A park project pairs play with a more welcoming public space
Playgrounds can be designed as community meeting places for many ages and abilities.
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A storybook walk brings reading outdoors
A walk through a park can become a shared reading experience.
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Curiosity Does Not Retire
There is a particular kind of freedom in learning something with no plan to monetize it.
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Centuries-old manuscripts are becoming scientific time capsules
Researchers at the University of Tulsa are combining physics, engineering, computer science, conservation, and history to study centuries-old Indigenous tribute records and other m
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A world map redraws how we see the planet
A new equal-area world map offers a different way to picture Earth, giving continents a fairer visual sense of their relative size. Maps shape our mental […]
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A comet rises over the Adriatic Sea
A time-lapse from Italy captures Comet NEOWISE rising over the Adriatic Sea, moving through bright noctilucent clouds and a field of distant stars. The scene is […]
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Ten years of photographs that make wildlife impossible to ignore
The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are marking a decade of photographs that find humor, surprise, and personality in the natural world. A laughing dormouse, an awkward […]
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Sheboygan’s “Malibu of the Midwest” surf culture turns lake waves into community
Sheboygan, Wisconsin has become known as the “Malibu of the Midwest” because Great Lakes surfers have built a culture around cold-water waves that many people would never expect. This is lighter, but it has a good Sunday feel: place, surprise, subculture, and people making joy out of the landscape they have. It gives the week a bit of breathable beauty.
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Community sea shanty groups turn old working songs into new belonging
Sea shanties may have had their TikTok moment, but Positive News followed the more lasting piece: local groups gathering in pubs, halls, and harbors to sing together. The charm is not novelty. It is people finding an easy, communal doorway back to voice, rhythm, humor, and shared tradition.
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A yard-sale photo reconnects a man with his late mother’s belongings
A couple was browsing yard sales when the wife found a 19-year-old photo of her husband among a stranger’s things. The deeper story is about memory turning up in an ordinary driveway and giving someone a piece of his mother back.
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