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Same chaos, cuter package
Tiny humans, awkward moments, and a handful of shockingly useful life hacks.
Greg Sullivan
March 16, 2026 • Est. Reading Time: 10 minutes
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On a zoo trip as a chaperone, he discovered the wildest animals were the ones he’d brought with him.
We all know tweens can be a lot. Unhygienic, fond of confidently declaring nonsensical things, masters of the off-putting overshare. Little kids are where it’s at! So cute and innocent. Right? That’s what Mr. Lindsay thought when he signed up to chaperone his son’s kindergarten class to the zoo.
As Mark Wales reports, somewhere between the unfiltered oversharing, the confidently strange logic, and the extremely familiar gross-out moment, Mr. Lindsay realized younger kids are just packing all the same tweeny quirks and issues into smaller packages. Like reducing a sauce, it made all the flavors that much stronger.
GOOD reader Maureen Davis shared this striking study in blue. She didn’t provide much context, but the mystery adds a little something to this amazing composition.
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And what did we learn?
On Friday, we shared tips for safely saving those precious voice messages you might have on your phone.
What sort of relationship do GOOD readers have with voicemail? Almost half of you are staying loyal to the idea, but a quarter of you are like me, treating the voicemail box as a graveyard for spam callers.
I’ve been leaving voicemails since the cassette era, and I stand by the craft. (46.2%)
Voicemail is where messages from telemarketers go to die. (24.4%)
What's a voicemail? Haven't heard of them. (9.0%)
Just text, like a normal person! (20.5%)
Well Being
How to win any social interaction, without being weird about it.
They say when you're on a tightrope (we try to keep it relatable for you), the trick isn’t to think don’t fall, don’t fall, but to think stay up, stay up. Your brain prefers being told what to do rather than what to avoid. The same principle applies to social interactions.
Unless you live in a mountain cabin with WiFi and zero human contact, you’ve probably been caught in the minefield that is... people. Talking to them. Dealing with them. Trying not to ruin dinner with them. Luckily, Redditors have shared their best psychological “cheat codes” for every social curveball: diffusing anger, steering small talk, or surviving a “where should we eat?” debate.
As Erik Barnes reports, these 15 tricks don’t make you manipulative; they just make you a little smoother. From “positive gossip” to hiccup mind hacks, these are the kind of life upgrades that’ll make every interaction feel just a bit more in your control.
Life Hacks
Quick and easy, the way a good hack should be.
Life hacks can be, well, life-changing, but sometimes they feel like a full-time job. Sure, I could compost my kitchen scraps and grow my own food. I’m sure that would pay off eventually. But when you’re mid–Monday chaos, sometimes you just need a faster way to find your keys, stop overthinking, or remember the thing you absolutely can’t forget.
In this story by Erik Barnes, you’ll find simple, surprisingly brilliant tricks like putting toothpaste on the back of a frame to nail the perfect hang spot, or using a coin toss to figure out what you really want. There’s even a pair of painless pointers that can save your relationship.
These are the kind of hacks that actually make your day run more smoothly, not the type that need their own spreadsheet. Take a peek at the complete list. It’s the most productive procrastination you’ll do today.
On March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard lit the fuse on the future. In a snowy field in Auburn, Massachusetts, his gasoline-and-liquid-oxygen rocket rose just 41 feet, flew for about 2.5 seconds, and landed 184 feet away in a cabbage patch, a tiny hop now recognized as the first successful flight of a liquid-propellant rocket. It looked less like the dawn of a new age than a physics experiment with ambition.
Goddard’s breakthrough came only 22 years after the Wright brothers’ first powered flight at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903. Humanity had barely learned to leave the ground in an airplane before Goddard started sketching a path beyond the atmosphere.
Today, the contrast is almost absurd. Rockets routinely launch satellites, cargo, and astronauts. By August 14, 2025, the FAA marked its 1,000th licensed or permitted commercial space operation since the program began in 1989, and NASA’s Artemis II mission is targeted for April 2026. Exactly 100 years ago today, Goddard’s 2.5-second flight became the opening line of the space age.
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