One-Minute Phone Breaks Help Keep College Students More Focused in Classroom: Study
nnResearchers investigated whether letting students use their phones for very brief amounts of time can enhance classroom performance—and it seems to have worked.nnTheir long-term experiment showed that allowing one-minute mobile phone breaks in college classrooms could result in more focus, less mobile use during lectures, and higher test scores.nnPhones can be useful tools for teachers […]
Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, 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 […]
“Autumn is the mellow time.” – William Allingham
Quote of the Day: “Autumn is the mellow time.” – William AllinghamnnPhoto by: Mathieu Odin for Unsplash+nnWith a new inspirational quote every day, atop the perfect photo—collected and archived on our Quote of the Day page—why not bookmark GNN.org for a daily uplift?nn
Good News in History, October 5
Happy 66th Birthday to popular science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson. Born in the Big Apple without a star in the sky to look up at, Tyson nevertheless became a face for astronomy and astrophysics as Director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of the television special Cosmos: a Spacetime Odyssey. READ more about Tyson… (1958)nn
Miracle Twins Given 10% Chance of Survival Are Now Thriving Thanks to Hero Medics
nnA Scottish mom is thanking her lucky stars after her “miracle” twins avoided the worst of a potentially mortal fetal complication.nnAt one point given a 10% chance to live, Kelsea and Willow were born at 32 weeks, breathing on their own. After a one-month stay in the NICU, they went home and are developing normally.nnMore […]
Torn Between Volunteering and Dream of Adopting a Cat, 6-year-old Starts Poop Scooping Business
nnThis is Luca Arpin, better known to his neighbors as “Poopa Scoopa Luca.“nnHis moniker is well-earned, as the 6-year-old styled himself the neighborhood’s #1 number to call for cleaning up after dogs and cats.nn”People hate picking up dog poop,” said the first-grader from Warwick, Mass. Speaking with WJAR, Arpin said he has an appreciation for […]
Mystery of Nazca Lines Deepens as AI Survey Doubles Number of Geoglyphs and Alters Their Meaning
nnIt took nearly a century to locate the 430 geoglyphs hidden in the Nazca Desert of Peru, but archaeologists surveying almost the entire region with the help of AI just turned up another 303 in a single study period.nnNazca is one of the greatest mysteries in anthropology—why did the Nazca Culture, active perhaps around the […]
San Francisco Opera Offers Prime Tickets For $10 to Get New Folks Interested in Magnum Opuses Like Carmen
nnIn 1932, the above ticket to the San Francisco Opera was sold for $10. Now, the artistic company is offering prime seats for the same price to welcome opera-curious locals.nnThe ticket priced in today’s currency is over $220, but two years ago, in honor of the SF Opera’s 100th anniversary, they rolled back the cost […]
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Emile Zola
Quote of the Day: “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Emile ZolannPhoto by: Flow ClarknnWith a new inspirational quote every day, atop the perfect photo—collected and archived on our Quote of the Day page—why not bookmark GNN.org for a daily uplift?nn
Good News in History, October 4
200 years ago today, a new federalist constitution was signed inaugurating the First Mexican Republic. A drafting committee consisting of several representative figures led by Miguel Ramos Arizpe finished the document quickly because it was based on the shared Hispanic political theory and practice that Mexicans, the former novohispanos, knew well, since they had played […]