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In 2013, the University of Chicago announced a 17,000-square-foot academic center in Delhi's Connaught Place. It opened the following year.

October 28, 2013 · 1 min read

Bad breath is a social taboo nobody points out — but it's often easy to fix: hydration, tongue cleaning, flossing, and a dentist visit.

October 21, 2013 · 2 min read

Every year thousands of married Hindu women fast from dawn until moonrise to celebrate Karva Chauth, a festival to celebrate for the long-life and…

October 15, 2013 · 3 min read

The 'Chai, Chat with Books' club reviews Gone Girl: Gillian Flynn's devilish thriller of a marriage gone bad, deceit, and two narrators you can't trust.

October 15, 2013 · 3 min read

During the 2013 US government shutdown, Lake Mead leaseholders — including an 80-year-old and his 77-year-old wife — were forced out of their homes on

October 7, 2013 · 1 min read

Part 3 of a three-part interview with Amish Tripathi: the Upanishads, his favorite books, why Shiva, and the future after the Shiva trilogy.

October 3, 2013 · 3 min read

Marina Shifrin quit her job at Next Media Animation with an interpretive dance to Kanye West's 'Gone' — and the 2013 video went massively viral.

September 30, 2013 · 1 min read

Not seven pounds — about a third of a kilo. But holiday weight gain is the weight you never lose, and it compounds yearly. The measured evidence and what to do.

September 26, 2013 · 2 min read

Flushable wipes don't break down and are clogging sewers across the US — costing cities millions. Keep wipes out of pipes.

September 23, 2013 · 1 min read

In 2013 France moved to ban beauty contests for girls under 16. The trigger: a Vogue photo of a sexualized 10-year-old that shocked the country.

September 19, 2013 · 2 min read

This edition of Bolly Volley is not about Bollywood! It is in fact about celebrating that section of Indian and other South Asian cinema that does not get…

September 18, 2013 · 3 min read

A Dutch endocrinologist argued sugar should be treated like a drug — with warning labels and a sugar tax. Here's his case, and what research says.

September 17, 2013 · 1 min read

Forget celebrity diets. The National Weight Control Registry tracked 10,000+ people who lost weight and kept it off — their shared habits are the real key.

September 16, 2013 · 2 min read

Nina Davuluri became the first Indian American Miss America in 2013 — and met the moment's racist backlash with grace: 'I have to rise above that.'

September 16, 2013 · 2 min read

Facebook made us put our 'game face' on all the time — and a 2013 University of Michigan study found the more we used it, the worse we felt.

September 8, 2013 · 2 min read

Retro Reel on Spielberg's Munich (2005): a chilling espionage thriller that becomes a genre-defying meditation on the moral cost of revenge.

September 5, 2013 · 5 min read

In August 2013, a teenage girl accused godman Asaram Bapu of sexual assault. A look at the case as it broke — and the convictions that followed.

August 27, 2013 · 2 min read

A 2013 CNNMoney report revealed startups like Lenddo and Kreditech were weighing your Facebook friends when deciding whether you get a loan.

August 26, 2013 · 2 min read

In August 2013, the NSA admitted analysts had spied on their own love interests using agency tools — the internal nickname was LOVEINT.

August 26, 2013 · 2 min read

Celebrity trainer Bob Harper says it's all about diet: you can't out-train a bad diet. How the calorie deficit works — and why exercise still matters.

August 23, 2013 · 2 min read