A Daycare Rewilded its Yard and the Children Became Healthier: Now the Whole Nation Is Doing it Finland is doubling down on evidence from four years ago that definitively shows how children can avoid diseases and allergies throughout their lives if they’re permitted...

Joy after 60: 7 ways happy boomers find meaning in a world that’s moved on without them I’m in my sixties now, there are days when the world feels like it’s racing ahead without me. New technologies pop up faster than I can download them, pop culture references sail...

80-Year-Old Grandma Who Learned to Swim at 59 Just Became Oldest Ever Female Ironman Finisher With every step toward the finish line, Natalie Grabow was proving it’s never too late to get started. Earlier this month, the 80-year-old grandmother from Mountain Lakes,...

Hope Is the Most Impactful Emotion in Determining Long-Term Economic, Social Outcomes Is hope just “a thing with feathers” as Dickenson wrote, or is it Aristotle’s “waking dream?” Or instead. is it “a promise we live” rather than a “promise we give” as Amanda Gorman...

Using a Pen to Get Past Writer’s Block As I sit staring at my laptop, little black characters march neatly across the screen.  Something about the polished look of the words suggests that my ideas should be coming out as perfectly as the font itself, but a...

A Little Bit About the Smartest Kids in the World Aelita Andre, 9 years old She started smearing paint on a canvas when she was merely nine months old and the rest, they say, is history. An abstract expressionist painter, the Australian-born child sold one of her...

A zoo in Denmark asked patrons to donate their pets. Not attractions, but for food  A European zoo stirred up intrigue and controversy after a social media post asking for surplus pets to be donated to feed captive animals went viral. In a post on Facebook, the...

Hope is the key to a meaningful life, according to new research Hope isn’t just wishful thinking — it’s a powerful emotional force that gives our lives meaning. Now, a new groundbreaking study from the University of Missouri shows it may be even more essential to...