- A club for happy folks
Sunday Edition • January 18, 2026 SUPPORTED BY Learning to be nice to one another is a big part of growing up: We’re taught to share, use kind words, and wait our turn to play with our favorite toys. But being nice isn’t just about good manners, and adults may benefit from some simple lessons in getting along just as much as kids do. “Having more social interactions that are safe and benevolent is a way to feel like you belong,” Emiliana Simon-Thomas, science director at UC Berkeley’s Greater…Read more
- Ski attire over the decades
Sunday Edition • December 7, 2025 SUPPORTED BY You’ve heard of “hygge” (the Danish concept of cozy living), and perhaps you’re aware of “ikigai” (the Japanese idea that you should live with purpose) — but what about “firgun,” the Hebrew word for “happiness in another’s success”? Learn more about those terms and seven other foreign-language words that describe different types of happiness (we personally can’t wait for more “ayodele” this holiday season). — the Nice News team Featured Story How...
- A surprising CPAP benefit
Daily Edition • December 6, 2025 SUPPORTED BY It’s the most wonderful time of the year: New York Times Cooking’s cookie week. Each year, the paper enlists bakers to put together a slate of unique cookie recipes for readers to try, and the 2025 lineup is inspired by the team’s favorite “non-cookie things.” That means delectable concoctions like popcorn bucket cookies (think: movie night, packed into one treat), Vietnamese coffee swirl brownies, and, perhaps most interestingly, shortbread that...
- How clean is airplane air, really?
Daily Edition • December 5, 2025 SUPPORTED BY If you’ve ever volunteered for a food bank, animal shelter, trash cleanup event, or any other cause, you know about the rush of positive emotions that comes with doing a kind deed. So why does doing good feel so good? It mostly comes down to community. “When we feel grateful for all we have, that motivates us to do good things for other people who have helped us, and also to do good things for new people,” psychologist Sarah Schnitker recently...