BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A lotion made from catnip oil matched DEET in field trials in Uganda, according to research presented at the Society for Experimental Biology conference in Florence last week. Catnip (Nepeta cataria), a common herb in the mint family, contains nepetalactone, the compound that makes cats go sideways. It also…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In 2025, researchers publishing in Nature Medicine found microplastics in human brain tissue at concentrations considerably higher than in the liver or kidneys. The year before, scientists at Columbia and Rutgers counted hundreds of thousands of nanoplastic particles in a single liter of bottled water, many small enough to…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Nearly one billion people across Africa cook over charcoal or firewood every day. $3.1 billion in commitments is what it’s going to take to change that, and the number keeps climbing. African countries secured $900 million in new financial commitments to expand access to clean cooking technologies, the International…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Think about the last time you ate lunch without also doing something else. Not at your desk, not in the car, not scrolling. Just sitting with food and letting it be the thing. For a lot of Americans, it’s hard to remember. For the French, it’s just lunch. Jane…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision on June 25 shielding Bayer, the maker of Roundup, from claims it failed to warn of the weedkiller’s cancer risk could do more than close the courthouse door on tens of thousands of lawsuits. It pushes the national fight over paraquat — linked for decades to Parkinson’s disease —…
Marvel Studios’ search for the leader of the X-Men may have found an unexpected candidate. According to a new casting rumor, Cooper Hoffman has reportedly become Marvel Studios’ top choice to play Scott Summers, better known as Cyclops, in the studio’s long awaited X-Men reboot. It’s important to note that this remains unconfirmed by Marvel…
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This is all in a petition asking a juvenile court to rule that her three kids have been abused, neglected, or dependent. It says her own daughter, Indy, changes the baby’s diaper and makes his bottle. Taylor Frankie Paul sits at the witness table during a protective order hearing against Dakota Mortensen at the Third…
“You just wait until the next bear market…” Last month, I talked about how many of the legendary investors I’ve long followed as well as many of my contemporary financial commentators (speaking specifically of the contrarian ilk), are almost unanimous in the opinion that the AI trade is well into bubble territory and stocks in…
33-year-old Kaitlyn Tracey, a Canadian illegal alien, assaults a pro-Trump teen in New Jersey. Credit: Homeland Security X Video has emerged showing the moment a vicious illegal migrant assaults an innocent young American due to her backing of President Trump. As The Gateway Pundit reported, 33-year-old Kaitlyn Tracey, a Canadian illegal alien living in Allenhurst,…
