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.
UK Labour leader Corbyn plans 'Minister For Peace'
Jeremy Corbyn has revealed that he will appoint a minister for peace and disarmament if he becomes Prime Minister. The Labour leader outlined his plan in an hour-long documentary, directed by award-winning filmmaker Ken Loach, detailing his interactions with party supporters. Corbyn underlined his Read More...
Oxytocin enhances spirituality, new study says
Oxytocin has been dubbed the "love hormone" for its role promoting social bonding, altruism and more. Now new research from Duke University suggests the hormone may also support spirituality. In the study, men reported a greater sense of spirituality shortly after taking oxytocin and a week later. Read More...
This cooperative grocery store wants to break the diversity mold
At a few minutes before 8 a.m. on a weekday morning in Minneapolis, there’s a small crowd of people waiting for the front door of the Seward Community Co-op Friendship Store to slide open for the day. They stand under a sign that says, “Everyone Welcome,” and it seems true Read More...
Bitcoin is money, U.S. judge says in case tied to JPMorgan hack
left right left right NEW YORK Bitcoin qualifies as money, a federal judge ruled on Monday, in a decision linked to a criminal case over hacking attacks against JPMorgan Chase & Co and other companies. U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan rejected a bid by Anthony Murgio to dismiss Read More...
How this woman overcame the marginalization of women in Turkey with flying colors
Although Turkey claims it's becoming a cosmopolitan country, patriarchy in the nation is still ever present. In fact, Turkey ranked 130 out of 145 countries in the World Economic Forum’s 2015 Global Gender Gap Report, and less than 30 percent of women ages 15-64 participated in the labor force in Read More...
Monsanto Bayer deal shows that GMO support is weakening
At first glance, people looking for more sustainable solutions in the world might shrug their shoulders about the news of pharmaceutical and chemical multinational Bayer acquiring agrochemical giant Monsanto. Monsanto has been a target of the worldwide environmental movement for two decades for its Read More...
32,000 people in Japan turned 100 this year and the economy can't keep up
Japan doesn't really believe in dying young. At least, not according to conventional timelines. New data from the country's Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare reveal Japan has broken its own record for most centenarians by population for the 46th straight year. With 32,000 new 100-year-olds, Read More...
How Europe's influx of refugees is inspiring creative, affordable housing for everyone
When hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants started arriving in Europe in 2015, many cities started quickly building simple shelters, sometimes repurposing old shipping containers as temporary places to sleep instead of tents. But these makeshift sites were also often on the edges of Read More...
Google-backed blockchain start-up Ripple raises $55 million from big banks
Chris Larsen, the chief executive of Ripple, said the company was investing the fresh funds in global expansion. "We have been expanding our office locations. We want to continue that and grow those teams, we want to be hiring so we can have engineers on the ground with local banking partners as Read More...
1.5 billion people lack a legal identity; blockchain technology can change that
Many refugees and migrants cross borders without proper documentation or their passports are lost or stolen along the way. German police said recently that 80 percent of Syrian refugees in that country didn't have the right paperwork. Without official identification refugees don’t have access Read More...