Inspiring News
From the Good News Network
Sometimes the news can show the darker side of local and world events. But there is so much more! We found the Good News Network online and find their writing and focus to align well with our virtues and beliefs. We have included some excerpts below borrowed from their site. The link above with direct you to their site for further information and to subscribe directly.
World War I Message in a Bottle Found in Australia and Delivered to Families More Than a Century Later
Australian soldiers slipped the letters into a bottle, closed the cap, and pitched it overboard from a ship in the Pacific Ocean as World War I battlefields beckoned them both. The bottle was a time capsule that would be delivered by fate—and it arrived for overjoyed...
Bizarre Deep-Sea Creature Named ‘Death Ball’ Sponge Discovered in Remote Corner of the Planet
30 previously unknown deep-sea species, including the carnivorous “death-ball” sponge, have been confirmed from one of the most remote parts of the planet. The animals were collected during a pair of 2025 research cruises to the waters around Antarctica which yielded...
After More Than Three Centuries, a Geometry Problem That Originated with a Royal Bet Is Solved
A pair of European mathematicians have proven a 300-year-old inference on shapes wrong, and won a bet on behalf of a long-dead Englishmen who got into a famous argument with his prince. The story begins with an experiment: take two gaming dice, put one on top of the...
Farmworkers Are Heroes After Rescuing 20 Children from Burning School Bus in California
Two California farmers were honored recently for being the first ones to help save over 20 students aboard a school bus that caught fire. Long before the Madera Country Fire Department arrived on scene, Angel Zarco and Carlos Perea were there, and in fact, the pair...
Mom Buys Used Car for Son, When Engine Dies 4 Months Later Salesman Decides to ‘Take Care of the Customer’
Don’t you wish all used car salesmen were like this one in Gladstone, Missouri? Back in June, a mom came in to buy a vehicle for her college student who needed it for regular commutes to school in Kansas. J.P. Knudsen, the owner of Northtowne Auto Group, sold her a...
‘Instant Tears’ for Principal Who Wanted Every Student at Her Wedding–So They Walk Her Down the Aisle at School (Watch)
It was a wish that not many people would make—she wanted her wedding to be filled with kids, preferably every one of the hundreds that attend her school. The principal at Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School in New York, Brianna Lanoye, believed they were such a...
Kentucky Teacher-of-the-Year Created a Prosthetic Hand for a Student Using School’s 3D Printing Lab
Simply using corn-based bioplastic, a couple of screws, fishing line, and small rubber bands, an elementary school teacher turned himself into a hero. But he didn’t have to throw on a cape and mask, he only had to switch on his 3D printer. Scott Johnson, a...
Hope Is the Most Impactful Emotion in Determining Long-Term Economic, Social Outcomes
Is hope just “a thing with feathers” as Dickenson wrote, or is it Aristotle’s “waking dream?” Or instead. is it “a promise we live” rather than a “promise we give” as Amanda Gorman wrote in 2021. According to new research examining the impact of hope as a positive...
Portland Coffee Shop Raises Over $87,000 to Feed People Losing Benefits as Government Shuts Down
Having crested 30 days of government shutdown, a Portland coffee shop has stepped up to channel donations towards supporting those in need. With Americans’ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits lagging, Heretic Coffee Shop, which itself operates on...
