It's Groundhog Day! Last year, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow (portending more winter), so given the recent snowstorm, we're hoping 2026 isn't a repeat. If you're up early — before 7:30 EST — you can watch Phil emerge and make his prediction. Sleepyheads and West Coasters: That same link will take you to the results.
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Humanity
Author Erin Port on How "Tiny Tweaks" Help Us Shift Toward Happiness
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Baking delicious banana bread requires trial and error. Your first attempt might need more salt; your second might need more nutmeg. If it still doesn't taste the way you want it to, you continue making tiny tweaks until you're happy with your loaf. The same idea can be applied to our lives, says Erin Port. Port is the author of Tiny Tweaks, Happy Life: Simple Changes to Create Space for What Matters(published last week), and her banana bread analogy was inspired by her experience baking with her four kids. The final tweak that perfected their family recipe? The addition of chocolate chips. "You have a great life. You have a perfectly good banana bread recipe, right? We're not throwing out the banana recipe for a cookie recipe. That's silly," she explains to Nice News. "We're wanting banana bread. We want our life. But it's just little iterations that can make it better." These little iterations are effective, Port says, because they break through the paralysis so many of us feel in the face of making larger shifts. "When we try to do a sweeping overhaul and it doesn't work out, it gives us evidence that we can't make a change," she notes, adding: "There's something that really is powerful in making a small change. It gives us evidence that we can, and evidence that we can is a far better motivator than failure." Learn five tiny tweaks you can try today.
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Rembrandt Lion Drawing Estimated to Sell for $20M, With Proceeds Benefiting Wild Cat Org
Sotheby's New York
A rare drawing of a lioness by 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn is headed to the auction block, with a profound mission behind its sale. All proceeds — an estimated $20 million — will benefit global wild cat conservation group Panthera. "Young Lion Resting" will be auctioned Wednesday at Sotheby's New York, timed to the 20th anniversary of the nonprofit, which was co-founded by Thomas Kaplan, a billionaire art collector, philanthropist, and current co-owner of the drawing. But beginning today, visitors to Sotheby's can view another, more symbolic piece of art: a replica of the drawing with its subject missing. Titled "Young Lion Vanished," the accompanying piece (pictured) represents the dire conservation crisis the big cats are facing — and what will happen if collective action isn't taken to save the species. Lion populations have plummeted by nearly 90% in the last century, from nearly 200,000 individuals to just over 20,000 today, per Panthera. "'Young Lion Resting' reminds us what it looks, and feels, like when a species still belongs to the world of the living," Kaplan tells Nice News. "'Young Lion Vanished' asks the harder question — what happens when it no longer does? And yet this is not a mere rhetorical question, with the lion having disappeared from 26 of the 48 countries in which they once roamed free. Art has always been a mirror. In this particular moment, it's also a warning." See "Young Lion Resting."
Sports
"Time Has Come": New Institute Is on a Mission to Revolutionize Women's Sports Medicine
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It's no secret that women's sports are getting long-overdue attention: Viewership is soaring and women's sports bars are popping up all over the country. Yet sports medicine is lagging behind, with less than 10% of research focused on women — something Dr. Kate Ackerman wants to change. Ackerman, a Team USA rower-turned-physician, co-founded The Women's Health, Sports & Performance Institute, a new center merging clinical care, research, training, and education to address women-specific challenges across life stages, from postpartum to postmenopausal. The long game is to extend athletic careers by preventing injuries that can sideline women early. For example, women face two to eight times higher risk of ACL tears, according to Yale Medicine. Research also shows women are more likely to have bone stress injuries, knee pain, and concussions. Recently, the institute secured over $50 million to fund this research — a vital piece of the puzzle, as Dr. Ackerman explains: "Women are expensive to study. Studying those changes in hormones can be really time-consuming, and so it was easier to just not think about it. And time has come for us to think about it. We don't care how hard it is. We know that it's really important, and we know that the athletes are asking for it."
In Other News
A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence is headed to auction ahead of America's 250th birthday (read more)
Clueless and The Truman Show are among the movies newly entered into the National Film Registry (read more)
Jardin for all! A French man donated an empty field to his hometown to create a community orchard (read more)
An endangered seabird from the Galápagos Islandswas spotted 3,000 miles away off the California coast (read more)
The largest-ever exhibition of works by LGBTQ+ African artists is underway in D.C. (read more)
Something We Love
Ikea BJÄLVEN Bathrobe After three years of near-daily use, this robe is still just as good as the day I got it. Made of 80% cotton, it's breathable and lightweight but crafted with enough material that it fully wraps around my body. I love that the waffle texture adds a feeling of hotel luxury to my everyday shower routine. – Natalie Stone, Managing Editor
Sometimes we all get a little lost! A wayward sea lion pup was found 1.5 miles from the ocean at a California farm. The cutie wandered through a canal, across a road, and another 250 yards down a farm path before help thankfully arrived. Watch the rescue.
Photo of the Day
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This tiara Teyana Taylor wore at Paris Haute Couture Week stole the show, pun intended. The sparkling headpiece is a reimagining of some of the jewels heisted from the Louvre in October.
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