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.
Rubble from Bombed Ukrainian Buildings Is Being Turned into LEGO-like Blocks to Make New Homes (WATCH)
An Australian startup has created the world’s first mobile brick factory that pulverizes rubble from ruined buildings and presses them into LEGO-like bricks. Idealized as the ultimate in long-term housing solutions for disaster areas, locals who need shelter can place...
Family Unearths Treasure of 1,500 Medieval Coins During Excavation for a New Swimming Pool
The kids of one German household would have been bouncing with excitement as excavations for their new below-ground pool were going on. But imagine their surprise when men from the local council arrived to explain they had found buried treasure instead. Described by...
Florida Man Deploys ‘Subliminal’ Advertising to Incite Happiness Through Viral Sign-Hanging Campaign
“That’s 602,” says Gary King, climbing down from a ladder propped up against a telephone poll, a red and white sign reading “HAPPINESS” newly affixed to its side. “All I’m doing is subliminal experiments using one word, one word. This word has been around forever but...
Passionate Mushroom Researcher Spends Decade Unravelling Mystery of 200-year-old Museum Specimen
A passionate expert on fungi has spent a decade trying to discover the identity behind a preserved and mislabeled specimen in an Australian collection—all for the sake of science. Despite being one of the 5 kingdoms of life along with animals, plants, and two kinds of...
People Seen as Wise Share These Characteristics All Over the World
Across different cultures and countries, people perceive the wisest members of society to be logical and reflective as well as able to consider other people’s feelings and perceptions. This was found in a new study that examined people’s conceptions of wisdom as a...
Chef Returns to Kitchen Thanks to Floating Seat Invented After a Motorcycle Injury Made Him Immobile (WATCH)
An Austrian chef who lost almost all control of his legs is back on the line again thanks to a brilliant invention from a friend. A C-shaped metal hook suspended on a set of rails from the ceiling allows Chef Lammer to literally float through the kitchen, while...
6-Year-old Boy Found in the Forest After 150 Searched for Five Days
Relief flooded Vietnamese social media and news waves when reports that a young boy lost for 5 days in the tropical rainforest had finally been found. A search party of police, volunteers, and soldiers reached 150 in number as they combed the mountains in the...
Empty Nesters Travel to All 63 US National Parks: ‘Life’s Too Short’ But What is the Perfect Age for Adventures?
It’s American Adventures Month—and in a new survey of 2,000 Americans, over one-third reported that they’ve become more adventurous as they age. Even though 42 was deemed to be ‘the perfect age to go on an adventure’ (when averaging respondents’ answers), a huge...
The World’s Oldest Human Gives Us the Best Advice, Before She Died at 117 Years
“Order, tranquility, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets;” might these be a string of virtues that the Stoics strove to obtain in Classical Greece and Rome? No, not quite. They were entries in the list of all the things that have...
