Feel Good Friday

Time: At 100, David Attenborough’s voice is a lesson in wonder and planetary stewardship. And from The Ringer: David Attenborough and the Voice That Revealed a Planet. “That ability to illuminate the unseen is one of Attenborough’s greatest gifts as an educator, a storyteller, and a human being. It is a by-product of his ethos and his iconic half-hushed delivery—intimate enough to make you feel like you’re being told a secret of the natural world, quiet enough so as not to draw any undue attention away from the natural spectacle at hand.”

+ ‘A watershed moment’: A pancreatic cancer drug is set to transform treatment. And, in a Milestone for A.L.S., a Treatment Helps Some Patients Improve.

+ Rachel Entrekin makes ultramarathon history, wins Cocodona 250 as first woman to top field of men and women.

+ “Last year, more sections of the country’s rivers were reconnected thanks to dam removals than at any other time in history.” America the Undammed. (This is definitely the first time in 2026 someone has used that headline…)

+ MLB viewership up 44 percent across national games in 2026, the league’s best showing in nearly a decade.

+ Some kids are bypassing age-verification checks with a fake mustache.

+ “Watching from bed alongside his wife, Malory, who was reading a book, Giants kicker Younghoe Koo whiffed on a field goal attempt in a real-life scene reminiscent of Charlie Brown and Lucy in the ‘Peanuts’ cartoon. Rewinding and watching the replay, Toothaker laughed so hard it caused a seizure.” It may have saved his life.