About 50 miles off the coast of South Korea, a group of women — some of them in their 80s — start many days by free diving into frigid waters to collect conch, sea urchin, abalone, octopus, and other ocean dwellers for their communities to eat. Jeju Island’s Haenyeo, or “women of the sea,” are […]
When Nice News first interviewed Scott Shigeoka about curiosity in 2023, he was on the cusp of publishing his book on the subject, Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World. Shigeoka has been busy since then: He took his ideas to the TED stage in November, focusing on curiosity’s potential to
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In a tiny village in Spain, the streets are lined with black slate buildings, and the majority of residents are in their golden years. It’s perhaps an unlikely destination for celebrating gay marriage — and yet the municipality of Campillo de Ranas, one of the country’s appropriately dubbed “black villages” because of its dark-stoned dwellings,
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Forget shark week — it’s shark season in New England. The first great white sighting of the season was confirmed May 11 when a seal with a shark bite washed ashore on Nantucket in Massachusetts, and for the second year in a row, researchers in the state will be using an innovative method to help
Our planet is home to around 1 million known insect species, and about 1%-3% of them are considered pests, per the National Pesticide Information Center. But which one has been bugging humans the longest? A team of scientists led by two Virginia Tech researchers think they’ve figured it out: In a study published Wednesday, they suggest that bed bugs were the first human pest.
The Breakneck Ridge Trail is one of the most popular day hikes in not just New York state but the entire country — the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference estimated in 2018 that the destination receives around 100,000 visitors each year. That’s partially thanks to its proximity to the Big Apple: It takes under 90
There are myriad meaningful ways to treat the father figures in your life — from spending time together to giving them a gift they wouldn’t buy themselves (or maybe both).
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Whether it’s with a colleague at the water cooler or a fellow parent in the school pickup line, most of us partake in the same activity at some point every day. It often begins with one person asking a question (e.g., “How are you?”) followed by a quick answer from the respondent and the same
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If you’ve spent time on social media lately, you may have come across actor Jack Henry Robbins — son of Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins — poking fun at himself in a series of videos. The 36-year-old has been playing off the recent discourse around “nepo babies,” or people who may have gotten a leg
This article was originally written by Dean Murray for SWNS — the U.K.’s largest independent news agency, providing globally relevant original, verified, and engaging content to the world’s leading media outlets. The winners of NASA’s seventh annual Photographer of the Year awards are in. The out-of-this-world images all offer scenes of the space agency’s activities
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