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Good News in History, October 1
162 years ago today, the illustrious Mrs. Beeton published her Book of Household Management, a tome with everything to know about the running of a...
Good News in History September 30
160 years ago, George Bizet's famous opera Les Pêcheurs de Perles, The Pearl Fishermen, debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris. Set in ancient...
Good News in History September 27
Happy 47th Birthday to Il Capitano—Francesco Totti. The most iconic Italian forward of the 21st century, Totti spent a 25-year professional career in the red...
Good News in History, August 26
On this day in 1949, jazz singer Leon Redbone was born in Nicosia, British Cyprus. As American as one might perceive Redbone as being...
Good News in History, July 27
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....
Good News in History, July 18
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...
Good News in History, June 28
Happy 52nd birthday to entrepreneur Elon Musk. Through his ambition, sleepless work ethic, and engineering brilliance, Musk has undoubtedly transformed the world for the...
Good News in History, May 28
170 years ago today, the quite magnificent watercolor painter Carl Larsson was born in Sweden. Known for his portraits, Larsson was able to convey...
Good News in History, October 16
54 years ago, Yasunari Kawabata became the first Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. In awarding the prize "for his narrative...
A Tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev – The Man Who Ended The Cold War (1931–2022)
Credited with peacefully bringing about the end of the Cold War, former Soviet President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev has died at age 91 after a...
This Week’s Inspiring Horoscopes From Rob Brezsny’s ‘Free Will Astrology’
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...
Fun Facts to Celebrate First Nobel Prizes 120 Years Ago: Youngest Laureate, First Woman, Most Wins, Who Declined?
PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Fisher Rare Book Library
120 years ago tomorrow, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded, including the first one in Physics for the...
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Celebrate 75 Years of Marriage Today
Both a former president and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Jimmy Carter has called marrying Rosalynn "a pinnacle of my life."
The loving pair were...
They’ve Collected 20 Million Pounds of Food From People Who are Moving—And Delivered it to Food Banks
A New Jersey moving company has sparked an initiative capitalizing on the amount of food left behind in clients' fridges in order to help...
Mercy Chefs Serves Its 10 Millionth Meal — Then, Heads to Texas to Feed ‘Bodies and Souls’ in the Cold
The Virginia-based disaster relief and humanitarian aid group Mercy Chefs reached a magnificent milestone this month, serving its 10 millionth meal.
The nonprofit, founded in...
How Phoenix Feeds The Hungry With Fresh Food While Saving Local Businesses and Farms
Around the world, individuals have found all kinds of innovative ways to support each other during the coronavirus pandemic—but so have governments. In Arizona,...
Google is Creating Tools to Tackle Food Waste and Hunger at its Moonshot Factory
A Google offshoot has created two new programs which make it easy for food producers, suppliers, and commercial kitchens to route unneeded food to...
‘Saint’ Dolly Parton Partly Funded Moderna’s Promising New Coronavirus Vaccine
Dolly Parton says she’s feeling honored to have contributed money to research that has led to one of the most encouraging COVID-19 vaccines, so...
On Its 75th Birthday UN Ratifies Treaty Which Bans Ownership, Creation, and Use of Nuclear Weapons For Signatories
Parts of this article have been reprinted with permission from World at Large news.
A treaty that bans the use, manufacturing, sale, and maintenance of...
‘Woweee’ Says World’s First Nobel Prize-Winning Mascot as He Reacts to Big Win
From his humble beginnings as a homeless street pup to surviving near-fatal illness to becoming the official mascot for a globally-recognized humanitarian organization, Foxtrot...