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Getting into creative activities and attending events can increase your lifespan by 4%. The post Love reading, concerts, or museums? Being the ‘artsy type’ adds years to your life. appeared first on Upworthy.

“I don’t even know any of you and I’m sobbing.” The post High school seniors get a heartwarming ‘surprise’ as they’re taken on a tour of their lives appeared first on Upworthy.

The Fisher Building is this amazingly beautiful building in Detroit, designed in an Art Deco style. It was completed in 1928, and has been called "Detroit's largest art object." This ornate 30-story building, faced with limestone, granite, and several types of marble, is one of the major works of architect Albert Kahn. The namesake of the building, the Fisher family, financed the building with proceeds from the sale of Fisher Body to General Motors. Originally the Fisher Building was planned to be a complex of three buildings, with two 30-story structures flanking a 60-story tower. However, when the Great Depression hit, it caused the project to be scaled back to a single tower.  But even just as one tower, it's such an impressive structure. The building is also home to the Fisher Theatre, one of Detroit's oldest live theatre venues. It was designated a National Historic Landmark on June 29, 1989. The Fisher Building has shops, a cafe, is open 24-hours and is free to walk around in. 

Wensleydale,  famous for its mild , crumbly,  cheese , has a number of attractive  waterfalls but the series if three falls at Aysgarth  are  both the most impressive  and the most popular  ones on the river Ure. They are in three parts over a stretch of river about a mile long known , unimaginatively,  as Upper , Middle and Lower falls or sometimes,  in the local dialect,  as Upper  Middle and Lower Force ( force being the local word for a waterfall.).  The upper falls used to be utilised for water power and the mill race which diverted some of the water can still be seen as can the mill building. This mill (Yore Mill) was used to produce woollen textiles and is reputedly the mill which produced the red flannel cloth used by the army of Italian military hero, Garibaldi. Some 200 years ago the falls were visited by Wordsworth  whilst he and his sister Dorothy  waited to have the horses changed on their stage coach and they were sketched by JMW Turner in 1816. More recently, they have b

China has performed the first single and multiple cloning of wild yaks in a bid to reinforce this keystone herbivore, and save one of the rarest and most beautiful animals in China. Legend has it that when Mount Buye on the Tibetan Plateau was married to Mount Zhaxiangqian, 7 golden wild yaks were given as […] The post Biologists Clone Wild Yaks to Save Golden Subspecies Numbering Fewer Than 300 in First of its Kind Effort appeared first on Good News Network.

While Albania has made significant economic progress in recent decades, poverty remains a challenge in many rural communities. Across the country, however, innovative development initiatives like eco- tourism are creating new opportunities for economic growth and poverty eradication in Albania. Although Albania’s economy has steadily expanded over the past two decades, many rural residents still […] The post How Eco-Tourism Is Supporting Poverty Eradication in Albania appeared first on The Borgen Project.

At a pay-as-you-can restaurant in Stroud, radical hospitality and good food are bringing strangers together at a time when many people need both affordability and connection The post Come dine with us appeared first on Positive News.

96 years ago today, the Chrysler Building opened to the public in New York City. Constructed by Walter Chrysler, founder of the automotive company, the Art Deco skyscraper served as the corporation’s headquarters and lifted up the languishing East Side of Manhattan from 1930 until the 1950s. WATCH a video about the building narrated by […] The post Good News in History, May 27 appeared first on Good News Network.

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Sir David Attenborough turned 100 on May 8, and people want to know how he did it. Fair enough. A century is rare. A century of active fieldwork, narration, and travel across every ecosystem on earth is something even rarer. When someone who has spent his working life watching […] The post The 10-minute habit that helped David Attenborough reach 100 years old first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.

“Little man said you can hoot but don’t holler!” The post Video of young boy patiently telling his dad how to give him critical feedback is a parenting masterclass appeared first on Upworthy.

"Drugs aren't going to give you an advantage if you're not putting the work in." The post Drug-free sprinter wins ‘Enhanced Games’ and delivers a message to anyone looking for a shortcut appeared first on Upworthy.

Eric Schultz graduated from Waianae High School. The post After years of living in homeless shelters and his car, Hawaiian teenager graduates high school appeared first on Upworthy.

A wild rescue story with a mystery comes from Stoke-on-Trent, where a pony was found entirely trapped inside a tractor tire. Neither residents nor rescuers had any clue or idea as to what had gone on which saw the pony jailed by the derelict tire, but no one waited around to find out. Residents immediately […] The post English Pony Found Unharmed Having Been Trapped Entirely Inside a Tractor Tire appeared first on Good News Network.