Interesting

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie confirmed their engagement on April 13, 2012 — and Jolie's ring, designed with jeweler Robert Procop, stole the show.

April 16, 2012 · 2 min read

ABC News reported on the K-E diet in April 2012: brides-to-be wore nasal feeding tubes for 10 days, fed 800 calories a day, to lose 10-20 pounds.

April 16, 2012 · 4 min read

Reports in April 2012 said Salman Khan planned to gift Kareena Kapoor a BMW for her Dabangg 2 item song — she was doing two cameos as favors that year.

April 15, 2012 · 2 min read

Hilary Rosen's claim that Ann Romney 'never worked a day in her life' detonated a mommy-war controversy in April 2012 — and both campaigns fled the blast.

April 12, 2012 · 1 min read

Declared stillborn in Chaco, Argentina, a premature baby was found alive in her coffin 12 hours later. Her mother named her Luz Milagros — Miracle Light.

April 12, 2012 · 2 min read

A 2012 study found moderate drinkers solved creative word puzzles faster than sober controls — a narrow effect on divergent thinking, not advice.

April 12, 2012 · 1 min read

Exeter researchers built a 3D printer that extrudes molten chocolate layer by layer — mass-personalized confectionery, before 3D printing went mainstream.

April 9, 2012 · 1 min read

Spanish researchers found that people who ate the most fast food were 51% more likely to develop depression — bad for the waistline, and the blues too.

April 2, 2012 · 2 min read

A soft-drink campaign promised 'Katrina ka number label ke andar.' The label carried a Gurgaon techie's real phone number — and the calls haven't stopped.

April 2, 2012 · 3 min read

Forensic artist Richard Neave reconstructed Jesus with dark skin, dark eyes, and short curly hair — nothing like the fair-skinned figure in Western art.

April 1, 2012 · 1 min read

Sham marriages between siblings and paid foreign partners were a known immigration-fraud route. The mechanics, the detection — and the desperation behind them.

April 1, 2012 · 1 min read

By 2012 the iPhone 4S's 8-megapixel camera was eating the point-and-shoot alive. The honest answer: it depends on what you shoot.

April 1, 2012 · 1 min read

Bin Laden's youngest wife told Pakistani investigators about nine years on the run: at least five safe houses, four children born in Haripur and Abbottabad.

March 30, 2012 · 1 min read

California's prison physicians and psychiatrists topped state pay scales — some earning over $400,000. The numbers stunned, but the context matters more.

March 30, 2012 · 1 min read

NBC's The Biggest Loser split its season-13 makeover week across two episodes — April 3 and April 10 — ending with a White House workout alongside Michelle

March 29, 2012 · 1 min read

Fashion keeps sorting women's bodies into fruit and vegetable shapes — pear, apple, carrot, eggplant. The taxonomy says more about marketing than about bodies.

March 29, 2012 · 1 min read

Walter Isaacson, Jobs's biographer, distilled his subject's leadership into 14 imperatives for the April 2012 Harvard Business Review. Here they are.

March 29, 2012 · 2 min read

Lululemon's retail playbook included a deliberate tactic: employees stationed near fitting rooms to eavesdrop on shoppers — customer research without the

March 25, 2012 · 2 min read

When audience members fainted at Barack Obama's rallies, his response was unglamorous and dad-like: eat and drink before you come. Why the small moments worked.

March 16, 2012 · 1 min read

One DMV clerk, one refused donor box, and the real arithmetic of giving: a single donor’s organs reach several people on the waiting list.

March 14, 2012 · 1 min read