A leading California-based charity announced last week that it is on pace for a 15% increase in organ donations over last year’s record-setting numbers, despite the upheaval that COVID-19 has caused to the nation’s healthcare system. The OneLegacy organization is…
For the last 23 years, Japanese artist Makoto Azuma has been making art out of his favorite medium: flowers. Azuma says he first became captivated by the power of flowers after he started working part-time at a florist’s in order…
Following a parliamentary vote last Tuesday, Lebanon has become the first Arab nation to legalize cannabis for medicinal and industrial purposes—and it could bring a much-needed financial windfall to the country’s economy. The legislation was approved nearly two years after…
Conservationists are celebrating yet another environmental milestone as the last polluting coal-fired power plants in Austria and Sweden closed their doors. Sweden’s original commitment to stop using coal was a target the country wanted to achieve by 2022, but the recent closure…
And, Bob Feller’s world record is safe for another year… In the last 80 years of Major League Baseball, no one has broken this pitcher’s record of throwing the only opening day no-hitter in the history of the game. After…
“I cannot think of another time in the last million years when our species has been united against a common enemy,” said David Sinclair, Harvard Medical School genetics professor, in an interview with Peter Diamandis. We are all stuck at…
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…
