Good Friday good news: speed friending, fire fungi, and the science of sleep

This week starts with casino Easter eggs and a prom-posal, because apparently Good Friday is full of surprises. Then Arielle and Karissa get into the actual news: a teenager built a working microplastic filter in her garage, Mexico's monarch butterflies had their best winter in nearly a decade, and a $375 million jury verdict just put Meta on notice. There's also a California law that stops punishing college students for asking for help after an overdose, a roundup of Easter traditions that gets genuinely weird, and some fungi that show up in wildfire burn scars before anything else does. If you have questions, comments, feedback, suggestions, or just want to say hi, send a message to: podcast@optimistdaily.com . Transcript link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/?p=1421975 Want to be part of the Optimism Movement? Become an Emissary . Subscribe to our FREE Daily Newsletter and follow us on Instagram , X , and Blue Sky . The Optimist Daily is a project of the World Business Academy. Donate link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/donate-to-support-the-optimist-daily/?gift=Y%20http://

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