Andy Serkis, the celebrated actor who played the role of Gollum in The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit is raising money for COVID-19 response in the UK by reading the entire JRR Tolkien book The Hobbit, live, cover…
For the second straight year, there will be no whale hunting season in Iceland, and conservation groups are celebrating. After the international moratorium against whaling began in 1986, two Icelandic companies, Hvalur and IP-Utgerd, carried on hunting fin whales and…
180 years ago today, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the iconic Russian composer was born. Famous for his ballets like The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, and The Sleeping Beauty—he also wrote popular classical works including the famous 1812 Overture (the…
These nuns are spending three hours every day exercising the physical, alongside the spiritual—and you wouldn’t want to face them down in a fight. The Buddhist Drukpa Order is the only one in Nepal in which the nuns practice martial…
A repayment of gratitude 170 years in the making has rekindled an affectionate bond linking the Great Irish Potato Famine of almost two centuries ago with a Native American tribe in Oklahoma suffering today from the coronavirus pandemic. In 1847,…
We’ve seen some incredible displays of creativity during the long weeks of COVID-19 self-isolating. (GNN even produced a fun television pilot.) But nothing quite matches the brilliant strategy of a California animal shelter which is struggling to pay its bills…
After designing a special athletic shoe for healthcare workers that can withstand 12-hour shifts, Nike has donated 30,000 pairs to hospitals across the United States and 2,500 to hospitals in Europe. The company is also sending more than 100,000 additional…
A team of scientists in Kenya and the UK are hailing the “enormous potential” of a new strategy to control malaria, after discovering that a microbe completely protects mosquitoes from infection. “The data we have so far suggest it is…
60 years ago today, President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960, a US federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls. It introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone’s attempt to register to vote. It…
[embedded content] Since the COVID-19 outbreaks have disrupted many of the traditional festivities of Ramadan—such as going to mosque and sharing meals with loved ones—one Michigan town has launched a sweet new initiative to celebrate the Islamic holiday from quarantine.…
