by Andy Corbley | Aug 16, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN
Usually when scientists announce the discovery of a new species, it’s some small brown frog, a gnarly spider in a rainforest you’ll never visit, or a new sea-something. But Earth still has some curveballs to throw at us—like a new species of manta ray, just the third...
by Andy Corbley | Aug 16, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN
Co-Founder of Nike Phil Knight has opened his bank account and his heart in order to set a record for the largest charitable gift ever handed to an American university. $2 billion was given to a cancer institute bearing his name at the Oregon Health & Science...
by Andy Corbley | Aug 14, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN
A family-owned restaurant was saved by a gaggle of teenagers after the owner’s wife fell into a coma. From Hudson, Minnesota comes the story of the team at the heart of Urban Olive & Vine, and their dedication to a woman they’d come to know and love, Carol...
by Andy Corbley | Aug 14, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN
A Jamaican university student has invented a self-cleaning door handle that’s been described as a “life-saving design that fits” the reality of the Caribbean. Using ultraviolet light, similar to various automatic cleaning devices invented and deployed during the...
by Nathan Frederick | Aug 12, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN
After 30 years and 1,200 games, the phone call that Jen Pawol was waiting for finally arrived earlier this week. You’re going to the big leagues—and you’re going to make history. Just like that, Pawol became the first female umpire in Major League Baseball history on...
by Nathan Frederick | Aug 10, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN
It was a parent’s worst nightmare, but doctors showed extra compassion for the patient who had dreams of being a baseball player when he grows up. Five-year-old Sam Heintz was in the intensive care unit of Michigan’s Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital with failing...
