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The Good Daily
Welcome to The Good Daily Podcast! Think of us as a gentle pause in your day. Each morning, we’ll share a handful of reminders that goodness is still here: stories, ideas, and inspiration that feel like a deep breath. Subscribe to The Good Daily newsletter here: https://thegooddaily.kit.com/join
Episodes
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389: The Orchestra That Played Vegetables at Abbey Road
Today on The Good Daily, musicians record a song with vegetable instruments at Abbey Road, a football player keeps his stutter from becoming the whole story, a…
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388: A Swimmer Reaches the Shore After 900 Miles Along California’s Coast
Today on The Good Daily, Catherine Breed completes a nearly nine-hundred-mile coastal swim, a lost wedding ring brings three Italian friends back to Ireland…
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387: A Thirteen-Year-Old’s Ocean-Acidification Experiment Wins a Science Prize
Today on The Good Daily, a thirteen-year-old scientist wins a major prize for an early ocean-acidification experiment, a cotton farmer in Togo finds ways to…
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386: Homecoming King Gives His Crown Away
Today on The Good Daily, a homecoming king gives his crown to a classmate, nurses help win paid parental leave, Michigan tribes work to restore Arctic…
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385: Three Skydivers Reroute a Jump to Help After a Plane Crash
Today on The Good Daily, three Wisconsin skydivers redirect a planned jump to help after a nearby plane crash, people at a Washington food bank look out for…
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384: Volunteers Rebuilt Home For A Deaf Couple
Today on The Good Daily, a deaf couple meets the volunteers who helped make their home accessible, a thirteen-year-old scientist develops an algae-and-mineral…
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383: Meet a Newly Named Giant of China’s Forests
Today on The Good Daily, researchers formally describe a strikingly tall fungus from southwestern China, photographer and physician Chip Thomas receives a…
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382: Homes Designed to Keep Siblings Together
Today on The Good Daily, a foster-care village in California is designed around keeping siblings together, a new London tunnel intercepts storm sewage before…
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381: Years of Medical Debt Forgiven in One Letter
Today on The Good Daily, Aubry Alldredge earns her barre instructor certification and leads her first class, NASA shares a new morning panorama from Mars, a…
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380: A Bicycle Mechanic’s Designs Become Repairable Prosthetic Legs
Today on The Good Daily, prosthetist and former bicycle mechanic Ben Hogan teaches local teams in Ghana how to build and repair lower-limb prostheses, two…
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379: A Dog Visits a Hospital Ward
Today on The Good Daily, a hospital in Porto welcomes a patient’s dog for a carefully assessed visit, researchers test a breathable fabric that helps…
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378: The Ozone Layer Shows What Patient Global Action Can Accomplish
Today on The Good Daily, a solar ambulance brings emergency care farther into rural Kenya, people preserve rare apples as living archives, Argentina’s first…
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377: A Man with ALS Finds His Voice Through an Investigational Brain-Computer Interface
Today on The Good Daily, a man with ALS uses an investigational brain-computer interface to speak in his own natural voice, ocean photography helps people see…
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376: Personalized Brain Stimulation Helps Some People with Parkinson’s Walk More Steadily
Today on The Good Daily, personalized brain stimulation helps some people with Parkinson’s walk more steadily, women place community at the heart of elephant…
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375: A Solar Park Becomes Habitat for Threatened Gazelles
Today on The Good Daily, Indigenous knowledge and science join forces to restore Canadian kelp, a Saudi solar park becomes habitat for threatened gazelles…
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374: Cherokee Girls Help Win Legal Rights for a River
Today on The Good Daily, Cherokee girls help advance legal rights for a river, Berlin residents use a shared tree map to care for the urban forest, NASA and…
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373: Neighbors Raise $18,000 to Reunite a Woman with Her Dog
Today on The Good Daily, neighbors raise $18,000 to reunite a woman with her longtime dog, a baby swan is rescued from fishing-line injury, wildlife crossings…
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372: A Personalized Cancer Vaccine Shows Encouraging Results in a Melanoma Trial
Today on The Good Daily, a personalized cancer vaccine shows encouraging results in a late-stage melanoma trial, Amazon deforestation reaches a ten-year low…
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371: When Life Feels Overwhelming, Make the Next Step Smaller
Today on The Good Daily, families can turn emergency preparedness into a network of care, wonder can be practiced by looking again, overwhelming problems can…
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370: A Volunteer Group of Older Women Removes Underwater Garbage
Today on The Good Daily, retired cranberry bogs are being restored to wetlands, good leaders are learning to listen before asking people to follow, a private…
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369: Three Antarctic Turbines Cut Diesel Use at the Bottom of the World
Today on The Good Daily, invasive seaweed may find a second life in stronger building materials, older women remove garbage from Dutch waterways, more young…
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368: A Century of Sami Women’s Leadership Reaches a Historic Milestone
Today on The Good Daily, women hold the top leadership positions in all three Sami Parliaments, an ethical fashion company works to make better clothing more…
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367: A Lost Cat Is Rescued from a Landfill and Reunited with Its Family
Today on The Good Daily, a lost cat is rescued from a landfill after four days of searching, Antarctic wind turbines reduce diesel use, a river cleanup keeps…
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366: A Ten-Year-Old Saves His Baby Sister During a House Fire
Today on The Good Daily, teenagers turn cancer education into a strategy game, a centenarian leads a flash mob, a former hotel becomes permanent homes for…
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365: A Wedding for 45 Guests Becomes a Celebration for More Than 400 Strangers
Today on The Good Daily, a storm-disrupted wedding becomes a joyful gathering for more than 400 strangers, volunteers help children find confidence through…
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364: Making Room for Growth, Recovery and Connection
Today on The Good Daily, a campaign protects greater sage-grouse habitat, new maps show native woodland returning across Scotland, ten years of terrapin…
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363: Protecting Pollinators and the Places We Share
Today on The Good Daily, researchers explore scents that may help keep honey bees away from pesticide-treated plants, a biodiversity corps supports native…
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362: Early Science, Shared Care, and Places to Gather
Today on The Good Daily, researchers identify a possible new target for malaria-vaccine research, a registry brings more detail to an environmental claim, a…
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361: Small Creatures, Shared Places, and New Beginnings
Today on The Good Daily, snowy plover chicks return to the California coast, wind capacity grows in India, an urban farm and eco-park opens in Oldham, and a…
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360: Growing Room for Energy, Health, and Attention
Today on The Good Daily, a community garden opens in Paisley, shared solar expands in Illinois, researchers test whether imaging can reveal treatment risks…
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359: 2.2 million acres enter conservation
Today on The Good Daily, farmers are enrolling millions of acres in conservation, black-footed ferrets return to Arizona grasslands, a library invites…
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358: The Word “Untreatable” Is Starting to Change in Alzheimer’s Research
Today on The Good Daily, an inclusive Chattanooga playground opens more room for shared play, researchers use tiny brain organoids to study childhood epilepsy…
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357: Progress That Keeps Expanding
Today on The Good Daily, Newcastle is recognized for student mental-health work, a Scottish project is reconnecting people and nature, students are gaining…
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356: A Little More Room to Begin
Today on The Good Daily, scholarships are opening paths for community-college students, Carleton is removing loans from financial-aid packages, a rare New…
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355: Better Tools for Health, Energy, and the Planet
Today on The Good Daily, researchers are developing lead-free solar power for wearable health devices, studying how Earth formed, preparing a rare salamander…
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354: Restoration Is a Practice, Not a Moment
Today on The Good Daily, community nurseries are growing a forest in Cameroon, a restored New York stream is showing new life, a broad review finds that…
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353: Public Health Wins Built Through Persistence
Today on The Good Daily, Bhutan reaches a major dog-mediated rabies milestone, a university is recognized for community-health education, Maine prepares to…
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352: New Clues About the Body, the Brain, and Clean Water
Today on The Good Daily, new research is clarifying how the brain develops, how neural connections are organized, and how scientists may improve PFAS cleanup…
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351: Making Room for Nature, Curiosity, and Each Other
Today on The Good Daily, outdoor play is reaching more Louisville neighborhoods, Florida scrub-jays are testing a careful path toward recovery, researchers are…
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350: Sea Turtle Populations Rebounding, A New World Map and How to Say No
Most sea turtle populations are rebounding worldwide, North Carolina peatlands are being restored before they disappear, Mangrove restoration protects…
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349: The Scholarships Helping Students Take a Different Path
Today on The Good Daily, scholarships are giving students more room to pursue their futures, while returning tuna, donated clothing, community service, and…
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348: The Frogs Are Going Home
Today on The Good Daily, endangered frogs and piping plovers are finding a stronger future, a river restoration project is bringing back native plants, and…
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347: A Comet, a Planet, and the Questions Between
Today on The Good Daily, a comet over the Adriatic invites us to look up, while new findings about Mars, Earth’s ancient water cycle, and nighttime light…
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347: Life Lessons from 110-Year-Olds in Brazil
Today on The Good Daily, shared smartphone technology boundaries may help children feel better at school, while gardens, long lives, secondhand choices, and…
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346: What Helps Children Show Up (to School)
Maryland schools report a meaningful drop in chronic absenteeism, Tiny sound waves help protect quantum information, CERN measures gluons inside atomic nuclei…
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345: Ten Years of Funny Animal Photographs That Make Wildlife Impossible to Ignore
Ten years of photographs that make wildlife impossible to ignore, Endangered frogs return to Southern California mountains, Bilbies and wombats move toward…
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344: The Oyster Shells Became a Reef
Today on The Good Daily, New York oyster shells become habitat through Billion Oyster Project, while Sheboygan surfers find community on Great Lakes waves and…
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343: $14.5 Million for Students Taking a Different Path
Today on The Good Daily, the Taco Bell Foundation awards $14.5 million in Live Más scholarships, while England expands free school meal eligibility and…
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342: 18 Million Meals in Remembrance of 9/11
Today on The Good Daily, 9/11 Day turns a hard anniversary into a nationwide act of service, while loggerhead turtles nest in encouraging numbers and wool…
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341: The Telescope Built to Look Up
Today on The Good Daily, NASA’s Roman Space Telescope gives us a new way to study the universe, while researchers rethink balloons for a lighter footprint and…
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340: The Sea Shanties Found New Voices
Today on The Good Daily, community sea shanty groups turn old working songs into a new doorway for belonging, while Gary neighbors receive storm-relief…
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339: Her Donor’s Brother Became Her Groom
Today on The Good Daily, a childhood liver transplant becomes a decades-long story of memory, gratitude, and love, while New Zealand’s kākāpō reach a recovery…
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338: The Garage That Lets Neighbors Pay What They Can
Today on The Good Daily, a father and son in Glendale turn one hard repair bill into a pay-what-you-can garage, while neighbors lift a car to save an injured…
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337: Bamboo Tiny Homes to Stand in Earthquakes
Today on The Good Daily, Kazakhstan releases its first tiger into the wild in 70 years, closing the week with stories of return, rescue, access, and resilient…
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336: Hospice Patient's Final Wish: One Last Puppy Visit
Today on The Good Daily, a rescued lynx reaches sanctuary after leaving war-torn Ukraine, and a hospice patient’s final wish brings an eleven-week-old golden…
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335: First Foal Born on Kazakhstan’s Steppe in 200 Years
Today on The Good Daily, a shelter dog is finally seen through a volunteer’s weekly playdates, opening an episode about second chances and better windows of…
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334: Energy That Stores the Light in South Africa
Today on The Good Daily, South Africa’s large hybrid renewable project opens an episode about steadier systems and protected places. We also visit an…
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333: After 100 Years: Otter Returns to Bronx River
Today on The Good Daily, an otter is spotted in the Bronx River for the first time in a century, making restoration feel visible. The episode also follows…
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332: Eight Hundred Small Lives 🐢
Today on The Good Daily, the Bronx Zoo’s rescue work for trafficked box turtles opens an episode about patient protection. We also follow a Washington wildlife…
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331: A Note in the DoorDash Bag Became a Wedding Gift
Today on The Good Daily, a DoorDash driver’s handwritten note turns into wedding gifts from strangers, and the week opens with stories of neighbors, teens…