She Just Made History as Major League Baseball’s First Female Umpire–Walking on The Field to Huge Cheers After 30 years and 1,200 games, the phone call that Jen Pawol was waiting for finally arrived earlier this week. You’re going to the big leagues—and you’re going...

A Michigan autoworker’s wallet is found under a hood in Minnesota — 151,000 miles later PETERSBURG, Mich. (AP) — A retired Michigan autoworker looked at a Facebook message after midnight from a stranger: Did you lose your wallet years ago? “If so,” a Minnesota man...

Teens learn the lost arts of sewing and ironing In a sunny room Fullerton, CA something magical is happening: this summer a group of high school girls is learning some new skills, from real grandma's. Every Tuesday and Thursday in July the Golden Connections Club, a...

Humanity is enjoying a bit of a devolution back to analog, and a perfect example of this comes from Vermont, where refurbished pay phones are connecting a community with poor cell signal. When was the last time you used a pay phone? For many working Americans the...

Travelers Will No Longer Have to Remove Their Shoes in U.S. Airport Security Lines For frequent American flyers and puzzled first-time visitors from Europe, a major security headache is due to finally to fade away into history’s rearview mirror. Homeland Security...

Look at the ways music interacts with the soul Emotional Impact: Music can evoke a wide range of emotions, from joy and excitement to sadness and nostalgia.  The rhythms and melodies in music can activate specific brainwave patterns that create feelings of...

Japanese ‘Rental Grandmother’ Service Provides Much-Needed and Much-Loved Purpose for Older Women When a Japanese handyman contractor faced an oversaturated market, they turned to a pretty unusual solution: a ‘rent-a-grandma.’ With few other jobs available for women...

Space-Based Solar Power: The Future of Clean, Reliable Energy Space-based solar power (SBSP) is an innovative concept that involves capturing solar energy using satellites in space and transmitting it wirelessly back to Earth. Unlike traditional solar panels on the...

Hero Service Dog Senses Owner’s Irregular Heartbeat–Saving the Veteran From a Catastrophic Stroke The Labrador usually lets Hank sleep late—but not on this particular day. Something was wrong. Very wrong. The service dog named Tommy had been with Hank Ford since he...