“For an item that’s generally used for less than an hour during mealtimes, North America imports a whole lot of chopsticks: about 40 to 50 billion pairs a year.” This company is turning chopsticks into furniture.

+ This Chicago doctor donated her kidney to a woman in Virginia she’d never met.

+ Can we finally look on the bright side of climate change? Climate crisis causing more home runs in baseball, study suggests.

+ US adds a healthy 236,000 jobs despite Fed’s rate hikes.

+ Indiana Jones is coming out of retirement. Here’s the Dial of Destiny trailer.

+ Gizmodo went full out with this headline: Look at These Beautiful Rings Rimming Uranus. (When I read that, I nearly tossed my salad.)