Julie Majid, Author at petsnpals.co

If Your Pet Sleeps in Your Bed, You Most Likely Have These 8 Traits

December 31, 2025 by Julie Majid

Science links sleep habits to emotional wiring.

Sharing a bed with a pet often starts as a small exception and quietly becomes routine. Over time, that choice reflects how someone handles closeness, stress, and comfort when defenses are lowest. Sleep is one of the most neurologically vulnerable states humans enter each day. Who we allow into that space reveals patterns in attachment, regulation, and empathy that show up elsewhere in life. Research in psychology and neuroscience suggests that people who sleep beside their pets tend to cluster around specific emotional and behavioral traits shaped by both biology and experience.

New Evidence Reveals a Forgotten City Larger Than London Once Thrived Near the Mississippi River

December 30, 2025 by Julie Majid

The lost metropolis that reshaped North America’s past.

©Image license via PetsnPals/ChatGPT, representation of Cahokia

For centuries, fields across the American Bottom hid a metropolis. Near today’s Collinsville, Illinois, earthen mounds once anchored Cahokia, the largest city north of Mesoamerica. At its height around 1050 CE, tens of thousands lived along the Mississippi’s floodplain, trading copper, shell, and ideas. New analyses sharpen dates, scale, and organization, revealing a planned urban center that rivaled medieval capitals while leaving no written record behind. Archaeology now reconstructs daily life, governance, and environmental pressures with surprising clarity today still.

Why Some Dogs Recognize Illness in Humans Before Symptoms Appear

December 30, 2025 by Julie Majid

Their senses register biological shifts long before pain.

Some dogs behave differently before illness becomes obvious. They hover, watch closely, or refuse to leave one person alone. These changes can appear days or even weeks before symptoms. The reason is not instinct or emotional projection. Dogs track scent, motion, breathing, and routine with precision humans cannot match. When internal chemistry shifts, dogs notice immediately. Medicine usually detects illness once disruption becomes measurable. Dogs sense it while the change is still quiet, unfolding beneath awareness.

A Long Lost Temple of Apollo Emerges From the Ruins of Ancient Crete

December 30, 2025 by Julie Majid

Excavation clues finally align into a forgotten sanctuary.

©Image license via Wikimedia Commons/George E. Koronaios

For decades, scholars suspected that something significant lay buried beneath the rocky hills of western Crete, but evidence remained scattered and inconclusive. Recent excavations near the ancient city of Aptera changed that abruptly. Stone alignments, inscriptions, and ritual debris began forming a coherent pattern tied to Apollo, one of the most influential gods in the Greek world. The discovery does not just reveal a building. It restores a missing chapter of Cretan religious life during the Hellenistic and Roman eras, when faith, politics, and geography were tightly bound.

10 Hobbies Simple Minds Can’t Get Enough Of That Bore Analytical Thinkers

December 30, 2025 by Julie Majid

When Comfort Becomes Routine, Curiosity Starts to Fade.

Some hobbies feel like soft chairs for the brain. They offer familiarity, repetition, and low resistance, which can be deeply comforting for many people. For analytical thinkers, that same softness can feel like quicksand. Minds trained to question patterns, chase novelty, and test ideas tend to disengage when nothing evolves. This divide is not about taste or superiority. It is about cognitive hunger. When stimulation never deepens or compounds, curiosity starves. The activities below thrive on predictability, which is precisely why they lose analytical thinkers so quickly.