Interesting

Leicester's Dalwara Singh received a 12-month suspended sentence for secretly lacing his wife's food with steroids — until his teenage daughter caught him.

November 2, 2011 · 1 min read

Mukesh Ambani's 27-storey Antilia was called the world's most expensive home — and sat empty amid reports its owners feared bad luck. Inside the 2011 story.

October 26, 2011 · 1 min read

Psychology studies link a taste for sweet foods with agreeableness and helpfulness — embodied cognition ties the sensation of sweetness to sweet behavior.

October 24, 2011 · 1 min read

In Japan, the yaeba trend has women paying dentists hundreds of dollars to glue on crooked, fang-like canines — a deliberate imperfection seen as cute and

October 24, 2011 · 1 min read

Aamir Khan's 2011 television debut announcement became Satyamev Jayate — a Star Plus talk show on social issues that premiered May 6, 2012.

October 23, 2011 · 1 min read

A landmark 2011 NEJM study found that low-income women who moved to less-poor neighborhoods via a housing-voucher lottery had lower rates of extreme obesity

October 20, 2011 · 1 min read

October 20, 2011: Muammar Gaddafi is captured and killed near Sirte as Libya's eight-month uprising claims his hometown.

October 20, 2011 · 1 min read

They had no demands, they were all unemployed dropouts — the Occupy Wall Street myths, and what the movement actually changed.

October 20, 2011 · 1 min read

Diwali is October 26th — here are three easy, no-fail sweets to make at home: Sandesh, Kesar Shrikhand, and Coconut Ladoo.

October 20, 2011 · 1 min read

Walking or cycling to work is linked to substantially lower obesity risk — because it's exercise built into a routine you already do every day.

October 19, 2011 · 1 min read

Occupy, Anna Hazare, China's factory strikes, Europe's austerity riots — the shared thread behind 2011's global wave of social unrest.

October 16, 2011 · 1 min read

Whiskey was never actually a men's drink — it just had a men's marketing budget. On women claiming their pour, neat or on the rocks.

October 12, 2011 · 1 min read

What research actually says about raising a smart toddler: talk more, read aloud, play unstructured — and be skeptical of educational apps.

October 12, 2011 · 1 min read

What actually separates extraordinary people from the rest? Not talent — purpose, discipline, resilience, and the habit of finishing what they start.

October 11, 2011 · 1 min read

A 2011 case of a young Indian IT couple who died by suicide, leaving a note of 'satisfaction' — and the uncomfortable mental-health conversation it started.

October 8, 2011 · 1 min read

On Dussehra, while Ravana's effigies burn across India, some communities in Madhya Pradesh worship the 10-headed king as a god — here's why.

October 6, 2011 · 1 min read

Psychologists found that for complex decisions, people who slept on it chose better than deliberators — the 'deliberation-without-attention' effect.

October 2, 2011 · 2 min read

In 2011, Additional Solicitor General Darius Khambata's legal opinion forced the Mumbai passport office to concede: a divorced woman may keep her married name.

October 2, 2011 · 2 min read

September 2011 tabloids alleged Ashton Kutcher cheated on Demi Moore on their sixth anniversary weekend — first cracks in Hollywood's age-gap marriage.

September 28, 2011 · 1 min read

On September 24, 2011, more than 2,000 people ran through Salt Lake City in underwear — protesting Utah's conservative laws in a Guinness record run.

September 26, 2011 · 1 min read