Feel Good Friday

“In a world first, NHS England will offer patients with lung and breast cancer access to ‘liquid biopsy’ tests to help speed up their access to treatment.” NHS offers ‘revolutionary’ blood test for cancer in world first. (Science is good.)

+ Faizan Zaki wins Scripps National Spelling Bee a year after coming in 2nd. The winning word: Éclaircissement. (A French word describing the bloating caused by too many desserts.)

+ Alaska man survives after being trapped face-down in creek by 700lb boulder.

+ Copenhagen was just named the happiest city in the world. The top US city was NY coming in 17th.

+ Experience: I’ve made the longest chain of chewing-gum wrappers in the world.

+ New urinal designs could prevent up to 265,000 gallons of urine from spilling onto the floor each day.

+ There are upsides to refusing to bend the knee. One of them is that you can get a minute-long ovation for a speech after just saying the word, Welcome.