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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 is National Sexual Abuse Awareness Month. On why honest sex education is one of the most powerful tools for abuse prevention.

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.

A conversation with Rajeev, founder of Naperville's PR3 Systems, on whether honesty and integrity still have a place in the cut-throat corporate world.

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

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.

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.

At twelve, summer camp stops being canoes and campfire songs and becomes a social inflection point. What actually makes camp work at that age — choice, not