Tag Archives : Optimism

Optimism protects women’s hearts

Optimism protects women’s hearts

A recent study entitled Optimism, Cynical Hostility, and Incident Coronary Heart Disease and Mortality in the Women’s Health Initiative, published in the journal Circulation, argues that optimism as applied philosophy of life is a protective shield for women against heart disease and other disorders, even to the extent of reducing female mortality. The [...]
A Robot to Test Human Capacity for Kindness

A Robot to Test Human Capacity for Kindness

When we think about our society and urban lives, we think about muggings, unkind people and of course rude shocks. Kacie Kinzer decided to change this negative perception and being a student from the Tisch School of the Arts, she created a Robot called the Tweenbot. The tiny bot can only move forward and has a smiling face. You would expect the bot [...]