Interesting

In 2011 a 13-year-old Russian boy found a message in a bottle on a Kaliningrad beach — written 24 years earlier by a five-year-old German.

Review of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011), the second film from Jeff Kinney's series, on Greg Heffley's fraught bond with his older brother.

Why do women stay in toxic relationships? Trauma bonding, real structural constraints, and double-bind social pressure explain it better than the question

Theresa May’s March 2011 student visa overhaul hit Indian students hardest: stricter English and money rules, curbs on post-study work, and a crackdown on

A Boston woman thought her dachshund Lola died in a February fire. A month later she heard scratching in the wreckage — Lola was alive and expected to fully

A Gorakhpur engineering college rusticated a final-year student for keeping her boyfriend in her hostel room. The incident -- and its double standard.

In 2011, Amazon Web Services was a thrifty side bet renting servers for pennies an hour. How the cloud became Amazon's real empire.

Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, and a billionaire's party: the famous 'enough' anecdote from John Bogle's book -- and what it says about wealth scandals.

A small Oxford Brookes study found two cereal meals a day led to modest weight loss. What the 41-person trial actually showed -- and didn't.

In 2011, Kay Hymowitz's 'Manning Up' argued the rise of women had turned men into boys. The extended-adolescence debate -- the facts and the framing.

Two large studies in the New England Journal of Medicine found farm children develop less asthma -- and the key is microbial diversity, not just more germs.

Crying at work carries different consequences for women than for men. What the research shows -- and practical advice for navigating the double standard.

Why group dates caught on in India: safety, lower pressure, and the friend-group as chaperone. Inside the 2011 trend and what became of it.

In February 2011, an anonymous online call urged Chinese 'Jasmine Revolution' protests in 13 cities. How Beijing's show of force snuffed it out.

On February 14, 2011, thousands marched in Tehran chanting 'Mubarak, Ben Ali, now it's Seyyed Ali's turn.' Inside Iran's day of rage.

After a 2011 New York Times expose on its paid-link scheme, Google manually penalized JCPenney -- proof no advertiser was above its search rules.

Stephen Elop's leaked 'burning platform' memo of February 2011: the most brutally honest corporate memo ever, and the prelude to Nokia's Microsoft deal.

In February 2011, Mark Zuckerberg won a restraining order against Pradeep Manukonda, 31, who stalked him across Facebook, his offices, and his front steps.

Steve Jobs at 30, weeks after leaving Apple: a candid 1985 Newsweek interview on getting fired, staying unbitter, and why customers cannot invent the future.

How Apple's iTunes Store beat piracy not with lawsuits but with convenience: 99-cent songs that were simply easier to buy than to steal.