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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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Mar 28, 2026

Lost and Found in Tokyo: 4.5 Billion Yen

Last year, a record total of 4.5 billion yen ($29 million) found its way to the Tokyo police as lost property, up ...

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Mar 27, 2026

19 Cities Achieve 'Remarkable Reductions' in Air Pollution

Air is clearing across Beijing, London, San Francisco, and 16 other cities around the world. Driven by ...

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Mar 26, 2026

Dr. Suri Srimathi, 92, on Six Decades of Medical Practice in India

Dr. Suri Srimathi began studying to become a doctor in an era when it was frowned upon. At age 92, she has delivered ...

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Mar 25, 2026

How the Netherlands Bent Bureaucracy Into Something Beautiful

A widow with mounting debts and two daughters who needed him saw more than 20 social workers, each following ...

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Mar 24, 2026

How a Colorado Neighborhood Reduced Youth Violence by 75%

Northeast Park Hill, a Denver neighborhood, has a long history of violence having twice the youth arrest rate as all ...

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Mar 23, 2026

Moldova’s Secret Mosaic Masterpieces

Across Moldova, hundreds of vibrant Soviet-era mosaics -- depicting harvest scenes, cosmonauts, and city builders -- ...

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Mar 22, 2026

Nostalgia Strikes Amidst Grocery Aisles

In the bustling aisles of a Yardley Wegmans, where strategic navigation feels akin to a Darwinian challenge, an ...

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Mar 21, 2026

These Kansas City Students Run a Credit Union From Inside Their High school. Yes, with Real money.

A CSD Credit Union branch inside Winnetonka High School in the North Kansas City School District is the second ...

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Mar 20, 2026

What Does Organizational Resilience Look Like?

Most organizations ask their employees to be resilient without building the systems that make resilience possible. ...

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Mar 19, 2026

The Tokyo Toilet

In Tokyo's parks, some toilets glow like lanterns—until you lock the door and the walls turn opaque. Their ...

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Mar 18, 2026

The Hospital Basement That Changed Medicine

In 1979, a young researcher was handed the patients no one else wanted — chronic pain, chronic anxiety, ...

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DailyGood Newsletters

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

Lost and Found in Tokyo: 4.5 Billion Yen

19 Cities Achieve 'Remarkable Reductions' in Air Pollution

Dr. Suri Srimathi, 92, on Six Decades of Medical Practice in India

How the Netherlands Bent Bureaucracy Into Something Beautiful

How a Colorado Neighborhood Reduced Youth Violence by 75%

Moldova’s Secret Mosaic Masterpieces

Nostalgia Strikes Amidst Grocery Aisles

These Kansas City Students Run a Credit Union From Inside Their High school. Yes, with Real money.

What Does Organizational Resilience Look Like?

The Tokyo Toilet

The Hospital Basement That Changed Medicine

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