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

September 19, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

September 15, 2011 · 1 min read

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?

September 15, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

September 15, 2011 · 8 min read

You wake up suddenly in the middle of the night , sweaty , little out of breath, a tad confused ,maybe you’ve been dreaming ,you have experienced a roller…

September 13, 2011 · 5 min read

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.

September 11, 2011 · 3 min read

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

September 6, 2011 · 1 min read

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

September 2, 2011 · 2 min read

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

September 2, 2011 · 2 min read

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.

September 1, 2011 · 1 min read

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

August 31, 2011 · 1 min read

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

August 30, 2011 · 1 min read

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

August 30, 2011 · 1 min read

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

August 30, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

August 29, 2011 · 1 min read

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

August 27, 2011 · 1 min read

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

August 27, 2011 · 1 min read

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

August 27, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

August 23, 2011 · 1 min read

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

August 16, 2011 · 1 min read