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Daily Edition • June 30, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Yes, patience is a virtue — one that’s getting harder and harder to achieve in our busy, modern lives. Thankfully, there are ways to work on building greater patience, for yourself, your loved ones, and even the stranger in line in front of you who can’t decide which coffee to order. “It involves building emotional skills like being able to sit with feelings of boredom, frustration, and anxiety, along with mindfulness and self-compassion,”…Read more
- You can wear the world’s oldest Scottish tartan
Wake up to good news. Supported By Friday • January 26, 2024 Need to beef up your 2024 reading list? The BBC recently rounded up 45 of this year’s most highly anticipated books. The list includes Stephen King’s forthcoming short story collection, Gabriel García Márquez’s “lost novel,” and the latest from romance writer Emily Henry. And if you prefer to be the one telling your friends about the hottest up-and-coming writers, keep an eye out for some exciting debuts, like Kaliane Bradley’s The...
- This is how animals see the world — in vivid color
Wake up to good news. Supported By Thursday • January 25, 2024 Could you go a month without your smartphone? How about if you got $10,000 to do it? Siggi’s, the Icelandic yogurt brand based in New York, is offering select winners $10K (and three months’ worth of yogurt) in exchange for putting their smartphones in a lockbox. All you have to do to enter the contest is agree to the no-phone terms and submit a short essay on how your life would benefit from a digital detox. “We believe in the...
- A world-first program to fight malaria in kids
Wake up to good news. Supported By Wednesday • January 24, 2024 Fans of the 1998 Pixar film A Bug’s Life, listen up. National Geographic took inspiration from the beloved animated movie for its new docuseries, A Real Bug’s Life, which offers an up-close look at nine teeny tiny bug worlds. The series is narrated by comedian Awkwafina and debuts on Disney+ today — click here to get an inside look at the macro photography that made the show possible and here to watch the trailer. Must Reads •...