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Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri becomes Morocco's first woman prime minister
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM On September 29, King Mohammed VI appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as Morocco's prime minister, making the 50-year-old urban planner and longtime mayor of Marrakesh the first woman to hold the role in the kingdom's history. She is also the third woman to Read More...
How to choose running shoes: what a physical therapists wants you to know
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The running boom shows no sign of slowing, and the shoe market has followed with thicker foams, carbon-fiber plates, and marketing claims that more technology means less injury and faster times. Some of that holds up. A fair amount doesn't, and the gap Read More...
Social physiology: the hidden health cost of eating alone, according to science
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A study published in Science Advances found that eating the same meal with a close companion produces measurably better blood sugar control than eating it alone. In experiments with 108 participants, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Read More...
6 things that will bring more birds to your backyard this autumn
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM If you've ever caught a flash of movement in the branches in early October - something small and unfamiliar, not the usual backyard regulars - there's a good chance it was a migrating bird passing through and looking for somewhere to stop. Tens of millions Read More...
Wisconsin's first certified Shinrin-yoku trail is open to everyone
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Think about the last time you went for a walk in the woods. Were you listening to a podcast? Checking your step count? Moving fast enough to feel productive, already running through everything you needed to do when you got home? If any of that sounds Read More...
DeafCity Hub and the fight to build a space where sign language can live and thrive
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Sign language interpreters at rap concerts go viral for a reason. There's something genuinely arresting about watching BSL in full flight: the expressiveness, the grammar operating in three-dimensional space, a face carrying as much meaning as the hands. Read More...
Podcast Transcript October 2nd, 2026— A wildlife overpass, a solar train, and Japan’s massive centenarian population
Episode Description: This week Arielle and Karissa cover the Colorado wildlife overpass that came in $15 million under budget and brought pronghorn back to habitat they hadn’t reached in decades, what Japan’s 107,000-plus centenarians reveal about diet and aging, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Read More...
How a simple urine test could spare most women from invasive womb cancer procedures
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Researchers at the University of Manchester developed a non-invasive womb cancer test that correctly identified most cancers and returned a negative result for 93 percent of women who did not have the disease. The test uses urine and vaginal fluid samples, Read More...
Fighting dengue with sterile insects: Lisbon's experimental approach
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Portugal has released 30,000 sterile male mosquitoes in Lisbon as part of a push to bring down populations of the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), a species that can carry dengue, Zika, and yellow fever. Last Thursday's release in Alvalade was the Read More...
The herbs and spices dietitians say support immune function
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Every fall, the same conversation starts about how to stay well through cold and flu season. Most of the advice points to supplements: vitamin C, zinc, elderberry. Useful, but not the whole picture. The spice rack you walk past every morning has something to Read More...