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Good News in History, October 13
120 years ago today, the first modern World Series was played between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston 'Americans'. In a best-of-nine series, Boston...
Scientists Prove Gingers Are Totally Normal–Having Been Around for Millions of Years in Other Species
A pair of scientists have found fragments of ginger pigment molecules in fossilized frogs which they take to mean that most famous of genetic...
Good News in History September 29
142 years ago today, Ludwig von Mises, the most influential economist of the 20th century was born in Lemberg. Today, Mises is remembered not...
Good News in History September 24
75 years ago today, Honda Motor Company was founded. With a founding principle that "the purpose of technology is to help people" they have...
Good News in History September 17
480 years ago today, the first book in the Finnish language was published. Called The Abckiria, or the "ABC Book" it taught Finnish peasants...
Good News in History September 15
105 years ago today. Forbes Magazine was founded by Scottish-American financial columnist, B. C. Forbes. After being passed down the family for three generations,...
Old Wind Turbines are Repurposed into Footbridges Capable of Supporting 30 Tons
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...
Good News in History, September 9
187 years ago today, Ralph Waldo Emerson published his famous essay Nature, in which he attempts to lay out the case for transcendentalism. His...
Good News in History, September 6
61 years ago, Archaeologist James Marsden unearthed the first of the Blackfriar shipwrecks. Dating back to the 2nd century CE. The wreck is dated...
Good News in History September 2
35 years ago today, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman, and Youssou N’Dour kicked off a 20-show tour at Wembley Stadium performing together...
Good News in History, September 1
59 years ago today, relief pitcher Masanori "Mashi" Murakami trotted onto the mound for the SF Giants to pitch the final inning of a...
Barnacles Could Lead Investigators to the Wreck of the Missing Malaysian Airways Flight 370
Apart from a few pieces of debris that washed onto an Indian Ocean island, no trace has been found of the Malaysian Airlines flight...
Dozens of Messages in Bottles Tossed by a Nantucket Fisherman are Found Around the World
Ms. Cassidy Beach was recently the latest in a long chain of people to be walking along a beach or a harbor and see...
Good News in History, August 6
Happy 40th birthday to one of the finest Dutch goalscorers to ever play the beautiful game, Robin Van Persie. A legend at Arsenal and...
Good News in History, August 5
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...
Good News in History, July 31
130 years ago today, Conradh na Gaeilge, or the Gaelic League, was founded in Dublin, Ireland as an association to support the Irish language...
Good News in History, July 28
130 years ago today, the Vizcaya Bridge, Spain's only UNESCO World Heritage Site of industrial heritage was completed. Spanning the two banks situated at...
Good News in History, July 19
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...
Good News in History, July 8
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....
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...