Episode Description: Many of the long-time listeners of The Optimist Daily’s podcast will recognize Kristy Jansen’s voice. She’s the former co-host and Executive Director of this show, and she’s back, joining Arielle and Karissa from Mérida, México, to catch them up on what happened in between: the clean energy industry from the inside, and what…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Good news! In the UK, only 63 infants were admitted to intensive care with RSV infection last winter, which is down from 131 the year before. Same 20 hospitals, same surveillance system. The UK Health Security Agency published its first full-year results on the maternal RSV vaccination program on…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM If you’ve ever driven away from school while your kid was still crying at the door, you know the horrible feeling. The half-formed urge to turn the car around. The uncertainty about whether going back would help or just make it worse. The guilt riding shotgun all the way…
The Walmart checkout lane is about to get a long-awaited upgrade. The big-box store and its subsidiary, Sam’s Club, will soon accept mainstream contactless payment options like Apple Pay and Google Pay, the company announced in a press release on Friday. Walmart shoppers will be able to use Tap to Pay at select Walmart and Sam’s Club stores…
Woke has not yet been destroyed in Oregon, where, according to a Campus Reform report, “Oregon State University requires applicants for its 2026–27 Academic Learning Assistant positions to demonstrate an ability to learn “social justice principles and concepts,” even after the university ended two diversity programs.” In other words, its DEI is just not called…
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu – U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tyler Brock/Wiki Commons France in danger of becoming a narco-state? Sebastien Lecornu é the seventh French Prime Minister under the failed two-term presidency of Emmanuel Macron. Lecornu is tasked with taking the outgoing government into this last stretch until next year’s Presidential elections, a…
Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández Image via: @RepTeresaLF/X Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM) shared a video on social media of her visit to a detention facility, but her bravado was quickly debunked by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which exposed Fernández for failing to follow basic rules. Fernández shared, “We’re here to conduct congressional oversight….
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“Alex Jones” by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 A Texas appeals court on Friday delivered a significant victory to Infowars founder Alex Jones, drastically reducing the massive $50 million judgment against him in one of the Sandy Hook defamation cases. The Texas Third Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the trial court abused its discretion…
The bizarre-looking Chinese animated film Niu Lai appeared destined to vanish from theaters and take its place among the countless bad movies no one remembers. That was until the internet noticed just how badly it was failing. On Aug. 14, it went viral that Niu Lai had only made 7,352 yuan ($1,000) at the box…
