Three ways to strengthen your emotional agility
Have relatively small problems in your life been triggering bigger reactions than expected? After the year we’ve had, this is hardly a surprise. From the global pandemic to financial insecurity and social injustice, we all have an overwhelming amount to process. When we are dealing with so Read More...
This simple eating tip will improve digestion and boost your energy levels
Want a simple way to help boost your digestion and improve your energy levels? Make sure to chew your food completely! As obvious as it may seem, properly chewing your food is incredibly important. Digestion takes more energy than perhaps any other function in the body, so when you fail to chew Read More...
Three countries to reach Mars' orbit by the end of this month
The pandemic has restrained life here on Earth, but it hasn’t stopped humans from pushing boundaries in space. In fact, spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates, China, and The United States are all scheduled to reach Mars this month after launching from Earth last summer. All three countries Read More...
Feeling like a fraud? Five strategies to manage the “imposter phenomenon"
Do you ever feel like you’re not good enough? You are not alone. In 1978, graduate students Suzanne Imes and Pauline Rose Clance realized that they had the same feelings of inadequacy and anxiety and that many other female students struggled with similar thoughts as well. Imes, a Read More...
Ikea is turning this Swedish city into a hub for green-minded projects
Last month, Ikea made it into the Optimist Daily after purchasing nearly 11,000 acres of forest in Georgia to protect it from being developed. Today, we bring you a whole new initiative from the furniture giant that involves turning the Swedish city of Helsingborg into a sustainable community. In Read More...
Forgotten conch shell in museum identified as oldest known wind instrument
Archaeologists discovered a treasure hiding in plain sight after a 17,000-year-old conch shell that lay forgotten for more than 80 years in a museum collection has been identified as the oldest known wind instrument of its type. During a recent inventory of items at the Muséum de Toulouse in Read More...
The story behind the first successful double hand and face transplant
Car crash survivor Joe DiMeo knew the risks he was facing when he decided to go through with a double hand and face transplant surgery at NYU Langone Health. The two previous times such a complicated procedure had ended in failure, but for DiMeo, the surgery was worth the risk if it meant that he Read More...
Why you should enjoy more “tiny” plant-based foods
When it comes to diet, we tend to focus solely on the types of foods we eat, but if you ask functional nutritionist Deanna Minich, Ph.D., she will tell you the size of your food is also very important. In a recent podcast for mindbodygreen, Minich explained that smaller plant-based foods can Read More...
This technology allows plants to communicate with farmers
Scientists at the Swiss deep tech company Vivent have created technology that allows us to know exactly what our plants need. Before this, farmers have relied on secondary indicators for finding problems with their crops, looking, for example, for signs of drought by checking out their roots. But Read More...
MIT researchers create origami-like patch to seal internal injuries
MIT researchers have developed a biodegradable medical patch that could soon help robot surgeons mend internal injuries and could ultimately lead to wider use of robots in medicine. Today, bioadhesive patches are already in use for surgeries that intend to seal internal damage, but the problem is Read More...