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8 Habits Of Women Who Grew Up Always Having To Be Good And Polite

8 Habits Of Women Who Grew Up Always Having To Be Good And Polite

Published by Jenni Sidey

For many women, being polite and good weren’t just personality traits they picked up as kids. It was an expectation that shaped how they spoke and behaved, and these tendencies likely followed them into adulthood. Whether these women grew up in cultural environments that stressed these behaviors or they were quietly taught by mothers raised in a similar way, these habits are extremely apparent in their everyday lives, but only if you know what to look for. Women who grew up having to be good and polite often have 8 specific habits that make them easy to spot: 1. They apologize for everything fizkes | Shutterstock A woman who grew up feeling like she always needs to be polite will say sorry constantly. Whether she’s asking a question, sharing her opinion, looking for help, or even expressing an emotion, she apologizes for anything that draws attention to herself. In her experience, causing inconvenience was discouraged. She was only rewarded when she was agreeable and easy to deal with, so she tends to feel guilty about …

An Unusual Story of Everything Review from the UK

An Unusual Story of Everything Review from the UK

Published by Jenni Sidey

This article by David Klinghoffer is republished from Science and Culture Today. The Story of Everything is available now on Amazon Prime in the U.S., UK, Canada, Mexico, and Spain, with more countries to come. The Telegraph in Britain picked up on the Amazon release with an unusual and thoughtful review by senior features writer Peter Stanford, who is former editor of the Catholic Herald. He seems excited about the documentary almost despite himself. He begins: There is increasing evidence — a mix of anecdote and data — that what once seemed like the inevitable decline of religion in secularised Western society has recently been, if not quite reversed, then at least paused. Something in these anxious, divided times in which we live seems to be stirring. There are reports of rising numbers of young people going to church. Prominent scientists, for so long the prophets of a godless future, are coming out as Christians (including the widely admired psychiatrist Dr Iain McGilchrist). Pope Leo’s anti-AI stance has struck a chord with a generation not usually prone to listening attentively to papal pronouncements. Set against …

Apes and humans share an ancient laughter rhythm dating back 15 million years

Apes and humans share an ancient laughter rhythm dating back 15 million years

Published by Jenni Sidey

A laugh can feel spontaneous, messy, almost impossible to pin down. But deep inside that burst of sound, researchers found a timing pattern so stable that it may have survived for 15 million years, long before humans began to speak. That pattern appears across all living great apes, according to a study in Communications Biology led by researchers at the University of Warwick. By comparing laughter from orangutans, gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees, and humans, the team found that each species produces laughter with evenly spaced intervals between successive sounds. The finding points to a striking possibility. A basic rhythmic structure in laughter may already have been present in the common ancestor shared by all great apes, then preserved across millions of years of evolution even as species moved in different directions. “How did humans evolve the remarkable ability to speak?” said Dr. Chiara De Gregorio, an honorary research associate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick. “Speech leaves no fossils, and complex language exists only in our own species. But we’ve found a …

Thunderstorms disrupt Gatwick and Heathrow as hundreds of flights delayed or cancelled | Air transport

Thunderstorms disrupt Gatwick and Heathrow as hundreds of flights delayed or cancelled | Air transport

Published by Jenni Sidey

Thunderstorms have caused severe delays to hundreds of flights at Heathrow and Gatwick airports, leaving passengers stuck on grounded planes for hours in the scorching heat. Overnight, downpours and thunderstorms lit up the skies of London after back-to-back days of 30C-plus weather as the UK and much of Europe experienced a record-breaking heatwave. The stormy weather delayed more than 600 flights due to land or depart from Heathrow and Gatwick, some for more than six hours, while dozens more have been cancelled. One flight from Gatwick to Antalya scheduled to land in Turkey at 11:50am is now due in at 6pm. The UK’s air traffic control service, Nats, said disruption was “expected to continue through the rest of the day” due to “forecasted severe weather across the south-east of England”. Some travellers expressed their frustration on social media. One said they had been stuck on a grounded British Airways plane at Heathrow from 7am until noon. Another person said their daughter has been sat on an easyJet plane at Gatwick for four hours. According to …

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 1

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 1

Published by Jenni Sidey

The First of the Worst December 2025 was the ten-year anniversary of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Then, in January of 2026, Kathleen Kennedy stepped down from Lucasfilm, and, over the Memorial Day weekend of 2026, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu had the worst opening of a Star Wars film to date. I had debated about starting this review series either during the ten-year anniversary of Star Wars: The Force Awakens or during the ten-year anniversary of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but given Kathleen Kennedy has moved on to other things and the most recent film’s failure, I judged that now was a good time to start. Disney officially bought Lucasfilm December 2012, but I didn’t get wind of the news until Disney began advertising The Force Awakens in 2014. I remember thinking, “They’re going to kill my favorite characters and replace them with teeny boppers.” Little did I know how right I was. When evaluating the quality of a film, I try to look at two things. The first is immersion—the suspension of disbelief—how well does the movie hold my attention …

3 Zodiac Signs Have Really Good Luck When The Moon Is In Sagittarius On June 28, 2026

3 Zodiac Signs Have Really Good Luck When The Moon Is In Sagittarius On June 28, 2026

Published by Jenni Sidey

On June 28, 2026, three zodiac signs are experiencing really good luck. During the Waxing Gibbous Moon in Sagittarius, good fortune is heading our way, and we know exactly what to do with it. These astrological signs feel a rush of enthusiasm on Sunday that translates into a positive attitude. Doors open during this lunation, and we intend to make the most of these opportunities. We feel more confident in our abilities on Sunday, which gives us the nerve to pursue what we want without hesitation or self-doubt. Today, good luck shows up as self-belief, along with the support of others. 1. Gemini Design: YourTango The Waxing Gibbous Moon in Sagittarius on June 28 puts you in the right place at the right time, Gemini. That might look like you and a friend having a conversation that totally blows your mind. It could also be a random meeting with a stranger or even a comment you see on social media.  No matter how it arrives, this one little burst of inspiration turns into a creative …

EU Joins US-Led Pax Silica Alliance To Secure AI Supply Chains

EU Joins US-Led Pax Silica Alliance To Secure AI Supply Chains

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by James Xu via The Epoch Times, The European Commission, Germany, Greece, and the Netherlands have joined the U.S.-led Pax Silica partnership, expanding a group focused on securing supply chains for artificial intelligence and other critical technologies. Semiconductor chips on a circuit board of a computer on Feb. 25, 2022. Florence Lo/Illustration/Reuters The announcement came at a summit in Washington on June 23 hosted by the U.S. State Department. The partnership aims to strengthen cooperation on semiconductors, critical minerals, energy, and advanced manufacturing. U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg welcomed the new members. “The European Union does not join Pax Silica as one more name on a list. It arrives as what it is: the largest single market on Earth,” he said. Helberg highlighted Germany’s industrial base, Greece’s shipping industry and strategic location, and the Netherlands’ longstanding role in semiconductor equipment, where it has long been a key partner. According to the U.S. State Department, members signed a declaration committing to “mutual prosperity, technological progress, and economic security.” The agreement …

Time may be an illusion derived from quantum entanglement

Time may be an illusion derived from quantum entanglement

Published by Jenni Sidey

Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker in and out, but time keeps moving. That assumption sits so deep in modern science that it often passes without notice. Now a new theoretical study argues that time may not exist in the way physicists have long treated it. Instead, the work suggests time could emerge from quantum entanglement, the strange connection that links separate systems at the microscopic level. In this view, time is not a universal stage on which events unfold. It appears only when one quantum system is used to track another. The paper, published in Physical Review A, revisits the Page and Wootters mechanism, a proposal first introduced in 1983. The idea has hovered for decades at the edges of debates over quantum gravity and the foundations of physics. By building an explicit model, the authors argue that the mechanism can recover both ordinary quantum motion and, in the right limit, the familiar time of classical physics. That matters because physics still …

Zelensky Telegraphs 40-Day Pressure Offensive On Russia, Fueling Fears Of Slide Toward WW3

Zelensky Telegraphs 40-Day Pressure Offensive On Russia, Fueling Fears Of Slide Toward WW3

Published by Jenni Sidey

The Ukraine war is quite obviously escalating, especially regarding Ukrainian leaders seeking to “bring the war” to Russian soil, amid nightly drone attacks which have come in the hundreds and even thousands of late. President Volodymyr Zelensky is seeking to seize on the momentum of repeat drone hits on Russian refinery and energy infrastructure – a reality Russia has suffered over many months, leading to a current fuel crisis spanning dozens of cities and regions, and especially Crimea, which has temporarily halted fuel sales to common citizens altogether this week. Ukrainian media is touting a new Zelensky plan to ramp up the pressure on Russia over the next 40 days, aimed at “pressuring Russia to end its war”. Ukrainian Presidential Office He has ordered Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) to launch a new 40-day operation, which also includes “plan for long-range sanctions, medium-range sanctions, and the results achieved by the SBU,” Zelensky said on X. He’s further calling it an “influence operation.” “For several months in a row, the SBU has demonstrated the highest performance …

When Extremists Run The Government

When Extremists Run The Government

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Two can certainly play the “extremist” game… Politicians, government bureaucrats, central bankers, spy agencies, and mainstream news outlets lie to us every day.   For some people, the previous sentence is patently obvious.  For others, that sentence represents “fringe” thinking.  For certain law enforcement agencies in North America and Europe, that sentence reveals potentially dangerous “extremism.” “Extremism” is such a morally squishy word.  It means nothing.  It suggests that the average beliefs of the average person in the average part of an average town are, on average, correct.  Should a person’s beliefs move too far away from the “average,” then that person will eventually fall into the “extremist” abyss.  Of course, the average person long believed that the sun and planets revolved around the Earth.  The average person long believed that bloodletting cured disease. The average person long believed in magic.  Relativity, microbiology, atomic physics, and quantum mechanics belonged to the “extremists.” Defining “extremism” depends upon which populations are included when calculating an “average.”  To the average American, Islamic terrorism is religious extremism.  To the average jihadi in the Middle East, …