- 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
- Yellowstone may get a new geyser
Daily Edition • August 2, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Our goal at Nice News is to help readers view the world through a more optimistic lens and spread positivity — and now we want to give back to you for doing just that. If you get just two people to sign up to receive the newsletter over the next month, you’ll receive a magazine subscription on us. Check out the “Spread Positivity” section below to learn more about the initiative and get your unique link. As always, thank you for helping us share...
- Changes in the White House kitchen
Daily Edition • August 1, 2024 SUPPORTED BY With back-to-school season heading into full swing — depending on where you are in the country — we’ve got education on the mind. So Nice News’ August Cause of the Month is Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a literacy initiative that has distributed nearly 245 million books (and counting) to children under 5 in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and Ireland since 1995. Here’s how the book gifting program works: Each month, the Imagination Library works...
- A clue to setting kids up for economic mobility
Daily Edition • July 31, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Language is ever-evolving, and dictionaries are here to capture that evolution. So far this year, more than 3,200 new words have been added to the Cambridge Dictionary, with informal terms like “the ick,” “boop,” and “chef’s kiss” coming into the mix. You might be tempted to write them off as examples of fleeting youthful slang, but publishing manager Wendalyn Nichols said the new additions have “staying power,” per the BBC. See what they mean. Must...