Eating more fruit and vegetables may make young people calmer, happier and more energetic in their daily life, new research from New Zealand's University of Otago suggests. Department of Psychology researchers investigated the relationship between day-to-day emotions and food consumption. The results showed a strong day-to-day relationship between more positive mood and higher fruit and vegetable consumption, but not other foods.
The Spanish airlines, Spanair, created a memorable holiday evening for passengers traveling on Christmas Eve to La Palmas. After arriving from Barcelona to collect their baggage, 190 people found a stream of colorful gift packages flowing out onto the conveyor belt delivering presents for each and every traveller.
After 7 years, Canadian lottery officials say they've finally awarded to the correct people a multimillion-dollar jackpot that authorities say was fraudulently claimed by someone else.
In a sign that Egypt's people are ready to rebuild, thousands filled Cairo's Tahrir Square, carrying brooms, shovels, and trash bags Saturday. They're removing barricades, burned out cars and debris from the 18 days of protests that toppled Mubarak.
A new clinical study found that playing casual, non-violent video games reduced depression symptoms in study participants. People who played the games daily for an average of 40.7 minutes, had a 57% reduction in their depression symptoms. Their mood improved, while anxiety, tension, anger and fatigue was more than cut in half.
It is a popular adage that good news doesn't sell for the mainstream media where the motto seems to be, if it bleeds, it leads. Why then, are we seeing some of their most popular stories trumpeting triumphs of the heart? In the cases of the Chilean miners and the man with the golden voice, happy feelings of success have trumped every other news story around.
This morning, the homeless man with the golden voice, whose story launched via YouTube struck a national chord and whose pipes landed him numerous job offers and a home in just a few days, spoke to the Today Show hosts about his whirlwind of blessings.
A few of the lost species thought to be extinct have made miraculous reappearances in 2010, like the Sierra Nevada Red Fox, an earthworm that smells like lillies when handled, a slender loris, and the short tailed albatross.
Using only dryer lint, Laura Bell of Roscommon, Michigan created a 14-foot replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. She spent seven months doing 800 hours of laundry to get the lint she needed, buying towels of varying colors to supply the right tint.
While Egyptians battle for their political future, social change is already sweeping the country. Amid the protesters, volunteers are sweeping the streets, picking up litter, and handing out food.
Google unveiled a new website that allows virtual tours of some of the world's most famous art galleries, featuring paintings photographed with extremely high-resolution gigapixel technology.
With snow totals of anywhere from one to two feet falling across nine midwestern states along with brutalizing winds, the February snowstorm of 2011 left a 2000-mile trail of misery (and some deaths) all the way to Maine. But, other acts of nature -- tales of kindness and generosity -- were just as prolific.
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