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Author: Theodore Lee

Theodore Lee is the editor of Caveman Circus. He strives for self-improvement in all areas of his life, except his candy consumption, where he remains a champion gummy worm enthusiast. When not writing about mindfulness or living in integrity,  you can find him hiding giant bags of sour patch kids under the bed.
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The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate – Archive.ph

Pictures and Videos of the Day – Ned Hardy

This is a great gift for kids because it lets kids enjoy stories and music independently without screentime – Amazon

Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, pursues manufacturer buyout – CNBC

Rob Reiner and His Wife Michele Were Killed by Their Son – People

The Best TV Shows of 2025 – The Ringer

26 Celebrities Photoshopped With Their Younger Selves – Ned Hardy

Really nifty device to help you get every last dollop of toothpaste out – Amazon

All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It’s So Much Older Than We Thought. – Popular Mechanics

OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself – Ars Technica

The Worst Food and Dining Trends of 2025 – Eater

The Best Movies of the Year, According to 148 Critics – IndieWire

These Moms Are Done Being ‘Doormats’ for Their Estranged Children – WSJ

How to Spot a Browser-in-the-Browser Phishing Attack – Lifehacker

10 Everyday Human Behaviors That Are Actually Survival Instincts – Listverse

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This Is What a Hero Looks Like

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This is what a hero looks like.

Not someone trained for it. Not someone looking for it. Just a man who saw blood on the street, women and children lying there, and made a decision before fear had time to speak.

He didn’t pause to calculate the risk. He didn’t wait for instructions or protection. He saw people being hunted and understood, instinctively, that doing nothing would mean more death. So he ran toward the gunman, wrestled the weapon away, and forced the attacker to retreat.

He wasn’t acting for recognition or praise. He acted because something inside him refused to accept what was happening. The most basic moral instinct took over: this is wrong, and I have to stop it.

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Advice Column

“I (28M) support my mom (64F) alone, and I feel trapped and resentful.”

Five years ago, I moved back home from college because of COVID. My mom was working and supporting us while I finished my Master’s. After nine months, I found a remote internship and started helping with bills. A few months later, I landed a full-time job and became the main provider.

Around that time, my mom quit—or was fired from—her cleaning job. The work environment was miserable, and after unemployment she stopped looking for work and moved into early retirement. Her pension is very small, not enough to live on, so since then I’ve been paying for almost everything.

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Life Advice

The Cruelty of Stringing Someone Along

Picture someone spending years of their life waiting for a proposal that’s never going to come. Their heart hanging on every “maybe someday” and “we’ll see.” That’s not love – that’s emotional manipulation, plain and simple.

When someone dangles marriage like a carrot on a stick, they’re not just playing with emotions – they’re hijacking someone’s entire life story. They’re asking their partner to put their dreams, their plans, their future on hold for… what? A hollow promise?

Read the rest: The Cruelty of Stringing Someone Along
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19 Fascinating Photos Collected From History – Ned Hardy

A smart switch is a better option for home automation because it lets you control any bulb from a single device and avoids the need to buy and manage multiple individual smart bulbs. – Amazon

This Hybrid Turbo-4 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser Racked Up 110,000 Miles in a Year. Here’s How It Held Up – The Drive

Crypto founder Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years in prison over $40 billion collapse – NBC News

Sharon Osbourne Says Ozzy Osbourne ‘Was Ready’ to Die as She Reveals Her Late Husband’s Final Words: ‘Hug Me Tight’ – People

Tech’s biggest winners of 2025 – Engadget

25 Memes That Won The Internet This Week – Ned Hardy

This is a great gift for kids because it’s a kid-friendly audio player that plays stories, music, and educational content without screens, making it fun, safe, and easy for children to use independently. – Amazon

The 24 Hours That Plunged Michigan Football Into Chaos – WSJ

The Best TV Episodes of 2025 – IndieWire

Here are 9 ‘hard truths’ parents need to hear – CNBC

Arkansas becoming 1st state to sever ties with PBS, effective July 1 – AP News

Here are five joyful things that are brightening up our internet this week – Upworthy

Wow an all time low for HowToGeek – How-To Geek

Spielberg Poster Teases Mysterious New UFO Movie: “All Will Be Disclosed” – World of Reel

Life Experiences

Confession of a Former Nun

I walked into the convent thinking I was walking into a life that would sand down everything noisy in me until only God was left.

I was twenty when the idea stopped being a pious daydream and started feeling like gravity. I didn’t have some dramatic “light-through-the-clouds” moment. It was quieter than that—an increasing certainty that my life wasn’t meant to be arranged around romance, plans, or the normal landmarks other people measured adulthood by. I’d barely dated. I was insecure in that specific way young women can be insecure—like you’re always one wrong facial expression away from being judged and discarded. Religious life felt like an answer to that fear. Not an escape hatch from the world, exactly, but a doorway into a different kind of world where the rules were clear: pray, serve, obey, belong.

Read the rest: Confession of a Former Nun
Advice Column

“I found out about wife’s second phone.”

I’m a 40M and recently discovered that my wife (33F) has a second phone. We’ve been together for seven years and married for three.

This started about two years ago, when she began acting distant. She was always keeping her phone close, smiling at it, and guarding it. It felt like classic emotional-affair behavior. I confronted her back then, and we agreed to try to work through it.

Since then, I’ve caught her doing this five more times. Before anyone says it, yes, I know staying makes me look foolish. From what I can tell, these interactions have all been online and not in person, which still matters to me.

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