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Bill Scott spends hours on his ham radio every dy. He has a small black portable unit that he takes with him walks, vacations, and to social gatherings. Scott said he has heard check ins from every part of the world and even the International Space Station. When Scott got a call from one of his radio…

Paul O’Sullivan said one night he was randomly searching for people with the same name on a social media site. He sent friend requests to the people he found and most accepted. As they began seeing information from the other people, they discovered several of them were musicians, so they decided to form…

When the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs met in the NFL playoffs in January 2020, the game became an opportunity for the teams’ mascots to renew their friendship. Dan Meers has performed as the Chief’s mascot K.C. Wolf for 30 years. Over the years he made hundreds of appearances and gave many school…

A friendship that brought together a family from Newfoundland and the Canary Island began with a message in a bottle and a tragic accident. Patrick Dennis originally found the bottle on the shore of Tenerife Island off the coast of Africa in 2002. He made an attempt to contact the 5-year-old girl from…

On ABC’s television show “The Good Doctor” Dr. Shaun Murphy is a medical resident with Autism. Murphy is very smart and can see medical procedures in his mind before they ever begin. However, he does struggle with social interaction, struggling with how to deal with emotions. In season one Murphy made…

In 1974, 11-year-old Tina Green slipped a note into an old bottle and threw it into Lake Michigan from the lighthouse at Old Mission. She was spending the summer with her grandparents and wondered who might find the treasure she put in the lake. 45 years later, Tina Green-Allera had forgotten about the…

Samsung has released a new dating app that helps people find matches by looking at the insides of the person’s refrigerator. The Refrigerdating app designed for use with the company’s Family Hub Refrigerator allows singles to learn about potential mates based on what they keep inside the appliance. The…

Software engineer, Jackie Luo writing at Vox.com, shares the easiest way to make or lose friends. “What a lot of people don’t appear to understand is that the single easiest way to make friends is to show up when it matters — and the single easiest way to lose friends is to, well, not.” That may be an…

A study conducted by Pew Research found only 31 percent of Americans say they know all or most of their neighbors. The number is slightly higher for those living in rural areas where 40% say they know the majority of their neighbors. Since rural people tend to live further from their neighbors, one insight…

The chef for the Norwegian Olympic Team said he had to work hard to come up with things he could make with eggs after the team made a typo in their food order. Chef Tore Ovrebo said the eggs were more a misunderstanding than something they needed because of 1,500, they ordered 15,000. Ovrebo said the…

A Massachusetts woman has a new outlook on life after receiving a kidney donation from a complete stranger. Nicole Baltzer had never imagined being a living donor before she read a story about a single mother with Lupus who needed a new kidney to survive. Baltzer said when she read about the other woman;…

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine studying 1,787 adults ages 19 to 32 discovered a connection between time spent on social media and loneliness. Users who spend more than two hours daily on sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram are more than twice as likely…

Delta Airlines is testing a kiosk that scans the faces of passengers when they check their baggage. The machine allows passengers to bypass check-in agents because it matches the scanned picture with the image on their passports. The airline said the machines could allow them to move twice as many passengers…

When Houston police officers reached the scene of Miguel Chavez duct-taped to a yield sign, they almost used a tazer on another man who approached the scene with a knife. The man with the knife, told the officers that was trying to help his friend, who was in this predicament due to losing a bet over…

Would you agree that a lot of people ask how people how they are doing, but really don’t want to know the answer? Emily Cummins recommends using body language to show that you really care when you ask someone how he/she is doing. Building meaningful relationships takes time, investment, and intentionality.…

In an effort to allow a greater range of responses, Facebook has added new emojis for users in some countries to use. In Ireland and Spain, users can now use a throbbing heart for “love,” a fuming face for “anger,” a teary-eyed “Sad,” and others. Facebook calls the new symbols “Reactions” and modeled…

A group of friends hoping to cheer up a friend with cancer was disappointed when the Bible they had been sending around the country got lost in the mail. Friends of Jill Yeager purchased a pink Bible and sent it to friends around the country, asking them to pray for Jill and write an encouraging note…

In his book, Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation, M. Robert Mulholland, Jr., writes, “If you want a good litmus test of your spiritual growth simply examine the nature and quality of your relationships with others.” —Jim L. Wilson Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual…

Having a companion in life may help people live longer. In fact, the data indicates that being alone and feeling lonely increase a person’s chance of death by roughly 30%. The researchers say further study is needed but their results reinforce the benefits of friendships and human connections. Dr. Julianna…

The Japanese have found a good friend for you and it will only cost you $1,600. Pepper is a 4-foot-tall human-shaped robot built by Tokyo-based telecom giant, SoftBank. Pepper’s programming allows it to sense your emotions based on vocal inflections and facial expressions. Pepper can talk, dance, tell…

Guards say they accustomed to people leaving things like sunglasses or small items at airport security checkpoints, but were surprised to discover a diamond-encrusted Cartier watch left behind by a Japanese businessperson. The owner had already boarded his flight, but he sent a friend to pick it and…

Neuroscience research suggests that having more friends is linked with greater connectivity between certain parts of the human brain. The study presented at a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience suggests that social interaction may be linked to the structure of the brain. In people with a large network…

In his book, Replenish: Leading from a healthy Soul, Lance Witt writes, “Not only does technology generate a lot of internal white noise, it hinders our ability to focus on people. It seems to me many of us have developed a kind of social ADD. We can’t stay engaged in a conversation or an experience…

In 1931, Miriam McMichael, a schoolteacher from Maine, sent a nine-page letter from her home to her mother who lived in Pittsfield Maine. A postal worker recently found the letter at the Pittsfield post office who knew it was old because the letter has a two-cent stamp on it. Both of the original women…

Would you agree that a lot of people ask how people how they are doing, but really don’t want to know the answer? Emily Cummins recommends using body language to show that you really care when you ask someone how he/she is doing. Building meaningful relationships takes time, investment, and intentionality.…