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.
Quadruplets Who Beat the Odds at Birth Are About to Turn 18 and Be Apart for First Time
Identical quadruplets who beat all the odds just even being born are now turning 18, and are about to be apart from their sisters for the first time. Doctors told their parents that they were more likely to win the lottery than see all four babies survive, but 18...
10-Year-old Raises $80,000 for Pearl Harbor Memorial After School Project Inspires Deep Admiration
The bean fields and mountains of North Carolina are 5 time zones and more than 5,000 miles from Hawai’i, but such differences are trifles compared to the determination of youth. 11-year-old Harrison Johnson from North Carolina has raised $81,000 to help fund history...
Full Recovery for Coral Reef Within 4 Years–The Speed of Restoration They Saw was ‘Incredible’
In a truly monumental discovery, scientists studying coral restoration in Indonesia found that artificially restored coral reefs can regrow as fast a naturally occurring reefs just 4 years after the initial transplantation. With many reefs around the world believed to...
NASA to Send ‘Message in a Bottle’ Into Space Designed to Communicate With Extraterrestrials
In 1977 it was a golden record, now scientists are sending a “message in a bottle” into space to communicate with aliens. NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a message from Earth in the form of an inscribed plaque when it launches in October, 2024, and heads...
High School Student Invents an A.I. Powered Trap That Zaps Invasive Lanternflies
A New Jersey high school senior has won a place as a finalist in the nation’s most prestigious science fair with a clever new take on the bug zapper. Selina Zhang, 18, designed and field tested a synthetic, eco-conscious, A.I.-powered trap that uses machine learning...
Paraplegic Veteran Uses Skydiving to Reclaim Lost Sensation in His Legs and Soul
There was a lot that Army veteran Alex Dillman lost when he became a paraplegic after an IED blew up under his legs in Afghanistan, but now an unlikely activity has allowed him to take some of what he lost back. Hurtling through the air at 120 mph, Dillman doesn’t...
Macgyvered Neck Brace Saves Rare Peruvian Grasshopper: ‘no matter how big or small’ the Zookeepers Care
At the Houston Zoo, an emergency medical procedure saw a tiny resident receive a big degree of attention. At the ‘Bug House,’ the Houston Zoo boasts a number of Peruvian jumping sticks, which appear like stick insects, but are actually grasshoppers. In early 2024, a...
29-Year-old Becomes First American Woman to Race a Sailboat Solo Around the World
A 29-year-old woman has become the first woman to race non-stop around the Earth when she arrived in A Coruna, Spain, on Thursday. Captaining her 40-foot vessel First Light for months, Cole Brauer crossed three oceans and 30,000 miles to arrive at the finish line. She...
Legally Blind Texas Student Defies Odds, Gets Accepted into Veterinarian School: ‘Anything is possible’
Faith Snapp had always grown up around animals; and though she couldn’t see them, she “always loved them.” Now, she’s on the road to becoming perhaps Texas’ first-ever blind veterinarian, and she spoke to Fox News recently about her journey, and about how anything is...
