A few days ago, when I was riding the train, my girlfriend asked me for a debriefing on the big news of the last week. So I told her: death of a Supreme Court justice, and no one’s sure how he’ll be replaced; battle between giant tech corporation and giant law enforcement agency over the fate of your smartphone privacy; increasingly real possibility that an openly racist reality TV star will take the Republican presidential nomination. “Now I’m feeling really depressed,” she answered. “I wish I hadn’t asked.”

It had been a year since Redditor Duncanconstruction last saw his family, and a lot had happened in that time. For instance, he lost 130 pounds.

The inspirational story of former Romanian orphan Cornel Hrisca-Munn was first brought to the Internet's attention three years ago in a Daily Telepraph profile about the seemingly insurmountable odds the young man overcame in order to establish himself as an acclaimed swimmer and drummer.

As Deborah Cohan entered the operating room at San Francisco's Mt. Zion Hospital to undergo a double mastectomy, she would have been fully within her rights to go ballistic and throw stuff around.

Ten-year-old Tobias Bass has big dreams: He wants to be an Army pastor when he grows up so he can help bring comfort to dying soldiers on the front lines.

It certainly says something about the state of Hollywood today that a three minute ad produced at a fraction of the cost of most movies is more moving and poignant than almost anything the big studios have to offer.

For the last year or so, freelance cartoonist Gavin Aung Than has been using his talents to turn inspirational quotes from some of the world's greatest thinkers into inspirational comic strips.

A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who was abducted Thursday in Lancaster Township was rescued and returned safely to her mother thanks a pair of teens who located the kidnapper and chased him down on their bikes.

ONE WEIRD TRICK to Being a Good Person: Here's a newly-conceived and filmed version of David Foster Wallace's 2005 Kenyon commencement speech "This Is Water" (using an abridged version of the original audio), for visual learners among you.

This video was tailor-made for Monday mornings.

Shortly after 9/11, one of the cars on Pardis Parker's street in Montreal was spray-painted with the words "go home Arab."

Singer-songwriter-kids-lover-brain-eater Vennu Mallesh is many things, but a follower he is not. His debut single, "It's My Life what ever I wanna Do," makes that fact painfully clear.

Motivational speaker Tony Robbins had the best of intentions when he encouraged attendees of his "Unleash the Power Within" convention to walk on hot coals. Unfortunately, things didn't go quite as planned, and at least 21 people suffered burns from the experience.

Denver-based photographer Stevie Crecelius says she always felt more like a woman inside, but a trip to the emergency room five years ago uncovered the reason why: She actually was.

Seeking to reclaim the world record for oldest paraglider, a 104-year-old British woman successfully jumped off a 2,400ft Cypriot cliff two weeks ago.

Get pumped, everybody. That thing you were going to do, but were too afraid to do, well you're going to do it! No chance of failing after watching this video! Or, just watch and enjoy. It's sweet, succinct, and inspirational.