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50 Positive Headlines That Might Bring Some Sunshine To Your Day (New Pics)
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Folks are pretty tired of the constant negative news and content on the internet. As the Reuters Institute's 2024 Digital News Report found, 39% of the global world selectively avoids the news. Some just find it too repetitive and boring, but an increasing number of people say that the nature of the news makes them feel anxious and powerless.
But we're here to give you at least a short reprieve from that. We've collected the newest feel-good stories from the Global Positive News page to make your day a little brighter, Pandas. There's still compassion, kindness, and love in this world, and these stories prove that!
To chat about the importance of positive news in today's climate, Bored Panda had a chat with the managing editor at the Good Good Good media organization, Kamrin Baker. She shared her thoughts about why we might need positive news now more than ever, so, scroll down to see her thoughts below!
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The Global Positive News page has over a million followers on Instagram and has been spreading positivity on the platform since 2015. Their mission is simple: to help people find and enjoy the wholesome things in life without giving in to daily negativity.
Media organization Good Good Good has a similar goal: to report positive news and create helpful resources about how their readers can make a positive impact. So, we decided to have a chat with them about why we need positive news so much currently and what it's like being the bringer of wholesome, heartwarming news.
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On social media, we're often bombarded with negative news. While it's important to keep informed about what's happening in the world, it can be hard not to fall down the rabbit hole of negativity. Good Good Good does its part to help people see that it's not just bad stuff that's happening out there.
"There are so many benefits to reading — and sharing — good news," the managing editor at Good Good Good, Kamrin Baker, tells Bored Panda. "We know that our brains are hardwired to pay attention to the 'bad' stuff, or the information we feel is vital to keeping us alive. This means that finding good news is not an easy task, but it is an important one!"
Kamrin says that seeking out good news helps us balance out the bad news we might keep seeing online. "[It helps us] reduce feelings of stress and anxiety, stay engaged with the things and stories we care about, build empathy and compassion, and inspire us to do more good, too," she adds.
"Since our standard media landscape is heavily dominated by negative stories, finding good news requires us all to intentionally seek it out. Good Good Good exists to make that a little bit easier."
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Ron and Lloyd Dong Jr. grew up in Coronado, CA. Their family’s journey to the sunny town wasn’t always easy. In the 1930s, their father, Lloyd Dong Sr., faced housing discrimination as a Chinese American, with most homes off-limits due to racist covenants.
But one family opened their doors - the Thompsons. Gus and Emma Thompson, a black couple, chose to rent their house to the Dongs, defying the racial barriers of the time. In 1955, the Dongs purchased the home and made it their own.
Now, decades later, the Dongs are paying it forward. They’ve decided to sell their family home and donate two-thirds of the proceeds (around $5 million) to the Black Resource Center at San Diego State University. The center will be renamed in honor of Gus and Emma Thompson.
“They did a lot for us,” Ron commented. “In that one little act … it did a lot for our family.”
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April Pickett 9 months ago
That is a wonderful thing, a miracle. I'm so happy for you. Aren't Mother Nature and your own body amazing entities?
Engaging with negative news too much causes stress and anxiety. If we regularly read these types of news stories, it keeps our cortisol levels elevated. While it can save us from dangerous situations, having this kind of fight-or-flight response every day wears us out mentally and physically over time. "Slowing down, looking for solutions, and considering nuance in the face of constant news feeds helps take us out of our immediate stress response," Kamrin wrote once.
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Susie Elle 9 months ago
This reminds me of that African lady who invented a way to make bricks from plastic waste. Whatever came of that?
Engaging with good news, on the other hand, can inspire us to do more good. One study found that solutions-focused reporting increased people's problem-solving skills by 20%. "Opening the mind to the fact that others have overcome similar challenges and been successful is an effective way to catalyze positive change, as it creates a greater sense of hope and optimism," the authors explained.
When we ask Kamrin where she thinks positive news reporting is headed, she says it's hard to guess what any media platform will look like in the next few years. "It's hard to know what kinds of stories and resources our audience will want in the next few minutes," she comments on the ever-changing demand of the public.
"What I do know is that people need good news more than ever to help them stay engaged with the world, connect with other people, and believe that solutions continue to exist — especially amid a constant bombardment of headlines that tell us otherwise," Baker adds on a more positive note.
While many might be tempted to join the 39% of people around the world who selectively avoid the news, Kamrin believes there's a different solution. "We need to be able to not turn away from the important current events while not completely overloading our brains, and including a healthy diet of good news and solutions journalism with 'normal' news is a huge part of that."
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 months ago
I've always thought that being proud of your country is a bit jingoistic. You have no control over where you're born, so being proud to be British, proud to be American has always seemed odd. Until you realise that it's OK to be proud of what your country stands for, because that's a reflection of the voters and the population at large. I'm proud that we're doing well with renewable energy.
When the news is online, it gives an illusion that it's not real. That's why the managing editor at Good Good Good thinks that the current resurgence of physical media might do us good in how we engage with what's happening in the world.
"Something I love most about being the managing editor at Good Good Good is leading the creation of our monthly Goodnewspaper," she shares. "This kind of print media helps teach our brains that good news is important and worth absorbing, and physically flipping the pages of a print newspaper makes that so much more tangible and impactful."
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Wintermute 9 months ago
This is what AI should be used for. Not writing news articles, increasing advertising revenue and creating "art."
The same goes for other kinds of physical media. "Whether it's vinyl records, magazines, newspapers, snail mail [or] the Goodnewspaper (even though it has existed since 2017), [it's] very much a part of that attempt to slow down, stop the doom-scrolling, and add a bit more balance to our lives," Kamrin believes.
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April Pickett 9 months ago
See, countries all over the world are doing more than our government is to protect the environment.
If you feel inspired to check more of the solutions-based journalism that the team at Good Good Good does, you can check them out in three formats: good ol' print, web, and podcast. And if you'd like to see more feel-good stories from the Global News Network, see our previous articles about the page here, here, and here!
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Heir of Durin 9 months ago
Found some additional details: Carter’s family says he was born with two rare skin conditions called lamellar ichthyosis and ectropion. “His body overproduces skin at a rapid rate but his skin cell turnover isn’t up to par to release the dead skin cells,” Carter’s mother said.
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April Pickett 9 months ago (edited)
They deserve it. I understand that they were all close with Taylor. That tour was long, involved, and so really, really good. I'm older, never listened to any of her songs, and watched the show in England on my computer (one of those streaming things for $20.00).
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Blah Blah Blah 9 months ago
If organized religion could just stop and just provide service dogs image how better the world would be
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Offbeat Quinoa 9 months ago
Animals don’t know anything about nutrition. They don’t know what a calorie is, they don’t know that too much food can equal health problems. They don’t even know what “too much food” is - to them, the more tasty snacks they can get, the better! It’s up to us pet owners who have the capacity to know better to actually DO BETTER for our furry loved ones.
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fly on the wall 9 months ago
Notice they are " immigrants "? Those are the demographic you are trying to deport!
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Simon Chen 9 months ago
Very sad story, poor guy spend many years alone in death row, never knowing when his time will come. In Japan you are not informed about the day you get executed, neither is your family. So he spend all those years wondering if he gets killéd next day. Horrible
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Booderee National Park in Australia installed a four-kilometre-long conservation fence at the gardens last November. The fence was part of a project to reintroduce eastern quolls.
However, the fence obstructed the migration of eastern long-necked turtles between water sources. To address this, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Australia installed nine water-filled tunnels under the fence.
The tunnels are two-meter-long and 70-centimeter-deep with a design that resembles a bathtub, a swim-through system to deter foxes and quolls from entering. Over 123 days of monitoring, 73 turtles successfully used the tunnels, with no sightings of foxes or quolls.
"Sometimes our actions to protect one species can have unintended consequences for others...it's nice to know both the quolls and turtles will be happy," WWF Australia's rewilding program manager Rob Brewster commented.
Serena Myers 9 months ago
Never heard of a "quoll" before, so I looked it up. A carnivorous marsupial.
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Offbeat Quinoa 9 months ago
From Google’s AI thingy: Personalized chemotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that's tailored to a patient's genes and the genetic profile of their cancer. It's also called precision medicine or personalized medicine.
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Apachebathmat 9 months ago
I have arranged several funerals for people with no family, thankfully after speaking to a local church, they do these funerals for free and the congregation all attend (so do I)
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Offbeat Quinoa 9 months ago
Aww I love these recreated photos 🥰 my boyfriend and I have one from when we were like 21 sitting on the hood of his old truck. We’re in our 30s now and I kinda want to recreate it 🥰
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TruthoftheHeart 9 months ago
Now let's see our government worry about whether or not these children have food. But according to Trump and musk most of the children in that picture aren't " Americans".
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Offbeat Quinoa 9 months ago
Oh my god if my boyfriend did this he would be made a very happy man indeed 😍😍
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Susie Elle 9 months ago
There's a zoo close to where I live where they cultivate coral to be sent all around the world for 'transplants' such as these.
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Travelling Stranger 9 months ago
a gentle reminder that a certain Musk once offered to end world hunger and poverty for 6 bn dollars and was even offered the possibility by the U.N., to which he said "Nah" and chose to blow it on his BS ideas
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 months ago
As the person who cooks in our house, I always serve myself last... doesn't really make sense to serve yourself first and then let it go cold!!
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Troy Parr 9 months ago
"TOWT’s first sailboat, Anemos, was christened in Le Havre in late October 2024 after completing its transatlantic journey. It is the flagship of eight units ordered by TOWT. Anemos has been described as “the world’s largest” sailing cargo ship in modern history, using advanced sailing technology derived from ocean racing to decarbonize shipping."
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Michael Largey 9 months ago
Now this rhino knows to stick to the bunny slopes at the ski resort.
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Chewie Baron 9 months ago
Another NHS linked charity won a BAFTA Special Achievement last Su day. They provide a cinema at hospitals for sick kids and other patients at certain hospitals. I’ve used the one at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. It’s a great charity.
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Giles McArdell 9 months ago
Waiting for some MAGA ar5eholes to start whining about the "Dead gay pets" bridge.
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Offbeat Quinoa 9 months ago
David Jones, 64, of Boiling Springs, SC, was on his way to his daughter Elizabeth's wedding when Hurricane Helene hit. What should have been a two-hour drive turned into a 12-hour odyssey. David encountered numerous obstacles including downed trees, power lines, and washed-out roads. Undeterred by official warnings, he decided to continue on foot. + He braved mud, debris, and dangerous conditions, relying on the kindness of strangers for rides when possible. + Against all odds, David arrived at the church just in time to walk his daughter down the aisle. "He's a very special man, and he has very special love for us," Elizabeth commented. "He would go to the ends of the earth for us — come hell or high water — and he did that."
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April Pickett 9 months ago
I was shocked and dismayed when it caught on fire. I am more than pleased to see it whole again. To me, it felt like we had lost a significant part of history, now it feels like we're back on track and moving forward.
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Allen Packard 9 months ago
What day is dad's birthday on? I bet it's 9 months earlier than theirs's lol!
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les 9 months ago
and to think it was all down to one family and done right out in the open, even being traded on the stock market and they dont even go to jail? they are responsible for more merican deaths than all the illegal d***s combined and they walk free with their billions of dollars in blood money.
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Onan Hag All 9 months ago
The more I read stories like these, the more contempt I have for Elon Musk. May his every waking hour be purgatory.
Onan Hag All 9 months ago
The more I read stories like these, the more contempt I have for Elon Musk. May his every waking hour be purgatory.
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