💞 Friendship and romance might be twins separated at birth

Take off your glasses, and the Venn diagram between love and friendship starts to look like a perfect circle.

If asked to define the difference between a romantic and platonic relationship, even the most pious mind will leap to one specific answer. (Wink wink, say no more, say no more.) But think a little longer, and the answer starts to blur.

As Mark Wales reports, both romantic and platonic connections run on the same essentials: trust, laughter, emotional safety, and shared growth. What separates them isn’t always desire, but the story we tell about that desire.

Modern norms have shifted so much that sex isn’t automatically taboo in friendships, and it’s not always a given in romantic relationships. Some friends share physical intimacy without romance; some partners share deep love without sex. The old rulebook no longer quite fits.

And what did we learn?

There’s science to why leftovers taste so good. But which leftovers are the best? I’d have placed money on pizza with a safety bet on turkey, but I was wrong! 28% of GOOD readers love next-day chili best.

• Cold pizza, the breakfast of champions (17.5%)

• Lo Mein that’s lived a little (5.3%)

• Pasta that found itself overnight (8.8%)

• Next-day chili that could win awards (28.1%)

• Friday turkey sandwich supremacy (19.3%)

• Pie. Straight from the fridge. No regrets. (21.1%)

Reader FaithyM doesn’t even serve their chili till it’s had its time in the refrigerator. “I never eat it the day I make it. The fridge blends it together and evens it all out.”

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😂 When the job interview turns into a sitcom

Karate bosses, mystery cats, and one unforgettable topless Zoom.

Forget sweaty palms, try interviewing a doctor mid–karate workout or realizing your camera’s still on while you’re shirtless in bed. As Ryan Reed discovered, when job seekers and hirers compared their wildest interview moments, the results were part sitcom, part nightmare, and 100% relatable.

One candidate faced an interviewer who spent 45 straight minutes asking about their weaknesses, only to hire them the next day. Another showed up for an in-person interview only to get dive-bombed by a bird mid-walk-in. And in the “we’ve seen too much” category, two separate stories featured people interviewing from bed, with a dog and a plus-one, respectively.

If you’ve ever flubbed an interview so badly that you wanted the earth to swallow you whole, take a look at these stories and find comfort in the fact that at least you’re not these people.

🐶 From the GOOD archive: The pageant answer that still melts hearts

When Miss Colombia 1994 chose empathy over art, she made pageant history

Beauty pageants are known for gowns, glitter, and big smiles. But sometimes, they deliver something more profound, a reminder that grace isn’t just about posture.

During the 1994 Miss Colombia finals, Tatiana Castro was asked what she’d save in a burning museum: a guard dog or famous paintings. Without hesitation, she laughed and said, “Oh my god! The dog!” Then came the line that’s lived on for decades: “Art is to be given away like love or like peace. But life, animals, plants, people, is to be kept.”

It was a moment of pure heart and conviction that turned a tricky question into a timeless lesson. Nearly 30 years later, the clip is making the rounds again on Instagram, proving that sometimes the simplest answers are the ones that stay with us longest.

On a gray Tuesday in Menlo Park, Thomas Edison’s team walked from the lab bench to the paperwork: they filed the patent that would flip the world’s nights to day. The application, submitted Nov 4, 1879, described a high-resistance carbon filament “coiled and connected to platina contact wires,” a crucial recipe that made small, inexpensive bulbs practical on household circuits. In a charming bit of “move fast” history, the drawing still showed a neat spiral filament which they had already moved past, evidence of a breakthrough happening faster than the ink could dry. From that filing came Patent No. 223,898, and within a few years, illuminated streets, late-shift factories, and a global power grid mentality.

Not the first spark, but the one that scaled.

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