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.
Take this Mini with a roof tent on your next road trip
This innovation makes sense but some car company had to be the first to implement it. Introducing the Mini with a roof Read More...
Just 10 minutes of meditation helps anxious people have better focus
Just 10 minutes of daily mindful meditation can help prevent your mind from wandering and is particularly effective if you tend to have repetitive, anxious thoughts, according to a study from the University of Waterloo. The study, which assessed the impact of meditation with 82 participants who Read More...
Cryptocurrency all-time highs reveal how blockchain is transforming our world
Both Ether and Bitcoin prices are trading at a record high right now, and no one is entirely sure what is happening in the world of cryptocurrency that’s pushing this surge. According to the Coindesk price index, bitcoin peaked today, May 1, at $1,444. That high represents an increase of Read More...
Some of the world's biggest pension funds warm to India's solar power ambitions
India is planning $100 billion in investments in solar energy in the next five years. These plans are attracting interest from some of the world's biggest pension funds, seeking long-term returns on green Read More...
Upworthy’s quest to engineer optimism for an anxious age
The world finds itself in an age saturated with anxiety—at least, that’s the sense created by the daily deluge of news portraying a grim present of economic hardship, global tensions, terrorism, and political upheaval. The five-year-old site Upworthy doesn’t want you to see the world that Read More...
Why you should take a relaxing lunch break
I know the importance of breaks in a workday. The science clearly shows that taking a cognitive timeout helps us to work better and feel better, and personal experience confirms that. But, still… Like many Americans, I sometimes find myself working right through lunch. I get lost in my work, or I Read More...
Crowdfunding for medical expenses is rising
It should be obvious as a fundamental principle that in a civilized country, crowdfunding for direct medical expenses should be utterly unnecessary. You get sick or injured, your medical care should be covered by the community at large. Yet public appeals by families or individuals for help paying Read More...
Germany utility launches 100s of Ethereum based electric cars charging stations
A subsidiary of RWE, one of Germany’s biggest energy and gas provider with 30 million customers and billions of revenue, has launched 100s of electronic vehicles (EV) charging stations all over Germany, connected to ethereum’s public blockchain. Carsten Stöcker, Senior Manager at Read More...
Reinventing capitalism with this new book on a clean money revolution
These times call for courageous new thinking. Money is perhaps our biggest blind spot. We look at it very myopically. We ignore noticing what it is doing on behalf of us. We let it do things we would never see ourselves doing. We must find new eyes to examine our personal connections to atrocity, Read More...
Bitcoin spikes to an all-time high
Bitcoin is trading at a record high. The cryptocurrency is up 2.9% at $1,330 a coin as of 10:17 a.m. ET. 2017 has been a volatile year for bitcoin. It rallied more than 20% in the opening week before crashing 35% on word that China was going to begin to crack down on trading. The Read More...