Jesse Singer articles

Sure, it’s the same country—but moving from the Big Apple to the Lone Star State can feel like a whole different world. People who’ve made the move tend to say the same thing: some changes hit you right away—and others you don’t see coming until you’re living them.

But kindness and helpfulness show up in both big and small moments—from holding doors to volunteering to helping strangers in emergencies—and the data shows some states do it far more consistently than others. Based on data from AmeriCorps, Gallup, Pew, and national surveys, here are the most helpful states in America. Ranked.

Living in a new country can be exciting, eye-opening, and even life-changing. But for American expats abroad, there are certain things they miss from back home—and they come up again and again in surveys.

Global views of the United States have become more complicated in recent years. But across multiple surveys—including Pew Research and Ipsos—one thing is clear: there are still many aspects of America that people around the world genuinely like, admire, and connect with on a personal level.

It’s one of the most common beliefs out there—Canada has “free healthcare.” So when someone gets a massive hospital bill, it feels shocking, even wrong. But the reality is more complicated, especially if you’re not a Canadian resident—and there’s one crucial step many travelers overlook before ever crossing the border.

For decades, the story of how life began seemed relatively settled. Scientists believed they understood the sequence, the building blocks, and how it all came together. But new research is now raising big questions—ones that directly challenge what we thought we knew about the origins of life.

In 2023, archaeologists studying ancient debris from a site near Jerusalem made a discovery that immediately caught global attention: a tiny folded lead tablet believed to be over 3,000 years old. At first glance it looked unremarkable—but upon closer examination researchers realized it contained something truly extraordinary: one of the earliest, and most terrifying, curse texts ever found.

If you’ve walked into a modern hotel or restaurant bathroom recently, you may have noticed something odd: from open restroom entrances to hotel rooms suddenly putting the toilet almost completely out in the open—doors are disappearing. What’s going on?

For decades, many scientists assumed that if intelligent life existed elsewhere in the universe, we would have seen some sign of it by now. But one NASA astrophysicist believes he may know why it hasn't happened yet, and his so-called “radical mundanity” theory points to a possibility most people probably haven’t even considered.