💒 'Humble people from Cleveland' invited Pope Francis to their wedding. They received a thoughtful response.

Francis touched many people's lives.

While many people around the world continue to mourn the passing of Pope Francis, some have also recounted their memories of him on social media. Among them was Reverend Ian Anderson, a Unitarian Universalist Minister-in-training in Cleveland, Ohio, who shared to Reddit. When Ian and his now-wife Ash were sending out their wedding invitations in 2023, they had a few extras. They decided to send them to some of their favorite celebrities, among them Jack Black, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Judge Judy, and Pope Francis, Newsweek shares.

Ian told Newsweek, "It was really just for fun." As "two humble people from Cleveland," they didn’t expect a response from anyone, but they did write a nice letter to the Pope in particular. "The invite we sent him was slightly more formal than the others," Ian noted. "We included much more formal language, referred to him as 'His Holiness,' and said we wanted to extend this invite because he is someone we admired. We also asked him to please pray for us.” Their response came the following month, in June 2023.

🐶 Think you fooled your dog? Science says nope.

A dog’s nose knows more than just where you hid the bacon. Turns out, it’s also a BS detector.

Science has already confirmed that dog people are superior humans. (I’ll find the source later. Probably.) But now there’s proof that the dogs themselves might be the emotionally intelligent ones in the room. In a recent study, researchers gave dogs intentionally bad advice and the pups weren’t having it.

Turns out, dogs can detect when a human is giving them false information. When scientists pointed to a container that didn’t actually have food in it, after previously being trustworthy, the dogs hesitated or outright refused to follow the commands. Translation: your dog doesn’t just love you... they low-key judge you, and science can prove it.

🧠 Brain rot, wine, and your midnight scroll: the five habits quietly frying your mind

Brain rot isn’t something your mom made up to get you off the Nintendo.

Psychologist T. Alexander Puutio, Ph.D. (imagine the size of that business card!) has bravely volunteered to be the latest scientist to poop our collective party. He’s done the research and put together a list of the habits and vices that are doing our gray matter the most harm. Insidious little things that we might not even think about are making us dumber.

If you’re reading this late at night with a glass of wine, sorry, but you’ve already found items one and two.

The good news is that Psychologist T. Alexander Puutio, Ph.D., doesn’t just diagnose the rot, he offers easy, science-backed fixes that could sharpen your focus and keep your gray matter thriving, and this story by Mark Wales has them all.

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