On this day 100 years ago, the first baseball game was played in the Negro National League. In Indianapolis, the home team, the ABCs, beat the Chicago American Giants in the new league that was initially composed of eight teams…
With millions of people struggling to cope with the strange lifestyles changes presented by the COVID-19 outbreaks, we can still look to one of America’s most beloved role models to learn how to react to the pandemic with kindness and…
The COVID-19 pandemic represents the biggest shock to the global economy in more than seven decades, but new research says that the outbreaks are likely to result in a record-breaking 8% annual decline in carbon emissions—the largest decrease in history.…
Happy 100th Birthday @captaintommoore 🎉🎂 #CaptainTomMoore #100thBirthday #HappyBirthday pic.twitter.com/OOVvwfe43q — The London Palladium (@LondonPalladium) April 30, 2020 Yesterday was the 100th birthday of Captain Thomas Moore—the WWII veteran who captured hearts around the world after successfully raising millions of dollars…
Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have designed the first robot capable of not only playing music, but creating music—and its name is Shimon. The musical robot was trained on a vast data set of everything from progressive rock…
The Rolling Stones have just announced ‘Extra Licks’ – a series of special past performances that will be streaming worldwide, every Sunday exclusively on YouTube! Starting this Sunday May 03 at 8pm BST / 12pm PT / 3pm ET, the…
70 years ago today, writer Gwendolyn Brooks became the first black person (her preferred term) to win a Pulitzer prize.The quintessential Chicago poet published her first poem at the age of 13—by age 16 she’d published 75. Her second book…
On Friday night, a 24-hour global event will begin live-streaming all over the internet with 200 cultural, spiritual, and community leaders hoping to unite people across the world and celebrate our common humanity. Sharing inspirational messages or music from their…
Just in case you didn’t already have enough reasons to love Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks, he recently disclosed that he and his wife Rita Wilson would be donating their blood to help scientists develop potential treatments for COVID-19. Hanks…
Although the novel coronavirus pandemic has driven thousands of workers into unemployment, the Pakistani government has found a way to provide jobs to their citizens while also reforesting the nation. According to Reuters, Pakistan has created more than 63,000 jobs…
