Feel Good Friday

“Mesfin Yana Dollar came to the U.S. for surgery. Now he works at the Mayo Clinic, assisting with some of the world’s most complex open-heart surgeries.” WaPo (Gift Article): A heart surgeon saved his life as a teen. Now they perform surgeries together.

+ Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing.

+ 14-Year-Old Wins Prize For Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times Its Own Weight.

+ Students in need were paid $500 a month to stay in school. It worked.

+ Boy, 5, Sneaks Out for Chick-fil-A While Family Sleeps.

+ “Usually, there’s about an hour of quiet reading. Then you can stick around to chat and swap books — or not.” Inside Seattle’s silent book clubs. You show up with your own book and just read for a while in the presence of others doing the same thing. (If I can partipate from home, this would be the perfect club.)