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Jun 22, 2026

A Minneapolis Cafe Removed Its Prices -- and Business Is Thriving

Earlier this year, a Minneapolis café quietly removed the prices from its menu -- and profits are up. Owner ...

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Jun 21, 2026

Ireland Is Now Paying Artists a Basic income. Will the Idea Catch on?

When Cork multimedia artist Elinor O'Donovan was working part-time as a receptionist just to pay rent, an entire ...

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Jun 20, 2026

Necessary Losses: the Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

Maria Popova's meditation on Judith Viorst's Necessary Losses offers something quietly radical: the idea that loss ...

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Jun 19, 2026

At the Threshold of a New Story

Leena Wilde Ryan hadn't written anything she felt proud of in years. An old life burned down and a new life still ...

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Jun 18, 2026

Japan Fans Clean World Cup Stadium After Game

After a 2-2 draw at a World Cup game in Texas, people in the stands witnessed collective behavior that doesn't ...

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Jun 17, 2026

Offices of the Heart: Companies Invite the Unhoused to Stay in Their Buildings at Night

For years, Pierre-Yves Loaëc walked past a woman sleeping near a parking garage vent each night, knowing his ...

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Jun 16, 2026

The Two Sides of Grace

At twenty years old, Christopher Lowman sat down with an Ayurvedic doctor in London who did nothing but listen to ...

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Jun 15, 2026

The Library That Lends Live Stories

In Copenhagen, there is a library where the books have heartbeats. You check one out for thirty minutes, ask ...

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Jun 14, 2026

A Carpenter and the Boy He Saved, 30 Years Later

Two carpenters were on a second floor with no stairs yet built in. That detail alone tells you something about the ...

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Jun 13, 2026

How Our Lineages Mirror the Mycelial Network

Ashley Glowiak invites us to understand ourselves as part of living networks rather than individuals -- "nodes" ...

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Jun 12, 2026

Incredibly Rare Bongos Found in Area They Were Thought to Be Extinct

A single trail camera photograph has confirmed what conservationists feared was lost forever: mountain bongos still ...

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Jun 11, 2026

Monet's Blurred Vision Saw More Clearly

Claude Monet, going blind in his later years, kept painting -- and what he rendered wasn't the world falling apart ...

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Jun 10, 2026

Uganda's First Buddhist Monk

A boy raised Catholic in Kampala flew to India in 1990 to earn an MBA and returned, seven years later, with a shaved ...

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Jun 9, 2026

Why Dopamine Isn't the Problem

The popular concept of a "dopamine detox" rests on a fundamental misunderstanding: dopamine isn't the villain of ...

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Jun 8, 2026

I'll Just Write One

At ten, Reva Agrawal made an impatient bargain with her mother: if she couldn't have a new book every week, she ...

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Jun 7, 2026

A Pangolin Pup Found in a Cardboard Box

Inside a car boot in Johannesburg, a three-month-old pangolin pup lay curled in a cardboard box, a cabbage leaf ...

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Jun 6, 2026

The Schools Giving Children a Say in How They Are Run

When a six-year-old suggests a "buddy bench" for lonely classmates and watches it become real, something shifts - ...

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Jun 5, 2026

'Relentless Outreach': the State That Doesn't Give up on Mentally Ill Residents

For nearly two decades, Janina Estrada searched for her son Jimmy Barela in the rain, behind dumpsters, in the ...

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DailyGood Newsletters

A Minneapolis Cafe Removed Its Prices -- and Business Is Thriving

Ireland Is Now Paying Artists a Basic income. Will the Idea Catch on?

Necessary Losses: the Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

At the Threshold of a New Story

Japan Fans Clean World Cup Stadium After Game

Offices of the Heart: Companies Invite the Unhoused to Stay in Their Buildings at Night

The Two Sides of Grace

The Library That Lends Live Stories

A Carpenter and the Boy He Saved, 30 Years Later

How Our Lineages Mirror the Mycelial Network

Incredibly Rare Bongos Found in Area They Were Thought to Be Extinct

Monet's Blurred Vision Saw More Clearly

Uganda's First Buddhist Monk

Why Dopamine Isn't the Problem

I'll Just Write One

A Pangolin Pup Found in a Cardboard Box

The Schools Giving Children a Say in How They Are Run

'Relentless Outreach': the State That Doesn't Give up on Mentally Ill Residents

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