NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to journalist Jon Wertheim about tennis star Naomi Osaka's decision to withdraw from the French Open after facing penalties and fines for her decision to boycott media.
Brazil will host Copa America, one of the world's top soccer tournaments, after original host Argentina was dropped due to a surge in COVID cases. But Brazil also has been hit hard by the pandemic.
Childhood sweethearts have married in a real-life version of The Notebook after 22 years apart—he even proposed with the engagement ring he gave her when they were 15. Helen Marshall and Graeme Richardson are both in their early forties. They met in school and admired each other from across the hallways before they fell head […]
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Just because you’ve got “higher math” in your name, doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll have an aptitude for arithmetic, but for 11-year-old Sanaa Hiremath, numbers are her special gift. Sanaa, who was diagnosed with autism at age 2, is so proficient at multiplication she recently took home an award from Guinness World Records (GWR) for ‘largest […]
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This article has been re-printed with permission from Mongabay. The Australian government has moved to create two new marine protected areas that cover an expanse of ocean twice the size of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The two parks will be established around Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean […]
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“Royalty and dignitaries, brandy and cigars. Grey Lady-giant of the skies you hold them in your arms… ” — Bruce Dickinson. It’s not every day GNN starts a story with a quote from an Iron Maiden song, but this line perfectly describes a development that could revolutionize short-distance flight by heralding the return of helium-filled […]
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Anchovies and sardines are, as it turns out straight superfoods—especially for kids. Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted was recently awarded the 2021 World Food Prize—described as the Nobel Prize for food and agriculture—for her work integrating small fish into developing nations diets: primarily she focused on this because of the incredible nutrient density of small fish, and […]
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No fans attended last year's race because of the pandemic. On Sunday, Helio Catroneves won his fourth Indianapolis 500. And for the first time, the race included a majority female team.
No fans attended last year's race because of the pandemic. On Sunday, Helio Catroneves won his fourth Indianapolis 500. And for the first time, the race included a majority female team.
200 years ago today, The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also called the Baltimore Basilica, became the first Roman Catholic cathedral built in the United States. It was among the first major religious buildings constructed in the nation after the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, and is […]
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At 46, the Brazilian race-car driver also became the fourth-oldest driver to win the Indy 500. Castroneves crossed the finish line less than a half-second ahead of 24-year-old Alex Palou.
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Researchers have already debunked the top 20 myths that we all commonly believe to be true—such as, the most heat escapes through your head, we only use 10 percent of our brains, and goldfish only have three-second memory. A new survey of 2,000 adults found nearly four in 10 aren’t even sure how they came […]
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His wife of 57 years had just been moved into a care home last summer due to Alzheimer’s disease, and sadness was his only companion—until his grandson surprised him by fulfilling a lifelong dream. 12-year-old Harrison Gurney wanted desperately to cheer up his grandad and came up with a plan to give him the surprise […]
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Since 2010, over 8.1 million square miles have been added to the world’s network of national parks and conservation areas, an area greater than the land mass of Russia. That means about 17% of land and inland water habitats and 8% of marine areas—especially those with particular importance for biodiversity—are now within formal protected areas […]
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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Toronto Raptor's superfan Nav Bhatia. He hasn't missed a Toronto Raptor game since the basketball team was founded in 1995.
80 years ago today, Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climbed up the the ruins of the Acropolis in Athens, tore down the Nazi swastika, and replaced it with the Greek flag. The resistance fighting duo suffered torture and imprisonment for their stunt, but they inspired Greeks, and all subjected people everywhere, to work against the […]
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with sports journalist Julie DiCaro about Naomi Osaka's decision to avoid the French Open's media availability.
A small Indian village had this baby elephant’s back after it tumbled into a well nearly 30 feet (9 meters) deep. Arriving with its herd from a nearby forest, the baby made the misstep in Giridih district, in the eastern state of Jharkhand, earlier this month. After the townspeople of Nimatand chased off the herd, […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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This blog was submitted to GNN by one of our readers for publishing. If you have an interesting story of kindness or positivity, be sure and send it to us for review. My wife came home from work yesterday and shared a very heartwarming story that one of her office colleagues told her about a […]
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A high school graduate is serving up huge smiles with his unique brand of customer service, which includes a musical ditty with every order. Daniel Marshall’s cheerful singing and joking with customers at the Arden Hills McDonald’s near Minneapolis, Minnesota has earned him five star reviews like, “Best Drive Thru Ever!” He has been taking […]
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ESPN's Howard Bryant discusses Naomi Osaka's decision to boycott news conferences at the upcoming French Open and the "magic" play by Chicago Cubs shortstop Javier Baez against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the new announcer for the Chicago Cubs, 21-year-old Jeremiah Paprocki.
170 years ago today, Sojourner Truth delivered her famous extemporaneous speech in Akron, Ohio, at one of the first Black Women’s Rights Conventions. Born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, her speech, later known as ‘Ain’t I A Woman?’, demanded equal human rights for all women. Though there is no transcription of Truth’s speech, but […]
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The difference between finding justice and following the letter of the law sometimes takes a simple act of compassion. Where others might have seen an incorrigible offender, one judge saw promise—and following a hunch, he acted on his intuition. At first glance, Edward Martell, a 27-year-old high school dropout with an extensive arrest record might […]
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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Rod Benson, retired basketball player and columnist for SFGATE, about the mental health of athletes and the future of sports press conferences.
With the Indy 500 back in action Sunday, NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Nate Ryan of NBC Sports about what to expect and how the race is handling COVID-19 safety precautions.
A young boy is the first in the world to have a rare form of cancer spreading through his body, but he has a fighting chance thanks to groundbreaking treatment. 12-year-old Reef Carneson has a life-threatening cancer that’s normally slow to progress, limited to the skin, and seen in adults who have spent years sunbathing without […]
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Even though polls show the great majority of Japanese want to cancel the Tokyo Summer Olympics because of the risk of COVID-19 infections, Japan's prime minister insists the games will go on.
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Music can be made with all sorts of things—including, it would seem, rain drops. For today’s moment of Zen, listen to this video. Made in Japan and titled Amaoto No Yurai, it’s beautiful. After listening, do you find you’re perceiving the world about you differently? MORE: MIT Scientists Spin Some Music Out of Spider Webs […]
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Who would imagine that in the habitat of elephants, tigers, and rhinos, the world’s smallest wild hog is the animal that’s determining where the conservation dollars go? Like the keystone in an arch that holds all the others in place, the endangered pygmy hog of North India is the keystone species of the Terai grasslands, […]
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By injecting a Parisian man’s eye with genes from algae that encode for light-sensing proteins, scientists were able to slowly restore the patient’s vision to the point where he could locate, identify, and count objects again. The treatment is being called a breakthrough in optogenetic therapy, and offers a chance of vision restoration in people […]
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It's the year of the no-hitter in the MLB. Pitchers are dominating the game and worrying officials about the lack of offensive excitement. How are the experts who train hitters fighting back?
60 years ago today, Amnesty International was founded in London, after Peter Benenson read the article The Forgotten Prisoners and concluded, “The newspaper reader feels a sickening sense of impotence, yet if these feelings of disgust all over the world could be united into common action, something effective could be done.” Today, his organization directs […]
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Being in the right place at the right time can mean the difference between life and death. When a freak ice storm felled runners in a 100-kilometer cross-country race in China’s north-western Gansu province, a shepherd named Zhu Keming braved the elements to pull three men and three women to safety. The day of the […]
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If you think of TikTok as a place where tweens and members of Gen Z perform unfathomable dance moves and viral sea shanties for their peers, you might be surprised to find that it’s also an online platform where gardening tips are shared. According to some of the most popular green-thumbed TikTokers, with a little […]
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In a greenhouse in Missouri, a tree listed as critically endangered produced a flower which had never been recorded before by science in the perfect metaphor for the species’ chances of survival. The botanists caring for it believe there’s no question they can save the tree since collecting pollen from this flower, as they can […]
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Paying it forward is something that’s in Jaden Smith’s genes. As GNN reported earlier, to commemorate his 21st birthday two years ago, the rapper/actor launched the I Love You Restaurant, a vegan food truck initiative to combat food insecurity for Los Angeles’ homeless. Smith also played an instrumental role in the JUSTwater campaign, helping provide […]
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While looking for ways to make homes and offices more efficient, building managers have realized that something as seemingly insignificant as the water droplets from the underside of air conditioning units have the potential to quench the thirst of thousands. While the drips don’t seem like much, they really add up. Microsoft reports that their […]
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Happy 85th Birthday to actor Louis Gossett Jr, who became the second Black man ever to win an Oscar for acting after playing a gunnery sergeant in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman, for which he earned the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Born in Brooklyn, a sports injury shifted his career […]
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Growing fruit and veg at home has officially taken root—with more than half of adults cultivating their own produce during the past 12 months, a survey has found. The trend is particularly popular among younger adults, with six in ten 18-to-34 year-olds now growing their own—more than any other age group. Saving money (32 percent), […]
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Wednesday and Thursday, the Milwaukee Brewers are offering a COVID-19 vaccine shot outside the stadium, followed by a ticket to that days' game. Those who are anti-vaccine are upset by the promotion.
Americans strongly support trans service members being in the military — even as they say trans athletes should compete according to the sex listed on their birth certificate.
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If you rose early this morning to see the first lunar eclipse in more than two years, yet all you have to show for your experience is an image of a tiny, glowing red smudge in a dark sky—that’s not necessarily a sign of poor photography skills, just a lack of a telephoto lens. Long-focus […]
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A young boy is the first in the world to have a rare form of cancer spreading through his body, but he has a fighting chance thanks to groundbreaking treatment. 12-year-old Reef Carneson has a life-threatening cancer that’s normally slow to progress, limited to the skin, and seen in adults who have spent years sunbathing without […]
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Many have daydreamed of winning the lottery—but how about unwittingly having a $1 million win in your hands, then accidentally tossing it out? That waking nightmare happened to Massachusetts’ Lea Rose Fiega. Luckily, the kind store owners where she bought the ticket let her know her mistake. It was back in March that Fiega spent […]
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Recently in Argentina, a giant river otter popped out of the water right next to the canoe containing, of all people, the director of conservation at Rewilding Argentina. A good omen, one would think, as not only had the charismatic Pteronura brasiliensis not been seen in Argentina since the 1980s, but the river upon which […]
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Genetic testing has confirmed that a lone, 100-year old, female giant tortoise found on Fernandina Island in the Galápagos is in fact the last known member of her species Chelonoidis phantasticus, the Fernandina Giant Tortoise. Presumed extinct for 112 years, the Galápagos Conservancy and the Galápagos National Park Directorate will urgently launch expeditions, according to a […]
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65 years ago today The Silent World (Le Monde du Silence), the French documentary co-directed by famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and a young filmmaker, Louis Malle, was released. Noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color, it won the Palme d’Or award at the Cannes […]
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Christine Brennan, USA Today sports journalist, explains why Simone Biles' Yurchenko double pike feat on Saturday was remarkable — and why it wasn't awarded as such.
Everyone has a COVID story now, and for those aged 16-18, the story likely has something to do with school and extra-curricular disruptions during a critical period of their lives. We often like to say they were the best years of our lives, and noticing this—despite the fact that he didn’t even have a child […]
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A gamer bullied as a youngster because they were born without a hand finally feels their disability isn’t a hindrance, now they’ve been fitted with a bionic arm inspired by a hugely popular video game. 21-year-old Laiken Olive, who identifies as nonbinary, was born with a congenital limb difference and said they used to hide […]
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Before Dwight David Eisenhower became America’s 34th President, he commanded the country’s military. And at the Minnesota elementary school that bears Ike’s name? A mama duck who takes her marching orders seriously is doing him proud—and continuing a 20-year tradition. Two decades ago, a female mallard decided nesting in the school’s enclosed courtyard was a […]
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Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has become the youngest person to top The Sunday Times Giving List, a metric of philanthropy among rich Brits. Possessing a personal net worth of £16 million ($23 million), the combination of his own donations and those inspired in response to several food assistance programs he helped create generated a […]
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Major affiliates supplying supermarkets in Australia and New Zealand have come together and pledged to tackle Oceania’s plastic waste crisis. Of the more than 60 companies signing on, major names include Woolworths, Coca-Cola, and Nestle, as well as several government departments. The ANZPAC Plastics Pact (ANZPAC) is a collaborative solution that brings together key players […]
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60 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress his goal to initiate a project “to put a man on the Moon”—and return him safely to Earth—before the end of the decade. NASA was ramped-up with funding to launch the Apollo program, and Kennedy’s goal was […]
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If your lawn is anything like the one tended by this author, it’s the time of year when weed killing on a wide-scale is warranted. Yet there are many common household items that are non-toxic and that work well for killing weeds and keeping them killed. I don’t like to kill many weeds in the […]
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The debate on whether transgender females should be allowed to play women's sports has become increasingly politicized. One transgender athlete and researcher is forging a middle ground with science.
Can you imagine as a kid tuning in to see your favorite TV show, never realizing that the actress playing one of the leading roles was your mother? It sounds like something from a sitcom script, but that’s what happened to Lisa Wright. The show Wright was watching? That’s My Mama. (We doubt even Hollywood […]
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No energy source is entirely clean. Batteries require rare earth mineral mining and pile-up in landfills, biomass plants need agricultural products, and so on. But the world’s largest turbine manufacturer is ensuring that at least wind power will create as little by-product as possible, by pushing to create 100% recyclable wind turbine blades. Sporting 18% […]
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Fresh off their success of the Mustang Mach-E, Ford has revealed that their most popular car, and for that matter, America’s most popular car, is going electric. The F-150 Lighting is Ford’s contribution to the extremely limited electric truck market, and they’ve managed to include a truckload of features for a price tag of $36,650, […]
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May 26, a Wednesday—or ‘Woden’s Day’ for you two or three pagans in the audience—will feature both a total lunar eclipse and a full super moon. This year, in many parts of the world, the eclipsing of the sun’s light by Earth will shadow our lunar neighbor, turning it an impressive red—hence the name Blood […]
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Happy 80th Birthday to Bob Dylan, the Bard of our ‘(Forever) Young’ generation. Born Robert Zimmerman in Minnesota, Dylan renamed himself after the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. The singer-songwriter-musician and visual artist, produced anthems for young Americans in the 1960s that chronicled the nation’s social unrest, like Blowin’ in the Wind and The Times They […]
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Seattle Mariners backup catcher José Godoy made history on Friday as Major League Baseball's 20,000th player in 150 years.
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In early April, Girl Scouts were experiencing a 50% shortfall in cookie sales, with reduced foot traffic and the pandemic limiting their ability to sell their iconic cookies in person—and eating into their annual activity budgets. Google’s delivery service Wing began talking to a local Girl Scout troop in Christiansburg, Virginia, where they run America’s […]
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Seventy years ago, on a frozen hilltop deep in what is now North Korea, a young First Lieutenant acted with bravery that earned him the Distinguished Service Cross, the military’s second-highest honor. On Friday, Ralph Puckett, Jr. was hosted at the White House where he received the Medal of Honor, the U.S. government’s highest and […]
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People are traveling across town to see the rubber duckies being arranged into inspiring messages that are quacking up the neighborhood. Jim Preston came up with the unique way to make people smile during lockdown from his 14th Ave. home in Menlo Park, California. He gets up at the quack of dawn (presumably) and uses […]
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Minor League Baseball is back after sitting out last season due to the pandemic. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Todd Parnell, CEO of the Richmond Flying Squirrels about the challenges this year.
Tadpoles have been airlifted this week by plane from Florida to the island home of their ancestors, helping to save a species. The only toad species native to Puerto Rico is now critically endangered, but ZooTampa contributed to the survival of this important species by sending thousands of recently hatched tadpoles to help restore the […]
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30 years ago today, publicity shots for Nirvana’s album Nevermind of a baby underwater in a swimming pool were taken by photographer Michael Lavine at Jay Aaron Studios in Los Angeles. The idea came to Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain and drummer Dave Grohl after they saw a TV documentary on water babies. Several babies were used, […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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Long-lasting, quick-charging batteries are essential to the expansion of the electric vehicle market, but today’s lithium-ion batteries fall short of what’s needed — they’re too heavy, too expensive and take too long to charge. For decades, researchers have tried to harness the potential of solid-state, lithium-metal batteries, which hold substantially more energy in the same […]
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An eager penguin leaped into a tourist boat and stayed onboard for 10 minutes to enjoy the above-water view with the other passengers. Polar guide John Bozinov was leading a tour through Antarctica’s Ross Sea when a sole chinstrap penguin made a couple of attempts to jump onboard his Zodiac vessel. The 30-year-old cut off […]
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A coalition of groups, including a newly formed organization backed by actor Leonardo DiCaprio, have mobilized $43 million for efforts to restore degraded habitats in the Galápagos Islands, an archipelago renowned for its endemic species and central role in scientists’ understanding of ecology and evolution. The Galápagos initiative has three immediate priorities: Helping restore Floreana […]
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We discuss just what is going on with all these no-hitters in the MLB, the start of NBA playoffs, and how the Summer Olympics will move ahead despite a pandemic-induced state of emergency in Tokyo.
115 years ago today, the brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright were granted U.S. Patent 821,393, for their “new and useful improvement in Flying Machines.” The aviation pioneers are credited with inventing, building, and flying the world’s first successful motor-operated airplane. It took three years to get the patent after making the first controlled, sustained flight […]
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Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel. Winner of Europe’s Leading Island Destination award for five years running, the Portuguese island of Madeira is looking to capitalize on the rise in numbers of a unique kind of traveler—digital nomads—by building a town entirely specialized for their […]
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Hope floats. Swans’ nests do not—unless they get a little help from someone determined to make sure their precious cargo has a chance to hatch. Rob Adamson, who lives and works at Jones Boatyard in St Ives, England has been a longtime spectator to the world’s “unluckiest swans” efforts to become parents. For a decade, […]
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Over the years, only nine women have driven in the marquee event. But this year, one of 35 teams competing to qualify — including the driver, owner and crew — is made up mostly of women.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has just ended what’s been described as a 52-year monopoly on growing cannabis for research purposes. Several large-scale cannabis growers have now been awarded contracts to produce weed for federal research, a move that will hopefully go a long way towards proving what many state and foreign governments already know: […]
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A nifty new Chrome extension uses machine learning to sort products on Amazon by their eco-friendly aspects—allowing consumers to make sustainable choices about paper mill runoff or deforestation without pouring through research on their lunch breaks. Called Finch, its ranking can be applied to the top 41 product categories on Amazon, where between 20 and […]
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A research team in Montreal has been busy developing a personalized anti-cancer vaccine that works in mice. At the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM), Marie-Claude Bourgeois-Daigneault and a team of scientists modify viruses to make them specific to the cells of a tumor. Once in the patient’s body, these viruses—called oncolytic viruses—infect and […]
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A new women's team is aiming to make history at this year's Indianapolis 500 with a woman owner, driver and crew members. In more than 100 years, only nine women drivers have competed.
A new women's team is aiming to make history at this year's Indianapolis 500 with a woman owner, driver and crew members. In more than 100 years, only 9 women drivers have competed.
The seven charged allegedly left the soccer legend in a worsening state following brain surgery in November, according to investigators.
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50 years ago today, Marvin Gaye released What’s Going On, a landmark LP in pop music history. The concept album flowed with songs written from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran returning to the US, and seeing only hatred, suffering, and injustice. Regarded as one of the greatest albums of the 20th century, […]
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Auctioneers hope it will sell for over $5.2 million, part of a sports collection that could fetch $20 million for the heirs of a man whose mom threw out his first baseball cards. He never got over it.
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There’s nothing Mike McCoy wouldn’t do for his adored 8-month-old chocolate lab Jack—including, it seems, wrestling an alligator. Mike McCoy and Jack the puppy were walking near a pond behind a middle school in the town of Holiday when the gator appeared out of nowhere. It tried to pull Jack under the water. Then Mike […]
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Most big city marathons were called off last year. Now that pandemic restrictions have eased, major marathons are planned for later in 2021 in cities including New York, Boston and Chicago.
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“When one door closes,” the saying goes, “another door opens.” For one very special pooch, it appears that adage also applies to doggie-doors. A Labrador-retriever mix named Sheldon was enrolled in a program to become a service dog. Training at Paws With A Cause in Wayland, Michigan, unfortunately he couldn’t quite make the grade. Whenever […]
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A Virginia cop has been praised as a hero after a video was released showing him single-handedly pull a crashed car off a woman who was pinned to the ground—and this isn’t even the first time he’s been praised for his bravery. “The driver was laying underneath the vehicle with her head pinned by the […]
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Mosquitoes are one of the deadliest animals on the planet because they spread yellow fever, dengue, encephalitis, and malaria, which killed 400,000 people in 2019. Now, clinical trials of the promising R21 vaccine in Burkina Faso may be an effective tool against the disease, as it triggers the body’s immune system to attack the parasite—and […]
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An evolutionary theorist has set out to prove that plants can hear their surroundings, and she was right; they can. Her work, not yet peer-reviewed, but available in a preprint repository, looked at the flowers of the evening primrose and used sound tests to prove they responded to the sound of bees’ wings by increasing […]
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Happy Birthday to Cher, who turns 75 today. The actress, dancer, and singer has sold over 100 million records. The ‘Goddess of Pop’, with her distinctively resonant contralto voice, reached the top of the charts in 1965 with the Sonny & Cher hit, I Got You Babe, and in her solo career with four No.1 […]
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The birth of three litters of critically endangered American red wolves happened recently in North Carolina—and they were born just three days apart. All pups and their mothers are healthy and doing well—with this the first time in the history of the North Carolina Zoo’s red wolf breeding program that a trio of litters was […]
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If you found out someone you loved only had months to live, you’d likely move heaven and earth to be with them. Unfortunately, in the complex era of coronavirus, heaven and earth are all too often mired in a sea of red tape. Bus driver Aaron Wylie lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His mom, Sandra, […]
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A cat in Chicago has survived unharmed after jumping from the fifth-floor window of an apartment building that was on fire. Staff from the Chicago Fire Department were taping the firefighters as they worked to fight the blaze when a black feline appeared through smoke billowing out of a broken window. CHECK OUT: Newly Discovered […]
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Off the coast of New Zealand, a group of marine biologists has discovered a mother bottlenose dolphin that had adopted a baby pilot whale. The Kiwi-based Far Out Ocean Research Collective discovered the mammals sailing in the Bay of Islands in Northern New Zealand, and has now documented the pair on two separate occasions five […]
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A group of campaigners and artists have joined together to throw a significant spanner in the works of a venture capital firm’s takeover of a historic London foundry. Plans to turn the site into a boutique hotel with office space for “creatives” and a café and restaurant has earned the ire of artists, former foundry […]
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65 years ago today, Major League Baseball player Dale Long set an MLB record by hitting a home run in eight consecutive games. Playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates that year, his achievement of 8 homers in 8 straight games surpassed the previous mark of 6 straight games, shared by Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays, and three […]
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The drumbeat for canceling the Tokyo Summer Olympics gets louder every day. There are also strong calls to boycott the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics because of China's alleged human rights abuses.
Australian scientists have been uncovering a near-unending list of ways kelp and other kinds of seaweed can help in the fight against climate change. It’s the continued study and harvesting of seaweed species in Australia that has Dr. Pia Winberg convinced they can play as large a role in human civilization as commodities like wheat, […]
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In a world first, a veterinarian performed surgery to heal an ulcerated cornea on the eye: of a tiger. If one can withstand the insufferable puns, they might be pleased to note that 17-year-old Sumatran tiger Ratna at Shepreth Wildlife Park in England made a full recovery after the surgery that successfully restored her eyesight. […]
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Delaware State University officials are canceling up to $730,655 in student debt for recently graduated students who have faced financial hardship during the pandemic. Antonio Boyle, Vice President for Strategic Enrollment Management, estimated that the average eligible student will qualify for about $3,276 in debt relief—or roughly a third of a year’s tuition. This will […]
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You can put your money where your mouth is, or you can put your money where your heart is, and for one bank headquartered in upstate New York, that philosophy is paying huge dividends for its community. Ulster Savings Bank (USB) has been a fixture in the Hudson Valley since 1851. To commemorate their 170th […]
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Tokyo-area hospitals "have their hands full," the Tokyo Medical Practitioners Association says in an open letter to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. The group represents some 6,000 primary care doctors.
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An extremely rare calico lobster was recently found at a Red Lobster by employees who spotted its unique spotted shell. The male calico lobster, named Freckles by the staff in Manassas, arrived at the Virginia restaurant as part of a regular delivery from Maine. When team members recognized the lobster’s orange and black shell covering, […]
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20 years ago today, the computer-animated blockbuster Shrek premiered in the US. In the story, a runaway donkey (voiced by Eddie Murphy) befriends an ogre named Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) and urges him to go on a quest to rescue Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz)—who is hiding a secret that will change his life forever. […]
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Heroic deeds come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them require bravery in the face of danger, others result from a simple random act of compassion. Natalie Fernando was taking her 5-year-old autistic son Rudy (affectionately known as “Roo”) for a seaside walk when the little boy spiraled into a meltdown. “My son loves […]
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Some kids dream of running away to join the circus—while the Ringling Bros. elephants that had been performing every night might have been dreaming about a place like this, a dream that is now coming true. 35 Asian pachyderms formerly under the care of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus are being welcomed […]
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The Indian Premier League was suspended in May, but critics weigh in on whether the event should have been held at all amid the country's deadly COVID crisis.
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A man paralyzed from the neck down has gained the ability to type words with his brain about as fast as the average smartphone user, a new study says. This “mindwriting” was done through a science-fiction sounding brain-computer interface (BCI) that picked up neural signals and fed them into an algorithm which translated them into […]
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An experimental form of gene therapy developed by a team of researchers from UCLA and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has successfully treated 48 of 50 children born with a rare and deadly inherited disorder that leaves them without an immune system. Severe combined immunodeficiency due to adenosine deaminase deficiency, or ADA-SCID, is caused […]
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To prevent seabirds from being caught in fishing nets, conservationists have developed an unusual aquatic scarecrow which the GNN staff summarily agreed looked just like Pixar’s WALL-E. Invented as part of a multinational effort to create innovative solutions to prevent seabird bycatch, a pair of googly-eyes mounted on a floating buoy was found to decrease […]
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the opening of Godspell—a musical that would soon become a worldwide phenomenon. Drama student John-Michael Tebelak wrote the show initially as his master’s thesis at Carnegie Mellon University, and directed the performances for years, both on- and off-Broadway. The scenes are based on parables in the Bible, mostly from […]
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This blog was submitted to GNN by one of our readers for publishing. If you have an interesting story of kindness or positivity, be sure to send it to us for review. During the past 18 months my husband and I have come to know some extraordinary dog people, all because of a homeless puppy […]
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A breakthrough human trial achieved highly statistically-significant results and an excellent safety record, demonstrating that MDMA-assisted therapy can be an effective treatment for severe and chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). At the end of the randomized, blinded, Phase 3 trial, carried out by the nonprofit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), 67% of participants who […]
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A benefit concert that was broadcast in 100 countries last week helped mobilize $302 million in funding and over 26 million individual COVID-19 vaccine doses for the world’s most marginalized communities, and their health care workers in need of support. Global Citizen, founded online in 2012 to address global poverty, organized the star-studded concert hosted […]
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Scuba divers were beyond thrilled when a a group of young sea lions showed up in the water and surrounded them for a playtime of curious wonder. The beaches and rocky shores of the Galapagos Islands are home to many sea lions, and the large animals so often look and act like our lovable canine […]
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55 years ago today, The Beach Boys released their iconic album Pet Sounds. Widely praised as one of the most influential records ever released, it was ranked No.2 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (behind Sgt. Pepper’s). The composer, arranger, and producer, Brian Wilson, designed a ‘Wall of Sound’ […]
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Against long odds, Rombauer won the second leg of the Triple Crown in Baltimore on Saturday at the 146th running of the Preakness Stakes.
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As bird-lovers celebrated World Migratory Bird Day on May 8, new science had already determined that in the last half century around 3 billion birds in North America had been lost, and that two-thirds of the continent’s feathered friends today are at risk due to climate change. That’s why the Biden administration this month began […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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As companies continue to search for more environmentally regenerative materials to use in manufacturing, the tire industry is beginning to revisit an old Soviet method of rubber cultivation, using a plant that is considered a pesky weed in the West—dandelions. A major tire company in Germany has partnered with the University of Aachen to produce […]
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to ESPN's Howard Bryant talks about the start of the NHL playoffs, the significance of the WNBA's 25th anniversary and a COVID-19 outbreak among the New York Yankees.
80 years ago today, baseball’s Joe DiMaggio began his historic 56-game hitting streak—getting at least one hit in the next 56 consecutive games—a Major League record that still stands today and has been described as unbreakable. During the streak, which ended on July 17, ‘Joltin’ Joe’ hit .408 with 15 home runs and 55 runs […]
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The Tokyo Summer Olympics are 10 weeks away. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with The New York Times' Motoko Rich in Tokyo about the games' unpopularity in Japan, where the pandemic is still out of control.
The New York Yankees have reported eight "breakthrough" cases among vaccinated staff and a player. Scientists say the outbreak is in line with what's already known about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
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A NASA space probe is now deep in interstellar space, and its instruments have detected an intriguing constant ‘hum’. Voyager 1—one of two sibling NASA spacecraft launched 44 years ago and now the most distant human-made object in space—still works and zooms toward infinity. The craft has long since zipped past the edge of the […]
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As the COVID-19 malaise slowly lifts around the world, governments are looking for quick and innovative ways to kickstart their travel industries. Portugal is building a remote worker village on the stunning island of Madeira, and now two Italian towns are paying 50% of the rental costs for remote workers looking to swap their current […]
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Literacy skills have actually improved in the pandemic, with children reportedly picking up more challenging books and getting lost in fiction to combat isolation, a study from the UK has shown. With schools often closed, many more pupils began to enjoy reading again—with 56 percent of young people saying they enjoyed reading either very much […]
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The Japanese government remains adamant that the games will proceed as planned, even as local governments and protestors express rising concern about hosting the event during the pandemic.
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While pangolin scales, shark fins, elephant ivory, and rhino horn are famed for their value on the black market, the most illegally trafficked of them all is the rosewood tree, which generates more dollars than all four put together. Famed for quality in furniture and instruments, the advent of 3D printers has given a team […]
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A kid recently wrote to Old Navy asking them to put pockets on girls’ jeans, and her powers of persuasion seem to have done the trick. Kamryn Gardner from Arkansas wrote to her favorite clothing brand because she was learning to write persuasive letters in first grade. She said that real pockets should be on […]
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There is growing anger in Japan that the government is pressing ahead with this summer's Olympic games — as COVID-19 cases continue to rise there.
Happy Birthday to Talking Heads singer, songwriter, and musician David Byrne, who turns 69 today. Before high school, Byrne had been diagnosed on the Asperger’s spectrum and now calls it his creative superpower for hyperfocusing his creativity. He taught himself to play guitar, accordion, and violin, but was rejected from his school’s choir because they […]
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They say home is where the heart is, but when the home you’re living in isn’t safe, the heartache can be a real headache. That was the situation for one Nova Scotia family—until neighbors stepped in to turn things around. When Alvero Wiggins was diagnosed with kidney failure it created a domino effect. The rigors […]
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While industries are harnessing solar, hydro, and geothermal power to solve the world’s energy problems, it’s been thought by many for sometime that the eventual source of unlimited clean energy will be nuclear fusion. Fusion reactors replicate the power and process of the sun down here on Earth by creating plasma, the fourth material state, […]
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