Lifestyle

Sreepathy's Retro Reel recommends The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) — William Wellman's stark western about mob justice and Henry Fonda's man-in-the-minority.

Stability balls are great fitness tools — but used wrongly with heavy weights, they can explode. A trainer explains the Garcia injury and safe ball use.

The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see. A quiz and a reflection on how to actually experience a new place.

When long marriages end over 'incompatibility,' is it really incompatibility — or a midlife crisis? A reflection on marriage, divorce, and the work in between.

From a fit-at-60 Pinky Roshan to a 72-year-old doing push-ups: age is just a number, and exercise works at every stage of life.

The 'Chai, Chat with Books' club reviews Gone Girl: Gillian Flynn's devilish thriller of a marriage gone bad, deceit, and two narrators you can't trust.

Flip teaching reverses the classroom: students watch lesson videos at home and do homework in class. Early results — like Clintondale's — were striking.

Part 3 of a three-part interview with Amish Tripathi: the Upanishads, his favorite books, why Shiva, and the future after the Shiva trilogy.

Not seven pounds — about a third of a kilo. But holiday weight gain is the weight you never lose, and it compounds yearly. The measured evidence and what to do.

Part 2 of a three-part interview with Amish Tripathi: rejection by every publisher, self-publishing The Immortals of Meluha, and the free-chapter marketing

In 2013 Tylenol added red caps warning of liver damage from acetaminophen overdose. Here's why the most common household painkiller can be dangerous.

Part 1 of a three-part interview with best-selling author Amish Tripathi: the philosophy of evil that sparked the Shiva trilogy and his instinctive writing

In 2013 France moved to ban beauty contests for girls under 16. The trigger: a Vogue photo of a sexualized 10-year-old that shocked the country.

A Dutch endocrinologist argued sugar should be treated like a drug — with warning labels and a sugar tax. Here's his case, and what research says.

Forget celebrity diets. The National Weight Control Registry tracked 10,000+ people who lost weight and kept it off — their shared habits are the real key.

A practical packing guide for travelers: match clothing to weather, carry the essentials, pack for your trip length — and travel light.

Nina Davuluri became the first Indian American Miss America in 2013 — and met the moment's racist backlash with grace: 'I have to rise above that.'

Booties, not full boots, are fall's must-have shoe: how to wear ankle booties casually and formally, from flats to heeled styles.

Facebook made us put our 'game face' on all the time — and a 2013 University of Michigan study found the more we used it, the worse we felt.

Retro Reel on Spielberg's Munich (2005): a chilling espionage thriller that becomes a genre-defying meditation on the moral cost of revenge.