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Germany's CSU party proposed that immigrants 'should be obliged' to speak German at home — then, after nationwide mockery, rewrote the demand within days.

December 8, 2014 · 1 min read

Preet Didbal, daughter of California farm laborers, was sworn in December 2, 2014 — the first Sikh American woman elected to a US city council.

December 6, 2014 · 1 min read

The 'alkaline diet' claims your food can fix your body's pH — it can't. Here's what your body's acid-alkaline balance actually is, and what diet really can do.

December 6, 2014 · 2 min read

Olivier Lafont, the French actor who played Suhas Tandon in 3 Idiots, launched his epic fantasy novel Warrior with Penguin India in late 2014.

December 4, 2014 · 1 min read

Pope Francis joined Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Anglican and Orthodox leaders in a December 2014 Vatican declaration to end modern slavery by 2020.

December 2, 2014 · 1 min read

In 2014, Imperial professor Chris Toumazou launched Geneu — skincare matched to your DNA via a 30-minute cheek-swab test.

December 1, 2014 · 1 min read

Lauren Singer's Trash is for Tossers: the young woman who made no trash in two years — no new clothes or packaged goods, even making her own cleaning supplies.

November 24, 2014 · 1 min read

Staged harassment videos flooded Indian social media after 2012. They showed the bystander effect in action — but cameras, editing, and spectacle shape what

November 24, 2014 · 1 min read

In November 2014, Jashodaben filed an RTI with Mehsana police asking what security and facilities she was entitled to as the Prime Minister’s wife.

November 24, 2014 · 1 min read

Managing anxiety to tackle a big project, fear to apply for a job — emotional skill matters more than IQ. Here is how to raise a child with high emotional

November 20, 2014 · 2 min read

A 2014 conversation with Koral Dasgupta, author of Power of a Common Man — on Shah Rukh Khan’s marketing genius, her research with 2,000 fans, and writing

November 17, 2014 · 3 min read

A burger costs less than a salad — not by accident. The economics that make ultra-processed calories the cheapest calories, and what they really cost.

November 16, 2014 · 2 min read

Going deaf in his 20s, science writer Frank Swain hacked his hearing aids with a Nesta grant — turning London's Wi-Fi signals into clicks and melodies.

November 14, 2014 · 1 min read

In 2014, a 22-member team of Vedic Brahmins from Karnataka performed yagnas in Oman for the health of Sultan Qaboos — one of the most unusual interfaith

November 12, 2014 · 1 min read

Economist Ramanan Laxminarayan's 2014 TEDMED talk warns that antibiotic overuse — in medicine and farming — is burning through our most finite medical resource.

November 11, 2014 · 1 min read

When Hollaback’s NYC street-harassment video went viral in 2014, India’s IndieTube tested Mumbai: Pooja Singh walked for 10 hours in a skirt — and wasn’t

November 10, 2014 · 1 min read

In 2014, 90-year-old Fort Lauderdale activist Arnold Abbott was arrested under a new city ordinance for doing what he had done for decades: feeding the

November 10, 2014 · 1 min read

A 2014 TI reflection on body image — the ears, the forehead, the endless list — and the Jubilee Project video that asked why children love their bodies more

November 7, 2014 · 1 min read

In November 2014, MPs voted 181–1 on a motion to clarify that sex-selective abortion is illegal in Britain. The vote was symbolic — the law never followed.

November 5, 2014 · 1 min read

In 2014, Kansas mom Amie Logan petitioned Toys 'R' Us to drop the Kardashian Kids clothing line — after the retailer pulled Breaking Bad toys.

November 4, 2014 · 1 min read