Every week, we publish a short, quiet newsletter we call Nice News—a little oasis in your inbox. It’s not to distract you from the troubles of the world, but to remind you that this world is also wonderful. That people—everyday people—are out there doing wonderful things. That life, when we stop and notice it, is astonishing.
Steve Jobs once said that one of the ways we show our gratitude to humanity is to “make something wonderful and put it out there.” That’s what we try to do every week.
This week, the wonderful showed up in two places.
First: a breakthrough in pancreatic cancer, the same disease that took Jobs from us. In a quiet Long Island lab, Cold Spring Harbor scientists discovered a way to intercept the spread of this devastating illness. It involves targeting two proteins—FGFR2 and EGFR—that fuel the aggressiveness of tumors in patients with KRAS mutations (which is nearly all pancreatic cancer cases). It’s early, but the results in mice are promising. If it works, it could mean earlier intervention, better outcomes, even prevention .
For anyone who has watched someone they love disappear too quickly from this disease… this is hope. This is light.
Second: bubble rings from humpback whales.
Yes, you read that right.
In a study that sounds like something out of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, researchers observed humpback whales blowing intricate bubble rings directly at humans—not for hunting or courtship, but possibly to connect. To play. To interact with us in their own intelligent way. One researcher called it “an invitation or party trick” — and some believe this may help us decode signals from other intelligent life in the cosmos .
Think about that: the ocean may be full of friends we don’t yet know how to talk to.
So why do we write Nice News?
Because the miraculous is not rare—it’s just under-reported.
Because in the words of Paramahansa Yogananda, “what is miraculous is all around us.” His teachings remind us that divine intelligence runs through everything—nature, science, healing, art. And that the yogi, the scientist, and the dreamer are all reaching toward the same light .
Jobs read Autobiography of a Yogi every year. It was the only book on his iPad. In the end, he left behind not just a company, but a philosophy: stay hungry, stay foolish… and make something wonderful.
So today, let’s notice the whales. Let’s celebrate the science. Let’s be kind, and curious, and grateful to be alive in this time—a time when wonderful things are happening.
Because they are.
Every week. All around us.
