“You’re our best performer, so you’re safe.” Plenty of employees have heard a version of that line from their manager, and plenty have doubted it. A post in Reddit’s r/managers community has struck a nerve by asking the question directly: are top-rated employees really protected when layoffs arrive? The poster says their manager has always…
Screengrab from her Youtube channel ‘De mi Rancho a Tu Cocina.’ At 75, Mexican grandmother Doña Ángela has built a large online audience through her YouTube cooking channel, ‘De mi Rancho a Tu Cocina,’ which translates to “From My Ranch to Your Kitchen”. As reported by Mexican publication Rodeo Capital in 2024, her cooking videos…
Photo: @ourhinglishlife/ Instagram Being the parent of a newborn brings in a whole new set of responsibilities. When it comes to travelling with the baby, it often seems quite difficult due to sleepless flights, short naps, doubled luggage, and people postponing plans until the little one grows up.Recently, an American mom and content creator, married…
Maria Alexandra didn’t expect a Navratri celebration at a Mumbai mall to make her emotional. But as she watched people dance Garba, she found herself thinking about leaving India one day, and how much she’d miss moments like this.In a video shared on social media, Alexandra, who is from Romania, turns her camera towards the…
Have you ever felt instantly attracted to someone but realised, after a few conversations, that you barely knew them? Or found yourself growing closer to someone simply because you could talk to them about anything? That is where the difference between physical attraction and emotional intimacy becomes clearer. Both can bring two people closer, but…
Walk into a room painted in a soft sage green or a gentle sky blue, and your shoulders often drop before you even notice. Colour has a quiet way of shaping how we feel, which is why hospitals, spas and meditation studios tend to avoid loud, harsh shades. Researchers say the effect is real but…
What if getting to a protest in Delhi was a video game? That’s the idea behind Jantar Mantar Chalo, a satirical game that puts players in the middle of a protest, complete with police barricades, crowd control and plenty of chaos.Created by Suraj Kushwah, a DevOps engineer from Bareilly who goes by the online name…
A boarded-up house on a quiet street in Plainfield, Illinois, spent a few days as the internet’s favourite mystery. According to NBC Chicago, social media videos showed its porch lights blinking in a pattern many viewers read as the Morse code distress signal SOS. The windows were covered, nothing moved inside, and the lights kept…
Quote of the day by Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer, philosopher, and social thinker. He wrote several novels, some of which, including War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are internationally praised classics of world literature.As he grew older, Tolstoy began thinking deeply about faith, right and wrong, and peaceful ways of living….
Imagine walking into a crowded room where 36 couples are standing in almost exactly the same pose. The lighting is warm, the silhouettes blur into one another, and every pair seems to belong to the same scene. Then someone whispers that one couple is different. You have just 10 seconds to find them. You scan…
