Good News Headlines 2/5/19
Snatam Kaur, Mantra Singer and Sacred Chant Artist, To Perform At 2019 GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony
from PRNewswire
Snatam Kaur, who has received her first Grammy nomination in the New Age category for her album Beloved in this year’s 61st Grammy Awards, will be performing at the 2019 GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony… Read More
Yet More Proof That Exercise Reduces Depression
by Ilana Strauss, Treehugger
A team from Massachusetts General Hospital used a technique called Mendelian randomization to figure out the connection between physical activity and depression… Read More
170 Foxes Are Rescued From Fur Farm And Given New Home At A Buddhist Monastery
by McKinley Corbley, Good News Network
Animal activist Karen Gifford has spent the last few weeks documenting the rescue initiative in a series of Facebook videos that were shared with her by a woman named BoHe… Read More
The World’s Oldest Nobel Prize Winner, A 96-year-old Physicist, Says His New Invention Will Give Everyone In The World Clean, Cheap Energy
by Hilary Brueck, Business Insider
Ashkin, who’s 96 years old, has turned the bottom floor of his house into a kind of laboratory where he’s developing a solar-energy-harnessing device… Read More
Out-Of-Work Appalachian Coal Miners Train As Beekeepers To Earn Extra Cash
by Jodi Helmer, NPR
In a state that now has the lowest labor-force participation rate in the nation, the long-term decline of coal mining has left West Virginia residents without new options to make a living… Read More
Volunteers Build Beds For Homeless People At Boston Latin
by Jordan Frias, Spare Change News
Hundreds came out in single digit weather to attend the 13th annual Boston Cares’ Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, held at the Boston Latin School for the third year in a row… Read More
Thrift Stores Are Overwhelmed With Donations, Thanks To Marie Kondo
by Katherine Martinko, Treehugger
Over the past month, thrift stores the world over have been inundated with donations of clothes, books, and home furnishings that have failed the notorious “spark joy” test… Read More
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