What’s it like to join Tokyo’s walking-and-talking-with-strangers club for a day?

We strap on our shoes and head into downtown Tokyo for a philosophical conversation prompt and a walk with a whole bunch of people we’ve never met before. Japan is right in a special sweet spot right now weather-wise, where the chill of winter and allergy-triggering pollen of spring are gone, but the sweltering heat […]

73% of Orkney residents walk or wheel every day, compared to the national average of 57%.

May is ‘National Walking Week’, and according to the latest Scottish Walking and Wheeling Survey, Orkney islanders feel the safest in Scotland when out walking and wheeling Orkney Island residents rated the area the highest in Scotland for safety when out walking and wheeling alone, the latest Scottish Walking and Wheeling Survey has revealed. This insight comes as […]

Orkney Library of Things: Lend and Mend Hub

“This is about more than borrowing equipment, it’s about supporting wellbeing, building confidence and strengthening community resilience.” – Alison Nolan, chief executive of SLIC. Orkney Library has expanded its Lend & Mend Hub to include new cycle repair kits and repair stands, strengthening its commitment to community-led sustainability. Originally launched in 2022, the Hub has […]

Can a “Super Walk” Erase a Week of Nonstop Sitting?

A friend of mine recently told me about the extraordinary lengths he went to win his office’s one-month walk-a-thon. Over the course of 30 days, he was neck and neck with a relentless Dane and averaging over 20,000 steps daily just to stay in the race. In the final week, he managed a day of […]

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A Grand Day Out

By Bernie Bell. We saw our first swallow of the year on the 21st April when crossing the Brig O’ Brodgar, then were pleased to see that when visitors to the Ring of Brodgar park in the car park, they’re shown that they can use the facilities in Stenness Village (Paddington Bear reference) Crossing the boardwalk […]

Episode 771: Pace Dismissed

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Untracked daily walking beats step goals, and science explains why

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM When University of Sydney researchers published findings from a study of more than 22,000 adults who didn’t engage in structured exercise, the results were not what most health researchers anticipated. The study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, examined a pattern researchers call VILPA: vigorous intermittent lifestyle […]

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Bonus Mini-Sode: Walking Friendly Dogs on a Nice Day, Part 1

Doesn’t that sound pleasant? Join host John Moe as he strolls his Saint Paul neighborhood with his dogs. There’s Sally, a black lab mix and senior resident dog, Maisy, an all-over mutt and resident dog who doesn’t like putting on harnesses but does like walks, and Weenie, a foster pug puppy who keeps up with the ladies but not in a straight line. On this walk... John muses on Guy Branum's…

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An Actual Living Hell: You’re Walking at a Slightly Similar Pace as the Person in Front of You

Oh, Christ, not this again. You’re out on a walk through the park by your house, and you’re sort of gaining on... Read the full masterpiece

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Fading Tokyo – Searching for signs of the Showa era as local neighborhoods evolve[Photos]

Mr. Sato starts his urban exploration of Tokyo to catch a glimpse of local neighborhoods’ pasts before they’re changed forever. There’s never a time when Tokyo isn’t changing. The city is so big and has so many people that there’s always some part of it that’s being renovated, redeveloped, or otherwise reimagined. Oftentimes those changes […]

What in Tarnation (episode #1599)

Language is always evolving, and that’s also true for American Sign Language. A century ago, the sign for “telephone” was one fist below your mouth and the other at your ear, as if you’re holding an old-fashioned candlestick phone. Now you can sign “phone” with a one-handed gesture. Plus, colorful restaurant slang from the hit […]

Spring Blossoms

By Rosie Hopkins. Beside the River Devon, two trees with blossom – one Cherry Plum, but I’m not sure of the other. Neither have thorns so the traditional herald of Spring, the Blackthorn, it is not. An exciting discovery on the Devon Flats yesterday, 23 March, between Dollar and Tillicoultry, Butterbur in its infancy and […]

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The Four Rules for a Good Walk

In 2017, city planner Jeff Speck gave a talk on the four ways to make a city more walkable:

In the typical American city, in which most people own cars and the temptation is to drive them all the time, if you’re going to get them to walk, then you have to offer a walk that’s as good as a drive or better. What does that mean? It means you need to offer four things simultaneously: there needs to…

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