]
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This artist has a knack for seamlessly becoming a part of his favorite LPs.
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A woman said she owes her life to a rescue dog who sensed her breast cancer and wouldn’t keep its nose out of her right armpit. Lucy Giles thought her beloved Brody was initially just craving some attention. The 45-year-old had welcomed the gentle giant into her life a year ago, after her partner had […]
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For all the grief carbon dioxide gets down here on Earth, its detection for the first time ever in the atmosphere of an exoplanet has scientists elated. The finding, produced by the James Webb Space Telescope, offers evidence that in the future Webb will be able to measure carbon dioxide in the thinner atmospheres of […]
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Droughts aren’t all bad. Sometimes the receding of rivers reveals amazing things, such as the tracks of a meat-eating giant that roamed Cretaceous-Era Texas 113 million years ago. Prints mostly left by the Acrocanthosaurus—a theropod that stood 15 feet and weighed 7 tons have emerged in recent weeks as the Paluxy River has dried up […]
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244 years ago today, a group of men summited Triglav for the first time; the preeminent symbol of Slovenia, and the center piece of that country’s only national park. At 9,395 feet, (2,863 meters) it is not only the highest mountain in Slovenia but the highest peak of the Julian Alps. Surgeon Lovrenz Willomitzer, the […]
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Scientists in Australia have achieved the first-ever offseason coral spawning in the history of coral breeding and restoration sciences. The breakthrough dramatically expands the capacity to grow corals in captivity to then use to restore the Great Barrier Reef, since it allows the scientists to spawn coral 50% more often than in nature. At the […]
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A all-female Lebanese dance troupe promised to hypnotize the judges on America’s Got Talent: a bold call before performing for someone as notoriously spikey as Simon Cowell. The “Mayyas” lined up in single file after answering some questions, before proceeding to do just that; wowing the judges and winning a Golden Buzzer from Sophia Vergara. […]
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There’re 3D-printed homes, and there’re prefabricated homes. Take the best of both technologies, throw in a groundbreaking use for discarded plastic, and you have a genius idea. Born in Culver City, the startup Azure is mostly using recycled plastic water and drink bottles to create homes that are 90% complete by the time they leave […]
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