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Good News in History, December 22
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Published: December 22, 2025 08:00
165 years ago today, Giacomo Puccini was born. Considered as the greatest composer of Italian opera in history alongside or perhaps just behind Verdi, his work includes many of the most-performed spectacles in Italian opera, including La Boheme, Tosca,…
Fussy Girl Overcomes Vegetable Phobia and Now Loves Brussels Sprouts Thanks to Eating Disorder Specialist
Published: December 21, 2025 21:22
A fussy five-year-old girl has overcome her phobia of vegetables and now loves Brussels sprouts–just in time for her mother’s Christmas dinner. Emie Williams would scream and cry if her mom, Hayley, tried to give her anything except crackers, french fries,…
Science Mixed With Holiday Magic Safeguards Century-old Legacy of ‘Christmas Tree Lane’
Published: December 21, 2025 18:09
Modern science has mixed with Christmas magic to safeguard the legacy of a 100-year-old holiday tradition in Fresno, California. The story of Christmas Tree Lane began in 1920 as a way to transform a family tragedy into something much brighter. According…
Idaho Secret Santa is Giving a Million Dollars to Local Residents Dealing with Chaos
Published: December 21, 2025 16:19
Santa has arrived early in Idaho—in the form of a mystery donor who is giving away a million dollars to families in crisis. The Secret Santa of The Gem State started making Christmas magic a couple of months ago and will continue spreading joy through the…
Simply Shining Light on Skin Can Replace Finger Pricks for People With Diabetes
Published: December 20, 2025 21:00
A new method for measuring blood glucose levels, developed at MIT, could save diabetes patients from having to prick their fingers several times a day. The MIT team used a technique that reveals the chemical composition of tissue by shining near-infrared…
Microscopic ‘Christmas Tree’ is Remarkable Highlight of Science Project Comparing the Vast and Small
Published: December 20, 2025 17:26
A microscopic ‘Christmas tree’ is a seasonal highlight of a remarkable science project that found eerie comparisons between the vast and the tiny. Curated by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the series of pairings reveal stunning connections between the…
Aging Mother-and-Son Jaguars Arrive at Special ‘Retirement’ Home for Big Cats to Live Out Their Years
Published: December 20, 2025 15:49
A very old jaguar and her senior son are being welcomed to a specially-made retirement home in a UK zoo. Wild jaguars typically live for around 12 years, but Bonita is already 16 and her son Remi is 11, having already survived cancer. The two have lived…
Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ by Rob Brezsny
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Published: December 20, 2025 13:31
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in…
Good News in History, December 20
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Published: December 20, 2025 08:00
22 years ago today, Gangs of New York premiered in theaters. Martin Scorsese’s colorful and gritty depiction of gangland violence among the poor immigrant residents of New York City’s Five Points received 10 Academy Award nominations. While winning none,…
Blind BBQ Master in Dallas Blows Away Guests with Brisket Cooked by Touch and Smell
Published: December 19, 2025 19:30
When clients ask Christopher Jones how he cooks the delicious barbequed meat at his restaurant, he answers, “‘Just like you, except I have to concentrate a little harder.'” The extra concentration, for a blind man, is a necessity not an option. But as is…
Cheese May Help Stave Off Dementia Suggests Study of 27k People Followed Over 25 Years
Published: December 19, 2025 16:30
Researchers in Sweden found a link between eating more high-fat cream and high-fat cheeses and a lower risk of developing dementia. People who consumed 20 grams or more of high-fat cream daily had a 16% lower risk of dementia than those who consumed none.…
Stunning Crocheted Christmas Tree Helped Knit Together a Community of Extraordinary Women – LOOK
Published: December 19, 2025 14:00
This incredible Christmas tree was designed and manufactured by incredible women in India’s state of Goa who felt another fake plastic Christmas tree was something the world didn’t need. Made entirely of crocheted yarn, the community tree was designed to…
Lost Dog Found Chained to Pole 2,000 Miles Away Reunited with Family in Time for Christmas
Published: December 19, 2025 12:00
A sweet little lost pooch has come home in time for Christmas—to a bigger family than the one he left. That’s because little Choco was gone for 5 years. But his hominid mama Patricia never gave up hope of finding him again. It was 2022 when Choco…
Good News in History, December 19
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Published: December 19, 2025 08:00
249 years ago today, Thomas Paine published his first essay under the pseudonym, Common Sense, to inspire American colonists in a language that the common man could understand. Paine knew that the Colonists weren’t going to support the American…
Cancer-Fighting Cells Engineered Inside Patients’ Bodies Rather Than Laboratory for the First Time
Published: December 18, 2025 19:00
In a pair of groundbreaking studies, scientists replicated a time-consuming, laboratory-based, cancer therapy within myeloma patients’ own bodies. If standardized, such an advancement would allow for one of the most successful non-chemo cancer treatments…
Polar Bear Adopts a Cub That Isn’t her Own–Extraordinary Behavior Caught on Camera
Published: December 18, 2025 16:30
A wild female polar bear was recently filmed with a cub that’s not her own: a notably rare behavior that’s been determined to be an adoption. It was filmed during the annual polar bear migration along Canada’s Western Hudson Bay in Manitoba. There’s a…
Colossal Statues of Ancient Pharoah Stand Again in Luxor After 30 Years of Work
Published: December 18, 2025 14:00
On Sunday, Egyptian authorities unveiled the completed restoration works on two colossal alabaster statues of a notable Egyptian king. Located in Luxor, and standing over 30 feet tall, the two statues were destroyed in an earthquake 1,200 years ago, making…
Ambitious Rewilding Project for Koala and Platypus Undertaken by Sydney’s Taronga Zoo
Published: December 18, 2025 12:00
An Australian zoo credited with saving 7 native species from extinction aims to continue its vital work by rewilding a 3,050-acre tract of farmland. The aim of planting a Box-Gum tree fores across the cleared land that would act as a corridor to help…
Good News in History, December 18
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Published: December 18, 2025 08:00
30 years ago today, the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Caves were discovered in southern France containing remarkable cave paintings that are roughly 32,000 years old, the earliest-known and best-preserved cave art and engravings in the world. The site, located on a…
A Volunteer Team of Grandmas Dispense Street-side Wisdom to Those Who Need a Considerate Ear
Published: December 17, 2025 19:30
From Canada’s “As it Happens” comes a story by way of Texas of a “Grandma Stand” where volunteer elders offer to lend an ear to anyone beset by troubles. Anyone can walk by the purple lemonade stand and sit down across from a real grandmother to chit-chat,…
‘Trashed Panda’ Story Raises $180,000 for Animal Shelter That Discovered it Drunk in the Bathroom
Published: December 17, 2025 16:00
In early December, US social media airwaves got drunk off the hilarity of a Virginia raccoon that was discovered unconscious in a bathroom after breaking into a Richmond liquor store on what can only be described as a class A bender. Hanover County Animal…
Bostonians Wanted More Bike Lanes: Now They Have Them, and Traffic Is Down
Published: December 17, 2025 14:00
The Better Bike Lanes project in the metropolitan area of Boston has led to a substantial increase in bicycle trips and a modest decrease in the number of motor vehicles on the roads at any given time. Taking place between 2023 and 2024, the changes were…
Their Husbands Were Killed by Tigers. Now These Women Are Restoring the Big Cat’s Threatened Habitat
Published: December 17, 2025 12:00
They are called “swami khejos,” translated to “Husband Eaters.” In reality, it’s just a superstition, as it was the tigers of the Sundarbans forest that ate these husbands, not the women. This unique region of eastern India/western Bangladesh contains the…
Good News in History, December 17
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Published: December 17, 2025 08:00
92 years ago today, the first American football championship game was played—on the diamond at Wriggly Field—between the Chicago Bears and the New York Giants. Called the Championship, it was nevertheless to be the precursor to the Super Bowl of the modern…
Footage of River Otter Scurrying Through Lincoln–a Delightful Reward for Decades of Conservation Work
Published: December 16, 2025 19:30
In the dreamy old city center of Lincoln, where Tudor and Victorian buildings stand bedecked in Christmas gaiety, CCTV footage revealed a wild sight one evening in November. A red fox and a river otter were galivanting through the town—as near to a scene…
Antarctic Research Station Receives its Mail in a Shiny New Box–a Christmas Gift from King Charles
Published: December 16, 2025 16:30
Imagine the charm of sifting through bills and junk mail in your mailbox and seeing the quirky script and colors of a handwritten Christmas card—now imagine you’re pulling it out from a box at one of the farthest point on Earth from any human civilization.…
Cutting-Edge Facility Generates Pure Water and Hydrogen Fuel from Seawater for Mere Pennies
Published: December 16, 2025 14:00
One might call the first three weeks of operations for a new, state-of-the-art seawater desalination plant in coastal China a ‘watershed’ moment for the industry. Long held back by fundamental difficulties in turning seawater into pure water, this new…
Christmas ‘Miracle’ for 6-Year-Old with Leukemia Who’s Now Thriving After T-cell Therapy Instead of Chemo
Published: December 16, 2025 12:00
Christmas 2025 is better and brighter for one family whose daughter is on the mend from a previously untreatable form of childhood cancer. Christmas 2024 saw then-5-year-old Bryn Ailinger isolated in a child cancer ward, having been diagnosed with…
Good News in History, December 16
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Published: December 16, 2025 08:00
1,492 years ago today, Emperor Justinian I of Byzantium, did Europe’s posterity a great favor and ordered the compiling of all Roman juridical writings from the beginning of the Empire into 50 books. Preserved to this day thanks to monastic manuscripts and…
CNN Hero of the Year Turns Vacant Lots on Chicago’s South Side into Flower Farms
Published: December 15, 2025 19:30
Hope and opportunity are blossoming on the South Side of Chicago where a man and his wife have used flowers to help poor communities turn over a new leaf. Running two nonprofits, Southside Blooms and Chicago Eco House, Quilen Blackwell and his wife Hannah…
Wireless Implant That ‘Speaks’ to the Brain with Light Paves Way To Potentially Restoring Lost Senses
Published: December 15, 2025 16:30
Around the size of a postage stamp and thinner than a credit card, a wireless implant that “speaks” to the brain could help restore lost senses. The device uses light to send information directly to the brain, bypassing the body’s natural sensory pathways…
Town on the Banks of the Nile Turns Flooding into Fortune
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Published: December 15, 2025 14:00
In South Sudan, on the banks of the Nile, a flood of rare destructive power swept an already water-stressed city into poverty before acting as the catalyst for a transformative humanitarian success. Development funding from the Netherlands and South Korea…
30,000 Animals Rescued from Illegal Captivity in the Largest Wildlife Trafficking Raid in History
Published: December 15, 2025 12:00
INTERPOL recently executed the largest-ever edition of its annual series of coordinated of raids to dismantle criminal shipments and networks of trafficked and poached wildlife. Called Operation Thunder, some 30,000 live animals were seized in 4,620 raids…
Good News in History, December 15
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Published: December 15, 2025 08:00
70 years ago today, American country star Johnny Cash released the single “Folsom Prison Blues.” The song combines elements from two popular folk styles that Cash used often in his songwriting, and was ranked 51 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s 100 Greatest…
He Carries Shelter Dogs Around the City in a Backpack to Help Get them Adopted (WATCH)
Published: December 14, 2025 21:00
It all started with a Corgi in a backpack in a crowded subway car. Bryan Reisberg noticed that his dog Maxine had a way of cheering people up, bringing some light into their lives during their daily commutes underground. Serious faces became smiles. Stress…
First Human Cornea Transplant Using 3D Printed, Lab-Grown Tissue Restores Sight in a ‘Game Changer’ for Millions Who are Blind
Published: December 14, 2025 18:00
The first successful human implant of a 3D-printed cornea made from human eye cells cultured in a laboratory has restored a patient’s sight. The North Carolina-based company that developed the cornea described the procedure as a ‘world first’—and a major…
2 Bears Figure out How to Make a ‘See-Saw’ in Playful Moment Caught on Video (WATCH)
Published: December 14, 2025 14:42
The Queens Zoo released a short, heart-warming video this week featuring two young Andean bears having fun with a tree branch. The video captured by a guest at the zoo shows the moment the bears found a limb and discovered how to turn it into a playful…
The Moment a Girl Says ‘Daddy, I’m Getting a Heart’ After a Year on the Waiting List
Published: December 14, 2025 13:06
The emotional moment an 11-year-old girl broke the news to her father that she’s getting a heart transplant was captured on video. “Daddy, I’m getting a heart!” Ava was born in 2014 with several heart defects, and was just six days old when she had her…