- Healing through art
Best of 2025 • Humanity Edition Happy New Year’s Eve! We’re wrapping up 2025 on an especially inspiring note with the humanity edition of the Best of Nice News. The stories below are just a glimpse of the many ways people continue to remind us of the good that exists (and has always existed) in the world, even in the toughest of times. All that goodness adds up, and we hope it leaves you feeling as hopeful for the year ahead as we are. We’ll be back with regular programming tomorrow! Humanity…Read more
- Today’s Pick: A “haunting” hyena photo
Editors’ Picks • October 15, 2025 The world’s rarest hyena species is (a tad ironically) getting its day in the sun: An elusive, nocturnal brown hyena was captured in a “haunting” image that just won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards. Titling the spooky shot “Ghost Town Visitor,” Wim van den Heever from South Africa spent a decade monitoring camera traps in the abandoned diamond mining town of Kolmanskop, Namibia, to score it. Learn more about the photo and see the other winning...
- What’s super about “Superwood”?
. Daily Edition • October 15, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Want to brighten a kid’s day? Right now, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is asking the public to send Halloween cards to pediatric patients — all you have to do is select one of the card options and write a sweet message. Hospital staff will hand deliver the cards (which the kids can color in) alongside a goodie bag and some Halloween treats. And you’ll be making a difference in more ways than one: A donor is giving the Children’s Fund $1 for...
- Run errands with friends, study says
. Daily Edition • October 14, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Have you heard of the Eisenhower Matrix? The productivity hack is based on the famously strong project management skills of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. “Whenever our affairs seem to be in crisis, we are almost compelled to give our first attention to the urgent present rather than to the important future,” he once said. The method helps you prioritize your to-do list using a simple, four-box matrix — learn how to apply it to your own life....