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Why Walmart's Black Friday loss leaders are always toys and electronics: the consumer psychology behind the world's biggest retail event.

November 14, 2010 · 1 min read

In 2011 Google acquired a face-recognition startup — and then refused to ship the technology. The story of the one product Google held back.

November 14, 2010 · 1 min read

Turkey alongside biryani, gulab jamun after pumpkin pie. How Indian American families made Thanksgiving their own — and made it better.

November 14, 2010 · 1 min read

Grandparent childcare is free, loving, and emotionally complicated. What works — in families where it works — is explicit negotiation, not assumptions.

November 12, 2010 · 1 min read

Article 370, AFSPA, and decades of military presence: what ordinary Kashmiris want is not complicated. Getting there is.

November 12, 2010 · 1 min read

The fleeing husband who leaves a long marriage triggers more than grief — a painful revision of the whole story the abandoned partner told herself.

November 12, 2010 · 1 min read

Roughly 80% of adults will get lower back pain — and the old advice to lie down was wrong. The evidence now says: move your back, don't rest it.

November 12, 2010 · 2 min read

One of the original Apple I computers — sold from the Jobs garage in 1976 for $666.66 — fetched $210,000 at a Christie's London auction this week.

November 12, 2010 · 1 min read

Math ability predicts lifetime wealth better than income does. The compound-interest numbers — $200 a month from 25 to 65 — are genuinely startling.

November 10, 2010 · 1 min read

In November 2010 Google blocked Facebook from importing Gmail contacts — the opening shot of the data-protectionist wars between the two giants.

November 10, 2010 · 2 min read

India's informal used-book economy went online in the 2010s. How platforms like Bookoholics collapsed the geography of secondhand reading.

November 10, 2010 · 1 min read

Correction: an earlier version of this story wrongly claimed Action Replayy was India's Oscar submission. The actual 2010 entry was Anusha Rizvi's Peepli Live.

November 10, 2010 · 1 min read

Hair is at once trivial and profound — a primary medium through which women negotiate identity, conformity, and rebellion. Why it matters.

November 9, 2010 · 1 min read

Rapid weight loss costs muscle, not just fat — and the rebound is physiology, not failure. Why half a pound a week beats the crash diet.

November 9, 2010 · 2 min read

After years of Sikh advocacy, the TSA revised its turban screening rules in 2010. A real improvement — and a window into post-9/11 security theater.

November 9, 2010 · 1 min read

Urban Indian children live on screens and schedules. What free play builds — executive function, emotional regulation, real friendships — and what's lost

November 9, 2010 · 1 min read

Pizza Hut entered India in 1996 and found a cuisine that refused to be replaced. The result: paneer tikka toppings, independent joints, and an Indian pizza

November 8, 2010 · 1 min read

Google's Chrome team is footing the bill for free Gogo Wi-Fi on AirTran, Delta, and Virgin America flights from November 20 to January 2 — about 15 million

November 8, 2010 · 1 min read

Married since 1999, the Beckhams have outlasted every tabloid death notice. What keeps a celebrity marriage running under that level of scrutiny?

November 8, 2010 · 1 min read

Total sugar bans tend to fail. What behavioral nutrition research actually says about sweets, moderation, and lasting weight loss.

November 8, 2010 · 2 min read