Using just a glass of water, a professor teaches a powerful lesson about letting go

[Using just a glass of water, a professor teaches a powerful lesson about letting go]( "How heavy is this glass of water?" That was a simple question posed by a professor to his students. This video initially came out in 2019, but recently was reposted by @thementorhouse on TikTok and has gone viral yet again. The students began to guess. 8 oz? 12? 16? Their answers all received a shake of the professor's head, because the lesson wasn't about physics. It was about stress. With a gentle sincerity, he tells the class, "The absolute weight of the glass doesn't matter. It depends on how long I hold onto it. If I hold it for a minute, nothing happens. If I hold it for an hour, my arm will begin to ache. If I hold it all day long, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. While the weight of the glass hasn't changed, the longer I hold onto it the heavier it becomes." Nods of agreement fill the room, and the professor continues. [Read the Story]( [Here are 17 things people really miss the most about living in the '90s]( The 1990s was a sweet spot in American history. The stifling Cold War with the Soviet Union had just come to the end in 1989 and it would still be 12 years before a new era of fear after the 9/11 attacks. The 1990s was also a time of prosperity that lifted up Americans across the socioeconomic spectrum and an era that saw unprecedented peace in the world. In fact, things were going so well in America that President Clinton managed to have a budget surplus four years in a row. The '90s was also the last gasp of the analog era when people couldn't contact you 24/7 and did things for the pure joy of it instead for the likes and shares. [Read the Story]( [Here’s a personal look at how families and researchers use science to take on rare genetic diseases]( When Kelly Mantoan got the news that her 1-year-old son, Fulton, had spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) – a rare and progressive genetic disease – she was devastated. More difficult news came just a few months later when she gave birth to her newborn son, Teddy, at 32 weeks. As she sat with him in the neonatal intensive care unit shortly after his birth, doctors confirmed that Teddy had tested positive for SMA as well. "I was sobbing uncontrollably," Kelly remembers. "[My husband and I] hadn't even fully come to terms with Fulton's diagnosis, and now we have two kids with it." [Read the story]( [Man's festive cover of Radiohead's 'Creep' is great, but not what anyone expected]( A member of the Sydney, Australia band Rhysics has pulled the ultimate "Mariah-roll" by singing Carey's 1994 Christmas megahit "All I Want for Christmas Is You" over Radiohead's 1994 self-loathing anthem, "Creep." On Monday, musician Jordan Siwek posted a TikTok video of him playing an instrumental version of "Creep" on the piano and invited people to sing it with him on the app. "Creep! Duet with Me!" he wrote. The member of the Rhysics responded by posting a video that began with the ultimate misdirection. He says that every guy in their 20s and 30s knows "all the words by heart" to the song and then instead of singing "Creep" belts out "All I Want for Christmas Is You." [Read the Story]( [Mom shares how her prodigious 11-year-old hacked the school's internet and people are howling]( For the past two years, schools have relied on the internet to conduct at-home school, either exclusively or in a hybrid format. Though we're fortunate to live in a time when online learning is actually an option, it's not been amazing for many as Zoom fatigue, home fatigue and general pandemic fatigue set in. Most kids can't do anything about that, but an 11-year-old named Elijah took matters into his own hands when he'd had enough of the COVID-19 life. And hoo boy, did it get him into serious hot water. Elijah's mother, Victoria (@victoriaprettymuch) shared the story on TikTok in a video that's been viewed more than 2 million times. "If anyone wants a child who's 11, come get him," she wrote, then calmly described how she'd been holding the story in for seven months while everything got worked out. [Read the Story]( Find us on the World Wide Web: [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Website]( Copyright © 2021 GOOD | Upworthy, All rights reserved. 1370 N St Andrews Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90028 You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.