There is something satisfying about being wrong for the right reasons. Emily Shiffer has a psychologist-backed look at private people that cuts against easy assumptions, then we get a dog intelligence study that may start arguments and side-by-side photos of centenarians meeting their younger selves. Thursday’s theme: look again.
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Psychologists explain 7 personality traits of people who prefer not to share their private lives online | ||
People who value privacy are built different. | ||
By Emily Shiffer | ||
There are two camps of people when it comes to social media use: those who love to post, and those who prefer to scroll. The choice to post is a personal one. | ||
Some people post every day, some post seasonally, and others haven’t posted in years. People who prefer to keep their private lives off of social media often have clear reasons. | ||
“It should not be assumed that a person who does not want to share their life publicly has a problem. In fact, some people find it quite refreshing to know that it is okay to prefer privacy in a social landscape that has become highly visible and at times intrusive,” Hannah Jones, PsyD, a psychologist with Prosper Health, told Upworthy. | ||
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Clara knows what it’s like to grow up inside a hospital. Now, she’s helping other kids find comfort.
After years of treatment for scoliosis at Shriners Children’s™, Clara is using her experience to help make the hospital a little more comforting for other children.
In the hallways of Shriners Children’s™, you can usually hear Clara before you see her. When she’s not singing songs from her favorite musical The Greatest Showman, she’s making up her own tunes to put her feelings into words, something she’s done since the age of three.
So many gems!!!
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The Belgian Malinois took the top spot in canine cognition tests. | ||
Study reveals which dog breed is the smartest, and it’s not what you might expect | ||
Sorry, border collies. It’s not you. | ||
By Annie Reneau | ||
If you Google “smartest dog breeds,” most lists that pop up put Border Collies in the No. 1 spot, followed in some order by Poodles, German Shepherds, and Golden Retrievers. But a 2023 study of canine cognition from the University of Helsinki puts a whole different breed at the top of the ladder, one that most of us have probably seen before but haven’t heard the name of: the Belgian Malinois. | ||
Best known as a police or security dog, the Belgian Malinois is a shepherd breed that looks very similar to a German Shepherd. Both breeds are of similar height and coloring, but the Malinois is lighter weight and its ears are more triangular-shaped, according to the American Kennel Club. | ||
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An Upworthiest Quiz
Michael Nesmith’s mother invented a household-name product and later sold the company for nearly $50 million. What was it?
Yesterday's Results
In yesterday's issue, we shared the story of the woman who wrote “Killing Me Softly” on a napkin and waited decades for proper credit.
And we asked: What is a “mondegreen”? 63.7% of you knew it means a misheard song lyric. Which feels right for a word born from hearing something slightly wrong.
A misheard song lyric (63.7%) 🏆
A song with no chorus (6.5%)
An accidental key change (10.2%)
A melody borrowed from another song (19.6%)
Upworthiest reader Beach Pud knows the lore. “It’s Lady Mondegreen. Laid him on the green.” American writer Sylvia Wright heard the one phrase for the other when her mother read to her as a child and later told the tale in Harper’s Magazine.
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12 unforgettable side-by-side photos of people over 100-years-old with their younger selves | ||
A truly beautiful reminder of how delightful aging can be. | ||
By Upworthy Staff | ||
Czech photographer Jan Langer‘s portrait series “Faces of Century” shows them in a different light: as human beings aged by years of experience, but at their deepest level, unchanged by the passing of time. In the series, Langer juxtaposes his portraits with another portrait of the subject from decades earlier. He recreates the original pose and lighting as closely as he can. He wants us to see them not just as they are now, but how they have and haven’t changed over time. That is the key to the series. | ||
These are the rare faces of people who have lived through two world wars, a cavalcade of regimes, and the rush of advancements in modern life. These photos, and the stories of the lives lived by the people in them, show not only the beauty of aging, but how even as we age, we still remain essentially ourselves. | ||
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