A Simon Fraser University study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin finds that single people who view their singlehood as an opportunity for growth — trying new things, traveling solo, pursuing hobbies — report higher life satisfaction, less fear of being single, and stronger feelings of autonomy than those who see it as a waiting room. Also: MapQuest announced it would not rename Lake Ontario to \"Lake America\" on its maps, usage jumped 50 times its normal rate, it became the number one navigation app in the US App Store for the first time in its 30-year history, and hundreds of thousands of new users downloaded an app they assumed had ceased to exist. And \"pheromone-maxxing\" is a TikTok trend where Gen Z men skip showers before dates believing their natural scent will make them biologically irresistible. Scientists note that human pheromones have not been definitively proven to exist. Women have largely confirmed they are not finding this irresistible. Plus a $30 Walmart manhunt, the John Wayne Gacy brain jar stalker, rabid baby goats, and the disappearing Canadian island.
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