🍬 Your neighbors might be giving out free psychotherapist-approved anxiety reducers

They come in vibrant colors and are vaguely shaped like… kids?*

Halloween’s almost here, and if your kids are coming home with pillowcases full of loot, they might also be unknowingly bringing you a psychotherapist-approved fix for anxiety. And no, this isn’t one of those stories about drugs hidden in Halloween candy, promise.

According to therapist Ciara Bogdanovic, sour candy is a legit grounding tool. The intense taste pulls you out of anxious spirals and slams your senses back into the now. It’s not magic, it’s mindfulness in a mouthful. One sour punch at a time.

This article by Erik Barnes has the science behind the sour, as well as other tricks to get your heart rate back under control after your neighbor leaps from behind a tree with a scythe! What is with you and Halloween, Bruce?

* - Seriously, what are Sour Patch Kids? They look like squished gummy bears, but they’re called kids… I don’t get it.

And what did we learn?

We learned yesterday that the FDA has greenlit eyedrops that could fix issues with near vision. Sounds good to me! I personally can’t get my head around the idea of putting contacts in my eyes, and more than 45% of GOOD readers agree, glasses are the way to go.

34% would take a laser to the peepers for some clarity, and the fact that that is a real option warms my sci-fi-loving heart.

• Uncorrected 20/20 for the win. Hashtag blessed. (7.5%)

• Putting things IN my eyes? No thanks. Glasses forever. (45.3%)

• Contacts all day, and sometimes overnight if I forget them. (13.2%)

• Lasers? Blast away, doc. I crave clarity. (34.0%)

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🧠 11 life hacks for people who don’t have time for 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.

🎃 “The Simpsons” at its creepiest: 6 episodes that haunt superfans

Cannibal cafeteria lunches. Evil attic twins. Bart’s missing soul. These aren’t your average Springfield shenanigans.

You know it’s Halloween when The Simpsons unleashes its annual Treehouse of Horror, an anarchic, animated playground where the writers get weird, dark, and wildly inventive. For over 35 years, these Halloween specials have carved out their own twisted legacy, and fans still debate which ones genuinely got under their skin.

Ryan Reed rounded up the top six segments that still haunt Simpsons purists. The picks range from unsettling parodies of Nightmare on Elm Street and Twilight Zone to an eerily prescient Y2K panic meltdown. Oh, and one entry isn't even from a Treehouse episode... but it's existentially terrifying enough to make the list.

Here’s what made the cut and why some fans still shudder thinking about a gremlin holding Ned Flanders’ head.

The Statue of Liberty, or as she’s more properly known, “Liberty Enlightening the World,” is one of those things that seems ancient. But she was only dedicated 139 years ago, on Thursday, October 28, 1886. The Wright brothers, who would pioneer heavier-than-air human flight, were already teens when it was unveiled. When the statue debuted, her skin was brightly coppered, some describing her as hard to look at. Over time, Liberty has developed the rich green patina we see today. Though the shine seems to have come off of Liberty recently, the idea of her still gleams brightly, even all these years later.

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