Low-tech toy cameras let users create photos that immediately look old. And in an age when everything is digital, these no-frills devices still use film.

What is existentialism? Why is it here? Sixty years after the philosophy’s peak, existential questions and ideas seem to have no end.

A new generation of student activists is emerging on campus as universities face budget cuts and tuition hikes. Many of these new protesters use Web sites, e-mail, Facebook and Twitter to set up meetings, marches and rallies. Organizing a sit-in has never been easier.

Fewer Armenian goldsmiths and jewelry makers are teaching their children the trade. Will an ancient art be lost?

People can’t seem to get enough kombucha, the fermented tea drink that is said to cure all ills. Now, many of them are brewing it themselves.