Today, in the Upworthiest...
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Ancient humans didn't spend as much time on survival activities as we might think. | ||
What did ancient humans do all day before ‘work’ was invented? It wasn’t all about survival. | ||
A viral video offers a peek into our ancestors’ uniquely human daily habits. | ||
By Annie Reneau | ||
When people daydream about not having to work for a living, they usually envision being super wealthy. They don’t usually imagine living alongside their ancestors thousands of years ago. | ||
But the reality is that jobs as we know them—working hours, salaries and paychecks, work-life balance, paid or unpaid time off, overtime, etc.—are super recent on the human timeline. Even specialized jobs, which have been around for thousands of years, are still new compared to the roughly 290,000 years of human evolution that preceded anything resembling what we think of as “employment.” | ||
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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.” | ||
By Emily Shiffer | ||
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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Proof that music (and people) find a way.
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Why don’t actors look like normal everyday people anymore? | ||
Jack Nicholson didn’t need to look perfect to sell tickets. | ||
By Tod Perry | ||
There is a grittiness that seems to be missing in today’s movies. A big reason is that actors look too perfect. Before the turn of the millennium, the screen was filled with actors whose faces had character: Walter Matthau’s nose, Jack Nicholson’s wild hairline, and Sylvester Stallone’s droopy eyes and bottom lip that pulled to the side. They looked like real people, and that made them much more relatable than today’s A-listers, such as Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds, and Michael B. Jordan. | ||
When it comes to female actors, the difference is less noticeable because women have always been held to more stringent beauty standards. But in the late ’80s, some of the biggest stars, including Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, and Geena Davis, were all pretty, but their faces had character. Compare that to today’s actresses, such as Scarlett Johansson, Margot Robbie, and Zendaya. | ||
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Tennessee student stands up to school board with fiery speech after a member called her ‘hot’ | ||
“I believe that you are all cowards.” | ||
By Evan Porter | ||
An April 2 Washington County School Board meeting in Tennessee took an uncomfortable turn after high school student Hannah Campbell finished delivering her remarks. Seated with the board and directly next to the superintendent, Campbell confidently participated in a discussion with members after presenting research she had conducted on other schools. | ||
That’s when the board member seated next to her, Keith Ervin, reached over, put his arm around her, and said, “God, you’re hot, you know that? Where do you go to school at?” | ||
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