Science

Swearing could be the ultimate low-cost, low-calorie performance enhancer.

Strong language might have strong effects on your physical abilities.

There are those who never swear and those who use strong language like punctuation. The latter group, socially frowned upon as they may be, might have an edge in matters of strength and endurance according to new research from Keele University in the UK and the University of Alabama, in, well… Alabama.

Studies suggest swearing during exertion can increase strength and endurance. Not because it magically adds muscle, but because it helps people feel more focused, confident, and willing to push a little harder.

As Erik Barnes reports, the occasional well-timed expletive might unlock more than stress relief. It might unlock that last rep.

Yesterday’s Results

2025 felt like all sorts of movies. Tragedy, comedy, and mostly sci-fi. We’re getting AI, and robots, and flying cars. But what tech from sci-fi do we want most? Apparently, we are all over the cars and the planes because 60% of us want transporters.

• Space travel - I want to vacation on another world (3.6%)

• Transporters - Air travel is for chumps, beam me to Paris for coffee (63.6%)

• Replicators - Computer, make me dinner (12.7%)

• Holograms - Facetime is so 2010 (7.3%)

GOOD reader LucyLikesOranges (same, Lucy. 🍊) made the case: “Cancel the commute! Scotty, beam me to work at 7:59 am and beam me home at 5:00 pm sharp. (…) Give me a good old fashioned transporter any day of the week!”

Work and Money

When playing by the rules didn’t land her a job, she went off the rails

If I were the HR person, I’d have taken notice too.

In the age of AI gatekeeping and online job search platforms that reduce your entire personality and career into data points, it’s hard to stand out. After reading the story above, you might be tempted to test-drive a well-placed swear word in your next cover letter. Probably not advised. But the impulse to break the rules? That part might be onto something.

You might consider what Allie Latic did. As Ryan Reed reports, Latic had spent two years looking for a job the way you're meant to, with a refined and re-refined cover letter and a resume perfected to within a comma of its life. So partly out of frustration and partly out of fun, she did something different. She made a meme-worthy mock resume with real information, big colorful fonts, smiling photos, and a cheerful disregard for traditional expectations.

Read the full article to see the results, but suffice to say, the interview dry spell ended with shocking abruptness.

Culture

A Gen Z sister was asked what’s “cringe” about millennials. Her answer went for the jugular

French tucks, peace signs, and dancing too hard are cringe? Uh oh.

I have a 14-year-old, and I’m a dad, so I delight in cringe. Slipping “six seven” into conversation and watching my kid physically recoil is a small daily joy. But while dads of teens might read this story by Adam Albright Hanna for inspiration, it turned into something bigger. A generational skirmish.

It started as a simple question. A millennial TikToker named Lea kept getting called “millennial core,” had no idea why, and asked her Gen Z sister to explain. She did.

The list was ruthless. French tucks. The millennial pause. Earnest hashtags. Peace sign faces. Even dancing. According to the sister, Gen Z goes to clubs in trainers and jeans, barely moves, and keeps their arms down. Trying too hard is the real crime.

And once that list hit the internet, everyone picked a side. Read the whole story to see where you land.

On December 22, 1882, Edison Electric Light Company marketeer and hype man Edward H. Johnson hand-wired 80 red, white, and blue “English-walnut” sized lights onto a Christmas tree to demonstrate the beauty and promise of the company’s new lighting technology. The tree, which was also rigged to rotate at a leisurely 6 turns a minute, was displayed in the front window of his New York City townhouse. By modern standards, the string Johnson created was a dim, power-hungry, and with no fuse, incredibly dangerous. However, it was undeniably safer than the previous tree-illumination tech: candles.

Today, Christmas tree lights are bright, safe, and cheap, though no solution has yet been found for the annual epic light-string knot.

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