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Julie Yip-Williams lived a life of incredible hardship, defying the odds and inspiring countless people along the way. One of the biggest lessons she learned is that pain can…
Yellowstone National Park gets a whopping 4.5 million visitors each year, per the U.S. Department of the Interior . And all those tourists bring lots of stuff with them to the…
A country music artist from the United Kingdom spent months traveling the United States , and one of his biggest takeaways is that his home country has been ruined by it. Not as…
Living in Southern California has a lot of perks, and proximity to Disneyland is at the top of the list, next to the incredible Mexican cuisine and glorious Mediterranean climate.…
Tehran split into two worlds: unveiled women ran openly in a city marathon while state forces paraded machine guns nearby. The striking contrast exposes a deeply divided capital,…
Under New York’s streets, the subway system corrodes, is fixed — and breaks again. What’s left is art, the M.T.A. Modern.
Our partner Rob Brezsny, whose latest book is Enlightenment for Rebels: Celebrating Our Wild and Sacred Earthly Selves, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and…
Many of the Royal Family's current troubles can be traced back to the aftermath of the then-Princess of Wales' death.
51 years ago today, Fawlty Towers premiered on the BBC. John Cleese boldly stepped out into the situational comedy scene without the support of his legendary troupe, Monty Python,…
Battery ‘torture testing’ simulates car washes, sandstorms and wildfires for the benefit of the energy transition.
Euronews Travel’s Dianne Apen-Sadler headed to the ancient city of Bhaktapur in Nepal for the Sa: Paru festival honouring those that have died in the past year.
In the midst of calls for an AI development slowdown, the fear and uncertainty over AI's impact on the job market remain present worldwide, study finds.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a pair of bills that would let community colleges offer more bachelor's degrees. The new degree options would be tied to regional workforce needs and…
There is no place on earth like the United States. From American culture to American food, people who visit the United States often come away bewildered . But for Americans, these…
Marcos Alberti’s “3 Glasses” project began with a joke and a few drinks with his friends. The photo project originally depicted Alberti’s friends drinking, first immediately after…
First impressions mean a lot. When you meet someone new, you’re probably trying to get a feel for who they are, and whether they’re trustworthy . It all comes down to noticing…
The thing about Gen X being in our 40s and 50s now is that we were never supposed to get “old.” Like, we’re the cool, aloof grunge generation of young tech geniuses. Most of the…
Mary Timby flew to Ireland on a whim last year and met her boyfriend at a matchmaking festival.
Hoping to tackle the 50% of textile emissions associated with the dyeing process, a vaunted French startup has created non-toxic dyes that require substantially less water to…
Episode Description: Most world maps show Greenland and Africa as roughly the same size… which is kind of unbelievable considering Africa is 14 times larger! This error has been…
Shakira returns to Spain this Friday with 12 shows in Madrid, wrapping up her world tour after eight years away, playing to about 50,000 fans a night until 11 October.
An unspoiled, undiscovered tomb containing the remains of an elite society belong to a major Andean civilization has been uncovered in Peru. Located in the UNESCO World…
Searches for ‘marathon abroad’ have hit an all-time high, with travellers also researching what to see, eat and do in European race destinations once the running is over.
To mark the 35th anniversary, the country’s president, Emomali Rahmon, set out plans for economic growth, hydropower, investment, and a stronger international presence.
After becoming completely blind from cataracts, a 54-year-old chimpanzee named Pierre is seeing again following a successful surgery at Chimp Haven, the world’s largest chimpanzee…
In a story that proves ‘explorer’ is still a good answer to the question “what do you want to be when you grow up?” a whole new cat species has been identified for the first time…
This story was originally published by Civil Eats . T he town of Skagway, in southeast Alaska, is home to approximately 1,000 year-round residents and hosts more than 1.3 million…
188 years ago today, the Anti-Corn Law League was established in England by the economics-savvy liberals who understood that protectionism is immoral and useless in benefiting the…
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It isn’t too early to start thinking about end-of-year travel plans. We’re fielding reader questions about where to go and what to do.
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The lettuce in REWE’s Lankwitz store in Berlin has had a short morning. Grown on the rooftop farm directly above, cut, packaged by hand, and…
Ventura County firefighters rescued a black and white kitten from the clutches of an entertainment center and the internet went gaga.
In central California’s city of San Carlos, recycling plastics is a family affair. Nick Schick and his parents, David and Andrea, work exclusively with products made from…
A warming pool of tropical ocean water has been shown to be the cause of immense snowstorms over East Antarctica which contributed to a net gain of 695 billion tons of ice between…
I spent years immersed in noise. Sometimes it was deafeningly loud, like the crescendo of horns and two-stroke motorcycles during rush hour in Mumbai. Other times it was simply…
Rather than bringing crude oil to boiling point over and over again as is done in traditional distillation refining, Chinese scientists have found a way to separate the mixture…
The thousands of square miles of mountain watershed around L.A. -- the San Gabriels and the San Bernardinos -- are as steep as roller coasters, and the rain funnels off them in…
A trio of students at Harvard University have invented a low-cost, eye-tracking headset designed to help schools quickly screen child athletes for possible concussions. The…
Happy 41st birthday to The Great 8, Alexander Ovechkin. Playing left wing for the Washington Capitals since 2004, he is quite simply among the greatest goal scorers in the history…
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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Research has put a number on the value of a good hobby: eight hours. That is how much joy, defined as deep satisfaction, gratification, and…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The old cues for spotting a scam are becoming unreliable. Misspelled words, strange formatting, unfamiliar sender names, requests that arrive…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In 2019, a South American transport company ordered a diesel ferry. By the time it launched six years later, it had become the largest…
As LAUSD enrollment drops, district officials face tough choices over school closures and how to prudently spend billions in voter-approved bond funds.
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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM At a Baked Bites pop-up in Frisco, Texas, the transaction looks simple: you place a pre-order, you pick up a homemade cookie. Buried inside…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The question most ambulances are designed to answer is how fast a patient can reach a hospital. In the Narok region of Kenya, where long…
L.A.-based analysts say the 2028 Olympics will supercharge revenue, jobs and taxes. Projections for the Paris Olympics didn't pan out.
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A review noted outdated or absent plans for recovery after the Eaton and Palisades fires. But county employees still found ways to assist survivors.
In Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, Ram Bibi, a 30-year-old mother now pregnant with her sixth child, counts herself as one of the lucky ones. She gets regular prenatal…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Lignin is the part of wood that paper mills and timber companies tend to get rid of. It comes off as a byproduct when wood is processed,…
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C ésar Maquieira has always loved the sea. Born and raised in the northwest of Spain, much of which is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, he would for years regularly go fishing and…
The Chicago star's children Dylan and Carys have both gone into showbiz, following in her footsteps.
This week in our New York City office, we found ourselves talking about what we remembered from 25 years ago: the darkness, the sadness — and the ways people cared for one…
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O n Doug Tallamy’s 10-acre property in rural Pennsylvania, the evidence arrives on wings. Wood thrushes now nest in shrubs that were once cut for hay. Luna moths — emerald-green…
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