Not All News Is Bad!

"Not All News Is Bad" is a website dedicated to curating and sharing positive, uplifting, and heartwarming news stories from around the world. The platform aims to counterbalance the often overwhelming negativity found in mainstream media by highlighting stories of kindness, resilience, innovation, and progress. It covers various topics, including acts of goodwill, environmental breakthroughs, medical advancements, and inspiring personal achievements.

In terms of its relationship to providing uplifting news, "Not All News Is Bad" serves as a refreshing antidote to the typical focus on conflict, crisis, and despair in traditional news outlets. By showcasing stories that celebrate human potential and collective progress, the site seeks to inspire hope, foster connection, and remind readers that there is still much good happening in the world. Through its carefully curated content, the platform encourages readers to engage with the world more optimistically and constructively, reinforcing the idea that not all news has to be bad.

1. Japan to Begin Clinical Trials for Artificial Blood in 2025 – MedEdge MEA

   Japan stands on the brink of a medical breakthrough: the development of artificial blood that could transform emergency medicine and save countless lives. Source: Japan to Begin Clinical Trials for Artificial Blood in 2025 – MedEdge MEA Fascinating. (And, indeed, purple.)

2. Goodbye to energy dependence – Alaska discovers more than 1,100 TWh hidden under the ice, and the find could change the world

   For decades, energy independence has been the elusive white whale of U.S. policy. We’ve tried offshore drilling, shale booms, solar panels, and wind farms the Source: Goodbye to energy dependence – Alaska discovers more than 1,100 TWh hidden under the ice, and the find could change the world “Hydrokinetic energy” – it’s an interesting twist.

3. Potential new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, other neurodegenerative conditions

   Drug developed by Case Western Reserve University researchers found to protect ‘guardian of the brain’ Worldwide, more than 55 million people suffer from dementia caused by Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and other conditions that destroy cells in the brain and nervous system. While there is no treatment to control or manage these neurodegenerative conditions, investigators at […]

4. Scientists invent ‘smelling gel’ that seduces coral to dying reefs in restoration efforts

   The gel, called SNAP-X, was invented by researchers at the University of California-San Diego. Source: Scientists invent ‘smelling gel’ that seduces coral to dying reefs in restoration efforts You had me at “seduces coral” 🙂

5. Horses on a Kentucky farm are helping men build sober lives, gain work and reunite families

   Thoroughbred horses on a sprawling Kentucky farm are helping men trying to carve out clean and sober lives. Source: Horses on a Kentucky farm are helping men build sober lives, gain work and reunite families I love programs like this.

6. World’s first-ever human bladder transplant

   Historic surgery opens the door for improved treatment of non-functioning bladders. Source: World’s first-ever human bladder transplant Fascinating.

7. Students Decipher Title of Burnt Scroll from the Famous Library Buried by Vesuvius–Called ‘On Vices’

   On Vices was written by a by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before its eruption. Source: Students Decipher Title of Burnt Scroll from the Famous Library Buried by Vesuvius–Called ‘On Vices’ I just find this fascinating.

8. Unique Miami recycling company gives discarded shoes new traction

   Sneaker Impact takes shoe donations from across the nation and ships them outside the U.S, where they are eventually resold by mom-and-pop shops in the developing world. Source: Unique Miami recycling company gives discarded shoes new traction Pretty cool idea.

9. Shark fisherman uses drone to save teenage girl from rip current at Pensacola Beach

   This week, a shark fisherman saved the life of a teenage girl on Pensacola Beach. He sprang into action nearly a hundred yards away and used his fishing drone to drop a flotation device into the water. Source: Shark fisherman uses drone to save teenage girl from rip current at Pensacola Beach Well done!

10. This Soft Robot Needs Only Physics and Air to Spontaneously Sync and Scoot at Top Speeds

    When the many legs are coupled together, something unexpected happens: their motions quickly synchronize, creating “surprising coordination.” Source: This Soft Robot Needs Only Physics and Air to Spontaneously Sync and Scoot at Top Speeds There is a video, and it’s pretty fascinating.