Buried pleasure
From The Intelligent Optimist Magazine Fall/Winter 2016 For centuries women’s sexual desire has been erased in favor of men’s. In her new book ‘Closer’ Sarah Barmak describes a “reawakening of sex-positive feminism” that is in line with other holistic trends like yoga, slow food and Read More...
Sexual love the divine way
From The Intelligent Optimist Magazine Fall/Winter 2016 Selfishness stands in the way of fulfilling sexual love. As long as man is only chasing his own excitement, woman chooses selfishness as well and love is neglected and ignored. Loveless sex and ongoing suffering is the result. There’s Read More...
Making love a meditation
From The Intelligent Optimist Magazine Fall/Winter 2016 A conversation with Diana Richardson By Jurriaan Kamp And Nancy Reed Years ago two Dutch comedians did a great sketch. Ridiculing people’s needs always to be competitive, they introduced a new version of ping pong, which they called fun Read More...
Changing Lives, one dance at a time
From The Intelligent Optimist Magazine Fall/Winter 2016 By Jurriaan Kamp Changing lives, one dance at a time. That is the mission of the California-based initiative World Dance for Humanity. Since 2010 dancer and anthropologist Janet Reineck has brought together women who explore the best of world Read More...
Why elections are bad for democracy
From The Intelligent Optimist Magazine Fall/Winter 2016 Our voting system worked well for decades, but now it is broken. It brings forward the wrong people (Donald Trump) and it leads to bad decisions (Brexit). There is a better way to give voice to the people. By David Van Read More...
Nature's air filter
From The Intelligent Optimist Magazine Fall/Winter 2016 Air pollution is responsible for roughly 7 million deaths worldwide every year. Air-borne pollutants also cause heart disease, stroke, skin diseases, reduced fertility and miscarriage, and cancer. There’s a solution: Plants that clean the Read More...
Nature's air filter
From The Intelligent Optimist Magazine Fall/Winter 2016 Air pollution is responsible for roughly 7 million deaths worldwide every year. Air-borne pollutants also cause heart disease, stroke, skin diseases, reduced fertility and miscarriage, and cancer. There’s a solution: Plants that clean the Read More...
The dehydration myth
From The Optimist Magazine Fall/Winter 2016 If you find yourself confused about whether to drink eight glasses of water a day or twenty, chances are you’re overthinking it. There’s a perfect system that tells you when you need to drink: It’s called thirst. By KARIN KLEIN Dehydration has Read More...
This app lets you buy on-demand insurance for single items
As we wrote above, the Internet transforms entire industries. Here's a good example. In the past, you could buy one comprehensive for all your valuables. But that doesn't make much sense when you only want to insure one expensive item. That’s why Australia-based insurance company Trōv has Read More...
Researchers develop low-energy process for filtering water using carbon
Filtering mass-amounts of water can be an energy-intensive process, but that could soon change thanks to a team of researchers. Using carbon dioxide resumes, the researchers developed a new process that requires one thousand times less energy to remove suspended particles and bacteria from water. Read More...