We know how to find stories that matter where no one else is looking. At OZY, we constantly strive to keep you ahead of the curve with fresh trends, profiles, experiences and nuggets of history that you won’t find covered elsewhere but that could shape your life. In 2019, we went one step further, adding an edge to our coverage with deeply reported and well-researched investigative stories.

Because the world of entertainment is large — so OZY scanned the globe to bring you the big stories. In our quest to bring you the new and the next, OZY scours the globe to find people doing what they do best — and the past couple of years were brimming with new artists, creatives and entertainers.

For the past decade-plus, sports fans have been deluged with concussion talk: From the movie Concussion to various documentaries and TV chatter about head injuries, to stars and the future of America’s football colossus … and we still don’t know the half of it. Why? Because studying concussions in the other half, women, is green science. Now, two researchers at Virginia Tech University, professor Steve Rowson and Ph.D.

There's more to love than you ever imagined. OZY's Love Curiously explores the many facets of romance and commitment. OZY's Love Curiously explores the many facets of romance and commitment. There's more to love than you ever imagined. OZY's Love Curiously explores the many facets of romance and commitment. “App dating is so toxic and not mentally good for me,” reads a Reddit user’s comment on a thread that talks about user safety on dating apps.

It’s normal for doctors to be summoned at odd hours to deal with medical emergencies. It’s the nature of the job. But when Dr. DK Satpathy was shaken in the wee hours of Dec. 3, 1984, he was completely unprepared for what he would see. He had no idea that the worst industrial disaster in the history of the world was unfolding in his city Bhopal, capital of the then-largest Indian state Madhya Pradesh.

In a new five-part podcast, in partnership with Smartsheet, OZY paints a picture of the workplace to come, from productivity and privacy to social enterprise and the rise of gamification. Listen up on OZY.com, Spotify, Apple or wherever you prefer to stream your audio. What is the best way to find meaning at work? It’s a question for the ages and one that will become even more important in the years ahead.

There are many legends of how Lord Balaji, one face of the Hindu deity Vishnu, lost a portion of his hair. But while the details vary, they agree on a few things: Lord Balaji was hit on the head, and the hair ceased to grow from that spot. A woman, hoping to help, offered up some of her own flowing hair to cover the god’s bald patch. This legend is why every day as many as 75,000 devotees visit the Tirupati Balaji temple dedicated to Lord Balaji.

Swipe. Swipe. Swipe. Gabrielle, 19, into cheese. Mohammed, 26, always on time. Eddy, 32, has a profile picture that’s a caricature of himself and insists he is both “healthy” and likes nightclubs. Whoomies, the app they’re on, isn’t really like Tinder, but it’s among a slew of apps that have sprung up in the past five years worldwide that use the swipe feature as a gateway drug for those accustomed to the functionality of the world’s best-worst dating app.

What began a week and a half earlier as a labor movement of excitement had started to turn ugly. Our strike got launched with us screaming for the essentials that teachers have been needing in Chicago for years: a nurse and social worker in every school, guaranteed nap time for preschoolers, classrooms with fewer than 32 students, affordable housing for our homeless students and families, and basic resources for special education students and English Language Learners.

IPhone? Check. Portable speaker? Check. Empty park? Check. Brittney Carter is ready. Reciting lyrics over and over in her head, the 28-year-old Chicago native takes her position on the park staircase as rehearsed. Today, her production crew of one is her boyfriend, serving as cameraman and audio technician.