If you find yourself turning to music to boost your mood, or if solving a jigsaw puzzle, painting, or singing is one of your favorite ways to unwind, we have some good news for you. A recent poll conducted by the American Psychiatric Association confirms that those feel-good vibes are important for your mental health […]
Recommendations are independently selected by our team but may result in a commission to Nice News which helps keep our content free. The light and leaves are changing, and long, hot days are making way for crisp nights: Autumn has arrived! Along with a proliferation of pumpkin spice treats, fall is beloved for its coziness […]
Autumn leaves are peaking, temperatures are dipping, and the feeling of new beginnings is in the air. As much of the Northern Hemisphere enjoys signs of the changing seasons, it’s also a wonderful time for communities to gather and take advantage of the range of fall festivals taking place around the globe — from stargazing […]
After being crowned the Monopoly champion of her sixth grade class, Marjy Stagmeier went home to her house in the Atlanta suburbs and told her parents she was going to be a landlord when she grew up. Decades later, Stagmeier, who has since managed over 3,000 units, is doing much more than renting out apartments: […]
Many artists dream of one day having their work displayed in prestigious galleries around the world for the masses to admire. For Oliver Jeffers, though, there’s a unique reverence to inviting only a small group of people to bear witness to his artistic process and portraits. In November 2014, the Northern Irish visual artist began […]
We previously ran an article featuring some of the world’s most unusual bookstores, and the venue we’re highlighting today certainly qualifies as a unique place to acquire reading material. For decades, the 80-foot Epos — called Bokbåten in Norway, which is Swedish for “the book boat” — operated as a floating library, biannually visiting around […]
Recommendations are independently selected by our team but may result in a commission to Nice News which helps keep our content free. Halloween is fast approaching, which means it’s time to start curating that perfect, spooky playlist, stocking up on candy, and of course, thinking about what you’re going to wear. People have been dressing […]
Who doesn’t enjoy success? It feels amazing to accomplish our goals and reap the rewards of our efforts. From proverbial victory laurels and that general feel-good inner glow that comes with triumph, to tangible results like a big payday, trophies, and public recognition, success is naturally easy to celebrate. As a result, humans have developed […]
The results are in for the 2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards — and the competition was stiff. Judges whittled down a whopping 49,957 entries from 95 countries to select 19 category winners. They include an underwater image of a mother hippopotamus and her young in South Africa, a mystical shot of a fungus […]
For the past five years, British artist Justin Bateman has been creating intricate portraits out of pebbles and stones. His work is striking in its level of detail and scale, with pieces ranging in size from 10 square feet to over 80. And aside from a few permanent commissions, they’re all ephemeral — arranged on […]
Around 807,000 people in the United States are living with kidney failure, with the majority requiring dialysis, per the American Kidney Fund. Over 90,000 are on the waiting list for a transplant, but donors are hard to come by; in 2022, only about 1 in 4 of those renal disease patients actually received a kidney. […]
When’s the last time you thought you needed a break from your phone? For many of us, cell phones are an unavoidable — and often really wonderful — part of life. They’ve become so integrated into the ways we work, move, connect, and exist that we frequently use them without even noticing, peering down in […]