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self, checkout, psychology, shoppers, grocery
Pop Culture

Why some shoppers avoid self-checkout (even when it’s faster), according to psychologists

Science says these people are smarter than you think.

Kat Hong & Upworthy Staff –
Sketches from an 1893 magazine predicting what clothes would be like in the 1980s
Culture

In 1893, a popular magazine predicted how fashion would change over the next 100 years. It is wild.

The Champs, Tequila, pop music
Pop Culture

The wildly unlikely tale of how the impromptu, hastily recorded ‘Tequila’ became a smash hit

wedding, wedding dress, thrifting, thrift finds, under five dollars
Pop Culture

She bought the perfect wedding dress that went viral on TikTok, for $3.75

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grandma showers, grandparents, parenting, family, boomers, kids, babies,
Family

Trendy ‘grandma showers’ get a lot of flack online, but when can they be a good thing?

Heather Wake – 9/30/2025
all-american rejects, punk rock, pop punk, millennials, music, tiktok, gen z, concerts, live music, ticketmaster
Music

Legendary 2000s pop punk band fights the ticket monopoly with throwback ‘house party’ tour

Evan Porter – 5/27/2025
pixel street art of Indiana Jones, Superman, and Jaws
Internet

Artist makes everyday spaces magical by cleverly adding pixelated, old-school pop-culture icons

Tod Perry & Upworthy Staff – 2/5/2025
gen z slang, millennial slang, generational humor, high school, teachers
Humor

High school teacher gives his students a pop quiz on 90s slang words and it was ‘on fleek’

Heather Wake – 3/6/2025
brian may, neil degrasse tyson, queen, 39, 70s music
Pop Culture

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why a Queen song by Brian May is one that scientists love

Tod Perry – 8/12/2026
bidet, france, world war 2, us soldiers, taoilet paper
Culture

Why a common World War II experience made Americans choose toilet paper over bidets

Tod Perry & Upworthy Staff – 8/12/2026
new york, new york living, NYC, tiny apartment, micro apartment, apartment tour, budgeting, gen z, millennials, american dream
Pop Culture

Woman gives tour of her $650 New York micro apartment and people were unprepared

Evan Porter & Upworthy Staff – 8/12/2026
bluegrass, bluegrass in japan, japan
Culture

Travel blogger stumbles upon Japanese bluegrass band in Tokyo, and they blow the roof off

Heather Wake – 8/12/2026
johnny carson, david tolley, tonight show '80s tv, classic tv moments
Pop Culture

In 1985, after a pianist canceled, Johnny Carson asked an audience member to play. He was magical. 

Tod Perry – 8/12/2026

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