Lifestyle

In 2015, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell pledged to remove artificial flavors and colors from their menus. Customer pressure — not corporate kindness — made it happen.

May 26, 2015 · 1 min read

In 2015 California tore out 2,100 football fields of lawn as the drought deepened. Gov. Jerry Brown said daily-watered grass would be a thing of the past.

May 22, 2015 · 1 min read

Some people say Wi-Fi makes them sick. The WHO says their symptoms are real — but there is no scientific basis linking them to electromagnetic exposure.

May 21, 2015 · 2 min read

A 12-year-old asked Quora what he could do now to join a top university later. The advice he got is worth reading at any age.

May 21, 2015 · 1 min read

A popular Quora thread asked what Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and others did between ages 10 and 22. The answers share a striking pattern.

May 13, 2015 · 1 min read

Pew's 2015 Religious Landscape Study found America's Hindu population reached 2.23 million — making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, tied with Buddhism.

May 13, 2015 · 4 min read

A Philadelphia dad took his kids to the Boston Marathon, got a warning letter from the school, and wrote back a reply that went viral worldwide.

May 11, 2015 · 3 min read

The Supreme Court ruled that abusing in-laws and barring them from the matrimonial home amounts to mental cruelty — a valid ground for divorce.

April 27, 2015 · 1 min read

A 2015 community announcement: Ekjut, the Chicago-area theater wing, presents Rangmanch par Ek Sham Aap Ke Naam, after the hit staging of Pyar ka Panchnama.

April 22, 2015 · 1 min read

In 2015, drinks giant Diageo committed to voluntary nutrition and alcohol-per-serve labeling across brands like Smirnoff, Tanqueray, and Guinness.

March 19, 2015 · 1 min read

A 21-year Finnish study found men who took saunas 4–7 times a week had far lower rates of fatal heart disease — with the usual observational-study caveats.

February 24, 2015 · 1 min read

Sometimes the allergen isn't the fruit — it's the antibiotic sprayed on it. The 2013 blueberry-pie anaphylaxis case that traced back to streptomycin.

February 24, 2015 · 1 min read

Suchitra Sharma on why lying and loving coexist — from white lies to protect a partner to Clancy Martin's 'Good Lovers Lie' argument.

February 23, 2015 · 2 min read

Shubhli Bhalla reviews Ashwin Sanghi's The Krishna Key — a thriller weaving the legend of Krishna with modern-day murder and conspiracy.

February 23, 2015 · 3 min read

A viral video of a pen-selling child visiting McDonald's for the first time — and what 'first time' videos reveal, and conceal, about poverty.

February 17, 2015 · 1 min read

Psychologist Arthur Aron's 36 questions — escalating self-disclosure designed to build closeness — went viral after Mandy Len Catron tried them in the NYT.

February 10, 2015 · 3 min read

Suchitra Sharma on the Vatican's 'burqa made of flesh' remark about plastic surgery — and why conforming to society's beauty standards is a failure of

February 3, 2015 · 2 min read

Shubhli on why 'it is none of my business' is a cop-out — told through the old mouse-trap parable: when trouble comes, it comes for everyone.

January 30, 2015 · 3 min read

In January 2015, five Disneyland workers contracted measles — including two who were vaccinated — as California's outbreak passed 53 confirmed cases.

January 21, 2015 · 1 min read

From the ₹1 shagun to the nimbu-mirchi totka: a tour of the superstitions — kala tika, black cats, knives as gifts — woven into everyday Indian life.

January 20, 2015 · 2 min read