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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

April 6, 2011 · 1 min read

Liquid calories don’t satisfy hunger the way solid food does — and the research on sugary drinks, diet drinks, and alcohol was surprisingly clear even in 2011.

April 4, 2011 · 2 min read

April 2011: after a decade of meat worship, top chefs started treating vegetables as the center of the plate. How they made veggie dishes taste meaty.

April 4, 2011 · 1 min read

At 92, Clara Tang was committed to stand trial for the 2010 killing of her 98-year-old husband in Sydney — Australia's oldest woman to face a murder trial.

April 2, 2011 · 1 min read

March 2011: Lelyveld's 'Great Soul' was banned in Gujarat before critics had read it, while reviews sold Gandhi as weirdo, incompetent, faddist.

March 27, 2011 · 2 min read

This week's pick: Gary L. Anderson, CPA, a Chicago-area tax preparer our editors turned to for cross-border tax questions.

March 24, 2011 · 1 min read

Alka Tyle’s 2011 run for the District 204 school board was part of a bigger story: Indian Americans stepping into the local civic institutions that shape

March 24, 2011 · 1 min read

Saif Ali Khan argued Bollywood is creatively self-sufficient. The commercial case is strong; the creative one is more contested.

March 23, 2011 · 1 min read

Jennifer Moses's 2011 WSJ essay asked why parents let preteen girls dress like adults. The argument, the backlash, and the question underneath.

March 21, 2011 · 2 min read

Amy Chua's 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother' detonated a parenting debate in 2011. What the research on authoritarian vs authoritative parenting says.

March 16, 2011 · 1 min read

In 2011, Matalan sold padded bras to girls as young as eight. The controversy, the pattern behind it, and the fight over the sexualisation of childhood.

March 15, 2011 · 1 min read

A 2011 'Find of the Week' on Anna's RhythMax, a rhythm-based fitness concept. The original text was not preserved; archived without search indexing.

March 9, 2011 · 1 min read

In 2011, Facebook let users rent The Dark Knight with Facebook Credits. Why social movie streaming flopped -- and what it got right too early.

March 8, 2011 · 1 min read

A 2011 post reporting that Anmol Singh Rajput joined the Indian Police Service at an unusually young age. No verifiable public record was found; archived

March 8, 2011 · 1 min read

Why the Mediterranean diet topped nutrition's evidence hierarchy: from Ancel Keys' Seven Countries Study to the PREDIMED trial -- and what held up.

March 8, 2011 · 1 min read

A US scientist called strict vegan diets for children 'unethical.' The Kenyan study behind the claim, the vegan response -- and where nutrition science

March 8, 2011 · 2 min read

Counterintuitive 2011 research: Facebook wasn't just pulling teens from families -- in some homes it was bringing parents and teenagers closer.

March 5, 2011 · 1 min read

The spanking debate: what the research actually shows, why causation is hard to prove, and the honest case on both sides.

March 5, 2011 · 1 min read

National Geographic's 2011 '7 Billion' series named the most typical human face: a 28-year-old Han Chinese man. Why the projection said India was next.

March 3, 2011 · 1 min read

What makes a book on learning how to learn worth reading? Spaced repetition, retrieval practice, and why fluency feels like competence but isn't.

March 1, 2011 · 1 min read