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Photo credit: Kulturisten Hoch Zwei – Kulturisten Hoch Zwei provides the link between seniors and high school students.

Culture, Joy, Popular

Why intergenerational ‘culture buddies’ could be the antidote to loneliness everywhere

Kat Hong

1/29/2026
Homeowners celebrate the completion of their new home in Cambodia's Siem Reap Province alongside Habitat for Humanity volunteers and staff.

In Partnership With Habitat For Humanity →

Culture, Family

A safe, stable home can change lives for the better. Here’s how Habitat for Humanity wants to make that possible for everyone.

Sarah Watts

3/25/2026
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Internet, Pop Culture

Why the German practice of ‘house burping’ is taking over as the ultimate fresh home hack

Heather Wake

1/25/2026
Photo credit: Canva – A German man explains why smiling at strangers in public is weird in Germany

Education, Learning, Popular

German man picks apart the American habit of smiling at strangers in the most German way

Jacalyn Wetzel

1/14/2026
Photo credit: Canva – The most absurd (and sweet) thing you'll see on the Internet today.

Community, Joy

Germany’s bizarre ‘pudding with a fork’ trend is bringing strangers closer together

Heather Wake

10/31/2025
Photo credit: Canva Photos – People who live nowhere near Mississippi have their own unique ways of counting seconds.

Culture, Joy

Non-Americans reveal the fascinating ways they count ‘One Mississippi’ in their country

Evan Porter

8/5/2025
Photo credit: Image via YouTube – Neo-Nazis marching in a parade

Humor, Joy, Popular

Neo-Nazis slowly realize this small town brilliantly pranked them for a great charity

Upworthy Staff

8/4/2025
Photo credit: via Canva/Photos – A train conductor, a bidet, and fries with gravy.

Democracy, Politics, Popular

Americans share 15 of the coolest things they’ve seen overseas that they want here. Like, now.

Tod Perry

7/26/2025
Photo credit: J.R.R. Tolkien by Public Domain/ Wikimedia Commons Joseph Goebbels by Vitold Muratov/Wikimedia Commons – J.R.R. Tolkien didn't mince words when asked his opinion on Nazis

Culture, Heroes, Joy, Pop Culture, Popular

Nazis demanded to know if ‘The Hobbit’ author J.R.R. Tolkien was Jewish. His response was legendary.

Tod Perry

7/20/2025
Photo credit: Julio Toro/Youtube – The planet—and the people in it—are endlessly fascinating.

Culture, Joy

Non-Americans share completely normal things in their country that would ‘shock’ Americans

Heather Wake

7/2/2025
Photo credit: Canva (left), Unknown/Wikimedia Commons (right) – Holocaust memorial in Budapest, Hungary (left), Dietrich Bonhoeffer with religious students in 1932 (right)

Education, History (Education)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupidity is more dangerous than evil. He was right.

Annie Reneau

6/15/2025
Democracy, Uncategorized

A mysterious note found inside a violin constructed in Dachau has been found 80 years later

Cecily Knobler

5/1/2025
Photo credit: Canva – Stoßlüften is the German tradition of replacing the air in the home several times a day.

Community, Joy, Popular

Germans demonstrate how windows, of all things, separate European life from American life

Annie Reneau

4/10/2025
Photo credit: via Polizei Sachsen/Twitter – German police at a white supremacist music festival.

Community, Joy, Popular

Germans bought an entire town’s beer supply before a white supremacist music festival

Mark Shrayber

4/10/2025
Photo credit: Image via Wikicommons – Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music

Culture, Movies, Pop Culture, Popular

Julie Andrews said she literally could “feel the evil” when visiting the Von Trapp house

Heidi Lux

3/29/2025
Photo credit: Image from YouTube video. – Neo-Nazis parade.

Heroes, Joy, Popular

Neo-Nazis slowly realize this small town totally punked them

Upworthy Staff

1/19/2025