Camera follows high school students in 1987 at Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Kansas.
In 1987, a camera followed high school students in Kansas. Gen Xers are eating it up.
“I could almost smell the Salon Selectives hairspray through my screen.”
High school is a defining time for nearly every generation. It’s a snippet of adolescence where memories are made that stay forever.
Attending high school in the 1980s looked a lot different than it does today. From the ’80s fashion trends to feathered perms to the lack of technology then, high schoolers today are having a totally different experience..
Gen Xers have recently rediscovered footage from a Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Kansas, from 1987 and it’s giving them all the nostalgic feels. Current footage from Lawrence High School is showing the major generational differences.
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Chukchi reindeer herders (left) Yellow mittens (right)
Why yellow mittens have been superior for the coldest climates for over 300 years
There’s a reason why the process for making these legendary mittens hasn’t changed for centuries.
By Heather Wake
When it comes to mittens, one color reigns supreme: yellow. If you grew up in snowier regions—like Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Maine, Canada—it was pretty much common knowledge that yellow mittens, otherwise known as “Choppers,” were the champions of winter wear.
But what makes these sunshine-colored accessories superior isn’t really their color. Well, it is. But also it isn’t. Keep reading.
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This is what happens when you turn a personal challenge into a mission. 💪
Post Office Bay in the Galapagos Island is perhaps the world's most unique "post office."
U.K. man got a hand-delivered, mystery postcard from the Galapagos. It has a 233-year-old history behind it.
The Galapagos Islands’ uniquely personal mail tradition dates back to the 18th century.
By Annie Reneau
One day in May of 2026, Peter Clist’s doorbell rang at his home in Petersfield, England. A man Clist had never met handed him a piece of mail and said, “I’ve got a postcard for you.”
Clist only got the man’s first name (Hugh) before he left. The postcard was from the Galapagos Islands, and the writing on it was in Spanish. Though the card bore his address, it didn’t appear to be addressed to him. It appeared to be intended for “Sheila in Mr. Clists’s PM class.”
However, Clist, who teaches morning and afternoon Spanish classes, doesn’t have a student named Sheila in his afternoon class. The mystery of the sender, deliverer, and intended recipient was posted in the local newspaper. Within a week, it was mostly solved. The sender was Sheila, a former student of Clist’s. She had sent it to her former class while visiting the Galapagos.
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Two little kids play in the mud.
Finnish daycares ditched pavement for mud and dirt. A month later, the blood tests stunned scientists.
Finland gave daycare kids forest floor and garden beds to play in instead of pavement.
In Finland, researchers wanted to test a simple idea: what happens to kids’ health if you swap out the pavement, gravel, and plastic in their daycare yards for actual nature?
So, they dug up segments of forest floor and moved them into urban daycare centers. They rolled out grass. They added planter boxes where kids could grow and tend crops, and peat blocks for climbing and digging. Then they waited and ran blood tests.
The results, published in the journal Science Advances and coordinated by the Natural Resources Institute Finland, were striking enough to surprise the scientists themselves.
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