Team Global

Consultant, The Economic Times

Stories by the author

• Psychology says people who stopped caring what others think aren’t arrogant or indifferent; they’ve just achieved a level of emotional maturity that comes from finally valuing their own judgment over the opinions of those around them

  
  09 Jun 2026 04:45 PM IST
• Psychology says people in their 70s who stay exceptionally positive tend to practice these 9 tiny habit

  
  09 Jun 2026 04:43 PM IST
• Psychology says the “cool” parent who lets their child negotiate every boundary is risking one specific outcome, and it usually shows up the moment they enter a professional environment

  
  09 Jun 2026 04:40 PM IST
• In 1916, chemists hunting a soap substitute made a cleaner that worked in hard water, and laundry detergent changed washing forever

  
  09 Jun 2026 04:28 PM IST
• In 1770, a scientist was handling a lump of rubber and found it rubbed pencil away, leading to the creation of the eraser, changing every school desk

  
  09 Jun 2026 04:25 PM IST
• In 1886, a wealthy hostess tired of broken crockery built a machine with water jets, and the dishwasher entered the modern kitchen

  
  09 Jun 2026 04:22 PM IST
• In 1907, a paper company trying to salvage a shipment of tissue sent out stronger sheets, which led to the creation of paper towels

  
  09 Jun 2026 04:19 PM IST
• In 1967, an archaeologist’s spade bit into volcanic ash on Santorini, and Akrotiri emerged like a Bronze Age time capsule

  
  09 Jun 2026 04:16 PM IST
• A 15-year-old from Ontario built a bionic underwater “robot turtle” that detects what is quietly killing our seas and just won $50,000 for it

  
  09 Jun 2026 03:33 PM IST
• In 1999, a Texas farmer donated 87 acres for a public park for just $10, and in 2025, the city sold it to a data center developer for $10 million

  
  09 Jun 2026 03:33 PM IST
• This UK couple grows chairs in their garden and sells them for $90000

  
  09 Jun 2026 03:32 PM IST
• Psychology says friendships that survive your 30s aren’t the ones you still hang out with the way you used to; they're the ones where at least one person stopped waiting for it to feel like it did at 22

  
  09 Jun 2026 03:28 PM IST
• I started packing up at 4:58 PM every day after my boss denied my raise; he owns my hours, not a minute more

  
  09 Jun 2026 03:12 PM IST
• 'Manager wants me to work after firing me': Employee locked out of every system without warning, then fired and asked to train his replacement the very next morning

  
  09 Jun 2026 03:11 PM IST
• Psychology says a woman's 60s aren't the decade when she withdraws from the world; they're the first decade when every role that defined her loosens, and her inner self finally has space to breathe

  
  09 Jun 2026 03:11 PM IST
• Psychology says adults who keep the gas tank perpetually above half aren't overcautious; their body learned in childhood that running low meant something bad was coming, and topping it up is a promise they still keep

  
  09 Jun 2026 03:08 PM IST
• In 1991, hikers in the Alps saw a body in melting ice and found Europe’s oldest known natural human mummy, “Ötzi the Iceman.”

  
  08 Jun 2026 03:55 PM IST
• Psychology suggests people who keep a paper calendar on the fridge aren’t old-fashioned: They’re turning memory into something the room can help hold

  
  08 Jun 2026 03:50 PM IST
• Psychology says adults who learned to depend on no one as children don’t grow into self-sufficient adults; they grow into people who confuse asking for help with weakness, and slowly build a life no one else knows how to step into

  
  08 Jun 2026 03:45 PM IST
• Psychology says people who still reread old group chats from years ago share these 3 emotional reflection patterns

  
  08 Jun 2026 03:39 PM IST
• Psychology says people who struggle to relax often aren’t necessarily ambitious; they’re just people who tie their worth to productivity

  
  08 Jun 2026 03:34 PM IST
• 14,400 years ago, five people and a canid entered an Italian cave using pine twigs for light

  
  08 Jun 2026 03:15 PM IST
• Every '60s house had one; now it's the cleaning supply thrifters are using as rustic decor

  
  08 Jun 2026 03:15 PM IST
• Every '70s home bar had this; now it's the retro bar decor you'd be thrilled to find at the thrift store

  
  08 Jun 2026 03:14 PM IST
• Psychology says people who are warmly generous with everyone but genuinely close with almost no one aren't failing at friendship; they learned to be useful before they learned to be known

  
  08 Jun 2026 02:41 PM IST
• Parents who can't stop helping their grown children aren't simply devoted; they've built an identity around being needed, and it's the last wall standing between them and the question of who they are when nobody calls anymore

  
  08 Jun 2026 02:39 PM IST
• I fired my star employee for a private hobby she kept off the clock; now my whole team says I'm the problem

  
  08 Jun 2026 02:37 PM IST
• A colleague who gave her work best friend an honest performance review watched the friend get fired and now faces blame for the termination

  
  08 Jun 2026 02:36 PM IST
• In 1978, electricians digging near Mexico City’s cathedral struck a giant carved stone disk, and an Aztec goddess returned to the light

  
  07 Jun 2026 05:37 PM IST
• Psychology says people who speak less carry more authority because talking is how most people seek approval, and the absence of having to prove yourself registers as power no amount of articulation can replicate

  
  07 Jun 2026 05:34 PM IST
• In 2012, archaeologists digging under a Leicester car park unearthed a skeleton with arrowhead and skull wounds and identified England's long-lost King Richard III, missing for 527 years

  
  07 Jun 2026 05:30 PM IST
• In 2022, archaeologists at Maryland's first fort finally excavated a grave they'd found 30 years earlier, and identified a teenage boy buried in the 1630s, one of the colony's oldest known dead

  
  07 Jun 2026 05:27 PM IST
• In 1987, ophthalmologist Dr. Jean Carruthers noticed her crossed-eye patients' frown lines were vanishing, and Botox accidentally became cosmetic history's biggest hit

  
  06 Jun 2026 05:59 PM IST
• In 1979, a Wisconsin farmer saved an oversized bone from his field, and it later led archaeologists to a butchered mammoth site

  
  06 Jun 2026 05:56 PM IST
• In 1839, an artist opened a chemical cabinet: And a hidden image helped launch photograph

  
  06 Jun 2026 05:52 PM IST
• In 1889, a physician noticed a sweet urine clue and helped point medicine toward insulin

  
  06 Jun 2026 05:50 PM IST
• In 1908, a New York merchant mailed tea samples in silk pouches to cut costs and accidentally changed how the world drinks tea

  
  06 Jun 2026 03:33 PM IST
• In the 1960s, Sudbury's nickel smelters turned Ontario's lakes acidic, and tiny creatures evolved to survive, but when the pollution cleared, something unexpected happened

  
  06 Jun 2026 03:17 PM IST
• In 1979, old salmon cans were stored in an Alaskan cannery, and decades later, when scientists cracked them open, a rising worm count revealed something unexpected about changing ocean food webs

  
  06 Jun 2026 03:17 PM IST
• Italian teenagers discover a 1,800-year-old Roman luxury villa hiding beneath their high school gym

  
  06 Jun 2026 03:15 PM IST
• An ancient traveler from India inscribed his name across five ancient tombs in Egypt's Valley of the Kings 2,000 years ago

  
  06 Jun 2026 03:14 PM IST
• Hidden beneath the Sahara, satellite scans uncovered 260 circular mass graves filled with cattle and human remains of a 6,000-year-old nomadic elite

  
  06 Jun 2026 02:46 PM IST
• 'I was promised a position, but management hired an unqualified person for that position instead': An employee was promised a promotion, but spent two years doing the outside hire's job for him

  
  06 Jun 2026 02:44 PM IST
• Psychology says people who fall silent in group conversations aren't withdrawn or disengaged; they're processing at a depth most rooms don't recognize, and their silence is often the deepest form of attention

  
  06 Jun 2026 02:41 PM IST
• Psychology says hyper-independence isn't a personality type or a strength; it's a childhood survival response that starts the moment a child realizes their feelings are inconvenient

  
  06 Jun 2026 02:40 PM IST
• In the 1860s, an inventor chased an ivory substitute and helped push celluloid into history

  
  05 Jun 2026 05:34 PM IST
• In 1820, a physicist noticed a compass twitch near a wire, and electromagnetism changed science

  
  05 Jun 2026 05:29 PM IST
• In 1748, workers digging near Naples hit painted walls, and Pompeii began returning from ash

  
  05 Jun 2026 05:25 PM IST