Good News Headlines 2/23/2022
Marine biologists have found that $8 green LED lights affixed to fishermen’s gill nets were enough to dissuade huge amounts of sea animals like turtles, rays, and sharks from ever swimming toward the nets.
Despite Its Disastrous Effects, COVID-19 Offers Some Gifts To Medicine – An Immunology Expert Explains What It Can Teach Us About Autoimmune Disease
While it’s still too early to draw conclusions, evidence is emerging of links between autoimmune disorders and the virus that causes COVID-19.
The Problem With The Mediterranean Diet We’re Not Talking About Enough
You’re probably familiar with the Mediterranean diet. But while there’s plenty to celebrate about the Mediterranean diet, there’s also a big problem that we’re not talking about enough.
Earth Talk: Can Microorganisms Eat Our Plastic?
In 2016 Japanese scientists at the Kyoto Institute of Tokyo took samples outside of a recycling facility in Osaka and made a revolutionary discovery: microorganisms capable of breaking down PET plastic.
Good News Headlines 2/16/2022
In two years, Iceland will officially hang up its harpoon. The country, one of only three in the world that allows commercial whaling, will end the controversial practice when current quotas expire.
How To Transform The Way You Experience Winter
Restoring our relationship with nature—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually—is key to transforming our experience with winter. Once we’re able to do this, we can thrive in any season. We stay open to the possibilities of responding consciously and creatively to changing conditions.
In Research Studies And In Real Life, Placebos Have A Powerful Healing Effect On The Body And Mind
Scientists define these so-called placebo effects as the positive outcomes that cannot be scientifically explained by the physical effects of the treatment. Research suggests that the placebo effect is caused by positive expectations.
10 Home Remedies To Get Rid Of Dandruff Naturally
Dandruff, which is characterized by itchy, white flakes of skin on your scalp, can be uncomfortable and embarrassing to deal with. However, it’s easy to treat and relatively common.
Most Bottled Water Contaminated With Plastics
Plastic has become an incredibly harmful convenience, now threatening environmental and human health alike, and in more ways than one. There's the issue of bulk plastics in our landfills, where it will remain indefinitely since most plastic does not biodegrade.
6 Healing Truths About Addiction That Will Aid In Your Recovery
Imagine for a moment that you are in the depths of addiction. Recovery may feel like nothing more than a dream. But it doesn't have to be this way. There are truths about addiction that can help you find the strength to recover.
Restaurant Owners Got 30 Times More Federal Covid Aid Than Workers: Report
If the subminimum wage for tipped workers persists, the restaurant industry is unlikely to recover from its growing labor crisis, regardless of how much money the federal government hands out to business owners.
Not Everyone Is Male Or Female – The Growing Controversy Over Sex Designation
Check out your birth certificate and you’ll see a designation for sex. When you were born, a doctor or clinician assigned you the “male” or “female” label based on a look at your genitalia. Sex designation is not as simple as a glance and then a check of one box.
Good News Headlines 2/9/2022
With the help of her great-grandson (one of her 34 great-grandchildren), 98-year-old Lily Ebert shares brief videos on her TikTok channel describing some of what she experienced during the Holocaust and answers questions viewers ask. She currently has 1.7 million followers.
Use Electromagnetism To Rewire And Recharge Your Health
A new paradigm is beginning to emerge that suggests we are fundamentally electromagnetic and vibrational. It suggests that we, and the cosmos that is our home, are made up of light and sound and waveforms across an unimaginably vast array of frequencies.
Cooking By Feeling: Honoring Black Culture Through Food
Food is a universal love language, and in the Black community, this love runs deep. It comes from a desire to nourish others, spend time together, maintain traditions, and stay within our means.
Taken with Coffee, It’s a Disguised Gut Poison
Artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose may have zero calories, but your body isn't fooled. When hit with a "sweet" taste, your body expects calories and when this doesn't happen, it causes biochemical distortions that can result in weight gain and other health problems.
What Are Microplastics? And What Can Be Done About Them?
Microplastics pose a monumental risk to the ecosystems and wildlife that form the foundation of our ability to live on this planet. There are very real risks to not addressing the concern.
Is The Omicron Variant Mother Nature’s Way Of Vaccinating The Masses And Curbing The Pandemic?
The Omicron variant may confer strong protection against other variants. This has many people wondering whether omicron could act as a vaccine of sorts, inoculating enough people to effectively bring about herd immunity.
Kintsugi Living: An Aesthetic Blueprint For A Post-Covid World
Kintsugi is an art form in keeping with the Zen tenets of non-attachment and the mindful awareness of the beauty in all things — even objects that are flawed or imperfect or worn thin by time. Imperfections are highlighted or emphasized.
Good News Headlines 2/2/2022
Northern California’s majestic redwood forest was once the home of Indigenous tribes that were forced from their land by European settlers. On Tuesday, nonprofit Save the Redwoods League transferred ownership of 523 acres of forest on the Lost Coast to the Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council.
Being Present Doesn’t Have To Hurt, Even With Chronic Pain
The reality is that a mindful approach to pain has nothing to do with denying your experience. It’s all about getting real with it, accepting it, and even embracing it. Mindfulness is a way to be more present with whatever you’re feeling.
Daily Astrology
September 13, 2025
We are nearly at the midpoint between last week’s total Lunar Eclipse and the upcoming partial Solar Eclipse. Given the surprises and uncertainties of eclipse season, it follows that under today’s Virgo Sun/Mercury conjunction...
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