Lifestyle
Alongside taking care of other people and the planet, make sure you take good care of yourself. The Lifestyle section at the Optimist Daily has solutions for everyday wellbeing on topics like food, beauty, fashion, and the latest trends. Curious about caring for houseplants, eating plant-based, or parenting tips? It’s all in there.
Ethereum is changing the way we think about cryptocurrency
Alex Tapscott is chief executive of NextBlock Global. Bitcoin is the mother of all cryptocurrencies, and the most famous of them. Created by a person or people using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, it defined the algorithms that enable the transfer of assets from one party to another without an Read More...
What you can learn from taxi cab drivers in Europe
If you’ve ever taken a ride in a taxi cab, you’ve probably found yourself in some pretty interesting conversations. After all, it’s not so surprising considering that cab drivers are more often than not hard-working immigrants who speak with people all day as they do their job. Take a look Read More...
Trust me: Read this to understand the problem that Blockchain will solve
In recent months we have published several stories explaining the blockchain-cryptocurrency phenomenon. We will continue doing so because digital currencies are going to have a major impact on how we are going to live and work together. This is another good analysis. Please read all 3,500 words. Read More...
Marshmallow test: Cameroonian toddlers show more self-control than German kids
The marshmallow test measures an individual’s self-control and ability to delay gratification—a personality trait associated with being successful in life. For the first time, researchers have tested a group of non-western kids. The study shows that Cameroonian toddlers are much more capable of Read More...
Study: 8-week mindfulness course increases workplace effectiveness by 6 percent
Last year, my co-author Karen Gifford and I had an opportunity to partner with the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) and Seyfarth Shaw LLP to offer an eight-week mindfulness and meditation program. We used our book, The Anxious Lawyer, Read More...
These Montana moms created a nonprofit that welcomes refugees to their city
After seeing the tragic photo of a drowned Syrian refugee—Aylan Kurdi, age 3— laying face down on a beach in Turkey, Mary Poole got her book club together in Montana and asked “what can we do about this?” Together, they decided to create a nonprofit to help refugees called Soft Landing. Read More...
Japan's population is falling faster than it ever has before
Japan's population fell at the beginning of this year at the fastest pace since 1968, when the earliest comparable figures started getting collected. As of January 1, the number of Japanese people (excluding resident foreigners) fell by a record 308,084 from a year earlier to 125,583,658, Read More...
Crossing the US-Mexico border: The world’s most illegal game of volleyball
In many ways, the border that separates the US from Mexico is reminiscent of a war zone. Helicopters constantly fly overhead, border agents patrol along it, and militarized weaponry are all in place to stop immigrants headed northwards to find work. A heavy fence stands as a symbolic divider Read More...
Book review: The self-compassion skills workbook
Is it really possible to transform ourselves in just fourteen days? Tim Desmond, author of The Self-Compassion Skills Workbook believes it is. Desmond provides an overview of what self-compassion is before presenting his fourteen day program in which readers are encouraged to work on Read More...
Can you buy anything real with Bitcoin? On the streets, it proves a hard sell
My journey into the dark economy starts much as expected: in front of a computer screen, late at night. It ends somewhere quite unexpected, in a humdrum setting a world away from the stereotype of modernity, equality and sticking it to the man promised by digital currencies such as Bitcoin: it ends Read More...