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A University of Colorado study found fat removed by liposuction returns within a year — elsewhere. Why the body defends its total fat mass.

May 1, 2011 · 1 min read

Blotting a greasy pizza slice or pakodas with a napkin removes a little surface oil — a few dozen calories at most. Modest, but real, and worth knowing.

April 30, 2011 · 1 min read

Days before the 2011 royal wedding, the Kate-vs-Diana comparison industry ran hot. Why mapping one woman onto another said more about the public.

April 30, 2011 · 1 min read

A 2011 Jamshedpur femicide — an engineering student allegedly killed his girlfriend after an argument — and what such cases say about intimate-partner

April 29, 2011 · 1 min read

On Jamaica Bay in Queens, Hindu immigrants make offerings to the waters — coconuts, clay bowls, limes — creating a sacred geography and a debate about

April 25, 2011 · 1 min read

What the evidence actually supported in 2011: protein's real role in weight management, separated from the fitness industry's hype around binging on it.

April 25, 2011 · 1 min read

A week before the April 2011 royal wedding, Katie Couric compared Diana's tortured experience to Kate Middleton's prospects — with a personal anecdote from

April 22, 2011 · 1 min read

An overview of Pranic Healing, the energy-healing system formalized by Master Choa Kok Sui — a 20th-century synthesis of ancient energetic traditions.

April 19, 2011 · 1 min read

Idli in Chennai, parathas in Punjab, kochuri in Kolkata, dhokla in Gujarat — a tour of India’s regional breakfasts, a mosaic of dozens of distinct mornings.

April 19, 2011 · 1 min read

Fear produces compliance without internalization; Baumrind’s research points to high expectations plus high warmth. On why respect works and fear doesn’t.

April 15, 2011 · 1 min read

Hackers breached email-marketing giant Epsilon in April 2011, stealing data for 2,500+ clients — triggering breach notices from Chase, Citigroup and more.

April 15, 2011 · 1 min read

K.S. Krueger’s debut children’s fantasy — a hidden world of forest Traegons, an ancient prophecy, and an environmental fable done right.

April 15, 2011 · 1 min read

A female athlete reportedly pushed off a moving train in 2011 — on women’s safety in Indian public spaces, bystander failure, and the “happens only in

April 13, 2011 · 1 min read

A hidden camera discovered in a Mumbai McDonald's women's restroom in 2012 — and what it exposed about surveillance, miniaturization, and the privacy gap in

April 13, 2011 · 1 min read

One beautiful summer day, when I was in 10th grade, we walked into our classroom for our regular biology lesson and found that something strange was going…

April 12, 2011 · 7 min read

San Diego physician Dr. Mike Moreno's 17 Day Diet promised 10–12 pounds in under three weeks. What the plan actually was — and the honest caveats.

April 10, 2011 · 1 min read

Why is this happening? This is because of our inherent nature to compete and beat the competition. Maslow’s work on Hierarchy of Needs proved this point. We…

April 8, 2011 · 7 min read

Sesame Street’s Urdu adaptation, Sim Sim Hamara, brought Elmo to Pakistani television — a case for making children’s TV genuinely local, not dubbed.

April 7, 2011 · 1 min read

True short sleepers carry a rare genetic variant like ADRB1. Everyone else who sleeps six hours is probably just sleep-deprived and can’t tell.

April 6, 2011 · 1 min read

Karen Fakroddin M.Ed, RYT — a Naperville special-needs yoga instructor teaching kids and adults with autism, Down syndrome and cerebral palsy. This week's find.

April 6, 2011 · 1 min read