Lifestyle

A 2011 reader's review of 'Along the Way,' a novel of Indian IT professionals' loves, careers, and compromises — from Andhra campuses to American cubicles.

Some US cities moved to keep snack trucks away from schools during school hours to fight childhood obesity. Do vendor restrictions work — and are they fair?

An honest essay on stepping back from work to raise kids: the joy, the lost identity, the judgment from both sides — and why every mother is a working mother.

A reader's review of Brian Weiss's Many Lives, Many Masters — the case of Catherine, past-life regression, and why the book eases fear of death.

A Danish study of 161,696 young men linked hospital-treated childhood infections with lower IQ — an association, not proof of cause, from later research.

Budget clothing chains are great for basics and terrible for tailoring. A practical guide to what's worth buying cheap — and what isn't.

Stanford law professor Ralph Richard Banks' provocative 2011 book on the African American marriage decline — and his controversial advice: 'marry out.'

From the undeciphered Indus script to Brahmi, Devanagari, Tamil, and Bengali — how India's writing systems evolved over four thousand years.

Bill Labram and Peggy Fryer fell in love in 1947 and were split by her father. Sixty-three years later, both 80, they finally married.

Attachment research shows the mother-son bond shapes boys' emotional intelligence and outcomes — and the 'separate to become a man' narrative is more

Why would competing organisms ever help each other? The evolution of generosity — kin selection, reciprocity, and why cooperation outcompetes selfishness.

CrossFit inspires devotion and fierce skepticism in equal measure. Guest contributor Nick Perri examines the method, the results, and the injury question.

In 2011, newlywed Reese Witherspoon toured a $14M Malibu home then occupied by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Inside the celebrity real-estate carousel.

Kim Robinshaw lost eight stone after 'virtual gastric band' hypnotherapy in 2011. A remarkable anecdote — but anecdotes are not evidence.

Arun Shourie, SAP Labs' V.R. Ferose, and author TGC Prasad — a gathering of the serious thinkers India's public discourse doesn't reflect enough.

Tabloids fretted over Angelina Jolie's thinness in 2011 — while celebrating the thinness they claimed to worry about. The double bind, examined.

Toning shoes, green tea extract, diet pills — the weight-loss industry sells shortcuts the evidence doesn't support. What actually works is unsellable.

The fear that meatless cooking is less satisfying or less flavorful has proved groundless. What vegetarian food actually requires is technique, not apology.

Navy, burgundy, camel, and emerald — the four colors stylists reach for when a shade has to work on any complexion. Why each one earns its place.

A survey claimed women spend five hours a day gossiping. The methodology collapses under scrutiny — and the stereotype it feeds has a long history.