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.
Can spirituality really affect your health? A scientist explains
While fewer Americans believe in God and millennials are the least religious generation in the last few decades, nine out of ten Americans have relied on prayer in times of duress. So, what is it about spirituality that keeps drawing people back in, even as our culture seems to be shifting away Read More...
Meditation is the secret behind Hillary Clinton’s steely temperament
Temperament is arguably the most important quality a president needs to have. Barack Obama is known for his calmness even under the most challenging circumstances. The contrast with Donald Trump’s irrational behavior cannot be more extreme. At the same time, Hillary Clinton comes across as a Read More...
Blockchain technology is slowly changing the way business works
Blockchain is best known as the technology that sits behind bitcoin, recording all of the transactions made with the virtual currency. The technology allows for much more data storage than just the financial transactions. That’s why more and more entrepreneurs are finding ways to use the Read More...
Thomson Reuters joins blockchain consortium
Thomson Reuters has joined a consortium of the world's biggest financial institutions that is working on how to use blockchain technology in global financial markets, the company said on Tuesday. Blockchain technology powers the digital currency bitcoin, enabling data sharing across a network of Read More...
Think you know the best way to finance a business?
The alternative finance industry was worth £3.2bn last year, according to the Pushing Boundaries report by Nesta. However, many micro, small and medium-sized enterprises – 56pc – remain in the dark about the range of non-traditional fundraising methods available. So what are Read More...
Kickstarter has crowdfunded a better economy, creating more than 300,000 jobs
Kickstarter has been in the business of bringing dreams to market since 2009, but according to a new study from the b corp and the University of Pennsylvania, it has brought a lot more to life than just projects and dreams. Earlier this week, the crowdfunding platform released findings from the Ivy Read More...
Nicaraguans use crowdsourcing technology to create good maps
Taking a bus in Latin America can be a disorienting experience. While the light rail systems in places like Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro have system maps that are fairly easy to understand, most cities lack a comprehensive bus map. Several factors have kept bus maps from taking Read More...
Solving the world’s problems with artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) gets a lot of bad press, but computing may very well solve many of the planet’s ills. Companies and researchers are collecting unimaginable amounts of data through Google searches, Facebook posts, etc. AI is how we’ll learn from that data, and—in fact—it’s the Read More...
Europe's first regulated bitcoin product launches in Gibraltar
LONDON Europe's first regulated bitcoin product - an asset-backed exchange-traded instrument that will invest exclusively in the digital currency - begins trading this week on the Gibraltar Stock Exchange and Germany's Deutsche Boerse. The Web-based currency can be used to send money instantly Read More...
Investors increasingly use their dollars to create change
Investing in the future means more than making money for retirement. Among everyone from millennials – who make up 34% of the workforce and recently became the largest age group employed in the US – to baby boomers, there’s a growing trend of “impact investing”. Practitioners of this Read More...