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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 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 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 7, 2026

A Storyteller Who Gets Out of the Way

According to gifted storyteller Brian Conroy, “Before I ever told a story, I internalized the elements that ...

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Jul 5, 2026

Why Ukraine Is Rewilding in the Heat of War

In the semi-arid grasslands of southwestern Ukraine, within earshot of missile strikes, conservationists are ...

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Jul 4, 2026

Remembering the 'Give While You Live' Philanthropist Who Quietly Built 5k Schools Across America

Julius Rosenwald, the businessman who built Sears into an empire, spent his fortune on nearly 5,000 schools across ...

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Jul 3, 2026

Founder of a Cafe Chain with a Cause Has a Full Circle Moment

Ten years ago, Amy Wright opened Bitty & Beau's Coffee with the quiet hope that one day her son Beau, who was ...

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Jul 2, 2026

The Circle That Will Not Close

When Shoukei Matsumoto led a simple floor-sweeping exercise at a gathering, he noticed nearly everyone had the same ...

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Jul 1, 2026

The 'Civic Hour' in France

When a French civil servant read that an elderly woman in Paris had been deceased in her apartment for four months ...

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Jun 30, 2026

How I Practiced Forgiveness When It Hurt the Most

After Maria Breaux's brother David -- known as "the Compassion Guy" in Davis, California, after 14 years of ...

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DailyGood Newsletters

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

Hundreds of Teen Poems, One Surprise Finding

Writing as Spellcasting

Bare Hands, Bandana, Six Million Bees

She Once Visited Food Pantries. Now She Runs 20.

The Indigenous Women Who Stopped a Burning Savanna

A Storyteller Who Gets Out of the Way

Why Ukraine Is Rewilding in the Heat of War

Remembering the 'Give While You Live' Philanthropist Who Quietly Built 5k Schools Across America

Founder of a Cafe Chain with a Cause Has a Full Circle Moment

The Circle That Will Not Close

The 'Civic Hour' in France

How I Practiced Forgiveness When It Hurt the Most

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