Feel Good Friday

“The astronauts should have been back two months ago. But their homecoming was stalled by problems with Boeing’s new Starliner astronaut capsule, which came back empty in September because of safety concerns. Then Hurricane Milton interfered, followed by another two weeks of high wind and rough seas.” The travel delay of the century is finally over.

+ He has been one of the UK’s favorite and most prominent refugees for two-thirds of a century. Now Paddington Bear – official name Paddington Brown – has been granted a British passport.

+ A man who was twice homeless as a teenager before becoming a multimillionaire entrepreneur has topped a list celebrating influential black Britons.

+ US power grid added battery equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in past four years. (That’s enough to send out one edition of NextDraft…)

+ ‘Game-changer’: UC Berkeley chemists develop powder to suck carbon dioxide from the air. Go Bears.

+ A “hero” New York City bus driver has reunited with the young girl he rescued last month while she was wandering a sidewalk alone.

+ The mates who have met for a pint every Thursday for 56 years.

+ Enjoy the Dua Lipa Tiny Desk Concert.