BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM When University of Sydney researchers published findings from a study of more than 22,000 adults who didn’t engage in structured exercise, the results were not what most health researchers anticipated. The study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, examined a pattern researchers call VILPA: vigorous intermittent lifestyle…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Wildflowers are associated with rolling meadows, ancient grasslands, and a pastoral world that is rapidly disappearing. The UK has lost 97 percent of its wildflower meadows over the past century, driven largely by agricultural intensification. As Nadine Mitschunas, a pollinator ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology,…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM By August 2025, fires had consumed nearly one million hectares (roughly 2.47 million acres) across Spain, the worst toll in three decades. Six regions, including Castilla y León, Galicia, and Andalusia, were declared disaster zones. The causes are familiar: decades of rural depopulation, the abandonment of traditional grazing, and…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM After two years of conversations with founders, executives, and leaders across industries, Liz Tran kept noticing the same thing: the most successful and fulfilled among them were not the ones who knew the most. They were the ones who had made peace with not knowing. Tran, a leadership coach…
Odds are, your smartphone connects to a 5G cell network. As Marcos Cavaletti would tell you, the G stands for generation. Ericsson’s Ottawa site lead would know; he worked behind the scenes on five generations of telecommunications technology, and just last month hung up his hat as the company prepared for a future launch of…
Toronto-based biotech startup Biossil has exited stealth with backing from OpenAI and Founders Fund to give discarded drug candidates a second chance. The startup uses an AI platform to identify molecules that could make good drug candidates but didn’t make it all the way through their own clinical trials. When Biossil sees potential, it buys…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM When a fish moves through water, it doesn’t simply pass through and vanish. It leaves a trail of disturbed water behind it, something like the contrail of a plane across a clear sky. That trail is invisible to human eyes and fades within seconds, but to a harbor seal,…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM When the last miners left the open-cast lignite pits of eastern Germany’s Lusatia region, they left behind craters stretching more than 200 feet (60 meters) deep. What followed was not restoration in any conventional sense. It was construction: the deliberate, painstaking work of building a landscape that had never…
American restaurant reservation app OpenTable is setting the table for growth in Canada with its acquisition of a Québec startup. Montréal-based Libro, which similarly manages restaurant and hospitality bookings, announced yesterday that San Francisco-based OpenTable had acquired it for an undisclosed sum. Libro’s employees and executives will join OpenTable as part of the deal, the…
Canada’s new advisory committee for Canada-United States (US) economic relations is facing criticism for its lack of technology representation. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the group, which replaces the Council on Canada-US Relations established by ex-prime minister Justin Trudeau in early 2025, yesterday. Its launch comes amid a trade war between the US and Canada…
