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.
Mi casa es su casa, and all my stuff is your stuff!
How many times have you bought something for one specific purpose only to let it collect dust for all eternity afterwards? How many times have you needed a *insert object here* but didn’t want to buy one and after a failed attempt to borrow one from a friend, you either give up on your project or Read More...
The government of India develops the mother of all apps for 200 public services
India is famous, if not infamous, for its bureaucracy. The country has thousands of government buildings filled with billions of stacks of paper. But if it were for the government of prime minister Narendra Modi, soon that will all change. The government is working on a mobile application that’ll Read More...
U.S. is discovering that legalization of marijuana actually works
The war on drugs has been a centerpiece of U.S. policies for decades with poor results. Slowly U.S. states are starting to experiment with the legalization policies that have worked so well in countries, like The Netherlands, where drugs use and crime rates have fallen as a result of Read More...
Sober is the new drunk: why millennials are ditching bar crawls for juice crawls
On a Saturday afternoon in Manhattan, Rachel Floyd and her boyfriend Paul Isham take a shot of a dark yellow liquid called Mother F*#%in’ Fireball. “It kind of makes my leg hair follicles feel like they’re standing out,” says Isham, a 33-year-old audio visual technician Read More...
Mushrooms To The Rescue!
Eben Bayer grew up on a maple farm in Canada. To fire up the boiler they’d use woodchips, which is where Bayer first learned about mycelium or “nature’s glue”. Heaps of woodchips would – as you may imagine – start to grow mushrooms when left alone outside and when it was time to move Read More...
Refugee teachers go back to school to train for work in Germany
Migrants who worked as teachers in their home countries are getting the chance to teach again in German schools thanks to a new program at the University of Potsdam. The program gives refugee teachers German language lessons as well as seminars on the German school system and teaching methods used Read More...
Green spaces in city help reduce crime rates
Green spaces in a city have multiple benefits, but a new one can be added to the list: a recent study showed green spaces in a neighborhood have a direct link with lower crime rates. Among the studied cities is Youngstown, Ohio. The city is full of empty spaces, following economic stagnation and Read More...
When Bitcoin Grows Up: What is Money?
It’s worth thinking about that promise to ‘pay the bearer on demand the sum of ten pounds’. When we parse it, it’s not clear what it means. Ten pounds of what? We’ve already got ten pounds. That’s exactly what we’re holding in our hand. It doesn’t mean, pay the bearer on demand ten Read More...
Farming as tool for refugees to integrate in Kansas
Non-profit ‘New Roots for Refugees’ found an inventive way to integrate refugees in Kansas through an education program in farming. Many of the refugees, mostly from Myanmar and Bhutan, were farmers in their home countries, but they are not used to the climate, crops and soils in Kansas. New Read More...
How to free yourself from your brain
On many fronts people feel the urge to change their lives--so why don't they succeed? We live in therapeutic times. Advice surrounds us about achieving success. Yet when we set our minds to do something seemingly simple--losing weight, giving up a bad habit, acting nicer to people, and so Read More...