Lifestyle

Post-2008, American homes are getting more practical: drop zones replace grand foyers, open family rooms replace formal rooms — and the McMansion is out.

A reader meets Maneka Gandhi at a People for Animals launch and finds her hour-long talk impressive. A brief 2011 snapshot.

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

In October 2011, Western governments issued travel advisories for India — and New Delhi pushed back hard. Why S.M. Krishna called the language disproportionate.

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

A 2011 guest column on cyber-revenge: when anger meets the internet, the whole world becomes your audience — and the author offers her calming mantras.

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.

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.

A poem by Shlok Sharma, then a fifth-grader in Naperville, on the mistakes he made — from punching Justin Bieber to falling into a tributary. Childhood humor.

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

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

Why do some people learn faster? Growth mindset, prior knowledge, deliberate practice, sleep and metacognition — what the learning research actually says.

In 2011, Ohio mother Kelley Williams-Bolar was convicted of felonies for enrolling her daughters in a better school district — one of several such cases.

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

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.

A reported $1.4 million bill for one undocumented patient's care reopened debate over emergency treatment, uncompensated care, and 'medical deportations.'

A 2011 UK survey found four in ten working mothers had sent a sick child to school, unable to take time off — though a vitamin brand commissioned the poll.

After a student's 2011 suicide at IIM Bangalore, hard questions were raised about pressure, relationships, and support at India's elite institutions.

SAT reading and writing scores were falling in 2011. But for students taking the test, one question mattered more: what actually raises your score?

In September 2011, Indonesian women marched through Jakarta in miniskirts and leggings — Southeast Asia's first SlutWalk — against victim-blaming.