BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM So many of us participate in the same morning coffee ritual: the machine warming up, the pressure building, the crema settling into the cup. It’s such a fixed sequence that it’s hard to imagine any part of it changing. But against the odds, researchers at the University of New…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A dam fell in Iceland last December, the first the country has ever deliberately dismantled. The structure on the River Melsá had long since stopped generating power. Sheep were living in the old powerhouse. “It wasn’t providing any electricity,” said Hamish Moir, a river engineer from CBEC, the Scottish…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The California grid has a timing problem. Solar runs from mid-morning through early evening. Demand peaks later. Batteries have bridged part of that gap for years, but only about four hours’ worth. On June 1, a project in Kern County doubled that window. Tumbleweed, a 125-megawatt battery installation, went…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM High fruit intake is associated with many wonderful health benefits, like protecting our lungs from air pollution and lowering diabetes risk. But did you know it’s also linked to a seven percent lower risk of breast cancer? The compounds driving that association, according to Natalie Ledesma, M.S., RDN, an…
BSTR co-founder Sean Bill says many Bitcoin treasury companies lack the “ability to actually deploy Bitcoin.” The Bitcoin treasury company space is becoming more divided between firms with actual financial strategies and those leaning more on promotion, according to one industry executive. “I think a lot of them don’t have the right capital structure, right….
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has drawn a battle line in Washington: the Clarity Act, as written, is dead on arrival — and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is the enemy driving it. In a Fox Business interview on Friday, Dimon unloaded on the pending crypto market structure legislation, calling it a threat to the financial system and…
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“You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with—its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don’t steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned.”—Seven Days in May (1964) Who is actually running the government? That is no…
Trump and Meloni during last year’s G7 summit in Alberta, Canada – White House Photo by Daniel Torok/Wiki Commons The spat is over. Many of us still remember that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was the only European head of government present at Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as 47th President of the United States. For…
California regulators are encouraging utility companies to steer hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to” LGBT-certified businesses.” The efforts are part of a state diversity program that bases procurement decisions in part on the sexual orientation or gender identity of business owners. According to a report by Christopher Rufo at the City Journal, the…
