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A 2015 survey of UK divorce lawyers found Facebook cited in over a third of cases — as evidence of infidelity, hidden finances, and rekindled old flames.
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When her young niece asked to borrow $25 for a dress, Ayn Rand replied with a famously severe lesson in responsibility — a 1949 letter that went viral in 2015.
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A viral story claimed an anonymous woman cured her cancer with ginger and honey. The claim is unverifiable, the source page is gone, and there is no
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Suchitra Sharma reflects on how Facebook memorialized accounts keep a loved one's presence alive — 'life goes on' even after death, in the virtual world.
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RoboDynamics' Luna — a 5-foot, open-source home robot running Ubuntu and ROS — returned in 2014 with a Kickstarter campaign at $999.
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Pamela Druckerman's delightful reflection on the small, hard-won lessons of middle age — from spotting narcissists to the joy of unmedicated sleep.
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A Harvard-affiliated study found that eight weeks of mindfulness meditation produced measurable changes in brain regions linked to memory, empathy, and stress.
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A simple five-step wake-up routine — set intentions at night, move the alarm across the room, hydrate, and get dressed to move — that makes early mornings
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Rajkumar Hirani's PK, starring Aamir Khan as an alien baffled by organized religion, released December 19, 2014 — and went on to become the highest-grossing
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Indian singer-songwriter Surjo released his debut album 'The Key Has Turned' in November 2014 — twelve acoustic songs written over three months.
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The 'alkaline diet' claims your food can fix your body's pH — it can't. Here's what your body's acid-alkaline balance actually is, and what diet really can do.
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Olivier Lafont, the French actor who played Suhas Tandon in 3 Idiots, launched his epic fantasy novel Warrior with Penguin India in late 2014.
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In 2014, Imperial professor Chris Toumazou launched Geneu — skincare matched to your DNA via a 30-minute cheek-swab test.
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Managing anxiety to tackle a big project, fear to apply for a job — emotional skill matters more than IQ. Here is how to raise a child with high emotional
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A 2014 conversation with Koral Dasgupta, author of Power of a Common Man — on Shah Rukh Khan’s marketing genius, her research with 2,000 fans, and writing
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A burger costs less than a salad — not by accident. The economics that make ultra-processed calories the cheapest calories, and what they really cost.
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Economist Ramanan Laxminarayan's 2014 TEDMED talk warns that antibiotic overuse — in medicine and farming — is burning through our most finite medical resource.
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In 2014, ecommerce platform Zepo put four Bandra street chaiwalas online at ChotuChaiWala.com — weekly subscriptions of Mumbai's cutting chai, delivered to
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A 2014 study found ATCV-1 — an algae virus thought unable to infect humans — in the throats of 40 of 92 healthy people, who scored modestly lower on
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When Hollaback’s NYC street-harassment video went viral in 2014, India’s IndieTube tested Mumbai: Pooja Singh walked for 10 hours in a skirt — and wasn’t
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