Economics
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Museums are dominated by the work of men. That's changing, but very, very slowly.
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Month after month, it seems, we hear about another ground-breaking study that turned out to be just plain false.
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Thanks to a heavily bearded, self-proclaimed viking named Smári Ásmundsson, "skyr" — the thick, sour yogurt of Iceland — lines nearly every natural foods store in America. But the journey wasn't easy.
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Indie rockers Brian Gorman and Marcus Stoesz have an unusual day job: they teach young children to write, record, and perform very weird rock music.
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For those with chronic hiccups, the outcome is bleak. Nobody knew this better than Charles Osborne, a man who hiccuped 595,680,000 times over 68 years.
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Hit counters tracked how many views a web page ever had. They were ugly, hackable, and shallow. But they were also the predecessor to present day web analytics.
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With 54 strip clubs — including one that is "100% vegan" — Portland, Oregon is America's unlikely strip club capital. But how did it get there?
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It might make you sound like Donald Duck, but helium has a lot of serious technical applications. If it ever runs out, it's bad news -- and not just for balloons.
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With an on the job fatality rate 30 times higher than that of the average American worker, loggers have the deadliest job in the country. But what makes it so dangerous?
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A group of scientists says they’ve figured out how to use data to sniff-out the most impactful trend in the past 50 years of popular music: the rise of rap
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Every year, due to typos, 12,000 Americans are erroneously declared dead by the Social Security Administration. Those affected endure the Orwellian nightmare of convincing the government that they are alive.
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"Here is an idea: You give me some money. No? Okay, how about I form a sister empowerment group that shares abundance. Sound better?"
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As an sign language interpreter who specializes in live rap performance, Amber Gallego has worked with everyone from Snoop Dogg to Kendrick Lamar.
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Overall, 80.7% percent of Americans live in urban areas, but the number varies widely from state to state, and not quite as you might expect.
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Data that shows just how much hotel prices fluctuate based on demand and seasonality.
