Humor

This high school teacher is sharing some of the ‘helpful’ feedback he’s received from parents

From the “If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry” file.

Teacher Colton Major has gone viral for sharing some of the valuable feedback he's received from the parents of students in his high school classes. Feedback like, "Hey, what's the deal with teaching that World War II was violent?" Nope, alas, that is not a joke. That's the gist of one of the emails that lit off a viral discussion of the perils of modern teaching.

As Mark Wales reports, another parent wanted clarification on why the Cold War was called the Cold War if, as far as they could tell, there was no snow involved. In Mark Wales’ story, Major’s inbox becomes a pretty amazing window into what teachers are up against.

It’s funny because it’s absurd. It’s also funny because every teacher alive has probably lived some version of it. Read this one for the laughs, then for the renewed respect you’ll have for anyone who has ever had to explain history to both teenagers and their parents.

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Culture

The cringe, the chemistry, the secret power hiding in your flirting style

Flirting isn’t just for dating, and awkwardness might be the key ingredient to doing it right.

Flirting has a branding problem. People hear the word and immediately picture pickup lines, forced banter, or cringe levels of bogus bravado. But relationship expert Francesca Hogi wants to rescue it from all that baggage and reframe it as something much more useful and way more human.

In Mark Wales’ story, Hogi argues that flirting is really about agency in connection. Not performance. Not manipulation. Just the underrated skill of showing curiosity, warmth, and a little brave enthusiasm. And that awkwardness you’re afraid to let show? That might be the best way to make an impression, since it can signal a real, honest interest.

And what did we learn?

Yesterday, we shared the ‘butler technique’ for getting a new perspective on self-discipline. The short version? Imagine your efforts are on behalf of a Future-You and try to hook them up.

What sort of relationship do GOOD readers have with their future selves? We have an almost tie!

• Future-Me loves me. I leave gifts like sleep and snacks. (32.2%)

• We’re fine. It’s a polite, distant relationship. (33.9%)

• I treat Future-Me great… until Friday night. (11.9%)

• Future-Me is not a fan of mine. I keep leaving them messes. (22.0%)

GOOD reader Faithy M treats her future self great, until Friday. “Friday is my funday. The rest of the week is discipline oriented. Cleaning, cooking, and chores. Friday is all funny all day, and into the night. (Saturday can be a bit rough in the morning).“ Same, Faithy. Same.

Health

A viral migraine hack has nothing to do with your head

It’s a strange move that migraine sufferers swear belongs in the toolbox.

Anyone who gets migraines knows that first wave of panic. The visual fuzziness, the pressure, the creeping sense that your day is about to be swallowed whole.

That is where Andrea Eder was when she reached for a tip she had seen on TikTok and mentally saved for later. It was simple, unexpected, and weird. Hot water. Not for her head, but her feet.

As Adam Albright Hanna explains, tips like this pile up in the toolbox of migraine sufferers because, sometimes, they work. Eder says the relief came fast, and the logic behind the trick is stranger than you might think.

On March 6, 1665, the Royal Society published the first issue of Philosophical Transactions, launched by its secretary, Henry Oldenburg, a German-born scholar, translator, and prolific correspondent who turned a flood of scientific letters into a new medium. The Royal Society describes it as the world’s first and longest-running scientific journal: a regular printed record where observations, experiments, and ideas could be dated, circulated, and debated in public instead of vanishing into private correspondence.

Philosophical Transactions ran as a single title from 1665 to 1886, then split in 1887 into Series A and Series B, covering physical and life sciences; both still exist today. In that sense, Oldenburg’s 17th-century publishing experiment never really ended: it became a template for modern scientific publishing. At their best, journals are where knowledge gets stress-tested, archived, credited, and shared across generations.

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