Toronto AI company Maneva, founded by a former Alberta welder turned engineer, has raised a $27-million USD ($38-million CAD) Series A round for its AI intelligence software for manufacturing. The news: Announced on June 10, the round was led by first-time Maneva investor, US Venture Partners, with USVP partner Matt Garratt joining the board. Its…
Little-known fact: I started my career as an event planner for a catering company. It was actually the perfect first job for me, combining my passions for food, design, and gathering people together. (The downsides included insane hours and high-stress clients, but it was a good experience for 22-year-old me.) Though I’ve long been out…
A fighter and a trainer circle each other in the centre of a caged-in octagon, adrenaline and cortisol coursing through their veins. The fighter seems to dance on lightning-quick feet; muscles twitch, like a cobra ready to strike. I shut my eyes when the first blow lands—thwack—against the sparring glove. This is not my thing….
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The strategy is fine. The team is capable. But at the end of the quarter, the needle hasn’t moved. Julie Turpin, Chief People Officer at Brown & Brown, says this pattern almost always traces back to the same thing: habits. “Results that stick are built by habits that stick…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM What if scraps from a dinner could become a habitat? That’s the basic premise of the Shells for Shorelines program in a meaningful sense: the shells of oysters eaten at restaurants in Orange County can become the foundation on which new oysters settle and grow in the ocean. The…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There is a small mobile cart somewhere in the Netherlands right now, and if you bring it a handful of cigarette butts, it will give you poffertjes. Those are Dutch mini pancakes, in case you were wondering, and yes, the exchange is real. WasteBar is the project behind it….
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Every orange you eat comes with a second product most people toss without thinking. The peel is packed with limonene and other essential oils, citric acids, flavonoids, polyphenols, and antimicrobial compounds. Gardeners have been finding uses for it, and the list keeps growing. “I do use orange peels in…
Billy Meier (born 1937) is a Swiss UFO contactee who claims he has been in communication with extraterrestrial beings known as the Plejaren since childhood. He gained international attention in the 1970s after publishing hundreds of UFO photographs, films, audio recordings, and detailed contact reports documenting his alleged encounters. According to Meier, his first contact…
When we speak of the birth of spiritualism, we often think of the Fox sisters as the start of the spiritualist movement, and tend to forget that both spiritualism and mediumship, have their roots in the dawn of mankind. “The Witch of Endor Calling Up the Spirit of the Prophet Samuel” Painting by Nikolai Ge, 1857…
Many laws exist that govern us. We have man’s law, the laws of physics and scientific laws such as the law of gravity and laws of the state, laws of the organization, religious law and so forth. All laws have been developed as a method of control and to conduct behavior, and are, of course,…
