It’s been nearly two decades since a 1-year-old named Charlie famously bit his older brother’s finger — and a new catalog of internet artifacts will help secure the moment in our memory for decades to come. The viral video (which has almost 900 million views on YouTube) is being preserved by the British Film Institute, along with hundreds of other clips spanning 30 years of digital culture. Check out a selection.
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Featured Story
The Hidden Costs of Assuming the Worst — Plus Expert Tips on How to Stop
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Picture this: You text your crush and excitedly watch their response bubbles appear on the screen — only to vanish and be followed by hours of silence. By the time they do reply, you’re already devastated, because clearly, you tell yourself, they don’t feel the same about you. In reality, though? They simply lost their phone signal during a camping trip.
Unwarranted heartbreak aside, filling in the gaps when we don’t have the full story is at times helpful, mental health counselor Shima Baronian tells Nice News. But assuming things too often or too broadly can prevent us from getting the most out of our life and relationships.
“Our brains are pattern-recognition machines, meaning they use past experiences to predict what’s coming next,” Baronian explains. “If something hurt you before, your nervous system wants to spot it early the next time. The problem is that this system doesn’t distinguish between actual and perceived threats.”
Read our full article to learnthe costs of these built-in tendencies and how to combat them — like by “assuming complexity” and focusing on the facts.
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Study Finds Potential Breakthrough in Predicting Lung Cancer — And Preventing It
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It’s a devastating fact that lung cancer results in more deaths than any other cancer — in part because it’s notoriously difficult to diagnose early, as symptoms like persistent coughing, fatigue, and shortness of breath are often ignored. Here’s where the nice news comes in: New research is showing promise that there may be a way to prevent the disease from developing in the first place.
In a study published earlier this month, researchers identified 14 proteins in the blood that correctly predicted lung cancers more than five years before diagnosis. Not only that, but the team also found that an anti-inflammatory drug called canakinumab could lower lung cancer risk in people with elevated concentrations of these proteins.
“Prevention is the solution in my mind,” senior study author Dr. Charles Swanton told The New York Times, likening the medication’s promise to statins that can reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke for those with high cholesterol.
While more research is needed to confirm the effectiveness of both the blood test and drug, it’s another piece of hopeful news in the cancer conversation, as the American Cancer Society has reported that a record 7 out of 10 of all cancer patients now survive at least five years after diagnosis.
Culture
John Lennon’s Drawings for Beatles’ Pioneering Music Video Go on Display
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In the mid-1960s, over a decade before MTV hit the airwaves, John Lennon and artist Stephen Verona collaborated on what some consider the world’s first rock ’n’ roll music video. The duo completed 240 drawings together at Verona’s dining table, each representing a lyric from what would become a Beatles hit, “I Feel Fine.” The drawings were then sequenced into an accompanying lyric video titled “She Said So.”
Now, the public can view 10 of those original sketches in a temporary exhibit at the Liverpool Beatles Museum. The pieces were loaned by Joseph O’Donnell, an art collector who purchased them at an auction.
“I’m a big Beatles fan, and I spotted these at an auction in London, where they weren’t really made a big deal of. I thought I would have a go at bidding on them, although I thought it might go a bit crazy, and I managed to get them at a reasonable price,” O’Donnell told PA Media. “Each artwork features a different word from the song and I was able to piece them together to make a full sentence.” See some of the drawings up close and watch the original video.
Humanity
Dutch Kids Rank No. 1 in the World for Mental Health — What Makes Them So Happy?
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Unicef recently released its latest report on child well-being, and the Netherlands (which routinely ranks among the happiest countries in the world) took the No. 1 spot for mental health. The results spurred a crop of articles discussing why that may be — is it the autonomy Dutch kids have? The ban on phones in schools? The bikes?
Likely, it’s all these factors and more, the gestalt of growing up there. But that doesn’t mean the individual elements can’t be evaluated for their impact on happiness. Positive.News recently dug into the findings with Margreet de Looze, assistant professor of interdisciplinary social science at Utrecht University, who has been studying global child well-being for years.
“Where Dutch children really stand out is that they have very good social relations,” de Looze told the outlet. “The amount of support they receive from family and friends, from teachers and classmates — in all of these areas, Dutch children score high.”
Learn more about what may make the Netherlands so adept at raising happy kids.
Austin Kleon shared five tips for finding creative freedom when Nice News spoke to him last spring, and his latest book offers up even more guidance for embracing the joy of creating. A “handbook for looking at the world with fresh eyes,” Don’t Call It Art discusses 10 ways to let go of our inhibitions and rediscover the beauty of making art the way we did as children — without fear of being bad, making a mess, or coloring outside the lines.
Olivia Rodrigo’s third studio album dropped Friday, and this one features her first guest artist collab — with The Cure frontman Robert Smith no less. She debuted that track, titled “What’s Wrong With Me,” at Primavera Sound in Barcelona last weekend, bringing out the English rocker for a surprise appearance. Watch footage of the performance, and click above to listen to the full 13-track album (which also happens to include single “The Cure,” though Rodrigo has said the title is unrelated to the band).
This Week in History
The Stars and Stripes Becomes the United States’ First Official Flag
June 14, 1777
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No doubt you’ve been hearing a lot about the country’s 250th birthday of late, but today we’re celebrating a 249th anniversary in United States history. Amid the American Revolution, the nascent nation was in need of an official flag, and on June 14th, 1777, it landed on one. Congress approved the Stars and Stripes design that day, resolving that the flag should have 13 stripes, alternating red and white, and 13 white stars on a blue background.
Interestingly, the stars were not formally required to be in a circular formation, and different mapmakers used different arrangements.Over a century later, in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed June 14 Flag Day. See a visual history of the flag’s evolution from 1776 to 1960 (after Hawaii was added), and watch the trailer for Flag Day, a touching documentary about a small Michigan town that hosts the country’s largest Flag Day parade.
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