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Good News in History, November 7
120 years ago today, Konrad Lorenz, the father of modern ethnology and Nobel laureate, was born in Vienna. In 2002, he was ranked as...
Good News in History, November 3
118 years ago today, the prolific African-American painter Lois Mailou Jones was born. With her best works exhibited in a half-dozen fine arts museums...
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...
Tai Chi Can Curb Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms for Years and Lower Needed Drug Doses–Study
Tai Chi, a traditional Chinese martial art involving sequences of slow controlled movements meant to cultivate one of the three kinds of vital energy,...
Good News in History, October 22
48 years ago today, Venera 9, the Soviet Union orbiter-lander spacecraft, became the first mission to enter orbit around Venus, and to return images...
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 17
20 years ago, the pinnacle was secured in place on the Taipei 101 making it the highest building on Earth, surpassing the Petronas Twins...
Oldest Fossilized Human Footprints in North America Over 20,000 Years Old: New Study
It has long been hypothesized that humans arrived in North America while the last Ice Age was beginning to wane perhaps between 13,000 and...
Good News in History, October 6
112 years ago today, Beatrix de Rijk became the first female licensed Dutch aircraft pilot. This pioneering aviator was born in Surabaya, modern-day Indonesia...
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 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 21
On this day in 1915, a Mr. Cecil Chubbs bought Stonehenge for £6,600. Born in Shrewton, four miles west of the iconic Neolithic monument,...
Stolen Van Gogh Returned by Sherlock Holmes of the Art World–Seized from Museum During COVID
An early van Gogh painting worth millions was stolen during a museum heist in 2020 under the cover of COVID lockdowns, but while the...
Good News in History September 16
36 years ago today, the first international climate agreement was signed in the form of the Montreal Protocol to repair the hole in the...
NASA Just Found an Ocean World with Atmosphere–The Best Place to Look for Life in Our Galaxy
Earlier this month operators at Webb identified a planet that may contain both a protective atmosphere and a surface covered entirely in oceans—also known...
Good News in History September 14
204 years ago today Clara Schumann was born. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, Schumann, according to Wikipedia,...
Spacecraft ‘Hack’ Results in Never-Before-Seen Views of Our Sun – LOOK
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)...
Good News in History, September 3
59 years ago today, the Wilderness Act was signed into law. Written by Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society, it has been used to...
Good News in History, August 27
70 years ago today, the Hollywood film Roman Holiday was released. Shot at iconic locations all around Rome, the romantic comedy by Dalton Trumbo...
Good News in History, August 25
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...