- A high-stakes bridge test
Daily Edition • August 29, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Of all the assignments a Stanford business student could receive, this one is relatively straightforward: Write a thank-you letter. Glenn Kramon, a lecturer at the prestigious school, tasks his students with doing just that. And in a recent op-ed for The New York Times, he shared that many are left “stunned” by the positive reactions they receive from their notes of gratitude. “I’m struck by how many of the recipients said they had never received…Read more
- Man on wire (again)
Daily Edition • August 8, 2024 SUPPORTED BY It’s Happiness Happens Day, a celebration established by the Society of Happy People — and no, those aren’t inventions of Nice News (as much as we would like them to be). The society dates back to 1998, after founder Pamela Gail “noticed that lots of other happy people, like me, tended to keep a lot of our happiness to ourselves.” She wanted happiness to be more out in the open, and created the group from that desire. Hers is a philosophy that ties...
- Women’s health app hits unicorn status
Daily Edition • August 7, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Any parent who has glanced at their kid’s math homework knows that education evolves over the years — and one example of that is going viral on social media as we head into back-to-school season. A teacher recently shared on TikTok that the alphabet song is taught differently today in an effort to help little ones better distinguish between the letters. The main change: The slightly modified tune breaks up that pesky “LMNOP” block. Must Reads In the...
- Meet the youngest and oldest Olympians
Daily Edition • August 6, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Acclimatization was put on the map this summer by a viral TikTok video humorously explaining how to ease into a chilly lake. But the concept is also an important aspect of the ongoing Summer Games, as participants have had to compete in rather hot and humid weather. Heat acclimatization, or heat training, is a way to prepare for such conditions, and it’s not just for elite athletes — learn how we can all benefit from helping our bodies adapt to...