Category: Inspiring News

Researchers Uncover 12,000-Year-Old Human Footprints in Great Salt Lake Desert Dating From Late Ice Age

Researchers in the salt flats of Utah were driving to a prehistoric open-air hearth site when they spotted what were determined to be unshod human footprints dating back to the late stage of the ice age, some 12,000 years ago. Located in the Air Force’s Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR), the tracks were picked…


Scientist Connects 256 Electrodes to His Head, Discovers Happiness Not Linked to Material Success

Everybody longs for happiness, but it seems like a hidden treasure. One way or another—consciously or unconsciously, directly or indirectly—everything we do, our every hope, is related to a deep desire for happiness. With 256 electrodes on his shaven head, French Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, author of the book “Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s…


‘I Made a Teacher Cry Today’: Mom Shares Daughter’s Kind Act Toward Boy Who Fell in Class

The mother of a kind seventh grader, who helped a fellow student with Tourette’s syndrome when he fell over in class, has shared the sweet story that made her weep with pride. Mom-of-four and third grade teacher Kristin Adair lives in Tampa, Florida. Karington Nobles is her oldest child. Kristin, 39, told The Epoch Times…


Aged Horse About to Be Sold to Butchers in Mexico Gets Rescued, Thrives With Loving Care

Nothing heals like love. Bud, a used up and aged horse from a dude ranch in West Texas, was about to be sold to butchers in Mexico for his weight in horse meat. One of over fifty work horses kept at the Texas ranch for trail rides and summer camps, his treatment had left him…


VIDEO: Man Builds Impressive Dugout Wooden Shelter in the Forest—’Life Is Unity With Nature’

A Sweden-born furniture seller, inspired by a hut he stumbled across while walking in nature, has built himself a dugout wooden shelter in the forest. From start to finish he worked alone, and the impressive solo project has become his private haven. Alex Wild, 36, owns his own business selling furniture for homes and offices….


Moral Tales for Children From McGuffey’s Readers: The Seven Sticks

This is the 13th installment in our McGuffey Readers series, in which we reproduce some of the best moral tales from the classic 1800s schoolbooks that sold an estimated 122 million copies by 1960, the largest circulation of any book in the world next to the Bible and Webster’s Dictionary. McGuffey’s Readers played an important…


Boy, 14, Starts Lawn Care Business to Raise Money for Legal Fees So His Stepfather Can Adopt Him

A teen who wants his beloved stepfather to adopt him and his older brother has started a lawn care business to help pay for the legal fees. Born and raised in Sandy Run, South Carolina, 14-year-old Tyce Rey Diaz Pender has lived in Cayce with his family since 2017. His mother, Marcy, began dating Eric…


16-Year-Old Got an Abortion in 1972, 1 Year Before Roe v. Wade—Calls Overturning 50 Years Later ‘A Gift’ From God

She was only 16, pregnant, and scared. It was 1972. That teen was Christie Ballor. Now 67, Ballor still lives in Alliance, Ohio, where she was born. She recalled her road to recovery from having an abortion at a young age—and now witnessing Roe’s historic overturning a full 50 years later. Her parents didn’t know better….


16-Year-Old Got an Abortion in 1972, 1 Year Before Roe v. Wade—Calls Roe’s End 50 Years Later ‘A Gift’ From God

She was only 16, pregnant, and scared. It was 1972. That teen was Christie Ballor. Now 67, Ballor still lives in Alliance, Ohio, where she was born. She recalled her road to recovery from having an abortion at a young age—and now witnessing Roe’s historic overturning a full 50 years later. Her parents didn’t know better….


‘They Are the Last’: Rare Photos of the Reindeer Herders Who Live in the Freezing Arctic Serbia

Struck by the resilience of the Nenet people, a group of Siberian nomadic shepherds who endure temperatures of minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit), an Italian photographer traveled to their land three times to honor their existence and share it with the world in an atmospheric photo series. Alessandro Bergamini, 35, of Finale…