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Jul 2025
How and why do we gender animals in stories?
#207
Jun 2025
Watch hundreds of strangers talk for 30 minutes, and track how their moods change.
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A six-minute video about the loneliness epidemic, in data.
#205
May 2025
How accurately are Asian Americans cast in Hollywood?
#204
Are you more likely to die on your birthday? Yes.
#203
Apr 2025
We try to predict the price and quality of a bottle of wine based on the animal on the label.
#202
We trace musical DNA from the classical "Hall of the Mountain King" to 2pac's "Hit Em Up."
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#201
Mar 2025
What we can learn from watching reality stars apologize.
#200
Analyzing animal onomatopoeia across languages can demystify how we shape sound into meaning.
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Follow hundreds of kids as they navigate their trecherous middle school years.
#198
Nov 2024
The American worker divide: Those who sit, and those who stand.
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Is love dead in pop music? We checked all 5,141 Top 10 hits since 1958.
#196
Oct 2024
Queues are everywhere we go—discover the hidden mechanics that keep them moving smoothly.
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We took a look at the data behind the increasingly vibrant (and maybe a little confusing) landscape of NBA jerseys.
#194
A maze for each state where the difficulty is calculated by the state’s abortion policies.
#193
Welcome to Crokinole, the greatest game you’ve never heard of.
#192
Organize these K-pop groups by generation, and we'll make an article using the results.
#191
We looked at a decade of fanfic couples. See who gets shipped and why.
#190
Sep 2024
See how modern stats are reshaping baseball’s batting lineups.
#189
There are 59,507 outdoor basketball courts in the U.S.A. Explore satellite imagery of all of them.
#188
Jul 2024
We had an AI attempt to make a data-driven story like we do at The Pudding.
#187
We examined the social media and medical discourse on infant sleep training.
#186
Explore science fiction worlds from the last few decades – and what these fictional settings tell us about ourselves.
#185
Jun 2024
We analyzed 1,281 court documents of alleged child abuse in New Hampshire youth facilities. Here’s what they show.
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#184
Explore how your city will feel in the future.
#183
Apr 2024
Watch hundreds of teenagers grow up into adults – and see how their lives turn out.
#182
Mar 2024
The results from making a crowd-sourced flipbook animation.
