Monday's Positive News
- Editor OGN Daily
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What better way to start the week than with a global collection of concise, positive news stories?
California Cool
Sixty-five years after this mid-century modern house in Los Angeles was immortalized by the photographer Julius Shulman, the structure is up for sale for the first time. Known as the Stahl House, or Case Study House #22, the 1960 cantilevered home in the Hollywood Hills is listed for $25 million. “This home has been the center of our lives for decades,” say owners Shari and Bruce Stahl, whose parents built the house. “The time has come to identify the next steward of Case Study House #22 - someone who not only appreciates its architectural significance but also understands its place in the cultural landscape of Los Angeles and beyond.” Find out more.
Good Surprise
Think Global Health reports that the United States has reaffirmed its commitment to the Global Fund, the world’s largest financier of AIDS, TB, and malaria prevention and treatment programs. It surprised almost everyone and represents a lifeline for millions. The $4.6 billion commitment (the largest from a single donor) enables continuation of pooled medicine purchases and frontline service delivery.
Cloud Dancer
Pantone has named its eagerly anticipated annual color of the year for 2026, choosing a “billowy, balanced white” named Cloud Dancer. The self-described “global color authority” claims that PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer has an “aerated presence” which “acts as a whisper of calm and peace in a noisy world.” It is the first time Pantone has chosen white since it began naming a color of the year in 1999. The color of the year is chosen by a team of experts and is intended to "draw attention to the relationship between culture and color," the company says.
End of Extreme Poverty
The Indian state of Kerala, home to over 60 million people, says it has eliminated extreme poverty - from over 60 percent of the population in the 1970s to nearly zero today. The Brookings Institution, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., says the shift stems from micro-interventions delivering food, housing, medical care, education support and job cards, backed by intensive local monitoring and community implementation.
Best Ignored
‘Rage Bait,’ which describes online content created to make us mad, is Oxford’s 2025 Word of the Year. The term “has become shorthand for content designed to elicit anger by being frustrating, offensive or deliberately divisive in nature,” according to experts. It’s the second year in a row that Oxford University Press selected a word related to the uglier aspects of being online. Last year’s winner was 'brain rot', which describes the mind-numbing effect of spending too much time on the internet.
Toff Customer
An aristocrat from Somerset, in south west England, is advertising for a new wife - and has drawn up an exacting list of requirements for the successful candidate. Sir Benjamin Slade, 79, states in his advert that she must be of childbearing age and be able to have not one but two sons. She must be able to ballroom dance, play bridge and backgammon, have a shotgun and a helicopter licence, be a good swimmer, not be a Scorpio, and have rudimentary accounting skills in order to run his estate in Somerset. He doesn’t want a wife from a country where they don’t wear overcoats in the winter. “A little private capital and income would be helpful,” says the advert, “A large fortune would be more helpful! The candidate would be paid £50,000 plus a bonus per year and this includes a house, expenses, food and holidays.”
The Missing Link?
Electric air taxis might be the next big thing but they can't get very big if there's no place for them to land. AutoFlight Aviation Technology is developing a vertiport that's essentially a solar-powered barge that can go where it's needed - water permitting. eVTOL air taxis based on a new generation of multi-rotor craft might fulfill the promise that helicopter passenger services were once thought to offer. They held out the prospect of revolutionizing urban travel by leapfrogging over city traffic so travel from airport to urban center or between nearby cities could be done in minutes instead of hours. Unfortunately, when the landing options are a handful of skyscraper rooftops or repurposed piers you end up trading one bottleneck for another. Now, AutoFlight is showing off its solution in the form of a self-propelled, solar-powered barge called the Integrated Sea-Air Low-Altitude Economy Solution that can be moved where it is needed on any reasonably sized waterfront.
“So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends - but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.” Julio Alexi Genao
On This Day
8 December 1987: US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles. This agreement, the first to reduce, not just cap, nuclear arsenals, involved dismantling thousands of ground-launched missiles and their launchers, a pivotal step in reducing nuclear tension between the superpowers.
Today's Articles
Party Animal: Hilarious story of a drunk raccoon passed out in liquor store after a wild boozy escapade.
Mood Boosting Video
Lava Fountains: An incredible sight at the summit of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano over the weekend.