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This little boy is not shy about expressing his exhaustion, and it's incredibly relatable. The post This 4-year-old’s hilarious reaction coming home from school is all of us appeared first on Upworthy.

Groceries for less than $100 is a very real thing. The post Budget shoppers share tips for spending $100 or less on groceries a week appeared first on Upworthy.

He was a master of understanding the human condition. The post The one sign that someone is highly intelligent, according to literary genius Leo Tolstoy appeared first on Upworthy.

Marc Martel captures Freddie's unique voice almost perfectly. The post Freddie Mercury soundalike gets 10,000 people to spontaneously sing Queen’s ‘Love of My Life’ appeared first on Upworthy.

From its humble origins as a method of documenting noteworthy catches, for sale or for record setting, the art of fish printing, or “gyotaku” has rapidly become an international fine art phenomenon. As Japanese as a Geisha cutting a sushi roll with a samurai sword, gyotaku is infused with all the lovely idiosyncrasies of the country—from its famous […] The post How Japanese Fish Printing Grew from Documenting Day’s Catch to Acclaimed Artform appeared first on Good News Network.

For areas contaminated by lead and zinc mining across Europe, a class of plants known as “metallophytes” are helping enrich nature while diminishing pollution. The Guardian reported on this kind of ecological double speak, where wildflowers seemingly grow in healthy abundance on semi-mountainous landscapes in the north of the UK, a place that has seen […] The post Ecosystem of Pansies Thrives on Soil Contaminated by Lead Mining–Turning it into Clean Organic Compounds appeared first on Good News Network.

How do you nurture meaningful human connections in a disconnected world? We want to know The post What do you do to actively forge human connections? appeared first on Positive News.

In mid-May, GNN reported that 3 teens from India had won a major continental science prize for their brilliant use of an ingredient in Indian cuisine as the basis for a microplastic filter. Now, from Geneva comes the announcement that 16-year-olds Vivaan Chhawchharia, Ariana Agarwal, and Avyana Mehta, have claimed the Global Earth Prize in […] The post 3 Teens Win Global Earth Prize for Inventing Tamarind Powder That Easily Removes Microplastics appeared first on Good News Network.

New research suggests vast underwater seaweed forests could play a much bigger role in slowing climate change The post Greenland sheds new light on underwater carbon sink appeared first on Positive News.

100 years ago today, the great American television personality Andy Griffith was born in North Carolina. He is fondly remembered today for 9-year productions The Andy Griffith Show, and as the folksy defense attorney Ben Matlock in Matlock. He was also a Tony Award nominee on two separate occasions, and the star of Elia Kazan’s A Face in the Crowd, which […] The post Good News in History, June 1 appeared first on Good News Network.

Everyone's childhood hearts just melted into a puddle. The post Snoopy is real: her name is Bayley and the Internet can’t get enough of her appeared first on Upworthy.

So many good thoughts here. The post Woman sparks heated but helpful debate by insisting that ‘marriage isn’t hard’ appeared first on Upworthy.

A British couple has spent 20 years perfecting the practice of sculpting trees to grow into the shapes of ready-made seats designed with living branches. Alice and Gavin Munro began creating the ‘furniture orchard’ on a two-acre English farm in 2006, but the harvesting typically takes between 6-9 years per chair. The process involves pruning […] The post Britain’s First Furniture Orchard Grows Chairs Right on the Trees (WATCH) appeared first on Good News Network.

It’s World Bongo Day today, and scientists dedicated to their survival have shared new field camera images that prove these magnificent animals have reappeared in a region where they were thought to be extinct. For more than half a decade, conservationists feared the wild mountain bongo population, detected in four isolated areas eight years ago, […] The post Incredibly Rare Bongos Caught on Trail Cam in Area They Were Thought to be Extinct appeared first on Good News Network.

Bicycles are a reliable, low-cost, high-return, low-polluting and resilient means of transport. They provide an alternative to motorized vehicles for distances that would be too challenging to cover on foot. But bicycle use is not equally widespread worldwide. While countries like the Netherlands and Denmark have made bicycles one of their most recognizable cultural staples, […] The post Cycling Out of Poverty: A Ride Toward a Better Development appeared first on The Borgen Project.