Tuesday's Good News

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Some tasty bite-sized chunks of positive news to brighten the day.

A severely damaged truck on a snowy street in South Bend, Indiana — Credit: CBS News

Community Kindness

Numerous residents of South Bend, Indiana, have spotted Mo Riles driving his severely damaged, but technically still driveable, pickup truck around town - prompting double takes and growing chatter online, with many posting sightings of the battered truck on social media. But when local auto shop owner Colin Crowel took the time to learn more, he discovered it was Riles’ only means of transportation - and created a crowdfunding campaign that raised over $25,000 for a brand-new replacement truck. “This whole thing is not about me,” Riles said upon receiving the new vehicle. “It’s about this community bonding together.”

Scientists in Antarctica examining an ice core — Scientists examining a section of ice core | ice-memory.org

Ice Memory Foundation

Scientists in Antarctica have inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth’s atmosphere in a frozen vault for future generations to study as global warming melts glaciers around the world. An ice core is something of an atmospheric time capsule, containing information about the Earth’s past changes in a frozen climate archive. The Ice Memory Foundation is a consortium of European research institutes and the frozen sanctuary is located at the Concordia station in the Antarctic Plateau. “By safeguarding physical samples of atmospheric gases, aerosols, pollutants and dust trapped in ice layers, the Ice Memory Foundation ensures that future generations of researchers will be able to study past climate conditions using technologies that may not yet exist,” said Carlo Barbante of the Ice Memory Foundation.

Let Teens Sleep

Instead of opening your teenager’s blinds as soon as the sun comes up Saturday morning, you might want to let them keep snoozing. A new study suggests that sleeping in on the weekend to catch up on sleep lost during the week can boost young people’s mental well-being. Researchers from the University of Oregon and the State University of New York Upstate Medical University looked at data involving over 1,000 people ages 16-24. They found that those who caught some extra z’s on Saturday and Sunday were 41 percent less likely to experience depressive symptoms than those who didn’t.

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René Magritte, “The Six Elements,” 1929. — Magritte, 'The Six Elements', 1929 | Philadelphia Museum of Art

Surrealism in USA

In 1924, André Breton published his Manifesto of Surrealism, lamenting that, as people grow older, they inevitably abandon their imaginations in favour of pragmatism. The Frenchman did, however, present a solution to this problem: leaning into, rather than eschewing, a childlike sense of creativity. It turns out he was right, and thus the surrealist movement was born. Now, 100 years after its birth, a landmark exhibition dedicated solely to surrealism has finally arrived in the United States. It is on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the exhibition’s sole U.S. venue. Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 gathers about 200 works by more than 70 surrealist artists, including pieces from surrealism’s leading talents, such as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, and Man Ray.

The End is Nigh

Dirty diesel is in terminal decline in the UK and could start disappearing from station forecourts by the end of the decade due to lack of demand. So says new research from the thinktank New AutoMotive, which reports that the UK passed peak diesel in 2017. This is good news for public health as particles from spent diesel are linked with various chronic diseases. New AutoMotive says that there are currently around 9.9m diesel cars on UK roads and predicts that numbers are set to plunge to under 250,000 by 2035.

"Historic" Moment

In 2025, coal-fired electricity generation fell simultaneously in India and China for the first time since 1973. India cut coal power 3 percent and China 1.6 percent as record solar, wind and storage additions outpaced rising demand, according to analysts at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. It is being described as an “historic” moment.

“When you train your eyes to see the magic and miracles in the little things, you open the door for your whole life to shift.” Carol Woodliff

On This Day

U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivering his inaugural address

20 January 1961: U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his inaugural address in front of nearly 1 million people. He was the youngest person to have been elected president, and his speech garnered praise from across the world. His address was also marked by the famous phrase, “Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.”