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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, November 30
237 years ago today is celebrated as the first known date of the abolition of the death penalty in a Western nation-state. Commemorated today...
Jobs, Not Jail: A Judge Was Sick of Sending Kids to Prison, So He Found a Better Way
By the year 2000, Judge John Phillips had long since lost count of the number of minors he had sent through the California penitentiary...
Good News in History, November 17
150 years ago today, the Rival cities of Buda and Pest put their differences aside and their names together to form Budapest—the capital of...
11th c. Monastery Gets Back Statues from Two US Museums–And Discovers Hundreds of Treasures in the Process
A Buddhist monastery in Nepal is experiencing a true renaissance following a series of museum repatriations that brought about an increased interest in the...
‘Cat-ching Criminals’ Just Became a Lot Easier Thanks to New Method for Analyzing Cat Hair
There are some people who will say that for home defense, you're better off having a dog. Well, it turns out almost every cat...
Good News in History, October 25
22 years ago today, Microsoft released Windows XP, one of the most widely-used operating systems in the history of personal computing. Released to critical...
Good News in History, October 24
On this day last year, a five-month-old bar-tailed godwit became a world record holder by flying 8,425 miles non-stop from Alaska to Australia in...
Good News in History, October 21
40 years ago today, the meter was standardized to its current form, providing grounds for all the subsequent increments such as millimeters, centimeters, and...
Good News in History, October 4
108 years ago today, Dinosaur National Monument was established in Colorado and Utah. Dictated into existence by the executive power of the Antiquities Act,...
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,...
Good News in History September 13
439 years ago today, the building of the royal palace at San Lorenzo de El Escorial was completed. The historic residence of the King...
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)...
Good News in History, September 7
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...
City Sparrows Make Better Dads Than Their Country Cousins, Says New Research
Despite being more aggressive in defending their territory, sparrows that live in urban areas find more time to visit the nest and feed their...
Good News in History, August 24
Happy 50th birthday to the simply hilarious Dave Chappelle. One of the greatest millennial comics, Chappelle was called a genius during his early explosion...
Good News in History, August 18
60 years ago today, James Meredith became the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi, 2 years after his famous challenge...
Good News in History, August 17
Happy Birthday to Robert De Niro, who was born in New York City 80 years ago today. The actor has appeared in over 100...
Narrowly Avoiding Prison by Judge’s Leniency, She Turned Her Life Around to Win Case as a Lawyer in His Courtroom
Sarah Gad's life story is one for the case books. A repeat drug offender turned criminal defense attorney, it shows among other things that...
Good News in History, August 10
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...