Interesting

From an Indian Army study on leave and affairs to Bangalore's IT crowd: an op-ed asking whether monogamy is believed but not practiced.

June 3, 2013 · 1 min read

WDSRA Girl Scout Troop 200 sponsored the Naperville Municipal Band's Ice Cream Social at the June 13, 2013 concert in Central Park, Naperville.

June 1, 2013 · 2 min read

Pew's 2013 'Breadwinner Moms' report: 40% of US households with kids have moms as primary or sole earners, up from 11% in 1960.

May 29, 2013 · 2 min read

South Korea led the world in per-capita plastic surgery in 2013 — roughly one in five women, resume headshots, and graduation-gift nose jobs.

May 25, 2013 · 1 min read

Andrea Colaco, a Goan PhD student at MIT's Media Lab, led 3dim to the $100K Entrepreneurship Competition prize with gesture-recognition tech for phones.

May 22, 2013 · 1 min read

Eesha Khare, 18, of Saratoga, California, won $50,000 at Intel ISEF 2013 for a supercapacitor prototype that could charge a phone in 20–30 seconds.

May 21, 2013 · 1 min read

In May 2013 came word that Rajkumar Santoshi would direct an Andaz Apna Apna sequel. Within months he denied it — and the sequel never got made.

May 20, 2013 · 1 min read

An Arizona State study found people low in vitamin C burned less fat during exercise — a reminder that adequate nutrition supports metabolism.

May 2, 2013 · 1 min read

Researchers began a 660-child study of a blood test that may flag autism risk earlier — though experts caution it cannot diagnose the condition alone.

April 29, 2013 · 2 min read

Newly named Cannes 2013 jury member Vidya Balan turned to designer Sabyasachi for her red-carpet saree looks at the festival.

April 25, 2013 · 1 min read

Shakti Durga, a former Sydney lawyer turned spiritual teacher, discusses her path, her followers, and the idea of the modern female guru.

April 25, 2013 · 1 min read

A Utah man's 14-year-old McDonald's hamburger looked nearly unchanged — food scientists say very dry foods dehydrate instead of rotting.

April 24, 2013 · 1 min read

Researchers are studying ultraviolet light systems to disinfect hospital rooms against bedbugs and drug-resistant bacteria like MRSA.

April 23, 2013 · 1 min read

Ajay Rochester says she has regained 105 pounds since winning The Biggest Loser, opening up about the pressure of being the show's public face.

April 19, 2013 · 1 min read

Chicago's fifth three-day veena conference and festival (April 26-28, 2013), curated by SAPNA, opened with Chitravina Ravikiran's inaugural concert.

April 18, 2013 · 1 min read

Juice cleanses, the Zone, Five Factor, South Beach: the celebrity diet plans of 2013, how they worked, and the fine print behind them.

April 18, 2013 · 3 min read

Immigration officer Chris Holmes quit his Border Force job by piping his resignation letter onto a cake — 18 eggs of pure career change.

April 17, 2013 · 2 min read

New Zealand's parliament voted 77-44 to legalize same-sex marriage — the 13th country in the world and the first in Asia-Pacific.

April 17, 2013 · 3 min read

After hadouken photos came ‘quidditching’: jumping snapshots recreating Harry Potter's broomstick sport, born in Japan and spreading fast.

April 15, 2013 · 1 min read

A University of Winnipeg study of 2,300 students linked heavy texting to shallower moral reasoning — the brevity of the medium may be to blame.

April 13, 2013 · 1 min read