Summer may not officially begin until June 21, but things are already heating up. With the Fourth of July around the corner, weather forecasters are issuing heat warnings across wide swaths of the United States. So how can you enjoy all those backyard barbecues and beach days without melting like Olaf under the blazing sun?

You probably have a standard summertime toolkit: a floppy hat, a gallon of sunscreen, and a patch of shade. All good things to have to avoid the effects of too much sun exposure. Not to sound shady, but sometimes even the biggest umbrella doesn’t cut it. If you’ve ever felt like you were simmering from the inside out, science has a “cool” secret for you: just tap into your body’s own internal radiator.

Michelle Ost stopped by the San Diego Humane Society’s clear-the-shelter event in October 2025 and didn’t think she’d leave with a dog. But then she noticed Honey, and the connection was real.

“Honey was in one of the very last rows of dogs, and I went to her immediately. She got up—she was lying down—and walked over and licked my fingers through the little railing,” she said on TikTok. “When I got up to leave and go to the next dog, I felt sad, and I hadn’t felt sad with any of the other dogs. So I was like, clearly there’s a heart connection there if I’m feeling sad.”

Have you ever looked back at your parents’ high school yearbook and thought that all the 11th graders looked like they were in their early 30s? Whether they were in school in the ‘60s and the kids had horn-rimmed glasses or the ‘80s with feathered hair, they looked at least a decade older than today’s high school kids. One wonders if in 30 years, kids look at a yearbook from today and see boys with broccoli cuts and girls with noserings and they think, “What are they, 35?”

The folks at Bright Side did a deep dive into the phenomenon and found a few reasons why people looked so much older in the past than they do now. It’s a mix of how our minds perceive older fashion and why people age more gracefully in modern times.

Parents are people, too. Whether they subscribe to “gentle parenting” ideas or a more old-school approach, the truth is that they’re just doing their best. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they make mistakes, and quite often, it’s hard for anyone to tell whether they’re doing a good job until years later.

Heidi Johnson’s son was 13, deeply in adolescence, and in that stage where he’d frequently lash out and defy her at every turn. In one such instance, he stubbornly told her he shouldn’t have to deal with her rules and should be independent. So she wrote a strict but loving “Mom’s not a fool” letter. In the letter, she wrote that because he bragged about making money, he can buy back all of the things that she had purchased for him in the past and that he would also have to pay rent.