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It started with the very first amendment to India's constitution.

And it wasn't Sachin Tendulkar’s Playing It My Way either.

How will this play out?

June: Jonathan Franzen debuts his new novel on a Seamless receipt.

Tiffany lost its luster this holiday season.

The old-fashioned wireless remains the audio service used by the most Americans.

The Pentagon's central command has a Pinterest account, too.

Free community college could change everything.

Undercover researchers found that workers at two Uniqlo suppliers in southern China were being underpaid, overworked, and subject to sewage-covered floors, poor ventilation, and sweltering temperatures.

Very clever.

Doctors aren’t entirely sure what triggers rheumatoid arthritis, but new research is focusing on a potential culprit: the bacteria that live in our intestines (via The Atlantic).

Three million copies of the new edition will be printed, compared to its normal 60,000-copy print run.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, meanwhile, was allowed to remain in the picture—because as fraught as his relationship with Israel is, he is not a woman.

Amazon has signed acclaimed—and controversial—writer and director Woody Allen to create an original series for its Prime Instant Video service.

The scale of sea beasts, charted.

Oil seems headed for the $30s, a price not seen since the doldrums of 2008.

A digitally native sports network that creates content designed for millennials is attracting high profile investors.

Jet fuel, airlines’ biggest expense, has fallen by roughly a third over the past year. Meanwhile, airfares have continued to climb, along with airlines’ profits. So what gives?

China's solutions for its water scarcity problems aren't working out so well.

They were far outnumbered by all those that decided to show it to you.

About 90% of American toys are already made in China.

Chinese leaders aren’t expected to pay attention to anything but their own interests; indeed, their official news agency’s response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks was to make the case for more press limits.

Rebloom recycles the floral arrangements after big events, so they end up at your wedding the next day for cheap, instead of disappearing after just one night (via Fast Company).

Everyday sexism.

Are Messi and Ronaldo really so much better than this man?

“Ultimately, only the kind of people who showed up at Madison Square Garden will be able to vote." (via Scroll)

Heathrow and Gatwick run closer to full capacity than most other big airports around the world.

Only a small fraction of eligible couples have applied to have a second child.

Unclean India.

Falling domestic and global prices, to begins with.

Competing with Yelp.

"If I don’t use it, I become extremely uncomfortable and can’t think about anything else." (via Refinery29)

Is powdered formula actually good for toddlers & older kids?

Very displeasing.

Balancing "respecting free speech" and "promoting extremism" is proving tough for many companies.

The rich keep getting richer (via CNNMoney).

Not every hashtag will have such influence. But this one did.

‪#‎blacklivesmatter‬ is word of the year.

And sometimes better than you know yourself.

By the end of the study, those who were criticized by loved ones had gained an average of 4.5 pounds (via Refinery29).

Since Taylor Swift, arguably the most popular pop star on the planet right now, decided to withdraw her entire catalog from the service in November, Spotify has increased both paying and total users by 20%.

For the first time, more people immigrated to Israel from France than from any other country.

Personality is a better predictor of success in school than intelligence (via The Huffington Post).

"I barely wait before jacking the setting to 100. There’s no point in experiencing something unless you’re doing it to the max."

On Saturday in Nigeria's Borno State, a young girl blew herself up, killing as many as 19 other people (via The Atlantic).

"The distinctions between Al Qaeda and ISIL are immaterial to self-styled jihadis."

Goodbye, wires.

The hashtag has been used about five million times.

There are a lot more talented white men than any other demographic group, if Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 lists are to be believed.

We ran some tests and the results were troubling.

70% of US employees aren’t engaged at work. Here's how to fix that.

“Here, for a long time, the authorities have been kidnapping public opinion in the name of stability.”

The Big Personality Rule for predicting geopolitical outcomes explains that the presence of certain individuals in an event—a Churchill, a Stalin, a Lyndon B. Johnson—can utterly change the dynamics. Welcome to Putin's 2015.

"This ridiculous aspiration to 'close the deal in San Francisco while also personally picking out fresh produce in Boston' is hard to fix."

John Paul II was the target of two plots and Paul VI was stabbed on the capital's airport runway by a Bolivian painter in 1970.

Modi should “come forth and say that a good Hindu is one who embraces all others rather than saying mine is an exclusive religion.”

In spite of these latest Prince Andrew allegations, his new £13 million ski home paid for by the Queen, that time Prince Harry went to a party dressed as a Nazi, and every time Prince Philip has opened his mouth.

Learning from others (via Scroll)

Pune is not so bad.

But where will the money come from?