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Jul 25, 2026

The Edible City Where Food Is Free

In the small German town of Andernach am Rhein, signs once said, "Keep Off The Grass." Today, they read, "Picking ...

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Jul 24, 2026

How My Life Changed While Waiting Out Traffic

Claudia Chee spent her early twenties waiting out the heavy Bay Area traffic in the unassuming aisles of Costco -- ...

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Jul 23, 2026

How Your Tiny Actions Can Help Build a Kinder Society

Researchers at Harvard have given a name to something most people already know in their bones: that a smile in a ...

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Jul 22, 2026

43 Days Alone, Rowing to Hawaii

Kelsey Pfendler pushed off from Monterey, California on May 21 with 2,400 miles (3862 kilometers) of open Pacific ...

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Jul 21, 2026

The City That Chose Nature Over Billboards

When the French city of Grenoble declined to renew its billboard contracts in 2014, it did something quietly ...

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Jul 20, 2026

The One Gift We Carry Equally

Scott Levine was flying down a hill on his bicycle, carrying years of unprocessed trauma at full speed, when a ...

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Jul 19, 2026

An 'Unknown' Patient

She had no family left -- no husband, no children, no siblings. Her hospital file read simply: 'Unknown.' And yet, ...

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Jul 18, 2026

100 Strangers Singing Together

In a former synagogue in Los Angeles, more than a hundred strangers gathered to spend an evening learning a choral ...

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Jul 17, 2026

The Tiny Cell That Broke a Big Rule of Biology

For decades, Jon Zehr chased a bacterium he could detect only by its genetic fingerprint -- "a footprint without an ...

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Jul 16, 2026

The 4-Year-Old Who Built a Village

After his parents broke up, his father moved away, and his grandparents were out of state, 4-year-old Roman Butzlaff ...

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Jul 15, 2026

Hundreds of Teen Poems, One Surprise Finding

Statistics about depression, mental health, and screen time cause concern for young people along with older people’s ...

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Jul 14, 2026

Writing as Spellcasting

Writer Mandy Len Catron finally finished a book proposal she began in 2019. A publisher liked it, but was hesitant ...

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Jul 13, 2026

Bare Hands, Bandana, Six Million Bees

Clarence Chua shows up to a bee rescue with nothing but a bandana and bare hands -- no suit, no gloves, just ...

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Jul 12, 2026

Three Medicines: One Physician's Journey

Dr. Cynthia Li had done everything right. She spent a decade rebuilding her health from the inside out after ...

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Jul 11, 2026

She Once Visited Food Pantries. Now She Runs 20.

Alyssa Curtis drives through a town in Michigan, US, with a trunk full of diapers and microwaveable mac-and-cheese ...

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Jul 10, 2026

The Indigenous Women Who Stopped a Burning Savanna

When fire swept through the Santana Indigenous Territory in 2018, the men went for help and the women watched the ...

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Jul 9, 2026

58 Japanese Doctors, 34 Years, One Vietnamese Hospital

Every year, for the last 34 years, a team of Japanese surgeons, dentists, and nurses has made the same journey: ...

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Jul 8, 2026

The Man Who Planted 25 Million Trees

After fifty years planting 25 million trees, Swami Prem Parivartan, known affectionately as "Peepal Baba," offers a ...

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DailyGood Newsletters

The Edible City Where Food Is Free

How My Life Changed While Waiting Out Traffic

How Your Tiny Actions Can Help Build a Kinder Society

43 Days Alone, Rowing to Hawaii

The City That Chose Nature Over Billboards

The One Gift We Carry Equally

An 'Unknown' Patient

100 Strangers Singing Together

The Tiny Cell That Broke a Big Rule of Biology

The 4-Year-Old Who Built a Village

Hundreds of Teen Poems, One Surprise Finding

Writing as Spellcasting

Bare Hands, Bandana, Six Million Bees

Three Medicines: One Physician's Journey

She Once Visited Food Pantries. Now She Runs 20.

The Indigenous Women Who Stopped a Burning Savanna

58 Japanese Doctors, 34 Years, One Vietnamese Hospital

The Man Who Planted 25 Million Trees

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