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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 09, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 09, 2026 "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." — Haruki Murakami Why Pain Is Different From Suffering It was an "utterly unfun experiment to be part of," recounts Cortland Dahl with a smile. "But it was also very illuminating." Lying in a brain scanner, participants in this research study were subjected to scalding water piped through a small thermode on their wrists -- at regular intervals over and over, for hours. Before each jolt of heat, a sound would signal what was coming. The test subjects were e...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 08, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 08, 2026 "You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view." — Harper Lee Who’s Afraid of ‘the Night of Controversies’? A packed room in Paris gathers not to reach consensus, but to practice something rare in today's world: disagreeing well. At the Night of Controversies, over 600 people engage in structured debates on divisive topics like border abolition and environmental authoritarianism, where participants speak in timed turns and the audience shifts their positions not through coerc...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 07, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 07, 2026 "When you are in the presence of people who are suffering and you don't turn away, something in you changes. The heart grows larger." — Ram Dass Beyond Words: the Pilot Who Became a Caregiver A former pilot trades the cockpit for nursing homes, spending 100 days with people living with dementia. Outside the nursing home, Vienna's sights and sounds buzz by as Michael rides his Vespa — construction sites, traffic lights, the city's relentless pace. Inside the facility, time moves differently: getting dressed be...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 06, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 06, 2026 "We succeed by overcoming obstacles by working together. In spite of the fact that we're different and unrelated." — Shane Gero Witnessing a Whale Birth, Scientists Find a Remarkable Amount of Teamwork When researchers witnessed a sperm whale birth in the Caribbean, they discovered something remarkable: for three hours after the calf emerged, every whale in the pod took turns keeping the negatively buoyant newborn afloat -- even those with no genetic relationship to the mother. The footage revealed what marine biolog...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 05, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 05, 2026 "Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else." — Margaret Wheatley This Month's DailyGood Digest As March blossoms into April, we take a look at the DailyGood tapestry woven with stories of transformation, resilience, and our interconnections. This past month, Aterah Nusrat explored the profound potential of a collective transcendent emergence , inviting us to redefine our identity amidst a world in flux. David Bonbright shed light on how interconnected...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 05, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 05, 2026 "The love, care, and attention we give to the elderly is a measure of our humanity." — Unknown Strangers Gift Doordash Grandpa Nearly $1M Brittany Smith’s doorbell camera showed a 78-year-old man slowly climbing the steps to deliver a Starbucks treat her ex-husband had sent to their daughter. After watching the video, Smith and her ex-husband looked for the man and found that he lived five minutes away. Richard retired 13 years ago, but went back to work delivering food -- sometimes for 12 hours a day -- after his wife l...