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A humorous taxonomy of Facebook archetypes — the humble-bragger, the vaguebooker, the philosophical memer — and why most of us are two or three of them at once.
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A humorous taxonomy of Facebook archetypes — the humble-bragger, the vaguebooker, the philosophical memer — and why most of us are two or three of them at once.

On the Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu sets, Imran Khan turned photographer and exhibited candid portraits of co-star Kareena Kapoor, shot on iPhone and SLR, in Mumbai.

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his first trip to India in February 2012, attending TERI's 12th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in New Delhi as guest of honour.

In January 2012, two British tourists were detained at LAX and deported after tweets about destroying America — slang Homeland Security didn't find funny.

The pencil-thin eyebrow of the 1990s is giving way to fuller, more natural brows — a shift toward a more individual, less over-groomed beauty ideal.

Paper-thin fabric, fake pockets, sizes that mean nothing: seven things the women's clothing industry gets wrong that men's clothing gets right.

TMZ reports Heidi Klum will file for divorce from Seal after nearly seven years of marriage — the end of the couple famous for their lavish annual vow renewals.

Vanity sizing: how clothing manufacturers label garments with sizes bearing little relation to real measurements — a quiet, decades-long consumer deception.

Dismissing walking as not exercise gets it backwards. Studies of millions of adults link regular brisk walking to sharply lower risks of death and disease.

The returnee NRI: mid-Atlantic Hindi, unfavourable comparisons, suitcases of American brands. An affectionate roast of the annual NRI season in India.

UK researchers found breastfed babies cry more and fuss more easily than formula-fed ones — reassuring mothers that fussiness is normal, not a feeding failure.

Zhang Jun, the first Chinese dancer to study Indian classical dance in India, has died — a life of Bharatanatyam, Kathak and cultural diplomacy between

In January 2012, a New York Papa John's printed 'lady chinky eyes' on an Asian-American customer's receipt. She tweeted the photo — and the internet did the

Fifty rules for fathers of daughters — on presence, respect, courage, and the template you set for how she'll expect to be treated.

Software merged the faces of beautiful celebrities into one ideal. From Galton's 19th-century composites to the averageness hypothesis — what the exercise

Drunk shopping is real: alcohol plus one-click checkout is a recipe for regret. The behavioral economics of wine-fueled impulse buys — and how to stop.

Psychologist James Pennebaker's 2011 book The Secret Life of Pronouns: what twenty years of text analysis reveal about the hidden inner life of tiny words.

Tabloids reported in late 2011 that Maria Shriver was reconsidering her divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger. A look at the reports — and why they deserved

In 2011, researcher Christopher Sibona surveyed 1,000+ Facebook users on unfriending: who gets cut, why, and what finally triggers the click.

In the 2011 Czech census, 15,070 people declared their religion as 'Jedi.' The Force is strong in Central Europe — and the joke has a serious point about