BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Did you know that every time the brain learns something, it changes physically? A study in PLoS Biology is the first to track exactly what those changes are, and found two separate processes happening at different speeds and in different locations, and that the tool most researchers have been…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Here’s some food for thought: for students, free lunch ends when school does. For the millions of children who rely on subsidized cafeteria meals during the year, nothing automatically fills that gap in June. On July 1, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that $189 million in Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer…
“You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” — Robert Solow, 1987 The economy has been growing steadily since we started to recover from the 2020 pandemic and shutdown; the unemployment rate is and has been near the bottom of the range normally considered to be full employment; and, wages adjusted…
Warner Bros. has officially confirmed that The Matrix 5 is still in active development, giving fans their biggest update yet on the future of one of science fiction’s most iconic franchises. The confirmation came during the studio’s latest earnings presentation, where the project was listed among its major upcoming theatrical releases, although it is not…
Record Labor Force Dropouts The number of Americans age 16 and over not in the labor force reached an estimated 111 million in July, according to a report from ActivistPost.com citing government data, surpassing levels seen during the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic [1]. A separate analysis from March 2024 placed the figure at…
Guests at an amusement park were stranded upside down after a ride malfunctioned on Sunday, July 5. Terrifying footage captured people suspended mid-air on the ride in Ocean City, New Jersey. RELATED: Man Passes Away After Riding Roller Coaster At New Florida Amusement Park Epic Universe Riders Stranded Upside Down On New Jersey Amusement Park Ride…
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) on Thursday followed through on his promise to “hand-carry” a criminal referral of Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice after a Senate panel voted to hold him in contempt of Congress. “The next decision we have decided is we will forward it. It’s the committee’s verdict that he should…
President Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office – Aug. 6, 2026 President Trump suggested that he wants to see the Department of Justice prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for contempt of Congress after the Senate Homeland Security Committee passed a resolution and referred him for prosecution on Thursday. The Daily Caller’s Reagan Reese asked…
For nearly two decades, the words Dragon Ball and “live action” have carried a bit of baggage. Ever since Dragonball Evolution hit theaters in 2009, fans have largely pretended it never happened, and honestly, who could blame them? The film was panned by critics, rejected by longtime fans, and even Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama…
Nineteen years in. Employee of the quarter twice. “Our most valuable asset,” they said it at the all-hands on Wednesday and everybody clapped. Thursday he’s walking to his truck at 9:15 in the morning with a cardboard box, and his badge stopped working while he was still in the room. Nobody in that building lost…
