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Good News in History, March 10
826 years ago today, the Giralda Minaret was designed for the Almohad Mosque in what was Islamic Seville, Andalusia. This UNESCO World Heritage Site...
These Are the 20 Best Cities in America By the Numbers… 7 Are in California and 7 in the Midwest
As the International Day of Happiness approaches on March 20, an interesting comparison of cities in the US was published, which provides helpful benchmarks...
Good News in History, February 16
19 years ago today, the Kyoto Protocol went into effect after ratification by Russia. It commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based...
Good News in History, February 1
60 years ago today, the British Invasion arrived in the US after The Beatles reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with I Want...
Good News in History, December 4
128 years ago today, Feng Youlan was born. This Chinese academic and philosopher was instrumental in reintroducing the Chinese classics of philosophy to the...
Good News in History, December 3
31 years ago today, engineers at the Sema Group used the Vodaphone network and a computer to send the world's first SMS. It revolutionized...
Good News in History, November 28
Happy 80th Birthday to singer-songwriter and composer Randy Newman. Best known for his distinctive voice and film scores for 8 Pixar films—as well as...
Good News in History, November 19
24 years ago today, China successfully launched its Shenzhou spacecraft into orbit. The first Chinese craft designed to eventually carry humans made an 89-minute...
The Hubble and Webb Telescopes Join to Create Unprecedented Photo of Universe
In a tour de force of techno-stargazing, NASA trained both the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes on the same patch of galaxies to...
Good News in History, November 14
85 years ago today, the Lion's Gate Bridge opened in Vancouver. Crossing the Burrard Inlet, the total length of the bridge including the north...
Good Cardiovascular Habits Can Knock 6 Years off Your Biological Age: New Study
Good cardiovascular health can knock six years off your biological age, says a team from Columbia University Medical Center in New York City
The researchers...
Deaf Children Are First Humans to Have Hearing Pathway Restored in Dramatic Demonstration of New Gene Therapy
In China, a true medical breakthrough has been achieved in a human trial that had as many as 10 children born deaf have their...
Good News in History, October 23
60 years ago today, Bob Dylan recorded The Times They Are A-Changin' at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City. Inspired by Irish and...
Good News in History, October 14
156 years ago today, Masaoka Shiki, considered one of Japan's four masters of haiku, was born. He wrote more than 20,000 stanzas of this...
Good News in History, October 5
Happy 65th Birthday to popular science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson. Born in the Big Apple without a star in the sky to look up...
He Found the Largest Old Growth Cedar in BC – The Tree of His Lifetime (LOOK)
Logging still goes on in British Columbia where nature lovers would prefer it didn't, but rather than bemoan the decision from afar, photographer TJ...
Good News in History, September 18
72 years ago today, A Streetcar Named Desire, the film based on the play by Tennessee Williams, premiered in New York City. Starring Vivien Leigh, Marlon...
Maine Sets Records for Atlantic Herring and Salmon Runs in the Penobscot River
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...
Good News in History, September 11
On this day across history, imperial aggression was resisted or rolled back by indigenous peoples in both the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest (9)...
British Museum Sends Totem Pole Back to its Indigenous Home in Canada–LOOK
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...