While there is nothing like chicken soup (or whatever your brand of comfort food is) when you’ve got a cold, there are a few digital supplements as well. A funny meme, or a video of, say, a German shepherd interacting with some cute kittens.

The “Hurting Souls” Instagram page isn’t named after what they do, rather, it’s who they help, sharing, among other things, wholesome and adorable posts about animals. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts in the comments down below.

We have all been there. You open your phone to check a quick email and suddenly it is forty minutes later. You are deep in a rabbit hole of videos featuring baby elephants tripping over their own trunks or kittens fighting invisible demons. It feels like a waste of time but you cannot look away. It turns out that this obsession is not just a bad habit. It is actually a biological imperative hardwired into your brain. The reason you lose your mind over a puppy in a teacup is rooted in evolutionary survival.

The scientific term for this phenomenon is Kindchenschema. This concept was introduced by the ethologist Konrad Lorenz in 1943. He noticed that humans have a very specific set of triggers for affection. We love things with large heads relative to their bodies. We love big round eyes that sit low on the face.

We love chubby cheeks and clumsy movements. These traits are typically found in human infants. When we see them our brains flood with chemicals that tell us to protect and nurture the little creature. This ensured our ancestors did not leave their babies in a cave somewhere because they were too loud.

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