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Apr 15, 2026

A Dance of Invisible Kindness

For a year, Helen Eveleigh and a fellow member of the Auroville Community in South India inquired about kindness ...

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Apr 14, 2026

Why 100% Is Easier Than 98%

Clay Christensen was the starting center on his university's varsity basketball team. They had fought all season to ...

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Apr 13, 2026

Dusking: the Dutch Twilight Ritual Helping People Slow Down

A Dutch writer is reviving "dusking" -- the nearly forgotten practice of pausing to watch the day fade into darkness ...

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Apr 12, 2026

Neighbors Transform Tent Encampment Into Shelter Village

Matthew Stone, who was living in a tent with his dog in the woods of a central Illinois city, was among the first 55 ...

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Apr 11, 2026

Sister Berta's Legacy

In 1968, Sisters Berta Sailer and Corita Bussanmas were teaching at a Catholic elementary school. “One day, a mom ...

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Apr 10, 2026

Sleeping with Furniture Against the Door

At five, Neha Kirpal was told not to brush her teeth because her mother believed the toothpaste was poisoned. Her ...

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Apr 9, 2026

Why Pain Is Different From Suffering

It was an "utterly unfun experiment to be part of," recounts Cortland Dahl with a smile. "But it was also very ...

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Apr 8, 2026

Who’s Afraid of ‘the Night of Controversies’?

A packed room in Paris gathers not to reach consensus, but to practice something rare in today's world: disagreeing ...

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Apr 7, 2026

Beyond Words: the Pilot Who Became a Caregiver

A former pilot trades the cockpit for nursing homes, spending 100 days with people living with dementia. Outside the ...

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Apr 6, 2026

Witnessing a Whale Birth, Scientists Find a Remarkable Amount of Teamwork

When researchers witnessed a sperm whale birth in the Caribbean, they discovered something remarkable: for three ...

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Apr 5, 2026

Strangers Gift Doordash Grandpa Nearly $1M

Brittany Smith’s doorbell camera showed a 78-year-old man slowly climbing the steps to deliver a Starbucks ...

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Apr 4, 2026

Payphone Surprise: Call a Boomer

In the heart of Boston University, an unlikely relic has found new purpose: an old-school payphone, offering a ...

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Apr 3, 2026

She Worked as a Janitor at Yale Hospital for 10 Years. Now She’s Returning as a Doctor

Shay Taylor’s journey is a powerful reminder that it’s never too late to rewrite your story. For years, ...

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Apr 2, 2026

When Strangers Access Shared Consciousness

A human identity that we are individually separate from one another fosters fear, competition, dissonance, ...

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Apr 1, 2026

What's Rare About This Lab That's Searching for New Medicines

When Kelly Chibale left North America to take a job in Africa, a well-meaning mentor asked him if he was sure he'd ...

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Mar 31, 2026

3 Design Principles for Impact Ecosystems

Humanville -- an imaginary city like many real cities -- had a problem everyone knew existed but few could measure: ...

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Mar 30, 2026

How Deciding to Donate a Kidney Saved My Own Life

Jessica Lahey set out to donate a kidney to a stranger -- moved by a college student's videos documenting his ...

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Mar 29, 2026

How One Man Raised and Released an Orphaned Otter

When wildlife rehabilitator Mats Janzon found a starving, motherless otter pup curled in the grass near his Swedish ...

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DailyGood Newsletters

A Dance of Invisible Kindness

Why 100% Is Easier Than 98%

Dusking: the Dutch Twilight Ritual Helping People Slow Down

Neighbors Transform Tent Encampment Into Shelter Village

Sister Berta's Legacy

Sleeping with Furniture Against the Door

Why Pain Is Different From Suffering

Who’s Afraid of ‘the Night of Controversies’?

Beyond Words: the Pilot Who Became a Caregiver

Witnessing a Whale Birth, Scientists Find a Remarkable Amount of Teamwork

Strangers Gift Doordash Grandpa Nearly $1M

Payphone Surprise: Call a Boomer

She Worked as a Janitor at Yale Hospital for 10 Years. Now She’s Returning as a Doctor

When Strangers Access Shared Consciousness

What's Rare About This Lab That's Searching for New Medicines

3 Design Principles for Impact Ecosystems

How Deciding to Donate a Kidney Saved My Own Life

How One Man Raised and Released an Orphaned Otter

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