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In 2012 the full Hogwarts castle model — hand-sculpted, 1:24 scale, filmed in every Harry Potter movie — went public at the Warner Bros. Studio Tour.

J.K. Rowling's first adult novel, The Casual Vacancy, was announced in 2012. The trap only a billion-copy author faces: every new book is a referendum.

Holiday kilos, a new year, and an unexpected discovery: one writer's lighthearted account of resolving to get fit and stumbling into a local velodrome.

A 2012 Denver investigation found welfare debit cards used at casinos and strip clubs. The story behind the headlines — and what actually changed.

Leap Day's strangest tradition: women get to propose. From Scottish legend to Leap Year dances, here's where the February 29 custom came from.

A gene variant called 5-HTTLPR was once said to predict divorce. It doesn't. Here's what the actual research found about DNA and marital satisfaction.

Is there really a list of foods you must eat every day? Here's the honest answer behind the superfood hype — and what actually matters on your plate.

A stranger's cruel get down to the gym, fatty remark in a nightclub pushed 26-year-old mother Sarah Gould to lose six stone in time for her wedding.

Penn State researchers found that active people report more excitement and enthusiasm — and that on any given day, being more active than usual delivers a

A Tel Aviv University study found a protein-rich breakfast including dessert helped dieters lose more weight and keep it off over 32 weeks than a strict diet.

In February 2012, Texas authorities removed 11 children from a Dayton home where a registered sex offender lived, finding eight confined, some tied to beds.

Gottman's research says contempt is the strongest predictor of divorce. An argument that maintaining a baseline of respect is a condition for good behavior

A viral video by competitive eater Furious Pete showed how before-and-after fitness photos can be faked in five hours with chips, soda, oil, and a tanning bed.

M.I.A.'s middle finger during the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show in February 2012 became one of the most discussed — and legally disputed — halftime moments.

Maitreyee Das launches her Friday food column — a Bengali fish lover's quest for an easy recipe inspired by a restaurant spinach-and-cod dish.

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.

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.

A reader review of Khorshed Bhavnagri The Laws of the Spirit World, the automatic-writing book born of the tragic 1980 loss of her sons Vispi and Ratoo.

Footage of Texas Judge William Adams beating his disabled teenage daughter — recorded on her webcam and uploaded in 2011 — sparked a national debate.

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