Feel Good Friday

“Last year, as his economics class at the Brooklyn Friends school studied the national housing crisis, he and a classmate hatched an idea for an online housing platform that could help people find homes they could afford. First, he taught himself to code.” NYT (Gift Article): New York Lacked an Affordable Housing Portal. So These Teenagers Made One.

+ “If I get the opportunity to fight like this for the rest of my life, I would be totally OK with that.” West Chicago brothers are on the front lines against ‘Operation Midway Blitz.’ And they’re only teenagers.

+ “The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands and candy stalls. They buy out every last item — every tamale, every corn cob, every bundle of sweets. Then they load up the food and deliver it to shelters and families in need.” Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown.

+ In praise of a refrigerator, still chugging after 75 years.

+ A study finds that sperm whales use vowels like humans. (So they be good at playing Whale of Fortune…)

+ And if you missed it yesterday, the Naked man making phone call after steam and shower at local health club could be an endangered species.