Imagine the charm of sifting through bills and junk mail in your mailbox and seeing the quirky script and colors of a handwritten Christmas card—now imagine you’re pulling it out from a box at one of the farthest point on Earth from any human civilization. At the personal request of King Charles III, the Royal […] The post Antarctic Research Station Receives its Mail in a Shiny New Box–a Christmas Gift from King Charles appeared first on Good News Network.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) is one of the most important figures in philosophy because, rather than focusing on reason, he argued that desire is central to human experience. His work is often regarded as primarily pessimistic because he believed that our desires and drives lead to suffering. He was also ahead of his time in focusing on unconscious motives and in incorporating Eastern ideas into his philosophy.Clearly, Schopenhauer was a highly intelligent person who also hung around many similarly gifted people. He had some thoughts on how people can recognize whether someone is highly intelligent. Julian de Medeiros, a TikToker and Substacker who shares his thoughts on philosophy, identified two indicators Schopenhauer considered signs of extreme intelligence.What are the signs that someone is highly intelligent? @julianphilosophy Simple sign of intelligence #intelligent #work #introvert #life #philosophy 1. Intelligent people are socially awkward“[Schopenhauer] basically argued that the more intelligent somebody is the more they struggle with social interactions. Or, as he put it, the more intelligent someone is the more at risk they are of becoming antisocial,” de Medeiros says. “What he meant is that intelligent people like to be alone. They tend to be natural introverts. In fact, they have a small select group of people they trust, and they feel a little bit uncomfortable when surrounded by other people, especially strangers.”2. Intelligent people are sensitive to sounds“He also said, intelligent people are very sensitive to sound. They really like to control their environment,” de Medeiros continues. “So Schopenhauer was basically saying that the more intelligent somebody is, the more they relish their time and space, the more they like to be alone, the more intelligent the person is, the more they like to keep their own company.”Schopenhauer wrote an essay, "On Noise," where he made the connection between sound and intelligence:"Certainly there are people, nay, very many, who will smile at [my predicament], because they are not sensitive to noise; it is precisely these people, however, who are not sensitive to argument, thought, poetry or art, in short, to any kind of intellectual impression: a fact to be assigned to the coarse quality and strong texture of their brain tissues.Was Schopenhauer correct in his assumptions about intelligence?The question remains: was Schopenhauer, a man of the 19th century, right about the two signs that someone is highly intelligent? When it comes to smart people being socially awkward, it’s difficult to say because research shows conflicting findings. Studies show that intelligent people are very good at reading social cues from other people, such as their tone of voice or body language. However, studies also show that highly intelligent individuals often focus on minutiae, which makes it difficult for them to act naturally in social situations. They are also very self-aware, which makes it harder for them to be comfortable in social situations. When it comes to smart people being bothered by sounds, that’s true. A study out of Northwestern University found that real-world creativity, a sign of intelligence, is associated with an inability to filter out irrelevant sensory information. Therefore, they can be easily overwhelmed by background noise.

One of a young person’s greatest fears is becoming their parents. Then, as you get older, take on more responsibility, and start a family, small things begin to happen. You spend Saturday mornings at Home Depot. You start feeling nostalgic for the music and trends of your teens. You realize the importance of cooking at home. It happens to just about everyone.A few years back, a lot of ink was spilled on the generational fights between idealistic, sensitive, and possibly a bit entitled young people and their Baby Boomer parents, who, as stereotypes go, went from being idealistic flower children to selfish, grumpy conservatives in the 2000s. The Baby Boomers blamed the Millennials for being entitled because they all received participation trophies as kids (which their parents gave them). In contrast, the Millennials blamed their parents for creating an untenable future.Gen X was nowhere to be found in the great generational debate.It’s 2025, and Millennials are getting a bit older, with the oldest now hitting 45 and the youngest at 29. Now, with all this experience under their belts, and possibly kids of their own, have they learned to appreciate the life lessons their Boomer parents tried to impart?A Redditor asked the Millennials subforum: “What things were the older generations accidentally right about?” and a lot of Millennials agreed that their parents and grandparents weren’t totally wrong about a lot of the old-school advice they shared when they were growing up.Here are 15 things Millennials say that their Boomer parents were right about.1. Don't waste money eating out"We do, in fact, have that food at home.""Won't stop me from getting takeout on my way home from grocery shopping!"2. Appreciate your youth"Enjoy being young. Stop being in a rush. 'One minute you're 15 and the next minute you're 50.'— My dad all the time when I was young. He was right.""I’ve said it many times, I thought they were exaggerating. Those first 20 years felt like centuries. The second 20 years? 2003 is 20 years ago!! That feels scarily recent. 1983 may as well have been a century ago in 2003. It’s so strange how our brains process time."3. Gardening is rad"Gardening is fun, and the reward of eating tomatoes that I grew is amazing.""Only two things that money can’t buy, that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes."4. Social media"They were right about social media. But then they all joined it anyway and contributed to it becoming lame.""I agree. I noticed a direct correlation between when the boomers started joining Facebook in droves, and when social media suddenly became a festering swamp of fake info and unfunny 'I'm a Taurus born in Alabama who drives a Jeep! Don't Mess With Me!' memes."5. Life is hard"I spent a lot of time with my grandma. Lived with her during college. I came to her on numerous occasions bitching about my troubles, and I remember her saying, on more than one occasion, "Life is hard." I still hear her saying that all the time.""I think a lot of us view the post-war boom as some kind of magical egalitarian utopia, but their lives were so much more uncomfortable and harder on average than ours. My dad told me about being terrified of getting polio as a kid, he and tons of other men in that generation got drafted to Vietnam, some people had stable jobs but god I think I’d be bored to tears putting a bumper on Fords for 30 years. No air conditioning. Much harder to have a niche hobby without the internet. Even just the difference in the variety of entertainment we can consume is massive. I simultaneously understand why a lot of millennials are nihilistic and want more out of life while also seeing how someone who grew up in an objectively harsher world would want to hammer home the “life is hard” message."6. Pain comes out of nowhere"Your body hurts at 30? Wait until 40. Boy, were they right.""At 50, you get all the pains you had at 40, but now add in arthritis."7. The importance of working hard"The importance of a solid work ethic. But... Not the way they meant it. Work ethic for yourself. Stop seeing yourself as an employee and start seeing yourself as a small business owner selling your services to the companies you work for. Know your value and leverage it often. Bust your ass for yourself and yourself alone."8. Don't trust anyone over 30"Baby Boomer Hippies were right to not trust authority or the government.""They became everything they hated. And more."9. Turn off the A/C"I learned the hard way that running air conditioning really is fucking expensive. ONE week of running it at night cause it’s too damn hot to sleep and it increased electricity bill by $50?. So yes dad I will in fact turn off the air conditioning.""And close the door. 'We aren't trying to air condition the whole outdoors.' Same with the fridge lol."10. Things used to be of better quality"Things made in the 'old days' are a lot more durable than the stuff manufactured now. 1950s fridge still runs, yet my 2 year old Samsung fridge crapped out on me."11. Don't let him waste your time"Tbh and this is a gross one and I’m a feminist but damn, marry in your 20s or 30s and don’t wait for the guy to 'be ready' after 5+ years. I thought we were going to be together forever and we were just artists who didn’t believe in marriage. LOL. Dumps me and marries someone and has a kid within a year. Single at 40 after a decade of loyal commitment without marriage = zero assets.""I don't think it's gross. A person who refuses to marry you is often wasting your time."12. Take pride in your work"Taking pride in your work. Even if your job sucks, half-assing it sets the precedent for half-assing everything.""Hard work gets you places, being lazy and complaining does not."13. No one keeps a secret"Mine said if you don’t want someone to know something, don’t talk about it or write about it, and I would add don’t text it either."14. Be careful what you ask of your partner"The biggest one I'm realizing is the lack of the whole soulmate thing. That quest to find the perfect (IE unattainable) person that you do everything with, know everything about, and put before everything else seems to me why so many people are getting divorced or are just single these days. Its too much to ask of another person or of yourself. My grandparents were married for sixty years. They had separate interests, separate groups of friends, and sometimes even took vacations separately from each other. They very much loved each other, but only because they spent an appropriate amount of time with each other, IE, not the whole time. The joke from that generation goes 'How did we stay together so long? We go out every Friday and Saturday. She goes out Friday, I go out Saturday.'"15. Beware of Yancy"In 1955, almost 70 years ago now, Phillip K Dick wrote a story called The Mold of Yancy. In it, a future space colony hires an investigator to figure out why their colony is stagnant. Upon visiting, he discovers a single TV channel available to all citizens. On it, an artificial persona named Yancy delivers advice and opinions on every part of daily living, with a charming Mr. Rogers type of kindness.It's explained that the colony has a secret studio that writes and designs Yancy's content and persona. They always write the most acceptable, status-quo opinions, viewing themselves as simply feeding the colony's values back to itself. But there is never any contradiction. So in the society, anyone who behaves in a way that Yancy has spoken against is shunned and reviled. People measure their own morality and success through the eyes of Yancy.The investigator identifies the issue, that the people have not been exposed to the idea of questioning the message or thinking for themselves. It wasn't that Yancy's positions were particularly terrible, it was that his opinions were the only ones allowed to be expressed. So he worked with the team to introduce a new character who would kindly but clearly disagree with Yancy, and the two characters would respect each other's individuality.Because this was early in his career, the ending is notably much happier than a lot of PKD's work, but it shows a very clear understanding of the danger of propaganda media. While our society today doesn't have a singular Yancy, it's very easy to get sucked into a Yancy's bubble, where you're trained to distrust any amount of contradiction."

Generation Jones, the microgeneration between Baby Boomers and Gen Xers, were born between 1954 and 1964. Christmas in the 1960s and 1970s for Generation Jones was filled with smells, sounds, and treats that made the season bright.From shiny tinsel trees, cardboard fireplaces, and iconic festive TV specials, Christmastime for Generation Jones held a lot of magic. On Reddit, Gen Jonesers got nostalgic about their Christmas stocking stuffers.They reminisced about the now-vintage toys and candies that are no longer found in them. These are the things Generation Jones always got in their stockings every Christmas during the 1960s and 1970s. - YouTube www.youtube.com "Lifesavers Sweet Story Book. If you got one, you know what else you got? Mouth sores from eating too many lifesavers!!! My mom would buy one for me, one for my brother, always in the stocking. First, my dad would demand the butter rum lifesavers, and my brother and I would dutifully have to hand them over. Then, as soon as he could, my brother would take the ones he wanted out of my book (root beer, cherry) and swap them with Peppermint (yuk) and Wintergreen (yum). Then I got smart. I pretended I LOVED peppermint and HATED tangerine and lime and wintergreen. LOL.. from then on would give me those and take my peppermint. He never even ate them, he only took them because he thought I liked them. He never even realized tangerine and lime were my favorites. Lifesavers. Who knew I had such repressed memories and anger!?! lol." - TeachOfTheYear"A mandarin orange, these used to be kinda rare where I grew up." - PsychologicalDance12"Gold foil covered chocolate coins." - stilldeb"Silly Putty, harmonica, those Balsa airplanes with the rubber band powered propeller." - NewHandle3922"We would get the Kellogg's Single Serve Variety Pack in our stocking. For us, it was a huge treat. For my mother, it took up a lot of space in a loooong stocking that she couldn't otherwise figure out how to fill up. LOL." - Holiday_Jello5172"Pencils with my name on them from my Grandma. First grade through high school, every year." - Tomwhyte"I always got the deluxe box of Crayola crayons, the one with the crayon sharpener in the front. Also, lifesavers story book.??" - DogLuvuh1961"My mom used to get me a milk carton of malted milk balls every Christmas." - Theresnowayoutahere @tigerlaflor 60s Christmas Nostagia >>> ???#christmasnostalgic #60schristmas #christmasaesthetic #nostalgiacore #nostalgia "A can of black olives. Seriously. One of those segmented orange flavored chocolate ball things. I kinda miss them both ?" - OT_fiddler"We always received peanuts in our stocking which was weird because I don't remember anyone ever eating them. We'd collect them and put them into a big bowl. I'm not sure what happened after that." - Most_Ad_4362"Apple, orange, and silver dollar in our stockings. Carried on the tradition with my kids when they were younger and at home." - Legitimate_Type_5582"Soap on a rope, usually from Avon." - FaberGrad"We got walnuts, pecans, and Brazil nuts in the toe. Oranges, little candy canes. Lifesaver books, toothbrush and toothpaste. We'd sharpen candy canes to a stiletto and jab each other. I loved chocolate covered cherries and I looked for them this year, diabetes be damned." - No-Witness-5032"When I was little, Mom always gave me a baby doll. She stopped when I was 13 - that year, she gave me a giant 36" Raggedy Ann. I loved her more than any of the baby dolls! Wish I still had her. I usually gave others the Lifesaver books. I was charmed by the packaging. The candy was nice, too! Mom always had a roll of Lifesavers in her purse." - BurnerLibrary @1969baby235 #christmas #christmasspirit #christmaspast #christmasmemories #christmastiktok #christmastree #christmastime #1970s #70s #70saesthetic #nostalgia #70snostalgia #yesterday #timetravel #genxers #genx #generationxcrew #boomers #babyboomers #throughtheyears #goodolddays #backintheday #1960s #doyouremember #memoryunlocked #memorylane #rememberwhen "Hershey's chocolate bar in my stocking. Would sometimes get lifesavers but I hate hard candy so I guess my mother figured that out ?." - User Unknown"Got these, nuts, candy canes, chocolates, different candies, bubble gum, little trinkets and stuffed animals and oranges. Every year but I loved it. However, the oranges were always last thing I ate." - Augi17"Every year since I was about 10: mandarin orange, lottery ticket, socks, bag of Ju-Jubes, toothbrush, toothpaste." - imadork1970"Always sticking out of the top of our stocking with the giant Sugar Daddy behind it." - groovymama98

Kate Winslet has been speaking out about problematic beauty standards since she landed her first major film role in Titanic in 1997 and faced ridiculous criticism for her body size and shape. Now, at age 50, the award-winning actress has a long string of professional successes under her belt and has become an icon of aging for women everywhere. Winslet has long advocated for aging naturally, letting wrinkles happen, and embracing the beauty in older faces and bodies. That was an admirable mindset when she was in her 30s. But I have to say, as a woman who is also 50, living that mindset now feels downright revolutionary. Kate Winslet GIF Giphy It's one thing to advocate for natural aging before you see the signs on your own face. It's another once the wrinkles arrive. Part of what makes Winslet such a solid spokesperson for aging naturally is that she is actually doing it. She's past the first major physical aging burst, which happens in our mid-40s, and we are watching her embrace her changing face in real time. We see lines and wrinkles that weren't there a decade ago and no attempt to hide them. We can actually see that she's a 50-year-old woman, which she says is exactly the point. @evie.magazine Kate Winslet is done pretending aging is something to hide. She wants young women to see something rare in Hollywood: a 50-year-old woman who looks 50. Like and follow Evie for more content that celebrates femininity, truth, and beauty. ?#news #celebrity #celeb #beautystandards #beauty #katewinslet "Looking like a normal person, having a face that moves, having all the wrinkles that my 50 years hopefully show, that matters a great deal because, again, I want to lead by example," she told Evie Magazine. "I want for young women to look at my body, my face, and go 'Oh, that's a normal one,' you know? There might not be that many of us being the normal ones, but it's important and it matters. And I know that the women in my industry that I admire the most of all, they're completely normal, gorgeous, beautiful women at the age of 70, 75, 80, and it's reassuring that we have those people to look up to." Winslet has made no secret of the fact that she thinks women get more beautiful as they get older. “Our faces become more of who we are, they sit better on our bone structure, they have more life, more history,” she told Harper’s Bazaar UK in an interview in 2024. Shifting the way we perceive aging features is everything, and Winslet continues to beat this drum. Aged hands.Canva Photos“My favorite thing is when your hands get old,” she recently told The Sunday Times. “That’s life, in your hands. Some of the most beautiful women I know are over 70, and what upsets me is that young women have no concept of what being beautiful actually is.”She takes a staunch, unapologetic stance against surgery, injections, and drugs that make all women look the same.Thanks in large part to social media, there seems to be a push for women to look like filtered photos in real life. As a result, surgical procedures, Botox and fillers, weight-loss drugs, and other things that have become more and more popular to meet ever-shifting beauty standards. “It is devastating," Winslet told The Sunday Times, referring to women on the red carpet injecting things into their faces and lips, making them all look the same. "If a person’s self-esteem is so bound up in how they look, it’s frightening. And it’s puzzling because I have moments when I think it’s better, when I look at actresses at events dressed how they want, whichever shape — but then so many people are on weight-loss drugs. It’s so varied. Some are making choices to be themselves, others do everything they can to not be themselves. And do they know what they are putting in? The disregard for one’s health is terrifying. It bothers me now more than ever. It is f***ing chaos out there.” — (@) And it's not just in Hollywood. Winslet talked about a young woman she saw on a BBC news article who "looked like a cartoon." “You do not actually know what that person looks like," she said. "From the eyebrows to mouth to lashes to hair, that young woman is scared to be herself. What idea of perfection are people aspiring to? I blame social media and its effect on mental health.”It's not just about embracing aging features. It's about being able to express emotions the way humans do. One of the coolest things about humans is our ability to show emotion through our faces. The subtleties of our facial muscles and movements can tell people if we're pleased or pensive, annoyed or elated, frustrated or flabbergasted. When women fill their faces full of muscle relaxants and things that smooth out all of our lines, we lose some of the expressiveness that makes us human. Too much plastic surgery creates expressionless faces. Photo credit: CanvaIt's understandable to feel reticent about getting older. It's not just about beauty standards or vanity; it can legitimately feel alarming to look in the mirror and be reminded of your physical mortality. And sometimes we just want to look on the outside the way we feel inside, which is often younger than our physical age. But a lot of the filtered-face push is social pressure, and it's become normalized for women to go to extreme measures to "perfect" their appearance. That is, as Winslet says, "terrifying," especially when the end result is a loss of uniqueness, a loss of human expression, and a uniform look that's supposed to be beautiful but just feels fake. Women can and should make their own choices about how to handle their own aging, but seeing Kate Winslet unabashedly embracing her face and body as she ages gives us all some inspiring and refreshing food for thought. Winslet stars in and directed the 2025 film Goodbye June. Watch the trailer here: - YouTube www.youtube.com