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.
Indian social entrepreneur of the year gives rural women access to banking
Social enterprises aim to improve communities and help society benefit from their profits, so what could be more enterprising or more social than a bank for illiterate village women? This is what the unassuming Chetna Sinha has set up: an Indian cooperative bank for 310,000 rural women, doing Read More...
French law requires companies to grant employees “right to disconnect” at night
Laptops and smartphones allow us to do work efficiently, but what they have also done is blur the line between work and home life. We carry our phones everywhere, and it's created a "forever on" culture that leaves little time to disconnect and reboot. That's why France has passed a law that Read More...
Angela Merkel: Jihadists, terrorists need love and compassion
Angela Merkel, Germany’s leading lady who’s responsible for opening the country’s doors to tens of thousands of Muslim refugees, said in New Year’s Eve remarks that the likes of ISIS terrorists and Islamic jihadists need more love and compassion. Say what? From the Express: Read More...
Bitcoin jumps above $1,000 for first time in three years
Digital currency bitcoin kicked off the new year by jumping above $1,000 for the first time in three years late on Sunday, having outperformed all central-bank-issued currencies with a 125 percent climb in 2016. Bitcoin - a web-based "cryptocurrency" that has no central authority, relying instead Read More...
The clowns bringing laughter to refugee camps: ‘Happiness matters like food’
An adorable six-year-old in a pink top reaches up to me, her bright green eyes pleading for a hug. Next to her a slightly older girl, with curly brown hair and laughing dark eyes also reaches up. I lift the first child on to my back and bounce her around for a few moments before gently setting her Read More...
Blockchain app helps migrant workers send money home
Migrant workers often send at least half of their pay to their families in their home countries. In the process, they have to pay for transfer fees and currency exchange rates which may run above 10 percent of the transaction amount. Everex is a startup aimed at solving that problem. Everex is Read More...
How to brag about your vacation without alienating people
Social media is a fickle beast. It’s tough to toe the line between over-sharing, bragging, and boring, and nowhere is this line more blurred than when traveling. This dilemma is at the heart of a recent study in Psychological Science, which contends that while your experiences may be epic, no Read More...
This 70-year-old woman spends her days removing hate propaganda from the streets of Berlin
Meet Irmela Schramm, a 70-year-old woman who spends her days walking the streets of Berlin in search for racist, neo-Nazi messages that she can cover up. She’s been at it for over three decades, removing over 130,000 Nazi stickers and posters in that time, despite receiving threats from Read More...
Look again: The day’s most compelling images from around the globe
Look Again is a daily series presenting the best photographs of the previous 24 hours, curated and written by Salon's writers and editors.Tokyo, Japan Toshifumi Kitamura/Getty Workers dressed in Santa and reindeer costumes clean windows outside of the ‘Decks Tokyo Beach’ Read More...
5 ways to teach a child to be mindful during an ordinary day
Want to teach your child the art of mindfulness? Even one minute of mindfulness can create a shift during your day. It doesn’t take a particular posture or formal training to engage your mind and body in the present moment. In fact, you can teach kids how to be mindful during ordinary daily Read More...