- Reframing what excellence means
Daily Edition • January 27, 2026 SUPPORTED BY The Muppet Show is nearing its return to the screen. “Isn’t it wonderful being back in the theater?” Miss Piggy asks in the official trailer for an upcoming special edition of the series, which originally aired from 1976 to 1981. She goes on: “And giving the people what they truly want: Moi.” The new trailer also teases that Sabrina Carpenter, Maya Rudolph, and Seth Rogen will appear in the TV special, airing Feb. 4 on ABC and Disney+. And in more…Read more
- Singapore has most powerful passport (again)
. Daily Edition • January 16, 2026 SUPPORTED BY We’re officially three weeks out from the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, kicking off 17 days of athletic competition in Milan and Cortina, Italy. But physical feats are just one part of the equation — we can also serve to learn a lot from the athletes’ mental toughness. “We get stronger by pushing ourselves to a limit where we’re at our maximum capacity — and then recovering," Emily Clark, a member of Team USA’s psychological services team,...
- More cancer survivors are living longer
. Daily Edition • January 15, 2026 SUPPORTED BY Gourmet was the country’s premier food publication for nearly seven decades — The New York Times once wrote the magazine “was to food what Vogue is to fashion.” But Condé Nast shuttered it in 2009, and let the trademark lapse in 2021. Enter: the new Gourmet. Five journalists relaunched Gourmet this week as a newsletter that will share recipes and written features likely to be reminiscent of the original magazine’s intellectual sensibility. As...
- Today’s Pick: A choir for the tone-deaf 🎶
Editors’ Picks • January 14, 2026 If you’re a regular reader of Nice News, you may have caught our recent explainer on the many health benefits that singing can offer, including boosting your mood and fostering feelings of connectedness. Those perks, and the simple joy of song, are why people who lack natural talent in this arena (read: they can’t carry a tune) are gathering together in singing groups. They’re called Tuneless Choirs, and the movement is growing. Have a listen in our article...