INTERESTING READS
- Positive News launches new podcast about people turning ideals into action
- Mass UK study debunks Covid vaccine myth
- How a ‘dysfunctional’ English farm became a biodiversity hotspot
- What went right this week: the good news that matters
- Three good things: UK projects to improve access for deaf people
- Future urban living. What to expect in the new issue of Positive News magazine
- Climate learning gets a boost from dragons
- The Syrian volunteers rebuilding their shattered schools
- Think society is in decline? Research gives us some reasons to be cheerful
- What went right this week: the good news that matters
LEGACY STORIES
What’s Happening in Film
- Sundance Institute Names 2026 Screenwriters Lab and Screenwriters Intensive Fellows
- Sundance Institute Appoints David Linde as CEO
- 2026 Sundance Film Festival Unveils Jury Members
- Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Cherien Dabis, the Filmmaker Behind “All That’s Left of You (اللي باقي منك)”
- 2026 Sundance Film Festival Unveils Beyond Film Talks and Events Featuring Olivia Wilde, Richard Linklater, Billie Jean King, Ava DuVernay, John Turturro, Salman Rushdie, Antoine Fuqua, Nicole Holofcener, Elijah Wood, Ta-Nehisi Coates, James Wan, Gregg Araki, and more
At Second Glance
- Cat Missing for 4 Years Reunited with Family After Cousin Sees Her on Shelter’s Website
- ‘Nairobi Birdman’ Rescues Helpless Birds in Kenya, Giving Them a Home He Never Had
- Iraq ‘Unrecognizable and Remarkable’ After Decades of Conflict: UN Coordinator
- Franz Kafka, Nancy Drew and Charlie Parker Become Free to Use–Happy Public Domain Day
- Good News in History, January 20
- Toronto Man Tries to Make Public Transportation Less Lonely: ‘Little Gestures Can Shift the Whole Mood’
- Secrets of 800-year-old Chinese Mummy’s Excellent Preservation Revealed
- How Mississippi Moved from the Bottom to the Top in Student Reading Achievement Scores
- Divers Rescue Ray Tangled in Deadly Fishing Line–Once Freed, Encircled Them with a ‘Thank you’
- Good News in History, January 19