Interesting

On July 4, 2012, CERN announced the discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson — the missing piece of the Standard Model, theorized in 1964.

July 4, 2012 · 1 min read

Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise in New York in June 2012, seeking sole custody of six-year-old Suri and ending five and a half years of marriage.

July 2, 2012 · 1 min read

Hitchcock's 1960 Psycho was reborn as A&E's Bates Motel — a prequel drama starring Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore that ran five seasons.

July 2, 2012 · 1 min read

The latte factor is real — a $5 coffee is $1,825 a year. But the 'cut your lattes' framework also ignores the structural forces no budget can fix.

July 1, 2012 · 1 min read

The 2012 internet loved 'never post this on Facebook' lists. The unasked question was harder: what is social media actually for?

June 30, 2012 · 1 min read

A school in India reportedly used height as an admissions criterion. Why the policy failed every test — developmentally, ethically, and legally under the

June 28, 2012 · 1 min read

Esha Deol, daughter of Hema Malini and Dharmendra, married businessman Bharat Takhtani in June 2012. Notes from the pre-wedding mehendi in Mumbai.

June 28, 2012 · 1 min read

The 'nagging' label frames repetition as a character flaw instead of what it usually is: the response to commitments that were never kept.

June 27, 2012 · 1 min read

Nora Ephron died June 26, 2012, at 71. Readers who returned to her final book, I Remember Nothing (2010), found the quiet goodbye she never announced: 'What

June 27, 2012 · 1 min read

A 2012 Tel Aviv University study found that a big breakfast including dessert helped obese dieters lose more and keep it off — but the caveats mattered more

June 27, 2012 · 1 min read

Why does 'lucky skin' look so effortless? Dermatologists point to seven boring daily habits — sun protection, sleep, hydration, and food-first nutrition.

June 18, 2012 · 2 min read

Research keeps finding the same thing: kids of emotionally engaged dads do better on nearly every measure. Being present isn't enough — being there is.

June 15, 2012 · 1 min read

For its 100th anniversary in 2012, Paramount gathered 116 of its greatest stars on the studio lot for a landmark group portrait — a century of Hollywood in

June 15, 2012 · 1 min read

Lady Gaga's 2012 fragrance Fame — launched with pre-release talk of blood and semen notes — was commerce as performance art. It worked.

June 15, 2012 · 1 min read

North Dakota's 2012 Measure 2 would have abolished all property taxes — voters rejected it 76% to 24%, but the sentiment behind it refuses to die.

June 12, 2012 · 1 min read

How one Oregon woman's absurd $2.1 million fake state tax return sailed through the review process — and what it exposed about refund fraud.

June 12, 2012 · 1 min read

Reports of a Gauri Khan–Priyanka Chopra reconciliation are trivial in detail but revealing in structure — Bollywood's gossip economy, gendered, decoded.

June 12, 2012 · 1 min read

India's famously low-crime villages — like doorless Shani Shingnapur in Maharashtra — run on community trust and panchayat dispute resolution, not locks.

June 12, 2012 · 1 min read

A Journal of Labor Research study found regular exercisers earned about 9% more than non-exercisers — likely through energy, cognition, and productivity.

June 8, 2012 · 1 min read

In June 2012, buzz grew that Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan would marry on October 16, though Kareena stayed silent at a Sony Vaio event.

June 7, 2012 · 1 min read