Julie Majid, Author at petsnpals.co

How Millennials Are Quietly Changing What America Eats Every Day

January 12, 2026 by Julie Majid

The grocery cart is shifting under your feet.

©Image PetsnPals/ChatGPT, Couple eating dinner at a restaurant

On weeknights in Phoenix, Cleveland, and Raleigh, dinner is increasingly built from shortcuts, swaps, and small experiments. Millennials are not staging a loud rebellion against old American food habits, they are simply buying differently, cooking differently, and ordering differently. Cost pressures, health goals, and convenience tech are steering choices in real time. The result is a slow nationwide rewrite of what feels normal to eat, and where it comes from.

Archaeologists Discover a Royal Maya Tomb That Rewrites Caracol’s Origins

January 12, 2026 by Julie Majid

The jungle just handed Caracol a new beginning.

In July 2025, a long running excavation at Caracol in western Belize surfaced something archaeologists rarely get, a royal tomb tied to a named founder. Caracol has always been big, complicated, and politically loud in Maya history, but its earliest chapters were hazier than its later wars and monuments. Now a burial tucked inside an elite complex is forcing scholars to rethink when Caracol became a kingdom, and how early its rulers were already plugged into the wider Mesoamerican world.

An Astronaut’s Illness Has NASA Reconsidering an Emergency Return to Earth

January 12, 2026 by Julie Majid

A routine mission just became a medical test.

On January 7, 2026, NASA said a crew member aboard the International Space Station experienced a medical situation and was later described as stable. Within hours, the agency began weighing an early return that would cut a months long mission short, a rare move in the station’s quarter century history. The details are limited for privacy, but the ripple effects are loud. A single health concern is now shaping scheduling, spacewalk plans, and the way NASA thinks about risk when Earth is only a capsule ride away.

What We Thought About Pain in the Brain May Be Wrong

January 12, 2026 by Julie Majid

New research keeps rearranging the pain map.

In 2024 and 2025, pain researchers kept running into an uncomfortable pattern. The brain areas we once treated like a pain switchboard do not behave like a single system with a single dial. Some signals track tissue damage. Others track attention, fear, meaning, and prediction. That is why two people with similar injuries can feel wildly different pain, and why chronic pain can persist after healing. The story is shifting from where pain is to how pain is made.

People Who Delay Their Responses Often Share This Trait

January 9, 2026 by Julie Majid

Their pause is usually a personality clue.

If someone takes a beat before replying, it is tempting to assume they are uninterested, rude, or secretly angry. In real life, delays are often more about how a person thinks than how they feel. Across texts, emails, and even face to face conversations, many slow responders share a similar habit. They are deliberate. They prefer to weigh wording, predict outcomes, and avoid messy misunderstandings. That single trait can look like distance, but it often shows up as care, caution, and control.