While the Internet has made genealogy a much easier hobby to pursue in the past decade, sometimes, there’s no substitute for doing research the old-fashioned way. Persistence doesn’t hurt either.

Few things get people’s blood boiling quite like parkers who take up two spots. The culture clash continues despite declining sales of large cars and SUVs.

BetaVille is a recent addition to multiplayer digital media projects that allow members of the public to take part in larger social and community projects. By harnessing the participation of the public, these projects are not only outsourcing work to them but also allowing people to have more of a say in the many processes around them.

Prolotherapy has gained popularity in the past decade among patients looking for a safe,effective, and minimally invasive alternative to surgery for sports injuries and chronic pain conditions ranging from tennis elbow to osteoarthritis. What’s more, new advances in the treatment only make it more effective, say doctors offering the procedure. But the scientific literature remains largely inconclusive.

Sports terms are frequently used in business, but they can become clichéd and even divisive. As the workplace becomes more global and diverse, more people find these metaphors do not speak to them, either because they don’t live for the game or don’t buy the underlying message that business is a competition. Do we as a society need to touch base on the meaning of sports in business?

There was a time when middle and even lower income Americans could look like rappers. Golden grillz – the ostentatious oral bling popularized by hip-hop’s most outré stars – were fashionable and affordable. But times have changed. At the end of 2000, an ounce of spot gold cost $272; in mid-April it hovered just below $1,700. Gold has become a symbol of wealth for a declining number of people who can afford it, and this has led to a marked decrease in grillz sales at stores like Brooklyn’s Contessa.

The growth of the Indian-American population in the U.S. is fueling an increase in popularity of Carnatic music, a classical Indian form of music, based on melodic scales and rhythms.

Often stereotyped as disengaged and skeptical, members of Generation X have in fact been donating their time to various causes in record numbers over the past four years, partially as a result of the worst economic crisis to hit the country since the Great Depression. But as the economy begins to recover, will that continue?

Group acupuncture clinics have grown rapidly in recent years, as people search for affordable alternatives to a strict, Western understanding of health care.

Harvard. For many, the name of the oldest Ivy conjures up images of tweed-clad professors and dreams of boundless post-college success and wealth. But many Harvard graduates find that a much different reality awaits them in the real world, as their golden ticket quickly becomes the one thing with which they don’t wish to associate.