As a means of staving off self-isolation boredom, these delighted seniors and their nursing home caretakers played a game of real-life Hungry, Hungry Hippos. In a video that was published by the Bryn Celyn Care Home in Maesteg, Wales last…
15 years ago today, the American version of The Office, a TV series (originally created in the UK by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant) starring Steve Carell and John Krasinski premiered on NBC. The mockumentary sitcom depicts the everyday lives…
The Lesson: “That’s when I realized that there were two types of people in the world: those who see what they want, and those who can only see what’s getting in the way of what they want.” In this engaging…
File photo by Gage Skidmore, CC Dozens—perhaps even hundreds—of children in self-isolation are set to receive messages of comfort from none other than Spider-Man himself. That’s because Jake Johnson, the voice actor who played Peter Parker in the recent superhero…
A particularly resourceful dog owner in Cyprus has come up with an ingenious way of walking his pup while still staying inside during the COVID-19 shutdowns. Vakis Demetriou posted a video to Facebook last week depicting his happy canine companion…
Last week, we published a list of ten positive updates on the COVID-19 outbreaks from around the world. Since the article has been viewed millions of times, we thought we would go ahead and publish another round-up of optimistic occurrences…
People around the world are finding more and more positive ways to help their neighbors during the COVID-19 outbreaks—from buying groceries for elderly people in self-isolation or sharing toilet paper with those in need. So when these two young siblings…
245 years ago today, American Founding Father Patrick Henry spoke to Virginia legislators, where he famously proposed that their colony should join the revolution against King George and fight for independence. “I know not what course others may take, but…
A new piece of legislation introduced and passed in Virginia’s State House aims to optimize solar and offshore wind resources as a way of replacing fossil fuels like coal, to offer cleaner—and cheaper—energy to the population. The Virginia Clean Economy…
A surgical procedure that was just undertaken at the Beilinson Hospital in Israel could change the way cancers are treated. For the operation, a man’s lung was removed, cleaned of cancerous tumors, and placed right back again—something that’s only been…
