- Today’s Pick: Rats paint mini masterpieces
Editors’ Picks • August 27, 2025 The abstract art world is full of inventive creatives who love experimenting with color and composition, and the artists we’re featuring today are a perfect example. Think: Jackson Pollock, but smaller — much smaller. The painters in question are eight pet rats belonging to a college student in the U.K., and the works they’ve created simply by being their scurrying selves have helped their owner save up for a car. Watch the teeny artists in action at the link…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...