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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM

It is harvest time in Kansas City, and at Kansas City Academy, students are stepping outside during lunch to pick jujubes straight off the trees. “I feel like a fairy tale princess every lunch,” said Nova Henry, a senior, “because I get to go out and just feast on little treats.”

The trees are free...


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Researchers at Northwestern University and UC Santa Barbara identified a specific contact point on tau proteins where the misfoldi...


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The last time a team completed a comparable crossing of Antarctica’s interior, they burned through roughly 170,000 liters (about 45,000 gallons) of fuel to do it. The Wind Sled expedition that left Spain on October 18 plans to ...


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You’re doing everything right at bedtime: you stay away from screens after nine, take a soothing


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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM

Every fall, something happens in the body before it happens in the mind. The smell of wood smoke drifting through a cracked window, the particular weight of October light slanting across the floor, and suddenly you’re somewhere else entirely, back in a kitchen you haven’t thought about in years, or feeling fourt...


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