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Magnesium is essential for your health: How to get more of it into your diet
Magnesium is one of the most vital minerals for overall health. In fact, the mineral is actually involved with over 300 biochemical functions in the body, such as regulating heartbeat rhythms and helping neurotransmitter functions. Despite this, an estimated 80 percent of adults are deficient of Read More...
No more roaming fees for European residents traveling within the EU
One of the high-level promises that the European Union made when the region began integrating is finally coming true on June 15. On that date, residents of EU countries traveling within the EU will be able to make wireless calls, use data, and send texts without any additional fees. While the Read More...
Study: Being married can protect you from heart failure
A team of researchers says that marriage may have actual health benefits for your heart. Based on their study of nearly a million U.K. adults, the researchers reported that loving a spouse is linked to a better chance of surviving a heart attack. They suspect marriage helps buffer against big heart Read More...
Can you write your way to happiness?
The simple act of putting pen to paper to record one’s daily thoughts and reflections has become commercialized. In bookshops everywhere, humble notebooks that push you to organize your thoughts are being shelved next to journals that supposedly guide you towards inner-peace through quotes and Read More...
Just 6 seconds of mindfulness can make you more effective
Some days it’s really draining to be a senior executive. You sit in meetings for hours on end, and every decision you need to make is difficult—all of the easy decisions have already been made at levels below you. On those days, you know you could be a much more effective leader if you could Read More...
How NASA's satellites can help solve the Middle East water crisis
For at least six of the past 10 years, Ali Saed, a farmer, grew no crops. The rain in his little corner of northern Iraq was too meager, as was the flow of a nearby irrigation canal. He was only a few months away from ditching agriculture for good when he reached out to a distant relative, a Read More...
U.S. Chamber of Commerce survey shows support for sharing economy
Just 10 years ago, the idea of leaving your home for a long trip meant you were paying for something you wouldn’t use. Your car would sit in the garage, your apartment or house would sit empty, and you’d still be responsible for utilities. On the off chance you had a friend or relative in town, Read More...
Solar energy will soon be cheaper than any other energy source
Protecting coal jobs today makes as much sense as protecting typing pool jobs around the time personal computers caught on in the 1980s. Solar technology will destroy coal and oil as energy sources even if President Donald Trump stamps his feet, holds his breath and refuses to play with the rest of Read More...
The home of The Optimist Daily joins the clean energy revolution
We are proud to announce that the home town of The Optimist Daily team has joined the clean energy revolution: Santa Barbara, California, has become the 30th city in the U.S. to commit to transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy by Read More...
Renewable energy provides half of British electricity for the first time
This week the National Grid in the United Kingdom reported that renewable sources of energy were generating more electricity than coal and gas for the first time. Power from wind, solar, hydro and wood pellet burning supplied 50.7 percent of British energy. A tenth of the U.K.'s power was coming Read More...