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.
17-Year-old Wins $150,000 in Science Talent Search for Remarkable Way to Diagnose Pediatric Heart Disease
In the oldest and most prestigious young adult science competition in the nation, 17-year-old Ellen Xu used a kind of AI to design the first diagnosis test for a rare disease that struck her sister years ago. With a personal story driving her on, she managed an 85%...
Global Happiness Has Been ‘Remarkably Resilient’ Over the Past Three Years: World Happiness Report
In the 2023 World Happiness Report, a wonderful trend has emerged from the data. Despite a major war in Europe, and all the government shutdowns and totalitarian policing measures in front of the largest pandemic in 100 years, happiness ratings have remained much the...
Critically-Endangered West African Lion Going from Strength to Strength in Niokolo Koba, Senegal
Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness. In a thrilling sign of recovery for the Critically-Endangered West African lion, camera trap footage and photos of a...
Minnesota Researchers Develop Glowscope that Turns Smartphone into Sensitive Microscope Normally costing $100,000
Researchers looking to help students at school have used low-cost materials like theater lighting filters to turn regular smartphone cameras into fluorescent microscopes. The resolution they say is around one-thousandth of a millimeter, but the cost reduction could...
College Wrestler Scores ‘Quadruple Leg’ Takedown to Save his Friend from a Grizzly Bear
It takes bravery to compete in college wrestling, and sophomore NJCAA wrestler Kendall Cummings needed every ounce of it when he decided he was not going to let a mamma grizzly bear maul his friend to death. Last year, Cummings was out with his friends Brady Lowry,...
San Quentin Prison is Using a Scandinavian Model of Rehabilitation to Turn Ex-Cons into Good Neighbors
San Quentin State Penitentiary, one of the most notorious and harsh prisons in the US, is the stage for a radical new method of treating the incarcerated population; new for America that is. That’s because SQ has adopted Scandinavian methods of rehabilitation that aim...
Self-Taught Oklahoma Architect Builds Round Barn Inspired by US Capitol and Wedding Rentals
Jay Branson, a self-taught architect, started building a round barn in rural Oklahoma to process his grief. Its beauty draws strangers off the highway in Oklahoma, and a gentle kind of obsession mixed with down-home prairie demeanor saw the barn turn into something...
Two Sisters Put Up for Adoption at End of WWII Finally Reunite After 75 Years Apart
It took 75 years but, two sisters who were placed up for adoption at the end of World War II were finally reunited. Annie Ijpelaar and Sheila Anne Fry, both in their late 70s, have Sheila’s daughter-in-law and Anne’s son to thank for the reunion, after they took it...
Strangers Who Rode in Double Decker Bus 40,000 Miles Around the Americas Reunite 50 Years Later: ‘The bus was the hero’
A group of friends who took a London double-decker bus 40,000 miles around the Americas have reunited 50 years later at the release of a travelogue of their adventure. Over a hard country cider, the remaining crew members reminisced about how the idea first came to...
