Kurtis Broda is co-founder and COO of Wyvern, an Edmonton-based company that captures high-resolution images of Earth from space. A week before Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen left for the moon on April 1, the Canadian lunar rover mission was cancelled. Days later, the Lunar Gateway—an international space station that was intended to orbit the moon…
For years, they told an entire generation that the future belonged to people sitting behind computer screens, pushing paper around in climate-controlled offices, while anyone working with their hands was somehow a failure. Schools pushed college degrees endlessly while trade schools were neglected and industrial jobs were treated as relics of the past. Parents were…
In the Rocky Mountains, where the Colorado River starts, the landscape is drier than anyone can remember. The lack of water is hitting Colorado ranchers and farmers hard, and reservoir levels are dropping. Scientists say the entire Southwest needs to permanently adapt to having less water as the warming climate dries out the region. GRANBY,…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A bioengineered chewing gum cut HPV levels by 93 percent in oral samples from head and neck cancer patients, in new research from the University of Pennsylvania. The same formulation, when loaded with an antimicrobial peptide called protegrin, brought two cancer-linked bacteria down to nearly zero and left the…
A former NFL player who is charged with his girlfriend’s murder asked an AI bot for advice, Tennessee authorities said in court. Allegedly, Darron Lee turned to ChatGPT for answers before he called 911. His conversations were presented in court this week as he stands trial in the death of Gabriella Perpetuo. RELATED: Rihanna, A$AP Rocky,…
Today’s NYT Strands hints are easy for those who love being outside. Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky…
Amazon’s The Boys went out exactly how it lived: brutal, chaotic, emotional, and completely unafraid to swing for the fences. After five seasons of blood soaked satire and some of the wildest television moments ever put to screen, the series finale delivers an ending that feels surprisingly human beneath all the carnage. At its core,…
Seven people, including five Americans, perished in a helicopter crash in Kenya on Wednesday. Telemundo executive, Florida-native José Alberto Suárez, 55, was among those killed in the helicopter crash, according to The New York Post. According to reports, a Safari helicopter carrying tourists crashed in a remote area of northern Kenya. The State Department confirmed…
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” ~Marie Curie I almost didn’t go to my cousin’s wedding. Not because I didn’t want to celebrate her. I did. But the thought of walking into a room full of people who knew the version of me from two…
Some movies entertain us, some inspire us, and then there are the films that stay with us long after the credits roll because they completely break our hearts. While everyone has their own opinion on the ultimate tearjerker, we polled our fans about heartbreaking romances to unforgettable sacrifices, these are the five movies our readers…
