Before this miniature polar bear took the shape of an animal, it was an eggplant, and this ridiculously cute Star Wars character used to be plain old mashed potatoes. Welcome to the world of food art: where food is clay, fruit is paint, and chopsticks are paint brushes. Quirky, creative, and (maybe) too unique to […]
Recommendations are independently selected by our team but may result in a commission to Nice News which helps keep our content free. Let’s be honest — no one needs a special reason to celebrate ice cream. It’s ice cream, after all! Researchers believe that humans have been enjoying it in some form since as far back
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Sponsored by Nom Nom — Click here to get 50% off your first order In covering the world’s positive news, we get to share oodles of animal stories — from conservation successes to hilarious pets — and we’ve found that our readers love them as much as we do. So when we learned about Nom Nom,
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Someone better call actor Andrew McCarthy. Science hasn’t gone so far as to literally bring a mannequin to life like it did in the 1987 film Mannequin, but some visitors to Arizona State University’s Tempe Campus might be fooled. Housed at ASU is ANDI: the world’s first indoor-outdoor breathing, walking, and sweating manikin. Manikins, similar-looking to
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If you look closely at the image above, you might notice a round, bready dish that closely resembles pizza. There’s a hitch, though: The Italian fresco was recently uncovered during an excavation in the city of Pompeii, which was buried in A.D. 79 after Mount Vesuvius erupted. That’s long before tomatoes, a South American crop,
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We’ve all experienced days where nothing seemed to go in our favor: the house keys couldn’t be found, coffee spilled on our shirt, and the car had a flat tire — all before 9 a.m. Whatever the situation, conventional wisdom has long encouraged us to “take a breath” during these moments of stress and overwhelm.
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Meet the Irish sisters who are turning wheelchairs into fashion statements. Izzy Wheels, founded by Ailbhe and Izzy Keane, has collaborated with over a hundred famous designers to create award-winning wheel covers that allow wheelchair users to express their personalities through disability fashion. “Izzy Wheels empower wheelchair users to make a statement about themselves, it
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A boat, a blue bus, and a former bank — these are all homes to wildly wonderful and unique bookstores across the world. While all bookshops are arguably good bookshops, some are extra memorable for how they look and make us feel. Below, we’ve compiled some of the most unforgettable ones, spanning six continents (excluding
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We shared some of the world’s friendliest cities in June, and now we’re back with the most livable. Per the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Global Liveability Index, Vienna is once again in the top spot. The Austrian capital city “retained its crown this year, thanks to its unsurpassed combination of stability, good infrastructure, strong education
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In Kerala, India, a previously neglected river that was biologically “dead” has since been revived, thanks to the combined efforts of the state government, a village council, and the river’s surrounding communities. The Kuttamperoor River, a 7.4-mile tributary of the Pampa and Achencoil rivers, had long been a life-sustaining source for drinking water, irrigation of
