- 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
- Amateurs will (kinda) compete in today’s Olympics
Daily Edition • August 10, 2024 SUPPORTED BY If you too are clutching on to the last several weeks of summer, might we propose squeezing in one more vacation? And might we also suggest that it be a quintessential summer road trip? Read Vox’s five tips for planning the perfect car journey, including which snacks to pack and how not to annoy your fellow travelers when you’ve been crammed in a metal box for hours on end. Must Reads See a list of the best places to start a career as a high school...
- The world’s largest 3D-printed neighborhood
Daily Edition • August 9, 2024 SUPPORTED BY The Olympic Village is running on double chocolate muffins. That’s according to food supplier Sodexo Live!, which told People it’s been serving up around 2,000 of the viral delicacies per day. So how can us non-Olympians get our hands on these muffins? Baker Kassie Mendieta did the hard work and took a deep dive into muffin-making to develop a recipe that appears to come close to the real thing — let us know if you try it. Must Reads Reminder: The...
- 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...