According to a study published in the Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, people who are emphatic or able to feel others’ sadness or happiness deeply also tend to process music differently in their brains than those who’re less emphatic. The head of the study, Zachary Wallmark, who’s also an assistant professor […]
For Iqbal Alimohd and his wife Mumtaz, Saturday mornings start quite early. For 15 years, this amazing family has been delivering groceries to seniors every weekend. They go to the Real Canadian Superstore before it opens and both of them are ready to purchase the groceries for dozens of seniors […]
A realtor from Missouri is determined to transform her town “a city where no one sleeps outside.” She’s doing this by building tiny home villages where homeless people can live. For nine years now, Linda Brown and her husband David have been running a drop-in shelter where people in need […]
Unfortunately, the lifestyles of around three average American citizens make enough carbon emissions that can kill one person. What’s more, the emissions from one coal-fired power plant will likely result in more than 900 deaths, found the first analysis that calculated the mortal cost of CO2 emissions. This new research […]
Consumer goods giant Unilever has placed a ban on all animal testing not required by law for all of their products. The brand has been added to PETA’s list of companies that are working for regulatory change. It’s a category that recognizes companies that test on animals solely when required […]
This 94-year-old grandma fulfilled her lifelong dream to wear a traditional wedding dress, almost 70 years after she couldn’t wear one on her wedding day in 1952. Martha Tucker was treated with a surprise wedding dress fitting by her granddaughter Angela Strozier after Tucker told her that the racial segregation […]
Regular and healthy sleep is pivotal for the overall health and wellness of a person. However, not all people are getting the sleep they need. In fact, a study by the CDC found that more than one in three American adults aren’t getting enough hours of sleep. Insufficient sleep stresses […]
This selfless teen carried out one random act of kindness every day since the pandemic began. The 18-year-old Sebbie Hall from Lichfield, Staffordshire who has learning difficulties started a kindness marathon after he decided to gift his iPad to a friend so that they could zoom. This is when his […]
Some two decades ago, the last trash load arrived at the Fresh Kills Landfill. The packed barged turned slowly out of the Arthur Kill, a long, brown tidal strait that divides Staten Island from New Jersey, and docked at the Sanitation Department Pier. The once biggest landfill in the world, […]
A team of researchers from China made a fabric able to cool down the body by 5 degrees C and may be of aid with the rising temperatures we’re faced with. This “metafabric” is the brainchild of scientists from different parts of China. It looks like a usual T-shirt material, […]