Every Christmas, Carol Suchman donates toys to some of New York City’s poorest children. But this year when she walked by a shuttered toy store with a “Going out of…
As the race to adapt to climate change quickens, a South African scientist is leading global research into developing crops that mimic the extraordinary survival skills of “resurrection plants”. Jill…
If you were walking through a busy train station and saw a bulletin board full of dollar bills, what would you do? A group in L.A. recently set out to…
Though it’s a bit early, one woman (and a whole bunch of kids) has already shown us what the holiday spirit is really all about. Worried about what the homeless…
South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal region has been mired in a prolonged drought that has devastated crops, livestock, and spawned water shortages. At Zululand’s Phinda Private Game Reserve, a staff member patrolling…
Margaret Thome Bekema never graduated from Grand Rapids Catholic Central High in 1936 like she was supposed to. Instead she had to leave school to take care of her mother,…
The Russian government is offering to send a puppy to France in honor of a police dog named “Diesel” that was killed during an anti-terror raid in Paris last week….
She had us at “Hello.” And there are 10 more immortal anthems where that came from on Adele’s much-anticipated third triumph of an album, which starts taking over the universe…
Few forms of sadistic torture in this world are more excruciatingly painful than having to walk across a field of LEGOs left on the ground by a careless child. Lego…
Fact: More people in the world have cellphones than have access to a toilet. That means more people can type the word “toilet” with their thumbs than can actually use…
Where mind meets heart
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” - Mother Teresa
