Surrogate baby birthdays, nice weather, and pillows. Coca Cola and Danone invest in plant based plastics Pillow book The Pillow Book (movie)By There Are Good Things

Inventive ways to celebrate graduates, happy strawberries, and the longest lightest day of the year. Also: Showers! Graduation celebration billboard Weed name chalkingBy There Are Good Things

This week, we find out how fairy floss came to be, and Julia recommends some very pretty historical crime TV. Miss Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Can A Robot Really Freestyle? Irish People Try Weird American Cotton Candy Zoe Bell's Boss B*tch Fight ChallengeBy There Are Good Things

Did you know that octopuses don't have tentacles? You will soon! Also, Julia got popsicles and Kermit sang a song. (If you're listening with kids and don't want them to know he's a P-U-P-P-E-T maybe skip 06:45-07:40.) Kermit sings a song The Kraken Akkorokamui Gorgons Thalassophobia Octopus wolfi - star sucker pygmy octopus Dumbo octopus Octopus dr…

A slightly different episode - we tell you a little bit about ourselves, and why we wanted to make this show. Jessica Kellgren Fozard on toxic positivity Reconcilable DifferencesBy There Are Good Things

This week, we discuss the science of soap bubbles - and really cool brainwave-to-speech technology! UCSF study about brainwaves The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Frozen soap bubbles Tom Noddy, bubbleologist, does magic on the Tonight Show, 1983 The Getty Museum's Twitter threadBy There Are Good Things

This week, we talk about zoo walks and saving old species of animals. Miniature dent puller Porcupine explores the zoo White-throated rail Shrek the escaped sheep Study about coal relianceBy There Are Good Things

This week we have birthdays, cat trackers, and other happy things to share. Cat Tracker Project Cat Tracker article in National Geographic Little Free Library Saltsj&oring;badens kallbadhus Cowboy TimBy There Are Good Things

There are good things. Sometimes it's hard to remember, so we want toremind you as well as ourselves. We talk about our little joys, happy things in the news - and this week Julia tells you about dementia villages. Corona virus shutdowns have unintended climate benefits De Hogeweyk dementia village in Holland (Wikipedia) Dr Sanjay Gupta visits De H…