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

January 21, 2012 · 2 min read

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.

January 21, 2012 · 1 min read

James Tapke, 41, was charged with child endangering after allegedly binding his 12-year-old daughter with duct tape and shutting her in a dog cage.

January 21, 2012 · 1 min read

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

January 21, 2012 · 1 min read

In Mumbai, parents paying Rs 12,000–18,000 in school fees were outsourcing single Std X projects for Rs 26,000 — a booming cottage industry around schoolwork.

January 13, 2012 · 2 min read

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

January 13, 2012 · 1 min read

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

January 11, 2012 · 1 min read

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

January 8, 2012 · 1 min read

When white leaders succeed, it's competence. When black leaders succeed, it's luck. On the racial attribution bias in sports commentary, business coverage —

January 3, 2012 · 1 min read

A University of Chicago study found that math-anxious female teachers can transmit the 'boys are better at math' stereotype to their girl students — who

January 3, 2012 · 1 min read

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.

December 28, 2011 · 1 min read

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

December 19, 2011 · 1 min read

In 2011, sharp-eyed readers repeatedly caught Indian newspapers lifting stories from the Daily Mail and others without credit.

December 13, 2011 · 2 min read

A Christmas letter to Santa from our corner of the world — on what children really want, what adults have forgotten, and the milk and cookies on the counter.

December 13, 2011 · 1 min read

In January 2011, even Mark Zuckerberg's own Facebook page was compromised. If the founder isn't safe, what chance do the rest of us have?

December 7, 2011 · 1 min read

Straight A's don't always mean a great education. On grade inflation, helicopter parents, and what teachers wish parents understood about the parent-teacher

December 6, 2011 · 2 min read

Diaper rash cream on your face? Red wine baths? A clear-eyed look at the internet's strangest skin remedies — which have real science behind them and which

November 27, 2011 · 2 min read

Dr. Wenyuan Shi's UCLA lab tested a peptide mouthwash (C16G2) that wipes out Streptococcus mutans — the main cause of cavities — while sparing the rest of

November 20, 2011 · 1 min read

Pearls & Petals, a day spa in Ahmedabad, rides India's Ayurvedic spa wave — rose, turmeric, sandalwood and saffron, the kitchen apothecary turned into ritual.

November 18, 2011 · 1 min read

Demi Moore announced the end of her six-year marriage to Ashton Kutcher in November 2011, closing one of Hollywood's most Twitter-documented romances.

November 17, 2011 · 1 min read